From Wikipedia Fred Hampton August 30 1948 December 4 1969 was an AfricanAmerican activist and deputy chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party BPP He was assassinated as he lay in bed in his apartment by a tactical unit of the Cook County Illinois States Attorneys Office SAO in conjunction with the Chicago Police Department CPD and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI Hamptons death was chronicled in the 1971 documentary film The Murder of Fred Hampton as well as an episode of the critically acclaimed documentary series Eyes on the Prize Description above from the Wikipedia article Fred Hampton licensed under CCBYSAfull list of contributors on Wikipedia