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![Ruchell Magee](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 8/1/1993Call Number: KN 003Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Kiilu NyashaProgram: Black August 93Collection: Programs produced by Kiilu Nyasha
Edited actuality w/ Ruchell Magee who talks about his case, Aug 7, 1971. Includes George Jackson actuality about Aug 7.
![Ruchell Magee](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 8/18/1971Call Number: PM 075Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Dave StevensCollection: Ruchell Magee
Prison interview with Ruchell Magee 3 days before assassination of George Jackson conducted by Dave Stevens of KPFK-Los Angeles. Discusses his original case and appeals. Then goes to what happened on the day of the Marin County courthouse rebellion but he mostly declines to comment. Speaks on why his and Angela’s case were separated, on being his own attorney. His case to Reagan for a pardon (Ruchell Magee vs. Ronald Reagan.) Good quote re Panthers on UNITY. More on Angela--need unity not “stars,” but the gun---Mention of Nixon and Vietnam. “No pleasure in San Quentin.” What would you do if you were on the outside? (organize, bring people in to show them the real conditions). When did you first begin to feel like a “slave?” Talks about his early background.
Discusses 1963 conviction briefly
19:04 "These dogs have kept me in prison all this time… these dogs have one leg to stand on, racism."
22:27 "Those appointed by the court are shysters and buzzards, they work for the state." (Referring to the attorneys)
28:10 "I file a case and it sits in a drawer for 3 or 4 years."
29:30 "We (Black people) are going thorough hell, it's time to unite, no time to fight one-and-other."
31:24 "That's the pigs, they use confusion to divide us."
34:35 "The contradictions, the dogs are compelling people to pick up guns."
35:10 "There is no pleasure in prison."
36:10 "As soon as they let one go, here go another one, it's how prison is designed, tap dancing and actin' the fool won't help if you on the list to do some time it don't matter."
"What I would do on the outside is organize the people."
42:25"You don't put no MF? Fool as a king."
42:55 "It's me today, it's you tomorrow."
48:00 "the government will destroy the people and itself too."
49:40 "I would help the Viet Cong fight."
![San Quentin Prison: Black August](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: SS 020BFormat: Cass BProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Segments from George Jackson, Ruchell Magee and Black August.
![Paul Cook, Ruchell Magee, And Justice In America](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 6/4/1971Call Number: CD 440Format: CDProducers: Carolyn CravenCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Paul Cook is interviewed by Carolyn Craven. Cook is a former cellmate of Ruchell Magee, who is at the time of the interview on trial with Angela Davis in connection with the escape attempt and shootout at the Marin Civic Center in August, 1970. Cook discusses his relationship with Ruchell Magee and his role as a member of his Defense Committee. He begins the interview by describing his being approached by police agents wanting him to testify against Ruchell Magee under threat on June 3, 1971. Topics addressed include the difficulty of organizing Magee’s defense, and the frustration working within the legal system. The growth of the California Prison Industry is analyzed, as are the conditions of prison life and their impact on prisoners’ families . He discusses George and Jonathan Jackson, Larry West and Ruchell Magee.
2:10 …While they were considering bail for Angela I was there 'cause I didn't want them to forget about Ruchell.
42:50 & 49:10 Jonathan and George Jackson
![Free Angela Davis and all political prisoners](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/2012Call Number: V 741Format: DVDProducers: Shola LynchCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
On August 7th, 1970 Angela is implicated in the Marin Courthouse Rebellion at the Marin County, CA courthouse. Angela flees California, convinced she will not be given a fair trial and is placed on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list. After a national manhunt she is captured two months later in New York City. Charged with murder, kidnapping and conspiracy, Angela is put on trial in one of the most sensational court cases of its time. After a two-year legal battle, an all white jury acquits her on all charges in 1972.
![Ruchell Magee: 4-13-2002 at Corcoran State Prison](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Conversation between Ruchell Magee and Bato Talamantez who had not seen each other for 25 years. Information is provided about Ruchell's history, his case and his efforts to gain freedom. The CDCr's points system is discussed as well as the importance of having a political defense and the importance of solidarity groups.
![Anvil](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: United Prisoners UnionYear: 1971Volume Number: Vol. 1-1 AprilFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Prison Newspapers
Includes the inaugural editorial We Must Unite as well as coverage of the case of Larry Justice and Earl Gibson, the San Quentin, Six, Ruchell Magee and women prisoners.
![Anvil](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: California Prisoners UnionYear: 1971Volume Number: Vol. 1-3 August - SeptemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Prison Newspapers
Cover Story: CPU Press Conference on San Quentin Guard Murder, Parole
as a Continuation of
Prison, Sadistic Castrators Expos
ed, Strike at Women
![Dragon](images/thumbnails//34141.jpg)
Publisher: Bay Area Research CollectiveYear: 1975Volume Number: No. 1 AugustFormat: PeriodicalCollection: The Dragon
Table of Contents: BARC's Statement on Dragon, NWLF Chronology, NWLF Communique: GM Bombing, Fuck-the-World-for-Profits: GM Leaflet, NWLF Communique: PG&E Skyline Blvd, NWLF Communique: PG&E San Jose, Second PG&E San Jose Communique, Critique by Orphans of Amerika, NWLF Response, NWLF Communiqe: CDC Bombing, NWLF Communique: PG&E Berkeley, NWLF Letter to the Barb, Response by BARC & Orphans, Red Guerrilla Family Chronology, RGF Letter to the Alternative Media
![Dragon](images/thumbnails//34145.jpg)
Publisher: Bay Area Research CollectiveYear: 1975Volume Number: No. 5 DecemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: The Dragon
Table of Contents: Letter from the Smybionese Liberation Army December/75, Our Back Pages: B.A.R.C., Letters, Nam Brothers: Ashanti, Black Liberation Army, The Weather Underground Organization film, Blurbs, Politics in Command: Weather Underground, Women's Gun Pamphlet: book review, New World Liberation Front, structure, New Worl Liberation Front, community health strategy, The Zapata Unit: B.A.R.C., An Open Letter to the People, the Zapata Unit, and New Dawn.
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