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[man] Some might even die
before the revolution comes.
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{\an8}[woman] What does it mean
to be a criminal in this society?
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{\an8}Brother George Jackson,
one of the Soledad Brothers,
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has been in prison for 10 years,
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since he was 18 years old,
on a second-degree robbery charge.
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That tells me that something is wrong.
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That tells me that maybe
the real criminals in this society
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are not all of the people who populate
the prisons across the state,
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but those people
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who have stolen the wealth of the world
from the people.
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And lastly, free all political prisoners
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or face the revolutionary wrath
of the people.
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All power to the people.
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-[crowd cheers, claps]
-[protester] All power to the people.
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[protester 2] Right on.
All power to the people.
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{\an8}[man 2] 1970, '71, if you didn't know
who Angela Davis was,
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{\an8}you came from outer space
five minutes ago.
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[man] Come on, move on down, now.
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[Jennings]
Angela Davis was a national figure.
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All reporters stand back.
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[Jennings] She was very educated.
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Excuse me, ma'am.
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A professor at UCLA.
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She would speak about George Jackson.
And she was in the movement.
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[singing "Spirit in the Dark"]
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{\an8}Aretha Franklin respected Angela Davis.
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{\an8}A lot. So they got to know each other.
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Protest is a powerful tool.
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But, for Aretha, protest was something
that she did her way.
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She did it with making folks aware
because she was a voice.
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[male news anchor] The FBI has put
Black militant Angela Davis
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on its list of ten most wanted fugitives.
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She's charged with murder in California.
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[song continues]
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[camera shutters clicking]
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[man] The dream's over.
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{\an8}-[man 2] In 1971…
-[woman] Music said something.
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[protesters chant]
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[woman] The world was changing.
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{\an8}[man 3]
We were creating the 21st century in 1971.
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{\an8}[man] You know, it's funny sometimes, um,
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{\an8}we seem to be able
to do everything but get along.
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[male announcer] Now,
ladies and gentlemen, the Bitter End
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is proud to present Curtis Mayfield.
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[applause]
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{\an8}It has always been my way
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{\an8}to take in the overall feelings
of my surroundings
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{\an8}and put them into music,
whether it be political or social comment.
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{\an8}There is a way of bringing about
any point, you know,
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{\an8}that we as a mass of people,
especially problems, have.
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♪ For peace no one is willing ♪
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♪ Kind of make you get that feeling ♪
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♪ Everybody smoke ♪
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{\an8}♪ Use the pill and the dope ♪
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{\an8}♪ Educated fools ♪
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{\an8}♪ From uneducated schools ♪
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♪ Pimping people is the rule ♪
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{\an8}♪ Polluted waters in the pool ♪
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{\an8}♪ And Nixon talking about, "Don't worry" ♪
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{\an8}♪ He say, "Don't worry" ♪
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{\an8}♪ He say, "Don't worry" ♪
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{\an8}♪ He say, "Don't worry" ♪
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{\an8}♪ But they don't know ♪
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♪ There can be no show ♪
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{\an8}♪ And if there's hell below ♪
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♪ We're all gonna go ♪
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{\an8}Dad, he just called everybody out.
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{\an8}I was very young, but to me,
I found that interesting as a kid
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{\an8}because for my dad, I mean, he had been
in this safe space of formula and…
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throughout the '60s when he was
with the Impressions, you know.
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And in 1971,
wanted to get out of that containment.
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You know, the '70s
was a change of the tide
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in terms of the civil rights movement,
morphing into the Black Power movement.
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And so, at that time, you had Marvin,
you had Stevie, you had Curtis.
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These guys were saying some stuff.
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And the things that they were
talking about were real.
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[song continues]
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[woman, through megaphone]
…of their peer group
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or people from their Black heritage…
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{\an8}[male]
Poets, novelists, recording artists.
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{\an8}I think that we are obligated to try
to be the drum majors of change.
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[chanting] Black power. Freedom.
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{\an8}[Oyewole] ♪ When the revolution comes
Some of us will probably catch it on TV ♪
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{\an8}♪ With chicken hanging from our mouths ♪
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{\an8}♪ You'll know it's revolution
Because there won't be no commercials ♪
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{\an8}♪ When the revolution comes ♪
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I was in prison in 1971.
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And it was really like a bad joke
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because the Last Poets album
had just come out in 1970,
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and it picked up steam in 1971.
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{\an8}♪ When the revolution comes ♪
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{\an8}♪ Transit cops will be crushed
By the trains after losing their guns ♪
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{\an8}♪ And blood will run through the streets
Of Harlem ♪
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{\an8}♪ Drowning anything without substance ♪
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{\an8}♪ When the revolution comes
When the revolution comes ♪
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{\an8}We sold a million copies of an album…
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{\an8}because we were dealing
with issues at hand.
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{\an8}There's a serious paranoia that exists
when it comes to white folks in power.
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Because we'd been so deliberately
held powerless for so long.
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And they're afraid we may flip the script.
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♪ Speak not of revolution ♪
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♪ Until you are willing to eat rats
To survive ♪
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♪ When the revolution comes ♪
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-♪ When the revolution comes ♪
-♪ When the revolution comes ♪
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[protesters screaming]
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[male news reporter] Widespread racism
and bewilderment over a strange war
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are the seeds of the revolution.
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[male reporter 2] This is where
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the San Francisco police sergeant
was murdered.
