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Year-End show 1972
Date: 12/31/1972Call Number: RD 027 R1Format: Reel 1Producers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude MarksProgram: Real Dragon Collection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Year-end synopses of select 1972 global political affairs. Including but not limited to commentary on:
Indo-Chinese Victories (examples of demonstrations around the world, liberation of territories, destruction of puppet army, U.S. northwest train stoppages and sailors refusing to go to war)
Japan (Tanaka takes Sato's place in power, movement against U.S. war in Indochina grows, Okinawa struggle-U.S. cedes island back to Japan yet keeps military bases)
Philippines (New People's Army grows, Muslim resistance, Marcos imposes marital law)
South Korea (Park Chung Hee imposes martial law, his opponents executed)
Portugese colonial governments push fascism, use napalm and other tactics in Angola Mozambique, Guinea Bissau
Ireland (Bloody Sunday occurs, where British troops murder demonstrators in Northern Ireland, detention of IRA suspects without trial, MacStiofain imprisoned, U.S. Irish supporters attacked by U.S. grand juries)
Brazil (U.S. imperial forces use Brazilian cliques to squash liberation struggles, genocide against Indigenous peoples, Comandante Marcia killed)
UN Special Committee on Colonialism (from which U.S. resigned months before) classifies Puerto Rico as a colony
U.S. (U.S Indigenous Peoples takeover U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs office in Washington D.C., mass refusals to accept U.S. government checks for land by PIH River Indians, Angela Davis acquitted of charges brought against in her in relation to Aug 7 Marin County Courthouse uprising, Prop 22 defeated- a victory for Farm Workers, restoration of the U.S. death penalty, court upholds Organized Crime Control Act used against radicals, surveillance techniques employed in high schools and on streets of poor communities of color, Hoover dies and Patrick Grey steps in to "streamline and modernize FBI", Nixon strikes deals in Moscow (then Soviet Union) including Arms Limitation, grain and oil deals, push for global capitalism-Pepsi first U.S drink to be make and marketed in S.U., Nixon re-elected)
inserts of: Billy Smith, Ramsey Clark, Thai Binh, MacStoifain, Allende, Angela, Ruchell (EXCELLENT!!), Talamantez
Real Dragon
Date: 5/17/1972Call Number: RD 011Format: 1/4 1 7/8 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude MarksProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
News coverage of Stanley Bone killing in Walpole State Prison in Massachusetts; Racial fighting in a Georgia state prison in which 7 were killed; Miss USA pageant being held at a Puerto Rico hotel where two bombs went off just before winners were announced, including spoken word on pageants and slavery; In Ankara, Turkey 2,000 people tried or undergoing trial for socialist politics and worker parties trying to establish new government in Turkey; Bombing at U.S. military base in Germany; Nixon signs Arms Limitiation Agreement with Soviet Union; Crime Control Act in place designed to threaten radical political acts in the US; the Weather Underground action on the Pentagon; Geneva Accords are used to argue demarcation line in Vietnam
Real Dragon
Date: 6/1/1972Call Number: RD 012Format: 1/4 1 7/8 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude MarksProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Broadcast begins with a quote by a 15th century Vietnamese hero: "Love of Possession is a Disease" News coverage includes United States mining rice fields in Vietnam in an attempt to keep people from working the fields and bombing provinces with refugee camps; fighting in Cambodia; (Report by Larry Bensky with a spokesperson, Ngo Vinh Long, and others---Vietnamese students present a statement at the San Francisco consulate demanding communication with Saigon, release of all political prisoners, Thieu resign at once, and the dismantling of the repressive Saigon regime, US support for Thieu should be terminated. The demonstrators were mostly Vietnamese student recipients of scholarships from the Agency of International Development, which also supports prisons in Vietnam. The demonstrators were threatened with the revocation of visas) [about 4 minutes, approx 3:00–7:00]; Kissinger's return to the U.S. after a trip to Beijing but no agreement was made about Vietnam; Israeli attacks made on Lebanon by sinking Lebanese boats said to have been carrying Palestinian guerilla forces; Heavy bombings in Northern Ireland; Democratic National Headquarters was bugged; court ruling on illegal wiretaps; Former CIA agent employed by the Republican National Committee was caught while bugging the headquarters; Repressive preparations for Republican Convention (Jerry Rubin actuality); 2 bombings in Berkeley Don Church does not appear for trial; Gay rights issues in Miami Beach, Florida; PG&E trucks destroyed by arson in San Francisco; San Francisco demonstration against American Medical Association for favoring a system that requires charging for health care rather than it being a free service & also that the availability of health care is uneven—Red Star Singers songs and report on the demonstration, Tom Bodenheimer comment and other actuality, Stephanie Klein case; Hopi delegation to UN ecology conference in Stockholm, use their own passports; San Quentin 6 awaiting trial, David Johnson article is quoted from, re Vietnam, Luis "Bato" Talamantez reports on beating of 3 of San Quentin 6 by prison guards—attorney Joel Kirschenbaum reads message.
