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Mark Essex
Dave Lampell delivers a short program documenting the shootout in New Orleans in 1974 where Mark Essex, a 23 year old Vietnam veteran killed police officers. The area was closed off, and calling on backup for reinforcements, police numbers were in the hundreds. They believed there to be more than one sniper. They shot Mark Essex over one hundred times, killing him the first night of the shootout. The police also took out many of their own in an insane display of force. The rest of the program gives a history of Mark Essex’s life in Kansas and suffering racism in the military. Great quotes about the racist State from his mother and sister.
The Slaying of James Carr
Date: 9/19/1974Call Number: PM 116Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Pacifica Radio-KPFKCollection: Political Prisoner Periodicals
A discussion of facts and theories surrounding the death of James Carr and analysis of who stands to benefit from the slaying. Earl Ofari of the LA Free Press, Jerry Cohen of the LA Times, and Donald Freed from Citizen Research Investigation Committee (CRIC) are interviewed by Mary Bess of Pacifica Radio. A taped phone conversation between Lewis Tackwood and Sergeant Brown of the Los Angeles Police Department is listened to and examined in the effort to determine who is to blame for the slaying of James Carr.
The Death of George Jackson
Interviews and sound bites of several different people and groups about the death of George Jackson and the six people killed at San Quentin Federal Prison. Includes interviews with Willy Brown, shoppers at a Berkeley grocery store, and Ronald Reagan. Police riot in San Francisco courtroom 8/26/71.
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.
Nothing Is More Precious Than - Part 1
Date: 5/25/1974Call Number: CD 717Format: CDProducers: Claude Marks, Nancy Barrett, Mark Schwartz, CamomileProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Entire program records the mass assassination of, and pays tribute to the SLA 6, killed in massive police assault on a house in Compton, in LA. Program includes much actuality from LA, Harlem, San Francisco African-American communities.
Nothing Is More Precious Than - Part 2
Date: 5/25/1974Call Number: CD 718Format: CDProducers: Claude Marks, Nancy Barrett, Mark Schwartz, CamomileProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Entire program records the mass assassination of, and pays tribute to the SLA 6, killed in massive police assault on a house in Compton, in LA. Program includes much actuality from LA, Harlem, San Francisco African-American communities.
Freaked Out Left Misses the Point
This article comments on the kidnapping of Patricia Hearst and the role of mass media in meeting the left's demands.
Power to SLA, Off the Pigs
Publisher: BGF and WOYear: 1974Volume Number: 22-FedFormat: ArticleCollection: Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
A newspaper article written by the Weather Underground and Black Guerrilla Family in support of the kidnapping of Patricia Hearst.
Big Daddy asks Cinque to Talk
This is a letter directed to one of the Symbionese Liberation Army's leaders Cinque. The author blames the SLA and their actions for many black prisoners having to suffer worse consequences in prison.
Is SLA's Cinque the First Black Lee Harvey Oswald?
This article includes an interview of Mae Brussell, a conspiracy researcher by writer Stephanie Caruana. Mae Brussell gives an explanation of why she believes that the Symbionese Liberation Army is a hoax by the C.I.A.