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Police are under attack
by revolutionaries.
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[protesters singing]
♪ The revolution has come ♪
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{\an8}By 1971,
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{\an8}I thought not only was a revolution
necessary, but it was inevitable,
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{\an8}and that we were living
in revolutionary times.
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[news reporter] At one minute
before 1 o'clock this morning,
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the switchboard at the Capitol
received a phone call.
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A man's voice said a bomb would go off
in the building in half an hour.
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At 1:30 in the morning, it did.
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{\an8}[Ayers] The bombing of the Capitol
was in response
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{\an8}to the killing of Black Panthers,
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{\an8}and the disruption of the Black Freedom
Movement and the war in Vietnam.
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Panthers called us
mother-country revolutionaries.
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We called ourselves revolutionaries.
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Revolutions are typically lead
by the young.
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{\an8}[woman] The Weather Underground
bombed the Capitol.
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{\an8}They bombed the Capitol to bring joy
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to all the kids who hate
the American government.
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We didn't do it, but we dug it.
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[news reporter]
Credit for the Capitol bombing
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was claimed by the Weather Underground.
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[Ayers]
The Weather Underground started with,
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"You don't need a weatherman to know
which way the wind blows" by Bob Dylan.
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We thought the music and the politics
was all swimming in the same sea.
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It was all part of the same thrust.
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The documents prove, for the first time,
that the FBI undertook a program
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to harass and destroy Black extremists
and revolutionists.
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"We must frustrate every effort
of these groups and individuals
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to consolidate their forces."
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[female news reporter] The FBI
distributed a Black Panther coloring book
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that depicted the police
as saber-toothed pigs.
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These, and many other dirty tricks
carried out by the bureau,
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were revealed by files
on its counter-intelligence program
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code-named COINTELPRO.
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{\an8}[man] COINTELPRO,
counterintelligence program.
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{\an8}We knew it was something,
but we didn't know what it was called.
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{\an8}[male news anchor]
FBI director, J. Edgar Hoover, today
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{\an8}asserted that of
the Black extremist groups,
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the Black Panthers represent the greatest
internal threat to the nation.
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[male reporter] This memo apparently
went out to 37 agents.
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It ordered them to find informers
in the Black ghettos.
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It was a command, not a suggestion.
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[man] I felt vindicated when
the COINTELPRO papers were exposed.
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I would always tell people,
"Be careful what you say on the phone.
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Did you just hear that click?"
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We didn't trust the government any more
than the government trusted us.
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{\an8}I wasn't a soldier. I was a musician.
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{\an8}So I used to think about this constantly.
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{\an8}"How can I use my music
to help change things?"
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And I was happy to be writing
with Gil Scott-Heron at that time
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because we wanted to write about
what it meant
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to be young Black men in America.
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{\an8}[Brian Jackson] No-knock is where
the police don't need a reason
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{\an8}to bust down your door.
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They just need to suspect.
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{\an8}♪ You explained it to me, I must admit ♪
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{\an8}♪ But just for the record
You were talking shit ♪
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{\an8}♪ Y'all rap about no-knock
Being legislated ♪
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{\an8}♪ For the people you've always hated ♪
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{\an8}♪ In this hellhole that you, we
Call home ♪
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♪ No-knock, the man will say ♪
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{\an8}♪ To keep that man from beating his wife ♪
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{\an8}♪ No-knock, the man will say
To protect people from themselves ♪
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{\an8}♪ No-knockin', head-rockin'
Enter-shockin', shootin', cussin' ♪
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{\an8}♪ Killin', cryin', lyin', and being white
No-knock ♪
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♪ No-knocked on my brother Fred Hampton
Bullet holes all over the place ♪
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{\an8}You can't organize people
until you've educated them.
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{\an8}You can't educate them until you
take an analysis of what's going on.
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{\an8}♪ Who's gonna protect me from you?
The likes of you? The nerve of you? ♪
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By discussing ideas,
by going into the substance of ideas.
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♪ No-knock on my brother's head
No-knock on my sister's head ♪
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{\an8}♪ And double-lock your door ♪
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{\an8}♪ Because soon someone
May be no-knockin' ♪
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{\an8}♪ Ha ha! For you ♪
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[Brian Jackson] Gil used to like to beat
people over the head with lyrics.
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We were extremely dangerous.
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[protesters] Long live George Jackson.
Power to the people.
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Long live George Jackson.
Power to the people.
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{\an8}[man] George Jackson.
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{\an8}He was in prison because
as a teenager he stole $70.
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{\an8}Well, I was incarcerated
under a one-to-life.
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Where I could've done one year
and been released, I've done ten.
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[Shames] He got radicalized and started
a Black Panther chapter at San Quentin
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and published a book
which became a best seller.
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[George Jackson] Of course, here in prison
we see the repression, the exploitation,
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the-- the victimization
of, uh, lower-class peoples.
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[Angela Davis]
People who have read his book
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have seen articulated in this book
the frustrations and the desires
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that-- that Black people have had
for hundreds of years in this country.
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{\an8}[male reporter]
Again the clenched-fist salute,
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{\an8}as the self-proclaimed communist
and former philosophy professor
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{\an8}entered the courtroom for her arraignment.
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[male reporter 2] Angela Davis is accused,
not of carrying out the crime,
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but of supplying guns
to those who allegedly did so.