Real Dragon
Date: 6/10/1972Call Number: RD 013Format: 1/4 1 7/8 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude MarksProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
News coverage includes spoken word on "Napalm of Pain"; North American advisor for Vietnam died there after spending 10 years in Viet Nam; U.S. bombs are ruining infrastructure, including all the dikes for upcoming rainy season; 10 Anti-war Vietnemese students who were protesting were told their study arrangements have been halted and they face deportation to Saigon and imprisonment, Angela Davis, Jane Fonda, Tom Hayden, Joey Russo, and Jon Voight offer asylum for the students; Rand Corporation explores the idea of automated warfare; Over 1600 American prisoners being held in Indochina; Haight Ashbury demonstration in San Francisco favors 7 Point Plan; People's Republic of China blames world pollution on capitalist pursuits; Over 20 guerillas in Selan dug an 86 foot tunnel and escaped detention center; Guinea Bissau struggles against Portugese colonialism; In Johannesburg and Cape Town students protest segregated schools and marks the first large scale protest organized by white students; 468 Anglo-American Company miners died in Rhodesia; German student leader arrested after participating in a Black Panther Sympathy march and was convicted of breeching the public peace by encouraging attacks on police; Angela Davis is acquitted on all charges; Ruchell Mcgee trial underway; Death of Dr. Walter Freeman, originator of the lobotomy, claimed women were fine lobotomy candidates because they didn't need to use their brains to earn a living as men do.
Real Dragon
Date: 6/30/1972Call Number: RD 061Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln BergmanProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Newscast covering wide variety of topics, worldwide struggles, long section on Ruchell Magee, poem on US bombing of the dikes in North Vietnam. Cuts off before end of broadcast.
Real Dragon
Date: 7/29/1972Call Number: RD 001Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln BergmanProgram: Real Dragon (Midnight Flash)Collection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Early Real Dragon on late night Saturday show (Oneness with Roland Young/Glenn Howell). Syphilis experiments, conviction of Geronimo Pratt, Ruchell Magee case/report on demonstration in San Francisco with strong speech by Angela Davis. Briefs on other trials, H Rap Brown, Justice and Gibson, Stephanie Klein, bombing of Army recruiting station in Oakland, lots of international news, Uruguay, Vietnam China (Lin Piao) Vietnam.
Real Dragon
Date: 10/1/1972Call Number: RD 010Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln BergmanProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Opens with tribute to Chinese revolution, then much on Vietnam including tape of released POW and song by POWs (take off on Buddy Holly song). Dan Siegel interview about situation in the Philippines. Barry Winograd, attorney on upcoming Grand Jury in San Francisco. Ends with In Contempt, song of resistance to repression.
Real Dragon
Date: 11/18/1972Call Number: RD 026 R2Format: Reel 2Producers: Lincoln Bergman (on Oneness show)Program: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Opens with story about two black students killed in Baton Rouge, then the acquittal of Billy Dean Smith on fragging charges, Tom Hayden reporting on trip to Vietnam. Lincoln Bergman recites "The Bitter River" by Langston Hughes, followed by "We Are Soldiers" civil rights song.
Real Dragon
Date: 6/20/1972Call Number: RD 014Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln BergmanProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Opens with reports from Vietnam, news on bombing the dikes, report on Billy Dean Smith trial opening, prison news, Frances Emley report on rejection of an award....ends with Summertime sung by Billie Holiday.
Real Dragon
Date: 7/15/1972Call Number: RD 015Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln BergmanProgram: Real Dragon (on Oneness show)Collection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Opens with full statement by Nguyen Thai Binh who was killed when he tried to hijack a plane to Hanoi (he had an orange), statement read by Lincoln Bergman. He became a hero to Vietnamese independence cause. Announcement of event/candlelight memorial by Union of Vietnamese to memorialize Thai Binh. Thai Binh’s family held prisoner in Vietnam—newspapers confiscated when they carried stories about him (July 2, 1972 was the date of Thai Binh’s action.); Roundup of much other Vietnam news, General killed, British freighter sunk, Jane Fonda visit to the North report from Vietnam News Agency; Le Duc Tho returns to Paris; other Asia, Northern Ireland, Portugal, Philippines, Middle East/Japanese Red Army Lod Airport action, Greece, arrest of eight people in an organization called “New Left,” for alleged plot to kidnap a Kennedy, etc.; Ruchell Magee statement—documents sent to KPFA, read by Lincoln Bergman, announce a protest on July 28, 1972 in support of Ruchell Magee; report by Larry Bensky on charges/indictment against leaders of Vietnam Veterans Against the War in connection with upcoming Republican Convention in Florida, and the role of an informant in these charges; McGovern nominated, time will tell—closes with song “Keep on Pushin’
