Ashamed to say didnt know to much about this dude you just put me on
Props for caring enough to check it out
...The FBI informant who drew the floorplan later went on to kill himself.
"The mysterious and once perilous life of William O`Neal, 40, a key
federal government
informant who infiltrated the Black Panthers in the late 1960s, ended in Maywood earlier this week when he was struck by a car on the Eisenhower Expressway, police said.
The Cook County
medical
examiner`s office ruled O`Neal`s death a suicide. O`Neal was living under the name of William Hart, at least the second pseudonym he had used in the last 17 years.
His relationship with Mitchell was a study in contrast. Mitchell had a Southern background, wore a crewcut and was a typical FBI man of the 1960s. O`Neal was a fast-talking, conniving West Side black kid who thought he knew all the angles.
O`Neal really carved his niche in Chicago history when he agreed to infiltrate the Black Panthers, then viewed as a violent radical group.
And he helped convict Chicago police Sgt. Stanley Robinson, who was accused of murdering drug dealers. O`Neal testified that he watched Robinson kill two men.
After becoming accepted in the Panther Party, O`Neal served as the group`s chief of security. Eventually he supplied the floor plan to the West Side Panther Party headquarters that was the target of a controversial December 1969 predawn raid in which Panther leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were slain in a fusillade of law-enforcement bullets.
In a 1984 interview with the Tribune, apparently the last comments he made publicly, O`Neal acknowledged that he had thrived on the law enforcement work, was left thirsty when it was finished and believed that in the end he had been ``just a pawn in a very big game.``
``He was a man of courage,`` said Gregory Adamski, an attorney who worked with O`Neal while O`Neal was in the
government
`s witness protection program.
``When he said he would do something, he would do it.``
Heard and Adamski said O`Neal rarely spoke of his undercover years.
``Very seldom did he make anything of the past,`` Heard said. ``He didn`t like to talk about it. He`d evade the questions.``
But on an upcoming episode of the public television series ``Eyes on the Prize,`` which is scheduled to be broadcast in Chicago next month, O`Neal discussed the ambivalence he felt about his actions.
``In the film he said he felt very bad about his role in infiltrating the Panthers. . . . He felt remorse about the deaths. . . . But he felt the Panthers were a threat. He seems to have thought about himself as a law enforcement person,`` said a member of the series production staff.
``There was always some risk to him going on camera and doing this,`` the staff member said. ``He was very cautious about the interview. . . . He said he had to be careful.``
Bill Hampton, brother of the slain Panther leader, speculated Wednesday that guilt over his role as an FBI informant sparked the suicide."
Sounds like he really appreciated that pat on the head the FBI gave em way too much,took more pride in his law enforcement "work" than what the panthers were doing....Its crazy what that cac approval can do to so many of us....But the FBI documents tell the whole story when it says the panthers free breakfast program was a means to indoctrinate black people....It gives you a glimpse into what THEIR plan and true intention is when they feed,clothe and house black people....Indocrination
How can you not look at the people who feed,clothe,teach,police and house you as god or your daddy:usuredame:....I definitely respect Garvey,Malcolm,Panthers because they all knew this,and knew the importance of black people doing those things for black people.