BPP members Hampton and Clark were murdered in their sleep in December 1969 when Chicago cops shot their way into a West Side apartment.

The $47.7 million lawsuit was filed by the families of the two slain Panthers and by survivors of the murderous raid. It charges an unconstitutional conspiracy by the FBI and Chicago cops in planning and carrying out the assault.

As part of the FBI's Cointelpro operations against the Panthers, O'Neal had worked himself up to "captain of security." He was responsible for protecting BPP leaders.

When pressed, he admitted in court to delivering a floor plan of the murder scene to the FBI. He is also believed to have drugged Hampton the night of his death to ensure the BPP leader would be in a coma during the raid. He can't "recall" if he did it.

According to the plaintiffs' attorney Jeffrey Haas, O'Neal has had to be pressured to "remember" anything about his traitorous role.

At first he couldn't recall if he passed along the layout of the Panthers' apartment to the FBI. He also didn't remember that his FBI control agent Roy Mitchell paid his bail several times and bought several cars for him. Documents submitted prove these events occurred.  
 
January 14, 1952
The Big Money and its Big Press have announced their choice of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, life-long professional militarist, as the man they prefer for Republican presidential candidate. Their decision to back Eisenhower, in preference to Taft, is based on the dominant issue of war.

"The 'president-makers' of the Republican Party have chosen Eisenhower because he is firmly committed to Wall Street's war policy and has been working on its preparation by rearming Western Europe and constructing U.S. bases there," stated Farrell Dobbs, the 1948 presidential candidate of the Socialist Workers Party and its likely choice to head this year's ticket.

That the war issue is decisive and conclusive is frankly admitted by the N.Y. Times, a mouthpiece of the House of Morgan, [which] declared editorially on Jan. 7 its "enthusiastic" support of Eisenhower if he should be nominated by the Republicans.

In three out of five of the last presidential elections it supported the Democrats, the Times said, "essentially because we were reluctant to trust the Republican party on issues of foreign policy...the decisive issues of the campaign."

By running Eisenhower, Big Business hopes to eliminate this "towering" issue from the election debate. Eisenhower tells us he intends to keep his mouth shut on everything; while Truman pointedly emphasized in his State of the Union Message on Jan. 10 that "we can find plenty of things to differ about without...abandoning our bipartisan foreign policy."  
 
 
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