The People vs. Alma Andrews / produced by Sheila McAleenan.

Program Title:
The People vs. Alma Andrews / produced by Sheila McAleenan.
PRA Archive #: 
BC1213
Description: 

This program examines the case of Alma Andrews, a Black woman and a nurse, charged with first-degree murder in San Francisco after defending herself against a Muni driver who attacked her with a razor in an apparent rape attempt. Contains interviews with Andrews herself; James McCready, Andrews' defense attorney; Dennis Chamberlain, the jury foreman; Pierre Merle, assistant district attorney for San Francisco; Rotea Gilford and Ernest Sanders, inspectors with San Francisco Police Department, and others. A special report produced for KPFA by Sheila McAleenan.

Original tape box image: 
Station: 
KPFA
Date Recorded on: 
ca. 18 Sept. 1972.
Date Broadcast on: 
KPFA, 18 Sept. 1972.
Item duration: 
1 reel (52 min.) : 7 1/2 ips, mono.
Keywords: 
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Judicial system -- United States.
Rape.
Trials (Murder).
Andrews, Alma.
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Contributor: 
Sheila McAleenan
Role: 
Producer
Contributor: 
Alma Andrews
Role: 
Speaker
Genre: 
American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination
American Women -- Violence against women
Distributor: 
Los Angeles : Pacifica Radio Archive, 1972.
Rights Summary: 
RESTRICTED. Permissions, licensing requests, Curriculum Initiative, Campus Campaign and all other inquiries should be directed to: Mark Torres, Archives Director, 800-735-0230, Mark@PacificaRadioArchives.org
View Folio here (at Archive.org): 
KPFA Folio, September 1972, p. 19
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This recording has been digitally preserved as part of Pacifica's American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 grant preservation project, and is available for research and reference . Please contact the archives via telephone: 818-506-1077 or email:  americanwomen at pacificaradioarchives dot org for information on how to obtain a copy of this program. Thank you.



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