05-07-2010, 10:18 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-07-2010, 02:16 PM by David Purcell.)
Thanks for your comments and appreciate the links you've given me. I'll certainly read them. I thought it was proven that Fred Hampton was asleep when he was murdered but I didn't put it in because I wasn't sure and the story is fantastic enough without that fact. I didn't want to be accused of embellishing anything. Yes, whether or not there is a link to JFK, and has been pointed out to me, there probably isnt one, the murder of the Black Panthers should be noted and remembered.
I'm reminded of another brutal execution by the Chicago police. This was before my time and growing up in Chicago I never heard a mention of this incident. I didn't learn of it until I came across it in some material I had on labor unions in the 30's.
Everyone knows of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre where 7 gangsters were killed and all of the outcry and brouhaha it created. The public outrage, etc etc. Yet on Memorial Day in 1937 the Chicago police, without provocation, opened fire on peaceful workers picketing a steel company at 116th st. in South Chicago and 10 workers were killed and scores wounded. The picketers had nothing more dangerous than picket signs in their hands and yet 10 were killed, one more than the horrifying massacre 8 years previous. These were peaceful citizens striking for better conditions and they were murdered by the Chicago police. This wasn't a case of gangsters murdering fellow gangsters so you might wonder where all of the public outrage was? I'm sure you wouldn't be shocked at the news that these murders were suppressed by the media. There was a film crew, a Hollywood newsreel team, which captured this event on film. and another shock, the government suppressed the film.
Just another day in Chicago.
I'm reminded of another brutal execution by the Chicago police. This was before my time and growing up in Chicago I never heard a mention of this incident. I didn't learn of it until I came across it in some material I had on labor unions in the 30's.
Everyone knows of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre where 7 gangsters were killed and all of the outcry and brouhaha it created. The public outrage, etc etc. Yet on Memorial Day in 1937 the Chicago police, without provocation, opened fire on peaceful workers picketing a steel company at 116th st. in South Chicago and 10 workers were killed and scores wounded. The picketers had nothing more dangerous than picket signs in their hands and yet 10 were killed, one more than the horrifying massacre 8 years previous. These were peaceful citizens striking for better conditions and they were murdered by the Chicago police. This wasn't a case of gangsters murdering fellow gangsters so you might wonder where all of the public outrage was? I'm sure you wouldn't be shocked at the news that these murders were suppressed by the media. There was a film crew, a Hollywood newsreel team, which captured this event on film. and another shock, the government suppressed the film.
Just another day in Chicago.