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Assata Shakur
Barbara Lubinski prison conversation with Assata Shakur and Rita Brown. General discussion of racism, politics, personal growing up stories, etc.
Assata Shakur interview with Barbara Lubinski
long insert with Assata speaking about the Cointelpro repression, against the Black Panther Party, student movement. Murders of Black Panther Party members; fomenting feuds, Panther 21
Interviews with Soledad Brothers
Date: 8/17/1970Call Number: PM 058Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Dave Stevens, PA Director of KPFKCollection: George Jackson
Interviews with Fleeta Drumgo, John Cluchette and George Jackson about prison, their histories, Jonathan Jackson and the Marin County Rebellion.
George Jackson on his early history, talks abaout reading and studying inside, racism in prison, Jonathan Jackson’s death and the possibility of his own death. Interview with George is most substantive of the three.
John Cluchette on the first Soledad incident, political views of prison, on George and Jonathan Jackson
Fleeta Drumgo on his political views of prison. Gets cut off at the end.
Interview with George Jackson
Comments on first California bust at the age of 14, the robbery that lead to Soledad Prison, prison as an education, racism, Jonathan Jackson and the Marin County Rebellion, death. Excellent on Jonathan and Marin, racism and violence in prisons. Tape hisses.
Huey P. Newton interview
Date: 8/1/1971Call Number: PM 065Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Grenada TVProgram: raw sound for Panther movieCollection: Huey Newton
Newton discusses Vietnam and international solidarity and the significance of George Jackson’s murder. Raw, unedited footage.
Black August 2000 Part 1
Date: 8/18/2000Call Number: PM 073Format: DATProducers: Claude Marks, Kiilu NyashaProgram: Black August 2000Collection: Black August Resistance
Black August 2000 event at Alice Arts, Oakland CA with historical voices and culture, George Jackson, Georgia Jackson, Ruchell Magee, Hugo Pinell, Spearhead w/ Michael Franti, Babatunde Lea, EW Wainwright & The African Roots of Jazz, Rosemari Mealy, Kiilu Nyasha, Kumasi, Curly Estremera, Yuri Kochiyama, Devorah Major, Ida McRae, the San Quentin Six, Pierre Labossiere, Naru
Black August 2000 Part 2
Date: 8/18/2000Call Number: PM 074Format: DATProducers: Claude Marks, Kiilu NyashaProgram: Black August 2000Collection: Black August Resistance
Black August 2000 event at Alice Arts, Oakland CA with historical voices and culture, George Jackson, Georgia Jackson, Ruchell Magee, Hugo Pinell, Spearhead w/ Michael Franti, Babatunde Lea, EW Wainwright & The African Roots of Jazz, Rosemari Mealy, Kiilu Nyasha, Kumasi, Curly Estremera, Yuri Kochiyama, Devorah Major, Ida McRae, the San Quentin Six, Pierre Labossiere, Naru
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.
