“The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
When the prison doors are open, the real dragons will fly out. Real Dragon was a radio program broadcast on KPFA from 1971-1973. This news show focused on issues of national liberation, political prisoners, Vietnam and other major national and international topics.
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Real Dragon
Date: 3/31/1973Call Number: RD 036Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Lincoln BergmanProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Includes news on Ruchell, Rap Brown, prison movement, Wounded Knee, Indochina, Crusade for Justice
Real Dragon
Date: 4/7/1973Call Number: RD 037Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Lincoln Bergman, Mark SchwartzProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Ruchell Magee mistrial, with actuality of juror and Sandy Close, Marilyn Buck report on hearing, Native America, Justice and Gibson, Hugo Pinell, the Harlem 4, Weather Underground Grand Jury, James Davis, Wounded Knee. people’s subpoena against James Dierker, Russell Means long statement read by Lincoln Bergman, Pathet Lao, Vietnam
Real Dragon
Date: 4/28/1973Call Number: RD 040Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
A satiric look at the Watergate crisis, in faux soap opera style/radio drama. Followed by other news, international, Vietnam, Larry Justice and Earl Gibson
Real Dragon
Date: 6/23/1973Call Number: RD 048Producers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude MarksProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
20th anniversary program on the Rosenberg executions. Includes two letters written by the Rosenbergs.
Also contains news summaries: Breznhev & Nixon meeting, Attica, Arizona prison, Gibson, Justice, Martin Sostre, Camden draft office, Carlos Feliciano, Irish Republican Army, return of Peron to Argentina after exile, Chile, Bolivia.
Real Dragon
Date: 7/29/1972Call Number: RD 001Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln BergmanProgram: Real Dragon (Midnight Flash)Collection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Early Real Dragon on late night Saturday show (Oneness with Roland Young/Glenn Howell). Syphilis experiments, conviction of Geronimo Pratt, Ruchell Magee case/report on demonstration in San Francisco with strong speech by Angela Davis. Briefs on other trials, H Rap Brown, Justice and Gibson, Stephanie Klein, bombing of Army recruiting station in Oakland, lots of international news, Uruguay, Vietnam China (Lin Piao) Vietnam.
Real Dragon Reborn
Date: 8/21/1999Call Number: RD 074Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Lincoln Bergman, Barbara LubinskiProgram: Real Dragon (In Your Ear)Collection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Inserts from special that spans the history of Real Dragon and later shows, with focus on Black August, George Jackson, Puerto Rican and other political prisoners.