A collection of seven vintage reel-to-reel audio tapes featuring interviews and news conferences with Huey P. Newton, John Froines (Chicago 7), Mike Cetewayo Tabor, and others
[most Berkeley: KPFA, ca. 1969-70]. Seven 1/4" reel-to-reel audio tapes in their original storage boxes, with production slugs affixed to bottom box surfaces for all but two. The tapes all appear to be first-generation copies, dubbed from the original master tapes at KPFA studios in Berkeley, Californa. These tapes would have been provided to Pacifica Radio Network affiliates in various cities for air play. All seven tapes are in excellent playable condition and have all been transcribed digitally; the digital files are of excellent audio quality and will accompany purchase of the tapes.
Pacifica maintains a comprehensive archive of its original master tapes and still makes transcriptions and audio dubs available to the public. However, with one exception, the programs listed below do not appear to be present in the Pacifica archives. They are as follows:
1. Press Conference. Soledad Defense Committee, August 11, 1970. A press conference held at the headquarters of the Soledad Brothers Defense Committee, shortly after the death of Jonathan Jackson and William Christmas at the Marin County Courthouse. Length 21 minutes. Not in the KPFA Archives catalog.
2. The Movement On Trial - An Interview with John Froines. A one-hour interview, August 7, 1970, with John Froines, a defendant in the Chicago 7 trial who at this time was a spokesman for the New Haven Panther Defense Committee. Length 62 minutes (on two reels). Interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson and Bill Northwood. Not in the KPFA Archives catalog.
3. The Trial of the New York 21. One-hour interview with Mike Cetewayo of the New York Panther 21, discussing the trial and his pamphlet "Capitalism Plus Dope Equals Genocide." Length 65 minutes (on two reels). Interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson and Bill Northwood. Not in the KPFA Archives catalog.
4. Interview with Huey P. Newton, 11 August 1970. This interview was conducted one week after Newton's release from San Quentin, and focuses on the Soledad Brothers case and the death of Jonathan Jackson in the Marin County Courthouse action that had taken place a few days earlier. Length 72 minutes (on two reels). Interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson. KPFA Archives has, but the tapes have not been digitized.
Price: $2,500.00