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![Ruchell Magee](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 8/1/1993Call Number: KN 003Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Kiilu NyashaProgram: Black August 93Collection: Programs produced by Kiilu Nyasha
Edited actuality w/ Ruchell Magee who talks about his case, Aug 7, 1971. Includes George Jackson actuality about Aug 7.
![Ruchell Magee](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
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."
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