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Ruchell Magee
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 Interviews (Part 1 of 2)
Date: 8/6/1971Call Number: PM 082Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Grenada TVProgram: Raw San Quentin
Collection: Black Panther Party general
Unidentified Black Panther Party members discuss the formation of Black Panther Party branch in San Quentin, art for sale, the underground prison economy, and the “special” treatment they received as Panthers from guards including censorship and threats for shaking hands with George Jackson. This is raw unedited footage.
San Quentin Interviews (Part 2 of 2)
Date: 8/6/1971Call Number: PM 083Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Grenada TVProgram: Raw San QuentinCollection: Black Panther Party general
Unedited interview with two members (Sundiata Tate? and ?) of the Black Panther Party inside San Quentin. They discuss Warden Parks and Nelson’s fear of prison solidarity and the Panther movement, the everyday censorship, visitation rights and Romaine Chip Fitzgerald (Panther) getting put on death row . Continued from PM 082.
North Block - San Quentin
Date: 1/1/1971Call Number: PM 095Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Grenada T.V.Collection: Political Prisoner Periodicals
Sound Roll from San Quentin shoot - tour of North Block with prison official including narrative and sounds including prisoners in the honor block.
Interviews about George Jackson
Date: 9/6/1971Call Number: PM 097Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Grenada TVCollection: George Jackson
Camera Roll 11: interviews with Black Panthers who were incarcerated with George Jackson at San Quentin; discussing how other prisoners were encouraged by and respected George’s defiance of the State’s orders; talk about the hole and degrading mistreatment; discussion about the yard and racist pitting of groups against each other by guards ; discuss what kind of self-discipline George had and what kind you need once inside ; Camera Roll 12: a former inmate of San Quentin pointing out various elements of a prison on a diagram - not much good on audio only.
San Quentin Prison Sounds
Date: 9/6/1971Call Number: PM 098Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Grenada TVCollection: Political Prisoner Periodicals
Sound Roll 10. Audio of San Quentin. . Sound of prisoners coming out of classroom, conversations about educational programs. Short conversation with lieutenant regarding a prisoner who was released due to insanity. Distant yelling, prisoners demanding showers. More ambient sound, cuts in and out. Wild sound from adjustment center: “We’re in here 23.5 hours a day”
Same as CD 330
San Quentin Recordings
Camera roll 27: (1)George Jackson talking about fascism; (2) Interview with unknown legal person about searches before/after visits. Pokes holes in State’s case about George Jackson trying to escape. History of San Quentin violence against inmates.
Interview with San Quentin official
Interview with San Quentin official about the death of George Jackson and subsequent uprisings of prisoners; he discusses the need for more psychological programming and control of prisoners. Interview with Moe Camacho and Arnold Thompson, two CO's who were Chapter President of Correctional Officers at San Quentin and Soledad prisons. Who discuss the need for discipline and separation of potentially violent inmates, more isolation, heightened security. The level of anxiety has risen among guards because of various revolutionary groups organizing within and outside of prisons, the circulation political literature and propaganda, and recent actions taken by prisoners.
Black Panther Party Political Education on George Jackson
Bobby Seale preparing to teach in a garage to Panther kids, asking them what they know about George Jackson, where and how long he was incarcerated. Not much material.
Black Panther Party Political Education Garage School
Date: 9/8/1971Call Number: PM 109Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: BBC - GranadaCollection: Black Panther Party general
Black Panther Party kids singing free political prisoners, free David Hilliard, free Angela Davis, free Ruchell Magee, free all our people. Panther woman (name unknown) leads a class discussing definition of political prisoners and the criminal justice system. If someone can’t feed/clothe their family, doesn’t that make them a political prisoner? Talk about racism in the courtroom, all white juries, how the law doesn’t serve the people, how many people personally know prisoners.
