A Visit with Huey Newton: Vacaville Prison Facility; October 17, 1968 / interviewed by Denny Smithson, Karen Wald, and Joe Blum. (CD)

Black Panther Party co-founder and leader Huey P. Newton discusses his imprisonment at Vacaville Medical Facility in Vacaville, CA with Denny Smithson of KPFA’s Public Affairs Department; Karen Wald, reporter for the Guardian; and Joe Blum, editor of The Movement. Newton talks about the way he’s been portrayed in the media and physical and social conditions at Vacaville.

[Note: Huey P. Newton’s title was “Minister of Defense” of the Black Panther Party until after his release from this stint in prison.]