Program

The trial of New York Panther 21 / interviews by Margot Adler and Jackie Friedrich (Part 1 only)

Margo Adler and Jackie Friedrich talk with four members of the jury on May 15, 1971, following the verdict for acquittal of the Black Panther defendants in the Panther 21 trial. This is Part 1, Part 2 is missing.

The Black Panther Party in Sacramento

This recording is an actuality, including interviews, of events on May 2, 1968 surrounding a bus trip made by the Black Panther Party from Oakland to Sacramento in support of Eldridge Cleaver. The recording was made by KPFA volunteer Denny Smithson, who rode on the bus with Party members and press. The trip began at the Alameda County Courthouse where Bobby Seale appeared at 9:30am.

Black Panther rally at Bobby Hutton Memorial Park

Actuality of a rally held at Bobby Hutton Memorial Park (a.k.a. DeFremery Park) in Oakland, hosted by Masai Hewitt, Minister of Education of the Black Panther Party. The rally opens with Elaine Brown performing her song "Seize the Time".

Previous title: Black Panther rally : Oakland.

Eldridge Cleaver's speech at a noon rally

Actuality of Eldridge Cleaver's speech at the University of California, Berkeley campus in response to Governor Ronald Reagan's cancellation of proposed U.C. Berkeley class 139X, for which Cleaver was scheduled to be a lecturer.

Bobby Seale from New Haven.

Discussion of the split between Seale and Eldridge Cleaver within the Black Panther Party.

Bobby Seale for the defense of Huey Newton

Speech given on April 16, 1968 by Bobby Seale, Black Panther chairman, during a Black Panther meeting in defense of Huey Newton, fellow co-founder of the Black Panther Party. The speech was delivered at the Kaleidoscope, a largely white nightclub in Los Angeles.

Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown / introduced by Eldridge Cleaver.

Speeches by H. Rap Brown (Jamil Al-Amin) and Stokely Carmichael in support of and in honor of the birthday of Huey P. Newton, who was incarcerated at the time. Both speakers are introduced by Eldridge Cleaver at this Free Huey rally held at the Oakland Auditorium in Oakland, California on Newton's birthday, February 17, 1968.

Eldridge Cleaver on the drug culture

Eldridge Cleaver speaks about the drug culture in the United States and about Timothy Leary. Announcement about the Cleaver's relationship with the Black Panther Party and Timothy Leary and his wife.

An Interview with Huey Newton

Huey P. Newton, the founder of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, talks with KPFA's Public Affairs director, Elsa Knight Thompson at Alameda County Jail in Oakland on May 21, 1968. Newton was being held for the alleged killing of an Oakland policeman. His trial, scheduled for June 10, had just been postponed to July 15, 1968.

Eldridge Cleaver from outer space

Eldridge Cleaver, exiled Black Panther Party leader, gives a speech from somewhere in the Third World. [on box: Eldridge Cleaver's message from "somewhere in the third world" received in Berkeley, July 2, 1969.]

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