fred hampton is shot. she is wounded. fred hampton is wounded.hey drag her out of the room and issued fred hampton in the head to kill him. >> i heard a story told shortly after martin luther king's death by a policeman, "your next." by the cointelpro standards, the were making sure that no black leader could rise to be a messiah to unify the black masses. so king was the number one target. what martin luther king was dead by 1968, december 1969, fred hampton was assassinated. >> we have a couple of black policeman in the film -- they get statements from back then about how horrible this was. they are still alive and they give statements in the film. one of them told us he had told fred hampton a couple of weeks before that, you should watch it because your under fire. there were plans to try to fly fred hampton to canada. they had a plan to do that. but fred had like one more thing to do, one more thing to do, one more thing to do. of course, never made it out. >> william o'neil was his bodyguard, the agent, the informant for the fbi. >> right.

when fred hampton was killed in chicago, it wasn't just radicals that turned out. it was the naacp. was the urban league. it was a moderate black political organizations that turned out because while the black panther party had a politics that they might not support, the party also had a politic that they saw as necessary for the interest. they could not afford for the black panther party to be killed, to be beaten to be repressed while it was not access to higher education, while there was not continued exclusion from mainstream politics. over the course of those three years the black panther party had chapters in 70 cities in the country with dozens, in some cases hundred and 50 cases thousands of young members who dedicated their lives to revolution. people don't remember, but the premier of china in 71 as the chinese government sponsored a festival on national day in china in support of the black panther party with thousands of dancers and jugglers and performers in the streets. a big steak dinner and signs that said down with yankee imperialism. algeria a center for internation