Tupac Shakur

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Person.png Tupac Shakur   IMDB Website WikiquoteRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(musician, activist, poet)
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BornLesane Parish Crooks
1971-06-16
East Harlem, New York, U.S.
Died1996-09-13 (Age 0)
Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.
Cause of death
gunshot
Victim ofassassination
Interest ofJohn Potash
Internationally known rap musician. Assassinated

Tupac Shakur was an internationally known rap musician.

Background

Tupac's parents Afeni Shakur and father Billy Garland were active members of the Black Panthers. His stepfather, Mutulu Shakur, spent four years at large on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list beginning in 1982. Mutulu was wanted for having helped his friend (no relation) Assata Shakur (also known as Joanne Chesimard), Tupac's godmother, to escape from a penitentiary in New Jersey in 1979.

Death

On September 7, 1996, Shakur was shot four times in a drive-by shooting at the intersection of Flamingo Road and Koval Lane in Las Vegas, Nevada.[1] He was taken to the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada, where he died from his injuries six days later.[2]

John Potash alleges in his book, The FBI War on Tupac Shakur and Black Leaders that Tupac Shakur was assassinated by the FBI because of the political messages of his videos, especially the anti-war content. He states that the FBI attempted to assassinate Tupac at least 4 times before. He links Tupac's murder to a larger pattern is assassinations, including Fred Hampton, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King.[3]

 

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  2. Koch, Ed (October 24, 1997). "Tupac Shakur's Death Certificate Details". numberonestars. Las Vegas Sun. Archived from the original on May 23, 2012. Retrieved December 31, 2016. Cite uses deprecated parameter |deadurl= (help)Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
  3. https://porkinspolicyreview.com/2017/03/08/porkins-policy-radio-episode-84-the-fbi-war-on-tupac-shakur-and-black-leaders-with-john-potash/