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Miss Davis has said that not only
are the charges untrue,
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but that the whole case against her
is a frame-up.
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To put the available pieces to this story
together, one must go back in time.
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[audio distorts]
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[Shames] Angela Davis was on trial
because Jonathan Jackson,
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who was George Jackson's
younger brother, took a judge hostage
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to try and get them
to release his brother George.
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[male reporter]
Judge Haley was killed in the truck,
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as were two of the convicts and the man
believed to be their accomplice.
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[male news anchor] The FBI has put
Black militant, Angela Davis,
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on its list of ten most wanted fugitives.
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She's charged with murder in California,
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where authorities say she bought weapons
for that San Rafael courtroom shoot-out.
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[Shames] Angela Davis was in prison
because the gun that was used was her gun.
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But guns were legal in California.
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And doesn't mean that she had
any knowledge or was part of it.
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[male news anchor]
Black revolutionary Angela Davis
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appeared without her
distinctive Afro hairdo
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as she was arraigned in New York City
today as a fugitive from justice.
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[Davis] Richard Nixon
was the president of the FBI.
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The actions of the FBI
in apprehending Angela Davis…
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{\an8}The whole apparatus of the state
was set up against me.
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And they really meant to send me
to the death chamber
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in order to make a point
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that they would suppress any efforts
at revolution and liberation.
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{\an8}You see, Americans, of course,
are very, very instantaneous.
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{\an8}They want everything instantly.
So, consequently, when first st--
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people first started to hear
the word "revolution" over here,
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they wanted to see it instantly.
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And when they didn't see it instantly,
said, "Well, must not gonna be one."
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[audience laughs, cheers]
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But information, you see,
and information that leads to change,
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takes place first in the mind,
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because before
you can change what people do,
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you have to change their minds.
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And you have to give them information,
generally,
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because they will not change their minds
without information.
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Over here,
we have become victims of information.
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We have become victims of people
like Walter Concrete…
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-[audience laughs]
-…with-- with the news.
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{\an8}Howard?
Hand me a bottle of Future, please.
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{\an8}Oh. This is the new, improved Future,
Mrs. Jenkins.
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{\an8}-It's got a new--
-Howard, I'm sold on Future.
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{\an8}[Scott-Heron]
"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"
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{\an8}was a way of comparing many of the plastic
things that we were getting into
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that were of no use to us if we were
really about the business of change.
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{\an8}♪ You will not be able
To stay home, brother ♪
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{\an8}♪ You will not be able to plug in
Turn on and cop out ♪
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{\an8}♪ You will not be able
To lose yourself on skag ♪
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{\an8}♪ And skip out for beer
During commercials ♪
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{\an8}♪ Because the revolution
Will not be televised ♪
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{\an8}I push the button on the Xerox 914.
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♪ The revolution will not be televised ♪
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{\an8}♪ The revolution will not be
Brought to you by Xerox ♪
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{\an8}♪ In four parts
Without commercial interruptions ♪
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{\an8}♪ The revolution will not show you
Pictures of Nixon blowing a bugle ♪
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{\an8}♪ And leading a charge by John Mitchell
General Abrams, and Spiro Agnew ♪
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{\an8}♪ To eat hog maws confiscated
From a Harlem sanctuary ♪
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{\an8}[Brian Jackson] "The Revolution
Will Not Be Televised."
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{\an8}It was inspired by The Last Poets'
"When The Revolution Comes."
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{\an8}It's a series of tongue-in-cheek
comments about commercials.
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{\an8}Cheerios help you grow, grow, grow. Go!
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{\an8}[Scott-Heron] ♪ The revolution will not
Give your mouth sex appeal ♪
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{\an8}♪ The revolution will not get rid
Of the nubs ♪
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{\an8}♪ The revolution will not make you look
Five pounds thinner ♪
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{\an8}♪ Because the revolution
Will not be televised, brother ♪
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♪ There will be no pictures of you and
Willie Mays pushing that shopping cart ♪
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{\an8}[Shames] "The Revolution
Will Not Be Televised."
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{\an8}We used to all sing that.
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{\an8}You know how kids nowadays--
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{\an8}you go down the street
and they're doing rap.
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People were doing Gil Scott-Heron.
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{\an8}♪ There will be no pictures of pigs ♪
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{\an8}♪ Shooting down brothers
On the instant replay ♪
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{\an8}♪ There will be no pictures of pigs ♪
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{\an8}♪ Shooting down brothers
On the instant replay ♪
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{\an8}[Brian Jackson] We weren't really telling
anybody anything that they didn't know.
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But maybe what we could do is say,
"Hey, do you see this?
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Well, we see it too, so you're not alone."
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♪ You will not have to worry about
A dove in your bedroom ♪
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{\an8}♪ The tiger in your tank
Or the giant in your toilet bowl ♪
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{\an8}♪ The revolution will not go better
With Coke ♪
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{\an8}♪ The revolution will not fight germs
That may cause bad breath ♪
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{\an8}♪ The revolution will put you
In the driver's seat ♪
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{\an8}♪ The revolution will not be televised ♪
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{\an8}♪ Will not be televised
Will not be televised ♪
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{\an8}[Oyewole] Gil, he and I
were joined together poetically
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{\an8}because we wanted to have
a movement of folks
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{\an8}who were talking the same basic language.
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See, our people don't do
a great deal of reading.
