By the end of 1969, five leaders within the Black Panther Party—Spurgeon Winter, Jr., Bunchy Carter, John Huggins, Alex Rackley, and Bobby Hutton—had been murdered in confrontations with police, rival groups, and other Panthers. Most notably, Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were murdered when Chicago Police Department officers raided Hampton’s apartment. Hampton, it would later be revealed, had been marked as a “key militant leader” by the FBI. And on the night of his murder, he’d been sedated by his bodyguard, an FBI informant, who’d slipped a barbiturate into Hampton’s drink at dinner.
