Hoover called the Panthers “the greatest threat to internal security of the country.” The Bureau ran 233 operations to destroy them. Huey Newton was target number one.
Convicted of shooting two NYPD officers based on testimony the FBI knew was false. He spent 19 years in prison. Then 300,000 pages of FBI files proved the Bureau manufactured the case.
The FBI had wiretap evidence proving Pratt was 350 miles away when the murder occurred. They suppressed it for 27 years while he sat in prison.
She was the third woman ever placed on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list. The charges were built on guns she had legally purchased. An all-white jury acquitted her of every count.
Between 1971 and 1973, Shakur was charged with six separate crimes. She was acquitted of every charge except one — tried before an all-white jury in Morris County.
File #100-44018 reveals Hoover identified Hampton as a “key agitator” fourteen months before the raid. O’Neal drew the floor plan. The red X marked where Hampton slept.