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You know, we watch a lot of television.
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You know, but we don't read many books.
You know, and I'm about that.
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And trying to get as much help as I can--
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-Do you have hope for what's happening?
-Oh, you're damn right. [chuckles]
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You know, we have survived everything
that's gone down and come out stronger.
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["Rock Steady" plays]
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[male reporter] Defense attorneys
are expected to depict Miss Davis
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as a political prisoner, the victim
of a governmental vendetta.
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[Davis] J. Edgar Hoover,
in collusion with Nixon,
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decided to make an example of me.
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There will continue to be frame-ups.
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I will not be free
until all Black people are free.
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{\an8}♪ Rock steady, baby ♪
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{\an8}♪ That's what I feel now ♪
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{\an8}♪ Let's call this song
Exactly what it is ♪
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{\an8}[singers]
♪ What it is, what it is ♪
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-♪ It's a funky and low down feelin' ♪
-♪ What it is ♪
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-♪ In my hips from left to right ♪
-♪ What it is ♪
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-♪ What it is is I might be doin' ♪
-♪ What it is ♪
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♪ This funky dance all night, oh! ♪
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♪ Wave your hands up in the air
Gotta a feelin' and ain't got a care ♪
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[male reporter] In America, supporters
of the Black liberation movements
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are stepping up the pressure
in the campaign to free Angela Davis.
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Messages of support
have come in from all over the world.
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[female reporter speaking Russian]
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[woman]
We had a nice long visit with Angela.
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{\an8}And she's in very high spirits.
She's feeling good.
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♪ Step and move your hips
With a feelin' from side to side ♪
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♪ Sit yourself down in your car
And take a ride ♪
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♪ While you're movin' rock steady
Rock steady ♪
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{\an8}[Purdie] What made anything work
for Aretha is the melody, the rhythm.
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{\an8}The energy was about love.
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You don't have to hate your fellow man.
Getting angry doesn't solve it.
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-♪ What it is ♪
-♪ This funky dance all night, oh! ♪
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♪ Wave your hands up in the air
Got the feelin' and ain't got a care ♪
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[Purdie] Angela Davis was super important,
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but she put love inside all of that hurt.
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♪ Rock steady, whoo!
Rock steady ♪
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Aretha Franklin
offered bail for Angela Davis.
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It was an important gesture for her.
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{\an8}When I learned about it,
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{\an8}it was one of the most moving moments
I experienced during that time.
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♪ Rock steady ♪
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♪ Rock steady ♪
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[male reporter]
Suspicion remains that Angela Davis
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may be tried on guilt by association,
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that she's Black and militant,
and a close friend of George Jackson's.
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[male interviewer] Was the incident
for which you are charged now,
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was it a revolutionary act on your part?
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Are you asking me to confess to something?
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[male interviewer] No.
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[Davis] I think that, uh,
what George Jackson said
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about, uh, uh, life in prison
is very appropriate here.
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He says that prison, um,
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either breaks a person
or makes the person stronger.
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[male narrator] Saturday, August 21st.
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[male reporter] George Jackson
was killed as he broke and ran
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outside the adjustment center.
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[male reporter] Authorities
at California's San Quentin Prison
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have locked up
the entire prison population
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following the deaths of six persons.
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Associate Warden James Park
says a guard shot and killed
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Soledad brother George Jackson
as he tried to escape.
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Three guards and two other prisoners
were found dead with slashed throats.
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Park says a visitor smuggled
a .38 caliber revolver to Jackson.
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{\an8}[man] George Jackson,
the day he was killed in Attica,
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{\an8}it was announced on the news,
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{\an8}a lawyer came to see him the day before
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and he smuggled the gun
back into the prison.
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[prison guard]
Apparently a gun was smuggled in.
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It was in the possession
of George Jackson.
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[Roche] Unbelievable.
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You have any kind of visitor
or outside person…
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Take your pants off.
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…you strip search.
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So why didn't they find the gun on search?
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[man] We can now tie in
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{\an8}that there was help from the outside
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{\an8}because the wig is definitely
an outside wig.
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{\an8}It's, uh, it has a label in the--
in the sweatband.
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And, uh, it is an honest-to-God
bona fide wig.
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{\an8}[Jennings] They said he was trying
to hide the gun under a wig.
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{\an8}It's a made-up story.
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00:22:13,250 --> 00:22:16,420
How you gonna walk with a gun
on top of your head
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without it falling out?
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{\an8}[Ayers] San Quentin Prison,
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{\an8}with its high walls
and its triple-locked exit ways.
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{\an8}There's absolutely no explanation
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that makes sense to me
that you had to kill him.
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I mean,
he's a single person standing in a yard
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and you have an army surrounding him.
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[woman] They were afraid
that the people were beginning to listen.
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{\an8}That's the reason why they framed him
to be murdered the way he was.
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{\an8}To try to discredit everything
that he had said.
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[Nelson] Well, I think Jackson's aims
have been clearly stated.
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He was dedicated to violence.
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His writings, uh, clearly state
that he's dedicated to violence.
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I can be violent also,
and I imagine so can you.
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You see,
that's the whole story of America.
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They take their violence
and turn it back around on somebody else.
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I don't have to talk about
American violence.
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You can look all over the world
and see American soldiers everywhere
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fighting in other people's countries
and killing them.
