Felix Mitchell, Jr. was Oakland, California’s first major heroin kingpin – and in 1986 he had the funeral to prove it. TV cameras rolled as Felix’s body was transported in a horse-drawn carriage through the streets of East Oakland before awestruck local residents, with 17 Rolls Royces following in procession. However, Felix was a legend long before that. In the late 1970s and early ‘80s he used the 69th and 65th Avenue San Antonio Villa Housing Projects as a heavily fortified headquarters for a drug empire that proved impenetrable to law enforcement, at least for awhile. Felix’s love for the finer things in life - he drove expensive foreign cars, and basked in local nightlife - helped make him an admired and iconic figure in the hood, but he could be ruthless. When bodies began piling up in a local turf war that captured headlines as ‘Bloody August,’ law enforcement made Mitchell’s capture a priority. He was convicted of running a continuing criminal enterprise, sentenced to life without the possibility of parole, and sent to Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary – where, on August 21, 1986, he was stabbed to death in his cell. Twenty years later, rappers Too Short and Yukmouth, former rival Mickey Moore, former Oakland mayor Elihu Harris, and others help "American Gangster" revisit the life and times of Felix Michell Jr.
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