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Attorney and author Jeffrey Haas joins host Marty Duren to discuss Haas’ investigation into the assassination of Black Panther Chairman, Fred Hampton.
Jeffrey Haas is a longtime civil rights attorney and activist, co-founder of the People’s Law Office, still operational in Chicago, IL. A crusader and revolutionary (by his own description), Haas was a contemporary of some of the notable radicals of the 1960s in the US. The grandson and son of attorneys—his grandfather helped defend falsely accused (and ultimately lynched) Atlanta pencil-factory owner Leo Frank—Haas was part of a legal team that won a civil judgment in the Fred Hampton case. He’s the author of The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther.
NOTE: Haas quotes two people who knew Fred Hampton who used the word pig to describe the Chicago police officers who murdered Hampton. I don’t approve of the term, but did not edit it out because it is a direct, historical quote.
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