(BLACK PANTHERS) Group of crime scene photographs taken shor

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(BLACK PANTHERS.) Group of crime scene photographs taken shortly after the killing of Chicago Black Panther leader Fred Hampton. 13 original photographs (not wire photos), various sizes but all about 11 x 8 inches; minor wear; various newspaper morgue stamps, caption labels, notations, and later bar codes on verso. Chicago, 12 December 1969

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These photographs were taken at the scene just eight days after the killing of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark by the Chicago police and FBI. Most show bullet-pocked doors and walls of the Panther headquarters. One shows several copies of a Black Panther "Statement to the Black Community" scattered on the floor, and in another, a stack of Black Panther Community News Service issues is stacked atop a folded mattress. One wall is covered with newspaper clippings about the Panthers' earlier gun battle with the police. One photo shows a scale model of the apartment set up in the state attorney's office, and another shows the apartment's exterior rear exit.

These images were taken by Chicago Tribune photographers, mostly longtime staffer James O'Leary, and apparently come from that paper's morgue. 4 of them have Tribune clippings affixed on verso to show where the photographs were published.

WITH--a later UPI Telephoto wire photo of the investigation dated 8 January 1970, from the same source.