07-07-2010, 06:58 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-07-2010, 07:01 PM by John Kowalski.)
David Purcell Wrote:I appreciate your comments. You're completely right. In 20 years of study and research I've never come across a link between the murders of Hampton and JFK. That doesn't mean there isn't a link but even if there is one I realize what an impossible task it would be to prove it. Where do you start? That's why I posed the question to the experienced long time researchers like yourselves who might have heard about any such connection. I thought it was worth a try because I haven't been able to find a starting point. Even if I was back in Chicago and got the police and FBI files on the raid they wouldn't show any connection. I was told this when I was in SDS in 70 or 71 and I can't even remember who said it. I didn't give it any attention at the time because, like you, I thought the Black Panthers were murdered because of their threat to the political structure. The staus quo didn't need any other reason to murder them. But ever since I started researching the JFK assassination this possible link has bothered me but if no one else knows of a connection then obviously it's a dead end.
There may also be a connection between Hampton's bodyguard, William O'Neal, who gave the floor plan to Hampton's apartment to the Chicago Police. His handler was an FBI agent, Roy Mitchell. If Mitchell was involved with Cointelpro, then, he too may have had a connection with earlier FBI operations that may have involved Oswald or may have worked with former Chicago FBI man, Guy Banister.
John