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![G is Free](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Approximately 10 separate news blitzes/interviews about Geronimo Pratt’s release from prison. Footage of him addressing the judge and maintaining his innocence. Most news blurbs discuss Pratt’s history in the Vietnam War, membership in LA chapter of the Black Panther Party, and his being framed by the chief witness, Julius Butler, an FBI and police informant in the murder case of Carolyn Olson, a Santa Monica schoolteacher. Shots of his welcoming back to Marin City, with family, friends and community members, anxious for their “hero” to return. One later news clipping is an interview with Pratt on the one year anniversary of his release. Again Pratt openly discusses the corruption of the FBI and their targeting of the Black Panther Party.
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Date: 1/14/1987Call Number: JG/ 057Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: interview with GeronimoCollection: Geronimo Pratt
This is an interview with Geronimo Ji Jaga, a Black Panther leader who was imprisoned for over 20 years at San Quentin prison, charged with a murder in Los Angeles, even though FBI surveillance showed him to be in the Bay Area at the time.
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An extensive interview with Geronimo Pratt. Explains how and why he is in prison, details about his murder case and the role of the FBI; his history as a soldier in Vietnam; his involvement with the Black Panther Party and their ideology.
Emphasis on psychological warfare the study of which has been overlooked by the peoples’ movement.
Also explains the general conditions at San Quentin, younger prisoners, his spiritual growth through mediation, fasting, and the necessity of physical strength and mental strength.
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Pratt interview with intimate about his history, and family.
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Interview with Geronimo Pratt by Reggie Major at Mule Creek State Prison shortly before Pratt was denied parole after having spent 24 years in prison. Falsely convicted of murder and robbery in 1970 as part of J. Edgar Hoover's COINTELPRO program to destroy Black Liberation groups in the late 1960's, Pratt spent 27 years in California State Prisons. In the interview Pratt talks about his conviction, his eight years of solitary confinement and the transformational power he sees in contemporary street gangs.
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