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So if I were--
if I were running the country in America,
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I wouldn't open my mouth about violence.
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As many people as they've murdered
in Vietnam in the past ten years,
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and they're gonna talk about violence?
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As many Black people that get killed
every day in this country
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and nobody knows or cares,
and you wanna tell me about violence?
403
00:23:38,168 --> 00:23:40,878
How they wiped out
a whole nation of Indians
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and they're gonna say something to me
about violence? I don't wanna hear it.
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00:23:51,974 --> 00:23:56,314
{\an8}[Roche] In Attica, me and
a lot of other guys was thinking,
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{\an8}"If they do that to him, executed him,
407
00:24:00,524 --> 00:24:02,654
and get away with it…
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00:24:02,734 --> 00:24:05,324
[scoffs]
…same thing might happen to me."
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00:24:06,071 --> 00:24:08,241
[man] When Attica got word of it,
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{\an8}they actually went to the mess hall
wearing black armbands,
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{\an8}and we knew we were in trouble
'cause they could organize that quick.
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{\an8}It was mandatory meals,
and they all went to the mess hall.
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They all went through the lines,
and nobody took even a glass of water.
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[Roche] Nobody said nothing.
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The lieutenant that was
in the mess hall that morning,
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he said it was so quiet,
he could hear his watch ticking.
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{\an8}♪ Well, I stepped into an avalanche ♪
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{\an8}♪ It covered up my soul ♪
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{\an8}♪ When I am not this hunchback
That you see ♪
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♪ I sleep beneath the golden hill ♪
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{\an8}[explosion]
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{\an8}♪ You who wish to conquer pain ♪
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♪ You must learn, learn to serve me well ♪
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[Ayers] The killing of George Jackson…
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{\an8}I thought the assassination of
a leader of the Black prison movement
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{\an8}can't go unanswered.
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♪ You strike my side by accident ♪
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[Ayers] And so, we,
the Weather Underground,
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00:25:24,983 --> 00:25:28,323
undertook to again issue
a screaming response
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to the state taking a life,
431
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and we bombed the California Department
of Corrections in San Francisco.
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[male news anchor] The Underground
Weatherman Organization
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claimed responsibility
for the San Francisco
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and Sacramento bombings
saying they were, I quote,
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"in outraged response to the assassination
of Soledad brother George Jackson."
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00:25:50,926 --> 00:25:54,136
[male reporter] The bombings came
just hours before Jackson's funeral
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at this Episcopal church
in the poor Black section of Oakland.
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[man] Step back, please. Step back.
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[male priest] George says to us,
"Arise and walk.
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Silver and gold have I none,
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but in the name of Jesus of Nazareth,
I say rise up and walk."
442
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In the name of my brother
Jonathan Jackson,
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in the name of James McClain,
in the name of William Christmas,
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in the name of Angela Davis,
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and in the name of George Jackson,
I say rise up and walk.
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{\an8}♪ I woke up this morning ♪
447
00:26:29,590 --> 00:26:32,430
{\an8}♪ There were tears in my bed ♪
448
00:26:33,010 --> 00:26:37,510
{\an8}♪ They killed a man I really loved
Shot him through the head ♪
449
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♪ Lord, Lord
They cut George Jackson down ♪
450
00:26:42,853 --> 00:26:46,693
♪ Lord, Lord
They laid him in the ground ♪
451
00:26:46,773 --> 00:26:48,403
Look on us.
452
00:26:48,483 --> 00:26:52,363
From the time we've left the Black wombs
of our beautiful mothers,
453
00:26:52,446 --> 00:26:57,116
Black people have been crippled
and maimed and murdered
454
00:26:57,201 --> 00:26:59,291
suffering from the Black condition.
455
00:26:59,369 --> 00:27:05,039
♪ Sent him off to prison
For a seventy dollar robbery ♪
456
00:27:05,125 --> 00:27:09,755
♪ They closed the door behind him
And they threw away the key ♪
457
00:27:10,756 --> 00:27:14,296
♪ Lord, Lord
They cut George Jackson down ♪
458
00:27:15,093 --> 00:27:18,143
♪ Lord, Lord
They laid him in the ground ♪
459
00:27:18,222 --> 00:27:21,312
[male speaker] George certainly died
in a significant way.
460
00:27:21,391 --> 00:27:25,351
We say that, even after death,
George Jackson still is alive
461
00:27:25,437 --> 00:27:28,687
because his ideas, his spirit
will be manifested in the physical.
462
00:27:28,774 --> 00:27:31,244
And we'll raise our children
to fight for freedom
463
00:27:31,318 --> 00:27:33,278
as George Jackson fought for freedom.
464
00:27:33,362 --> 00:27:38,282
♪ He wouldn't take shit from no one
He wouldn't bow down or kneel ♪
465
00:27:38,909 --> 00:27:43,369
♪ Authorities, they hated him
Because he was just too real ♪
466
00:27:44,540 --> 00:27:47,960
♪ Lord, Lord
They cut George Jackson down ♪
467
00:27:48,710 --> 00:27:52,090
♪ Lord, Lord
They laid him in the ground ♪
468
00:27:54,550 --> 00:27:57,260
{\an8}[Ayers]
I think Bob Dylan's "George Jackson,"
469
00:27:57,344 --> 00:28:00,974
{\an8}it was affirming, for sure,
but it also felt like--
470
00:28:01,056 --> 00:28:03,386
it felt like we were living it together.
