Thompson, Elsa Knight
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Sentencing of the Berkeley free speech movement defendants
Speeches and interviews given by Free Speech Movement defendants as they are sentenced, enter, or are released from the Santa Rita detention center for their activities three years prior. Narrator Elsa Knight Thompson explains how on June 12, 1967 the United States Supreme Court refused to hear the Free Speech Movement case, she reads the…
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Are the Black Panthers violent? / moderated by Elsa Knight Thompson.
Bobby Seale, Bob Avakian, and Michael Parker discuss the political activities of the Black Panthers.|ARE THE BLACK PANTHERS VIOLENT? / moderated by Elsa Knight Thompson. – Panel discussion of the alliance between the Black Panthers and the Peace & Freedom Party. Participants are Bobby Seale, Chairman of the Black Panther Party, and Bob Avakian and…
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Elsa Knight Thompson : a remembrance / produced by Moira Rankin ; edited by Gary Covino ; technical direction by Linda Mack.
ELSA KNIGHT THOMPSON : A REMEMBRANCE / produced by Moira Rankin| edited by Gary Covino| technical direction by Linda Mack. – Retrospective of her career in radio produced following her death on February 11, 1983. Includes excerpts from her documentaries and from her interviews with James Baldwin, Elizabeth Gurly Flynn, Reyes Lopez Tijerina, Paul Allen,…
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Mighty Oaks? / Thomas Bell ; interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson.
Oakland Redevelopment Agency director discusses the city’s renovation.|Mighty oaks? :Thomas Bell interview / interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson| RECORDED: October 4, 1962. _ CONTENT: INTERVIEWEE: Thomas Bell, Director of the Oakland Redevelopment Agency. SUMMARY: Mr. Bell discusses Project Acorn, a plan to demolish buildings and displace or relocate about 3000 people living in west Oakland.…
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Interview with Bobby Seale and David Hilliard / interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson.
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A Night in Chicago / produced by Elsa Knight Thompson.
A NIGHT IN CHICAGO / reported by Dale Minor, Phil Watson and Bob Fass. Produced by Elsa Knight Thompson. Documentary report on the demonstrations at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Includes ctuality of Bobby Seale, Black Panther Party co-founder outside the Convention Center at a Black Panther rally; Dick Gregory at President Lyndon…
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Fashions in funerals: interview with Jessica Mitford
Jessica Mitford, author of “The American Way of Death” (Buccaneer Books, 1963), talks with Elsa Knight Thompson about recent developments in legislation and public attitudes on death in America. Produced by KPFA and Elsa Knight Thompson. Box says recorded and broadcast on February 20, 1966, but folio listing appears in the October 1965 KPFA folio.