Robert Fitzgerald Vickers Wanted Poster 1972

Description: UP FOR AUCTION, IS AN ORIGINAL FBI POSTER OF ONE OF BLACK PANTHER PARTY, AND BLACK LIBERATION ARMY MEMBERS ROBERT FITZGERALD VICKERS. IT WAS ISSUED FEBRUARY 15TH, 1972. HE IS INFAMOUSLY KNOWN AS BEING AN ACCOMPLICE WITH ASSATA SHAKUR, OR JOANNE CHESIMARD DURING INFAMOUS POLICE ATTACKS, AND KILLINGS. INCITING RIOTS, ETC. HE WAS ONE OF JOANNE CHESIMARD/SHAKUR'S BIGGEST CONFIDANTS. A MEMBER OF THE "MOVEMENT" HE WAS A WELL KNOWN MEMBER OF THE THE BPP/BLA. THERE WERE VERY FEW OF THESE POSTERS MADE. WHICH TRULY MAKES THIS A PIECE OF HISTORY, AND EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO FIND. THIS POSTER IS IN EXCELLENT USED CONDITION AS YOU CAN SEE. THE ONLY VISIBLE IMPERFECTION IS THE NORMAL BEND IN THE MIDDLE AT THE CREASE. ABOUT SHAKUR:As of February 17, 1972, (This poster was issued May 30, 1972 so I guess this is a first issue) when Shakur was identified as one of four BLA members on a short trip to Chattanooga, Tennessee , Shakur was wanted for questioning (along with Robert Vickers, Twyman Meyers, Samuel Cooper, and Paul Stewart) in relation to police killings, a Queens bank robbery, and the grenade attack. Shakur was announced as one of six suspects in the ambushing of four policemen--two in Jamaica, Queens, and two in Brooklyn--on January 28, 1973, despite the fact that the assailants were identified as male. By June 1973, an apparatus that would become the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) was issuing near daily briefings on Shakur's status and the allegations against her. According to Cleaver and Katsiaficas, the FBI and local police "initiated a national search-and-destroy mission for suspected BLA members, collaborating in stakeouts that were the products of intensive political repression and counterintelligence campaigns like NEWKILL" and "attempted to tie Assata to every suspected action of the BLA involving a woman." The JTTF would later serve as the "coordinating body in the search for Assata and the renewed campaign to smash the BLA," after her escape from prison. After her capture, however, Shakur was not charged with any of the crimes that had made her the subject of the manhunt.Shakur and others claim that she was targeted by the FBI's COINTELPRO as a result of her involvement with these organizations. Specifically, documentary evidence suggests that Shakur was targeted by an investigation named CHESROB, which "attempted to hook former New York Panther Joanne Chesimard (Assata Shakur) to virtually every bank robbery or violent crime involving a black woman on the East Coast." Although named after Shakur, CHESROB (like its predecessor, NEWKILL) was not limited to Shakur.Armed with new information about one of the city's most infamous cop-killing cases, detectives are hunting for another suspect in the Black Liberation Army ambush slaying of two rookie officers 29 years ago, the Post has learned.Officers Gregory Foster, 22, and Rocco Laurie, 23, were shot in the back while on foot patrol on the Lower East Side on Jan. 27, 1972, by three gunmen -- including one who reportedly danced with glee as he stood over the slain cops.The Black Liberation Army, a militant band that split from the Black Panther Party in 1971 and devoted itself to killing cops, took credit for assassinating Foster, who was black, and his white partner, Laurie.After a massive manhunt for the killers, one suspect was acquitted of murder in 1974, another died in a Bronx gun battle with cops in 1973, and a third was slain in a wild 1972 shootout with cops in St. Louis.The never-closed case took on dramatic new life in February with the arrest in Brooklyn of former BLA member Fred Hilton on charges of sexually abusing his girlfriend's 12-year-old daughter.Hilton, 48, is the former lover of Joanne Chesimard, a BLA member convicted of killing a New Jersey trooper...MORE ON THE INTERNET, BUT YOU SEE THE PICTURE. THIS POSTER WILL BE SECURELY BAGGED AND BOARDED, LIKE A COMIC BOOK. SHIPPING WILL BE ON MEMAILING TO US DESTINATIONS ONLY.

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Location: Rochester, New York

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