471
00:28:04,059 --> 00:28:08,689
The people we listened to, the people
we admired in the political world,
472
00:28:08,772 --> 00:28:11,322
everybody was walking the same path.
473
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:12,860
[song continues]
474
00:28:13,902 --> 00:28:17,492
{\an8}[Jennings] That particular day
I made a commitment to myself,
475
00:28:17,573 --> 00:28:21,993
{\an8}from what I seen,
and what people had sacrificed,
476
00:28:22,077 --> 00:28:24,867
I'd be a revolutionary
the rest of my life.
477
00:28:29,918 --> 00:28:32,668
[male reporter] The trouble
started around 9:00 this morning.
478
00:28:32,754 --> 00:28:33,844
[male reporter 2] In Attica, New York,
479
00:28:33,922 --> 00:28:36,632
about 1,000 long-term convicts today
rioted
480
00:28:36,717 --> 00:28:39,597
and they gained control
of the maximum security prison.
481
00:28:39,678 --> 00:28:43,598
They also seized 33 guards as hostages
and injured others in the fighting.
482
00:28:43,682 --> 00:28:46,022
State police have regained control
of most of the prison,
483
00:28:46,101 --> 00:28:47,901
but the trouble isn't over yet.
484
00:28:49,354 --> 00:28:51,404
{\an8}[Roche] Thursday, September 9.
485
00:28:51,481 --> 00:28:55,241
{\an8}We took the prison. It was on.
486
00:28:56,445 --> 00:29:00,155
{\an8}[Almeter] There was 1,250 inmates
and I think 38 of us.
487
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:01,950
{\an8}Most of the guys were really beat.
488
00:29:02,034 --> 00:29:05,874
{\an8}I was beaten, some guys were stabbed,
some guys were cut,
489
00:29:05,954 --> 00:29:08,794
and I was shaking in my pants.
490
00:29:09,791 --> 00:29:12,841
I had done a year in Vietnam
and I'm thinking,
491
00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:15,800
"I'm gonna end up dying
eight miles from where I grew up."
492
00:29:18,133 --> 00:29:20,013
[male reporter] As far
as the prisoners are concerned,
493
00:29:20,093 --> 00:29:22,933
do they have weapons and such
that they're holding hostages with?
494
00:29:23,013 --> 00:29:26,143
Our information is that, uh,
none of the prisoners are armed.
495
00:29:26,225 --> 00:29:29,185
[male news anchor] We're looking out
in the direction of B block.
496
00:29:29,269 --> 00:29:31,899
Most of the prisoners
have concealed their faces
497
00:29:31,980 --> 00:29:34,730
by wearing scarves, towels,
and what have you.
498
00:29:34,816 --> 00:29:37,276
[male reporter 2]
Have the inmates made any demands?
499
00:29:37,361 --> 00:29:38,401
I, uh, I don't know.
500
00:29:38,487 --> 00:29:40,857
They say that they only wanna speak
with the governor or me.
501
00:29:40,948 --> 00:29:42,908
[male news anchor]
Prisoners would only talk
502
00:29:42,991 --> 00:29:45,871
to New York State Corrections
Commissioner, Russell Oswald,
503
00:29:45,953 --> 00:29:47,663
who is now inside.
504
00:29:48,455 --> 00:29:53,335
"We want a stop to slave labor here.
We are men!
505
00:29:53,418 --> 00:29:58,298
{\an8}We are not beasts, and we do not intend
to be driven or beaten as such.
506
00:29:58,382 --> 00:30:02,682
The entire prison populace
has set forth to change forever
507
00:30:02,761 --> 00:30:07,311
the ruthless brutalization and disregard
for the lives of the prisoners here
508
00:30:07,391 --> 00:30:09,561
and throughout the United States.
509
00:30:09,643 --> 00:30:12,773
What has happened here
is but the sound before the fury
510
00:30:12,855 --> 00:30:14,265
of those who are oppressed."
511
00:30:15,023 --> 00:30:19,243
{\an8}[Brian Jackson] Attica. They were
protesting about some common dignity
512
00:30:19,319 --> 00:30:22,279
{\an8}that should be afforded
to every human being.
513
00:30:23,031 --> 00:30:26,951
Gil, he was great at building a scene,
just like a playwright.
514
00:30:27,035 --> 00:30:29,995
He used to say,
"We sold survival kits on wax."
515
00:30:31,331 --> 00:30:33,751
{\an8}♪ Here I am ♪
516
00:30:36,670 --> 00:30:41,220
{\an8}♪ After so many years ♪
517
00:30:45,345 --> 00:30:48,675
♪ Hounded by hatred ♪
518
00:30:52,144 --> 00:30:54,654
♪ And trapped by fear ♪
519
00:30:54,730 --> 00:30:57,770
[prisoners chattering]
520
00:30:59,484 --> 00:31:02,994
♪ I'm in a box ♪
521
00:31:03,071 --> 00:31:04,741
[speaks indistinctly]
522
00:31:04,823 --> 00:31:07,583
-[man] Ain't nothing dead about us.
-We ain't gonna die.
523
00:31:07,659 --> 00:31:09,659
-[man 1] Not dead.
-We are not dying here.
524
00:31:10,245 --> 00:31:11,495
[man 3] Count on it!
