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Real Dragon
Date: 4/14/1973Call Number: RD 038Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude MarksProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Opens with Lincoln Bergman poem on healing wounds of war, actuality of Indian woman, and then poem extends throughout program, with news interspersed. War criminals must be brought to justice. Quote from Bethune. NOTE: Missing closing song--Vietnam Will Win by Red Star Singers. (have elsewhere and on record).
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: 7/15/1972Call 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’
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.
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: 1/27/1973Call Number: RD 028Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude MarksProgram: Real Dragon Collection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Real Dragon program covers:
Cease Fire in Vietnam.
U.S Military Draft officially ended today.
Amilcar Cabral, leader of liberation struggle against the Portuguese Occupation of Guinea Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands has been assassinated. Program elaborates on his life and the revolutionary movement in Guinea Bissau and Angola.
Demonstrations in Northern Ireland commemorated Bloody Sunday. Solidarity demonstrations in San Francisco.
U.S. Ambassador to Haiti was kidnapped and held for the release of political prisoners and ransom.
Rap Brown on trial in NY for charges of attempted murder and robbery.
U.S. Supreme Court overruled all state laws that restrict women's right to an abortion in her first three months of pregnancy (Roe vs. Wade 1/22/73)
Clay Whitehead, aide to Nixon, says government might have to control licensing of television networks because reporting is too biased against the president, He also said that many people liked Big Brother (from Orwell's 1984) because he did it in their "interest and concern."
Real Dragon
Date: 2/3/1973Call Number: RD 029Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude MarksProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Tet: The Lunar New Year passes, spring festival.
100,000 plus patriots locked up as prisoners of Thieu in South Vietnam,
10,000 protest war in China, and thousands in Cuba.
25,000 people and a military parade commemorate the assassinated African
revolutionary leader, Amilcar Cabral in Conakry Guinea. President Sekou
Toure, Amiri Baraka and outlawed Portuguese Communist Party leader Perdo
Suarez speak.
Military resistance and bombings in Portugal support the people’s struggle
in Guinea Bissau, Angola, and Mozambique and against Portuguese
colonialism.
Several major strikes by Black workers in South Africa.
Bloody Sunday commemoration in San Francisco calls for unity among
Catholics and Protestants to oppose 21,000 British occupation troops.
Two students killed by police at University of Mexico, student strikes
closes schools over the U.S.
Continued genocide against indigenous people in Brazil. Waimiri Atroari
attack National Indian Foundation that aims to “pacify and help Indians
adapt to civilization”
Puerto Rico House of Representatives passes a resolution asking Nixon to
pardon and release the Puerto Rican 5.
Continued arrest of Native Americans involved in Bureau of Indian Affairs
occupation, convictions reversed for two accused of stealing copper wire
from the Alcatraz occupation, more protests of racist hiring practices of
California.
More on the trial verdicts of Kitty Hawk and sailor resistance. 3,000 men
discharged from Navy (many blacks and poor whites) because they “lack
intelligence.”
Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark spoke negatively of the U.S.
position as a paramilitary police state.
Senator Stennis the menace shot and wounded in D.C.
Earl Whittaker, a sympathetic Black Tombs Rebellion Prison guard acquitted
of trumped up charges.
Jury chosen for Rap Browns participation in the 1960 Woolworth lunch
counter sit-in that motivated waves of Black student protests and started
the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. Includes excerpts from
Brown’s opening statements.
Parole denied to Robert Wells imprisoned for 44 yrs for defending himself
against racist prison guard.
Venceremos: Laura Taulbee and Milton Taulbee jailed for refusing to
testify to Grand Jury. Guns and property seized from December FBI seizure
of Mountain View home returned
Governor Reagan and Lt. Governor Ed Reinecke make misogynist comments
about birth control.
Real Dragon
Date: 2/10/1973Call Number: RD 030Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Lincoln BergmanProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Roundup of news, much international, Native American, prisons, repression
Real Dragon
Date: 2/17/1973Call Number: RD 031Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Lincoln BergmanProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Real Dragon program Vietnam, international movements, US economy
Real Dragon
Date: 4/7/1973Call Number: RD 037Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Lincoln Bergman, Mark SchwartzProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Ruchell Magee mistrial, with actuality of juror and Sandy Close, Marilyn Buck report on hearing, Native America, Justice and Gibson, Hugo Pinell, the Harlem 4, Weather Underground Grand Jury, James Davis, Wounded Knee. people’s subpoena against James Dierker, Russell Means long statement read by Lincoln Bergman, Pathet Lao, Vietnam
