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Nothing is More Precious Than
Date: 2/2/1974Call Number: CD 892Format: CDProducers: Claude Marks, Nancy Barrett, Mark Schwartx, with Frances Emley, Elsa JavkinProgram: KPFA BerkeleyCollection: Vietnam
Ongoing repercussions of the Tyrone Guyton killing in Oakland. New trials of Black Liberation Army, Henry “ShaSha” Brown, recess in trial of Assata Shakur (she is pregnant and ill) and Sundiata Acoli; NY Daily News campaign against BLA; Richard Dhoruba Moore interview by Mark Schwartz, on self-defense and armed struggle. Case of Ruchell Magee and his right to defend himself. Sandy Close report on Magee hearing. Prison lockdown of five major California prison goes into its third month, San Quentin 6 case and others. Fighting in Cambodia against the Lon Nol government. Union of Vietnamese report. Special program on a national hero—Nguyen Trai, military leader/strategist, poet, statesman, resistance against China (1380–1442). His proclamation of victory is read–describes overall strategy, guerrilla-type ambushes, battles, surrender of the Chinese generals. Roundup of news from Latin America, especially Bolivia, resistance of peasants and workers to government’s increase of prices, Cochabamba, repression by Hugo Banzer regime
Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 8/30/1975Call Number: CD 893Format: CDProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude Marks, with Mark Schwartz, Molly FrankelProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: Vietnam
Program celebrates Vietnamese independence, with music, poetry, interviews. Includes Ho Chi Minh speaking in English, a poem by Janice Mirikitani, a speech by Dow of the Union of Vietnamese, and comments by Donna Futterman, a recent visitor to Vietnam at the time. Also report on trial of the San Quentin 6.
Vietnam Independence Day
Live celebration for the first Vietnam Independence Day. With no foreign troops on Vietnam soil, a numerous amount of supporters came to rejoice. Beginning with a number of Vietnamese speakers, quotes of Ho Chi Minh are recited to gain hopes for the future of Vietnam. After the Vietnamese speakers, Janis Mergatani a prominent antiwar poet recites some of her poems. The last half of the celebration is a speech/slideshow involving the history of the occupation of Vietnam, starting with the French and ending with America leaving. With a time line of the injustices put upon the Vietnamese, many supporters look toward the future with optimism.
Union of Vietnamese Interview and Event
Interview with Dao, representative of Union of Vietnamese Students in the US, on occasion of the first independence day after the victory over the US. Includes portion of speech from American Indian Movement (AIM), and live music by Holly Near at event celebrating the Vietnam victory.
US Media Coverage: Vietnam War 1
About Vietnamese led demonstrations in Saigon against French colonialism. Also about US military aid for the French military and the situation in Cambodia. Additionally discusses right-wing Vietnamese political parties and their influence by Nazi Germany and fascist political parties from Japan.
Jean Lacouture and Vietnam War
Lacouture of La Monde discusses the influence of Communism and Trotskyism on the Viet Minh and the National Liberation Front. He states that the Viet Minh are “a national front with a large communist framework” but that not all individuals identify as communists. He speaks on the differences between China and Russia’s influence on the Viet Minh and the presence of the US democratic left in the National Liberation Front.
Tran Van Dinh Interview 1
A short excerpt of an interview with Tran Van Dinh.
ABC Media Coverage: Vietnam War
About the drafting of a new constitution for South Vietnam by the South Vietnamese Constituent Assembly and the presidential elections taking place in South Vietnam.
Tran Van Dinh Interview: 2
He talks of the National Liberation Front and political leaders in Vietnam.
Vietnam Battleground 1
Reports on the battlegrounds in Vietnam. Interviews with US marines can be heard with the sounds of bullets, air strikes and hand grenades in the background. They report on the number of Vietnamese and US troops killed. “I had three that died in my arms while I was trying to take care of them. That hurt more then anything,” said a marine.