525
00:31:13,540 --> 00:31:17,340
♪ Help me, I'm the prisoner ♪
526
00:31:20,506 --> 00:31:24,506
♪ Won't you hear my plea? ♪
527
00:31:28,388 --> 00:31:32,138
♪ I need somebody ♪
528
00:31:32,226 --> 00:31:34,306
[prisoners chattering, cheering]
529
00:31:34,394 --> 00:31:38,614
♪ Yeah, to listen to me ♪
530
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:45,820
♪ I beg you, brothers and sisters ♪
531
00:31:45,906 --> 00:31:51,406
♪ I'm counting on you, yeah ♪
532
00:31:53,121 --> 00:31:55,621
{\an8}[Scott-Heron]
Every time you see folks taking their--
533
00:31:55,707 --> 00:31:58,917
{\an8}their lives in their hands
and standing up for what they believe in,
534
00:31:59,002 --> 00:32:01,422
and trying to do something progressive
for themselves and their people,
535
00:32:01,505 --> 00:32:03,585
you're seeing a revolutionary act.
536
00:32:04,675 --> 00:32:07,795
So Brian and I,
that's what we've been interested in.
537
00:32:10,305 --> 00:32:11,765
[man] Good morning, governor.
538
00:32:12,599 --> 00:32:15,599
{\an8}The governor of New York State
was Nelson Rockefeller,
539
00:32:15,686 --> 00:32:18,726
{\an8}and he figures prominently
in the Attica tragedy.
540
00:32:18,814 --> 00:32:23,944
Both Nixon and Rockefeller feared
that this was a communist conspiracy.
541
00:32:24,027 --> 00:32:27,357
And while the negotiations
were going on…
542
00:32:27,447 --> 00:32:28,907
[police officer] Yeah, I'm still on.
543
00:32:28,991 --> 00:32:31,371
…the police were getting ready
to storm the prison.
544
00:32:32,870 --> 00:32:36,250
{\an8}[male news anchor] Guards and troopers
standing by the entry
545
00:32:36,331 --> 00:32:38,001
{\an8}where the cells are located.
546
00:32:38,083 --> 00:32:39,673
{\an8}Pretty tense at this point.
547
00:32:41,712 --> 00:32:46,132
{\an8}[Roche] We had the yard
from Thursday till Monday morning.
548
00:32:46,550 --> 00:32:49,800
Right. Go down to the supply truck
and pick up the shotguns and rifles.
549
00:32:51,889 --> 00:32:55,179
[Roche] They had police,
national guards, sheriff deputies,
550
00:32:55,267 --> 00:32:59,477
plus correctional officers
from other joints, outside. [chuckles]
551
00:33:01,481 --> 00:33:05,321
This was gonna be George Jackson
on mass scale.
552
00:33:05,402 --> 00:33:07,782
[man on PA, indistinct]
553
00:33:07,863 --> 00:33:09,533
[male news anchor]
Reinforcements have moved in.
554
00:33:10,490 --> 00:33:13,950
[Bell] Before the assault,
the inmates placed several hostages
555
00:33:14,036 --> 00:33:18,036
on the catwalks with inmates
holding knives to their throats…
556
00:33:19,082 --> 00:33:21,292
to deter troopers from coming in.
557
00:33:22,169 --> 00:33:23,919
But it didn't work that way.
558
00:33:24,004 --> 00:33:26,264
Authorities were willing
to sacrifice the hostages
559
00:33:26,340 --> 00:33:28,220
in order to get its prison back.
560
00:33:30,219 --> 00:33:31,969
{\an8}[Almeter]
When I heard the first helicopter…
561
00:33:33,180 --> 00:33:37,270
{\an8}as soon as I smelled the gas,
I said my goodbyes to the maker.
562
00:33:39,353 --> 00:33:41,733
-[police officers chattering]
-[gunfire]
563
00:33:43,815 --> 00:33:46,895
[Almeter] State police, they couldn't see.
I don't know how they were firing.
564
00:33:46,985 --> 00:33:49,945
Most of us were dressed in inmate clothing
565
00:33:50,030 --> 00:33:53,490
so I know they couldn't see who
they were shooting at.
566
00:33:53,575 --> 00:33:54,785
They just shot.
567
00:33:55,869 --> 00:33:58,999
[man on radio]
Place your hands on top of your head.
568
00:33:59,081 --> 00:34:01,331
{\an8}[Roche] They had the helicopter saying,
"Stand up,
569
00:34:01,416 --> 00:34:04,036
{\an8}put your hands on top of your head.
You won't be harmed."
570
00:34:04,127 --> 00:34:06,507
[man on radio]
I repeat, you will not be harmed.
571
00:34:07,089 --> 00:34:09,339
[Roche]
Guys were getting up and getting killed.
572
00:34:09,424 --> 00:34:12,224
-[gunfire]
-[man on radio, indistinct]
573
00:34:17,431 --> 00:34:20,891
They got that-- People are dying in there.
And the scene is--
574
00:34:20,978 --> 00:34:22,398
I'm-- I'm gonna cut this off.
575
00:34:22,478 --> 00:34:24,398
[breathes shakily]
576
00:34:24,481 --> 00:34:26,981
Uh, helicopters are still flying overhead.
577
00:34:27,943 --> 00:34:33,163
It seems that people are dying
in there, and… and I'm upset.
578
00:34:34,199 --> 00:34:37,489
And it's-- it is unfortunate
what has happened here.
