George Jackson
George Jackson was arrested in 1957 for stealing $70 from a gas station and was sentenced to 1 year to life. Jackson ended up being incarcerated for 14 years until he was murdered by prison guards inside San Quentin Prison in 1971. During his 14 years of imprisonment, Jackson became of the seminal figures and thinkers of Black Power and the Black Liberation Movement.
Documents
![George Jackson Remembered](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: PM 005Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: KSAN, Dave McQueen, KPFACollection: George Jackson
Dave McQueen and Mark Schwartz read letters of George Jackson. They discuss the details of the events surrounding the uprising and his death. Actuality from the last interview with George Jackson. Weather communiqué read by Dave McQueen. Closes with Elaine Brown singing The Panther, as sung at George Jackson’s funeral.
![Jonathan Jackson funeral](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: PM 008Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Lincoln BergmanProgram: Real Dragon and laterCollection: George Jackson
Statements read by Huey Newton at Jonathan Jackson's funeral including an letter from George Jackson; a letter from Soledad political prisoners; and Black Panther Party statement ”we must be free, so help us God."
![Freedom Is A Constant Struggle: 5 year memorial for George Jackson](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 8/21/1976Call Number: PM 011Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Barbara Lubinski, Heber DreherProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: George Jackson
Barbara Lubinski and Heber Dreher with 5 year memorial program to George Jackson, their voices, statement from Marilyn Buck, read by Barbara Lubinski, includes Otto René Castillo poem recited by Barbara Lubinski, Heber Dreher lists political prisoners, inserts of Georgia Jackson with music.
NOTE: Says R/R #1 on box, so there may be another.
Poor at start, improves, then SQUEAKS, then back to music. Quality uneven.
![George Jackson Communiqués](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: PM 013Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude MarksProgram: Real Dragon/NIMPT 1975Collection: George Jackson
Reading by Claude Marks and Lincoln Bergman of communiqués re armed actions in retaliation for George Jackson assassination; rally in Willard Park, reporter reads statement from Herman Bell for Unity.
![Memorial program Aug 7](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 8/1/1975Call Number: PM 021Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude Marks, Mark SchwartzProgram: Real DragonCollection: George Jackson
Jonathan Jackson memorial program - long George Jackson and Huey Newton exerpts and audio from funeral.
![BBC Report: George Jackson](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: PM 023Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: BBCProgram: George JacksonCollection: George Jackson
BBC Report, Iron Box: The Prison Life and Death of George Jackson, on Jackson after assassination, good Jackson actuality, Fay Stender, early blues music, Inez Williams, Doris Maxwell (Clutchette's mother), Elsa Knight Thompson on prison, Frazel Sheldon, public defender Sonoma County, Robert Charles Jordan 1966 suit for cruel and unusual punishment
![Report on the Deaths at San Quentin](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 8/27/1971Call Number: PM 025Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProgram: Pacifica reportCollection: George Jackson
A documentary on assassination of George Jackson aftermath at San Quentin, with mostly actuality of staff, district attorney, and visiting legislators on 8/21/71 and prison conditions as of 8/27/71.
![Report on the murder of George Jackson](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 9/12/1974Call Number: PM 054Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProgram: Prison MovementCollection: George Jackson
Report on assassination of George Jackson, including press conferences with warden James Park, Warden Lewis Nelson, State Director of Corrections Raymond Procunier, Georgia Jackson, and DA’s John Thorne and Floyd Silliman. Squeal last ten minutes of tape.
![Interviews with Soledad Brothers](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
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](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
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.