Watch "The Trial of the Chicago 7" on Netflix ..

[ancianita]

17. No, not at that exact time. Sure, they laid off him for awhile to manipulate him into surfacing.

I understand your disagreement, but I'm not convinced.

I read his two books written while he was underground (I was in Chicago by 1973), read everything he was learning about how the FBI operated then, and know the Fred Hampton and COINTELPRO "news" of those days, and what came out later. As much as anyone not his friend or family, I kept up with him faithfully from the days of rage up to his death.

The cocaine distribution was also reported in the alternative press as bogus. Cocaine was all over the country, then. And Nixon's War On Drugs was used as much as the pretext for law enforcement abuse in the 70's as now. I'll err on the side of FBI violence, and that they tried to ruin his life, then when he got depressed, they killed him. I knew too many people than who didn't believe the official story, either.

You don't know for a fact that what was official news was "things are what they are." You read official stories just like I did.

Believe what you want. The 70's were too rough for me to forget.