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The San Quentin six

This program is an examination of the San Quentin Six, Black and Latino prisoners on trial in Marin County in connection with the events surrounding the death of George Jackson. The prisoners were Fleeta Drumgo, David Johnson, Hugo Pinell, Johnny Larry Spain, Luis Talamantez, and Willie Tate.

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Interview with George Jackson / by Max Bloom.

Interview with George Jackson conducted by Max Bloom of the Tribe. Recorded July 28, 1971 in San Quentin Prison. Jackson discusses his trial and political activism. [Parts have been removed - entire interview on smaller ____ tape.] BC1564 is same as BC0239.01, but BC0239.01 is a squealer - can't be used.

Folsom prison, where people die like flies / Warren Wells interviewed by Mark Schwartz

Former Black Panther Warren Wells talks about the Panthers' abandonment of the "prison movement." Wells is serving time in Folsom Prison from a 1968 Oakland shootout that resulted in the death of Bobby Hutton. He talks about conditions, intra-prison fighting and the failure of people outside to organize around Folsom, especially around those men housed in the adjustment center.

Aspects of gay life : religion and gay people.

Examination of gay organizations both within established churches as well as separate gay churches i.e. "Dignity", as well as gay churches that have been formed outside the old orders, such as the Metropolitan Community Church. . James Sandmire, Rev. William. Johnson and Lawrence DeVries are interviewed.

Kathleen Cleaver on Black Panther politics / interviewed by Yolanda de Freitas, Cheryl Johnson and Jean Wiley.

KPFA's Yolanda de Freitas, Jean Wiley of Third World Media News, and Cheryl Johnson of the Third World Women's Alliance interviews Black Panther Party communications secretary Kathleen Cleaver (1945 - ) upon her return to the United States after having spent three years in Algeria.

Roland Young, Seale, Craven on George Jackson (Part 1 of 2)

Roland Young moderates a discussion between Bobby Seale and Carolyn Craven on the implications of George Jackson's death. At the beginning of the program, Bobby Seale reads a statement written by Huey P. Newton, who was incarcerated at the time, in reaction to the death of George Jackson. Also includes interviews with callers listening to the program. Part one.

Roundtable discussion

Al Silbowitz moderates a panel of reporters who had been at San Quentin and at Marin General Hospital earlier that day, Saturday, August 21, 1971, when there was an attempted breakout of San Quentin prison, and Soledad Brother George Jackson was shot and killed.

Interview with George Jackson

Interviewed three weeks before his death [August 21, 1971], George Jackson discusses prison conditions, the role of Black women in Black liberation, and his personal and political ideology. Jackson is interviewed by Max Bloom, and the interview took place at San Quentin Prison. Contains sensitive language.

Paul Cook, Ruchell Magee, and justice in America

Paul Cook, former cellmate of Ruchell Magee, is on parole from San Quentin at the time of this interview with Carolyn Craven.

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.

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