File:Fred Hampton dead body.jpg
Fred_Hampton_dead_body.jpg (299 × 280 pixels, file size: 59 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Summary
| Description |
Photograph of the dead body of Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton, lying in a doorway, after he was shot twice in the head at point blank range by members of the Chicago Police Department. |
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| Source |
Image was pulled from the documentary film The Murder of Fred Hampton, |
| Author | Chicago Police Department |
| Portion used |
Image has been cropped and scaled down. |
| Low resolution? |
No. Reducing resolution would reduce educational value, and image was already of relatively low resolution. |
| Other information |
(1) The work has significant educational and public value, and will be used for non-profit educational purposes. This image is of extreme historical significance. (2) Putting it on Wikipedia would not interfere with commercial opportunities, since the image is already posted up all over the Internet, as one can see from a Google image search for "fred hampton body OR death". |
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| Purpose of use |
The inclusion of the image would significantly increase reader's understanding of the subject, illustrating for example that he was dragged into the doorway by his arm (note body position), and then shot in the head (can see blood pool formed around head), and can see that he is in underclothes (because he was sleeping). |
| Replaceable? |
There are no free images that are even close to equivalent. This is the only photo of the body where it lay when he was killed. |
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| Purpose of use |
The inclusion of the image would significantly increase reader's understanding of the subject, as it is one of the only photographs of a COINTELPRO assassination operation. |
| Replaceable? |
There are no free images that are equivalent. This is the only photo of a victim of a COINTELPRO assassination. |
Licensing
 | This image is a faithful digitisation of a unique historic image, and the copyright for it is most likely held by the person who created the image or the agency employing the person. It is believed that the use of this image may qualify as non-free use under the Copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information. Please remember that the non-free content criteria require that non-free images on Wikipedia must not "[be] used in a manner that is likely to replace the original market role of the original copyrighted media." Use of historic images from press agencies must only be of a transformative nature, when the image itself is the subject of commentary rather than the event it depicts (which is the original market role, and is not allowed per policy). |
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File history
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| Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
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| current | 20:47, 10 February 2010 | | 299 × 280 (59 KB) | Jrtayloriv | {{Non-free image data |Description = Photograph of the dead body of Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton, lying in a doorway, after he was shot twice in the head at point blank range by members of the Chicago Police Department. |Autho |
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