The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971)

Deborah Johnson: Self

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• Deborah Johnson : Someone came into the room, started shakin' the Chairman, said, "Chairman, Chairman, wake up. The pigs are rappin'." Still half asleep, I looked up and I saw bullets comin' from what it looked like the front of the apartment, from the kitchen area. They were - the pigs were just shootin' and, about this time, I jumped on top of the Chairman. He looked up. Looked like all the pigs converged at the entranceway to the bedroom area, my bedroom area. The mattress is just goin' - you could just feel the bullets goin' into it. I just knew he would be dead, everybody in there. When he looked up, he just looked up, he didn't say a word and he didn't move, except for movin' his head up. He laid his head back down to his side, like that. He never said a word. He never got up out of the bed. The person who was in the room, they kept hollerin' out, "Stop shootin'. Stop shootin'. We have a pregnant woman. A pregnant sister in here." At that time, I was 8 1/2 to 9 months pregnant. My baby was to be delivered in two weeks. The pigs kept on shootin'. So, I kept on hollerin' out. Finally, they stoped. They pushed me and the other brother by the kitchen door and told us to face the wall. I heard a pig say, "He's barely alive. He'll barely make it." I assume they were talkin' about Chairman Fred. So, then, they started shootin', the pigs they started shootin' again. I heard a sister scream. They stopped shootin'. A pig said, "He's good and dead now." The pigs were runnin' around laughin'. They were really happy, you know, at the time our Chairman Fred's dead. I never saw Chairman Fred again.