I know that there is evidence pointing towards this conclusion but honestly I always considered this to be one of the least likely of the conspiracies to be true. Mostly because I don’t think the US would let that slide especially under the Johnson and Nixon administrations. It’s too hard hitting of a propaganda piece to ignore.
I think it was a mixture of Lee Harvey and the Secret Service. LPOtL did a 6 parter on it and this is the conclusion they came out to. Seems pretty likely since those were the two types of rounds found at the scene.
I’ll never understand why people think you need a horde of secret ninja gunmen and not just one guy with a good rifle. If there was a conspiracy, it was one that got Harvey (or someone else…) into place.
Fred Hampton was deputy chairman of the national Black Panther party, chair of the Illinois chapter, and a Marxist-Leninist. He also founded the Rainbow Coalition which organized Black Panthers(blacks), Young Patriots(whites), and Young Lords(hispanics) under a banner of anti-racism and anti-classism.
There’s obviously a lot more to him but I think this sums it up relatively well
“The actions of the officers, before, during, and after the shooting, show that they either had no plan to arrest the man without injury, made no effort to follow such a plan, or planned to use deadly force from the start,” the lawsuit states.