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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: 5/26/1973Call Number: RD 044Program: Real Dragon Collection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Real Dragon Watergate and Africa, interspersed with limericks.
Real Dragon
Date: 6/9/1973Call Number: RD 046Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude Marks, Mary MackeyProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Program on Walpole State Prison, Ruchell, and news roundup.
Real Dragon
Date: 8/25/1973Call Number: RD 060 R1Format: Reel 1Producers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude MarksProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
This is the LAST Real Dragon program and has an explanation of the change to the next iteration of the program--Nothing Is More Precious Than...
Jalil Muntaqim interview (1 of 4)
Call Number: V 078Format: VHSProducers: John O’ReillyCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Begins with talk about how he met Nuh Washington and Sacco Ortiz, who were Denver Panthers needing a place to crash. They lived at his place for a few months in the Bay Area, politicizing each other and living communally. Tells story of how Nuh got his name. Describes in detail about his transition into Islam. Quite reluctant at first, argued a lot with Max Sanford aka Hamid Hamid and H. Rap Brown aka Jamil AABD Al-Amin, with whom he was imprisoned in Old Queens, NY in 1972. He had great respect for these guys and watched them pray 5 times a day. He called himself a materialist up until this point, but could never resolve question of spirit and what happens to spirit once the body passes. Being a Muslim doesn’t take away from his being a revolutionary, only provides more and brings hope, a tempered spirit, and a spiritual/material equilibrium. Discusses the meaning of Jihad - to struggle, to strive in his political life. Talks about rebelling against parents, schools and cops. Always a good student, mom instilled a sense of dignity and African identity in him. Politicized by the murder of Martin Luther King, seeing Black Panther Party on TV going to the CA capitol with weapons, friends John Carlos and Tommie Smith at the 1968 Olympics with black power fists raised in the air. Was always associated with Black Panther Party, but only briefly joined and then was recruited into the Black Liberation Army whose existence began years before they were publicly known as an underground organization during Jalil and Dharuba bin Wahad’s case in 1971. Discusses his case - initially as the NY 5 with the Ortiz brothers (Gabriel and Francisco), later their case was dismissed for lack of evidence, thus they became the NY 3. Discusses how evidence was tampered with and the entire conviction was a setup given the threat that the government and FBI believed that the Black Liberation Army/Black Panther Party posed to the national security. Has much information and FBI documents proving innocence through the Freedom of Information Act. Discusses the torturing of witnesses, granting immunity to one witness who had several outstanding arrests.
Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton Speaks at University of Chicago
Same as PM 115 R1 at 7 1/2 ips Part 1
Chairman of Illinois for the Black Panther Party, Fred Hampton, speaks at the University of Chicago about the U.S. prison system and the fight for equal rights among people of color. Speech gives insight on Black Panther Party’s school of thought regarding education and politics, with a focus on the “Breakfast for Children Program” and the defense fund for Black Panthers needing bail, including Bobby Seale, Huey Newton, Dennis Moral, Bobby Hutton, Michael “Mickey” White, and Bobby Rush. Question and answer session with the audience at the end of the tape gives depth to the Black experience at this time.
Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton Speaks at University of Chicago
Same as PM 115 R1 at 7 1/2 ips Part 2
Chairman of Illinois for the Black Panther Party, Fred Hampton, speaks at the University of Chicago about the U.S. prison system and the fight for equal rights among people of color. Speech gives insight on Black Panther Party’s school of thought regarding education and politics, with a focus on the “Breakfast for Children Program” and the defense fund for Black Panthers needing bail, including Bobby Seale, Huey Newton, Dennis Moral, Bobby Hutton, Michael “Mickey” White, and Bobby Rush. Question and answer session with the audience at the end of the tape gives depth to the Black experience at this time.
30th Anniversary of the murder of Fred Hampton
Date: 12/4/1999Call Number: PM 076Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Lincoln BergmanCollection: Fred Hampton
Program made for the 30th anniversary of the murder of Chicago Panther leader, Fred Hampton. Includes portions of a speech made by Hampton in April, 1969 at the University of Chicago, comments by Akua Ngeri (his wife at the time) from an interview by Kiilu Nyasha, and portions of an original broadcast on Nothing is more Precious than from 1974.
Black Liberation Army - Fact or Fantasy
Date: 1/1/1974Call Number: PM 165Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Ron Magee, Rest of the News, Claude Marks, Bruce Soloway, Mark SchwartzProgram: Rest of the NewsCollection: BLA
Interviews and discussion concerning the Black Liberation Army and it’s alleged members. The question is raised as to the actual existence of the group which some claim to be a fabrication of the media and police to justify increased repression of Black revolutionaries. Various criminal trials of black activists are looked at to reveal how the local Police, FBI, News Media, and U.S. Justice System have worked together to pursue a repressive course to combat what they see as a threat to the very structure of American Society. Interviews detail use of police violence and torture to intimidate and demoralize the black radical movement. The cases of the “New York Five”, Joanne Chesimard (Assata Shakur), and Fred Hilton are described, along with the killing of Fred Hampton and the imprisonment of Muhammad Arif and Victor Cumerbash. Black Liberation Army prisoners (Herman Bell and Gabriel Torres) are interviewed extensively. Family members speak to the violence and repression of the police at a press conference. The murder by police of Twyman Myers is extensively addressed.
Herman Bell Interview
Date: 6/13/1974Call Number: PM 081Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude MarksCollection: Herman Bell
Interview done by Claude Marks Marks with Black Liberation Army member Herman Bell. Bell discusses the need for organizing within the black community and the means of strengthening itself through resistance and struggle. The SLA and Black Liberation Army are discussed extensively.
