ABSTRACT
The year 2000's celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday fell on January 17, the same day that two Black Panther leaders were assassinated on UCLA's campus thirty years ago. Millions were inspired by King's eloquent vision of America without racism, exploitation, or militarism, and they justly mourn his death but rarely discover the connection between his killing and that of revolutionaries like John Huggins and Alprentice Carter, who died on January 17, 1969. The link between these assassinations, however, lies in the covert world of the counterintelligence programs that the FBI and other agencies mounted deliberately to disrupt, discredit, and destroy the black freedom movement.
