San Quentin Six
The San Quentin Six were a group of six prisoners at San Quentin Prison in California (Hugo Pinell, Willie Tate, Johnny Larry Spain, David Johnson, Fleeta Drumgo and Luis Talamantez) who were accused of participating in an August 21, 1971 escape attempt that left six people dead, including George Jackson. The subsequent 16-month trial was the longest in the state's history at the time.Of the six defendants, one was convicted of murder, two were convicted of assault on prison guards, and three were acquitted of all charges.
Documents
The San Quentin Six
Date: 6/17/1974Call Number: PM 001Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Mark SchwartzProgram: Nothing Is More Precious Than/SpecialCollection: San Quentin Six
Update on civil suit filed against California prison system by the San Quentin 6. Program features background on the 6 as well as George Jackson. Actuality of Jackson, Fania Jordan, Johnny Larry Spain, James “Doc” Holiday, Luis “Bato” Talamantez, Hugo Pinell, Michael Burgener, Fleeta Drumgo, and David Johnson. Ends with Johnny Cash song denouncing San Quentin.
More holes in state case
Publisher: The GuardianDate: 5/12/1976Volume Number: 12-MayFormat: ArticleCollection: San Quentin Six
Luis Talamantez interview
Call Number: PM 014Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: San Quentin Six
Interview with several long inserts with Luis Talamantez/one of San Quentin 6, interviewer may be Fania Jordan. Talamantez mentions Mark Merin as good defense attorney.
San Quentin 6: Lincoln Bergman narrative only, tells story well, but actuality not there
Call Number: PM 018Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude MarksProgram: San Quentin 6Collection: San Quentin Six
Lincoln Bergman narrative for San Quentin 6 program, intro possible use, the last insert is excellent!
San Quentin 6 inserts
Call Number: PM 019Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude MarksProgram: San Quentin 6 insertsCollection: San Quentin Six
Roland Young reads stories of San Quentin 6 defendants; excellent description of George Jackson’s influence on fellow prisoners.
San Quentin Six
Date: 3/12/2000Call Number: PM 020Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Mark Schwartz, Lincoln BergmanProgram: Real Dragon, assorted insertsCollection: San Quentin Six
An incredible array of inserts. San Quentin 6 (with Cleaver in Paris and a former prisoner on the first Soledad 3 murder case), Bob Barber on Olga Talamantez case, Ossie Davis recites Frederick Douglass on struggle, Attica trial with William Kunstler, who recites poem (Bury My heart at Wounded Knee). Paper inside box has notes on inserts,
Interview with Oscar Acosta
Call Number: PM 032Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: San Quentin Six
Interview by Mark Schwartz outside courtroom with Oscar Acosta, attorney for Luis Talamantez, on security measures, the shackling of the defendants. a circus, a shambles, not even a semblance of justice, etc. “this is the beginning of the falling apart of this system...”
Also CD 275
From Soledad to San Quentin
A history of California prison organizing in the early 1970s.
Interviews with David Johnson and Sundiata Tate for Prisons on Fire
Date: 6/25/2001Call Number: PM 160Format: DATProducers: Claude MarksProgram: Prisons on FireCollection: San Quentin Six
Interviews with David Johnson and Sundiata Tate for Prisons on Fire. They speak about August 21, 1971 and the murder of George Jackson, the takeover of the San Quentin adjustment Center, George Jackson’s life and their own.
Luis Talamantez on prison conditions
Luis Talamantez discusses the conditions and state of his prison cell and the prisoners’ practice of putting their heads in the cell’s toilet water to keep from breathing tear gas.