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Inside Attica: An Interview with Donald Noble Inside Attica: An Interview with Donald Noble
Date: 2/14/1972Call Number: PM 152Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Bruce Soloway, Cinda FirestoneProgram: WBAICollection: Attica
Interview conducted with Donald Noble, singled out as a “leader” of the Attica Rebellion and mistreated. He speaks on his past and present experience within the prison and what little changes occurred after the rebellion. He comments on the flawed press coverage of the prison and his hope for outside intervention. Excerpted in PM 151.
Inside Attica- An Interview with Frank Smith Inside Attica- An Interview with Frank Smith
Date: 2/14/1972Call Number: PM 155Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Bruce SolowayProgram: WBAICollection: Attica
Bruce Soloway interviews Frank Smith, a prisoner and a leader of the Attica rebellion, isolated from the media since its violent end. Smith speaks on the torture he received following the rebellion, the premeditated murder of LD Barkley, the racial problems created by the institution, the inhumane treatment towards prisoners by the judicial and correctional department, and the lack of educational materials and health care within the prison. Smith emphasizes the need for communication between guards and prisoners and the need for the oppressed people of the United States to start act to change the conditions of their lives. After five years of incarceration Smith reports that Attica has changed for the worse. Excerpted on PM 151.
Remember Attica: Blackout Remember Attica: Blackout
Date: 9/18/1972Call Number: PM 157Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Bruce Soloway, Paul FisherProgram: WBAICollection: Attica
Part III of the “Remember Attica” series. Following the Attica rebellion state officials imposed a news blackout. Days after the state troopers violently ended the rebellion many reporters, lawyers, relatives and doctors are not allowed inside. Commissioner of the State Department of Corrections, Jerry Hoolinan gives a press conference, but offers no answers to the events of the preceding days. The special assistant to the Deputy Attorney General, Robert E. Fisher, gives a public statement and yet leaves the public with no answers. Authorities offer only official statements to the press. The press corners prison guards visiting Attica from other institutions, doctors, lawyers and relatives of prisoners for information. The relatives are worried and were told they could visit , but were not allowed in when they arrived. The doctors and lawyer allowed inside the prison are able to give accounts of the attacks and conditions.
Arthur Eve on Attica Arthur Eve on Attica
Date: 1/1/1972Call Number: PM 156Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Rob CrockerProgram: WBAICollection: Attica
Arthur Eve, black Assemblyman from Buffalo, New York and a member of the Attica rebellion observer committee speaks about what happened during the rebellion. He was one of the first people to enter the prison at the rebellion’s inception. He talks about the involvement of the other observer committee members (Bobby Seale, Kenyatta, The Young Lords, FIGHT, Tom Hicks). Arthur Eve wrote to Governor Rockefeller asking him to come to Attica to avoid massacre. Eve talks about how the prison officials lied to the prisoners, about Frank Smith and his torture by prison officials.
Real Dragon End of the Year Show 1972 Real Dragon End of the Year Show 1972
Date: 1/1/1972Call Number: KP 144Format: CassetteProducers: Claude Marks, Lincoln BergmanProgram: Real Dragon Year End 72Collection: Real Dragon Prison Project
Lincoln Bergmen narrates KPFA’s end of the year show 1972. The show gives the year’s news stories from peoples’ movements throughout the world.
The Real Dragon The Real Dragon
Date: 7/22/1972Call Number: RD 016Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln BergmanProgram: The Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Opens with report on Vietnam, Nixon, firestorms, Nguyen Thai Binh, report on Attica, other prison rebellions, July 26th. Night Before Moncada poem by Lincoln Bergman. Closes with Place in the Sun by Stevie Wonder.
Real Dragon Real Dragon
Date: 9/9/1972Call Number: RD 021Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln BergmanProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Olympics of murder poem by Lincoln Bergman, Munich Olympics, Palestinian guerrillas. History of Israel/Palestine. Black September in Jordan. Vietnam and demonstration in San Francisco against Nixon with actuality of Tricia Nixon. Info on People's Blockade of USS Enterprise in SF Bay. First anniversary of Attica, with William Kunstler reading the Attica Manifesto and prisoner voices. Billy Dean Smith case, various prison news, poetry.
Midnight Flash Midnight Flash
Date: 9/16/1972Call Number: RD 022Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman (Roland Young)Program: Midnight FlashCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Dedicated to first anniversary of the Attica rebellion. Also Billy Dean Smith trial, and actuality of Jane Fonda on trip to Vietnam.
Inside Attica: An Interview with Donald Noble Inside Attica: An Interview with Donald Noble
Date: 2/14/1972Call Number: CD 858Format: CDProducers: Bruce Soloway, Cinda FirestoneProgram: WBAICollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Interview conducted with Donald Noble, singled out as a “leader” of the Attica Rebellion and mistreated. He speaks on his past and present experience within the prison and what little changes occurred after the rebellion. He comments on the flawed press coverage of the prison and his hope for outside intervention. Excerpted in PM 151.
The Black Panther Black Community News Service The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1972Volume Number: Vol. 8-27 September 23Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: Boycott Lettuce