579
00:34:38,203 --> 00:34:43,333
Whatever happens, uh,
after the situation here at Attica,
580
00:34:43,417 --> 00:34:46,877
the penal system here
in the United States,
581
00:34:47,504 --> 00:34:53,344
and the people who are kept
inside of them, will never be the same.
582
00:34:55,094 --> 00:34:59,394
{\an8}[Almeter] The guy that was holding me,
somebody shot him. It went by my head.
583
00:35:00,392 --> 00:35:03,982
{\an8}Never thought I was going
to live through it. Never.
584
00:35:06,273 --> 00:35:09,323
[Roche]
I had terrible nightmares for years.
585
00:35:10,319 --> 00:35:12,029
Years.
586
00:35:12,112 --> 00:35:16,702
I'd wake up smelling gas.
Hear gunshots, I'd wake up.
587
00:35:18,994 --> 00:35:20,834
[Barkley] We are men!
588
00:35:20,913 --> 00:35:25,463
We are not beasts and we do not intend
to be beaten or driven as such.
589
00:35:26,919 --> 00:35:32,969
{\an8}[Bell] Elliott Barkley was in Attica
on a relatively minor charge.
590
00:35:33,050 --> 00:35:37,220
{\an8}And he died with this police bullet
in him.
591
00:35:38,722 --> 00:35:43,272
Twenty-nine inmates and ten hostages
were killed by police gunfire.
592
00:35:43,352 --> 00:35:46,022
But the total number shot was 128.
593
00:35:47,272 --> 00:35:50,282
[Georgia Jackson] As many Black people
that get killed every day in this country
594
00:35:50,359 --> 00:35:52,609
and nobody knows or cares.
595
00:35:52,694 --> 00:35:55,204
How they wiped out
a whole nation of Indians
596
00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:57,910
and they're gonna say something to me
about violence.
597
00:35:58,617 --> 00:36:02,907
[Bell] It was the most lethal
state-sponsored violence
598
00:36:02,996 --> 00:36:05,786
since the murders at Wounded Knee.
599
00:36:05,874 --> 00:36:09,594
{\an8}[Muhammad Ali] I wrote a poem, uh,
concerning the Attica prisoner killing.
600
00:36:09,670 --> 00:36:13,420
{\an8}It explains how the Black brothers felt
who died that day up in that prison.
601
00:36:13,507 --> 00:36:15,547
Warden Rockefeller sent word,
602
00:36:15,634 --> 00:36:18,434
"Shoot to kill if they don't give up
in five minutes."
603
00:36:18,512 --> 00:36:20,352
And a Black man came out, and he said,
604
00:36:20,430 --> 00:36:23,600
"Better far from all we see
605
00:36:23,684 --> 00:36:26,604
To die fighting to be free
606
00:36:26,687 --> 00:36:29,267
What more fitting end could be?"
607
00:36:29,982 --> 00:36:34,822
"Let us die by being Black
Better far that we should go
608
00:36:34,903 --> 00:36:40,783
Standing here against the foe
Is the sweeter death to know"
609
00:36:40,868 --> 00:36:43,578
"Better calling death to come
610
00:36:43,662 --> 00:36:48,712
Than to die another dumb
Muted Black man in the slum"
611
00:36:48,792 --> 00:36:51,132
"Better than of this prison rot
612
00:36:51,211 --> 00:36:56,511
If there's any choice we've got
Kill us today on the spot"
613
00:37:06,018 --> 00:37:09,768
[Bell] There was great animosity
among a great many of the troopers.
614
00:37:09,855 --> 00:37:13,775
After the retaking, troopers were saying,
615
00:37:13,859 --> 00:37:16,449
"Got me a ****. Did you get one?"
616
00:37:16,528 --> 00:37:17,648
"Oh, yeah, I got one."
617
00:37:18,655 --> 00:37:20,115
[Nelson Rockefeller] Uh, Mr. President.
618
00:37:20,199 --> 00:37:22,869
[Nixon] Are these primarily blacks
that you're dealing with?
619
00:37:22,951 --> 00:37:25,871
[Rockefeller] Oh yes,
the whole thing was led by the blacks.
620
00:37:25,954 --> 00:37:28,624
[Nixon] Are all the prisoners
that were killed blacks?
621
00:37:28,707 --> 00:37:30,167
-[Rockefeller] Uh…
-Or are there any whites?
622
00:37:30,250 --> 00:37:31,630
[Rockefeller] I haven't got that report.
623
00:37:34,963 --> 00:37:38,933
{\an8}[Jennings] Many of the prisoners were from
New York and they were from Harlem.
624
00:37:39,009 --> 00:37:42,969
{\an8}And so they had this big benefit.
And Aretha Franklin was the headliner.
625
00:37:44,306 --> 00:37:46,926
{\an8}[Purdie]
By doing the concert at the Apollo,
626
00:37:47,017 --> 00:37:51,227
{\an8}that was her way of speaking
to what's going on.
627
00:37:52,314 --> 00:37:58,404
Attica affected Aretha because
she knew people that were in Attica,
628
00:37:58,487 --> 00:38:02,487
and she knew the families of folks
that were there.
629
00:38:02,574 --> 00:38:07,044
She understood. Aretha sang
"Bridge Over Troubled Water."
630
00:38:07,788 --> 00:38:12,458
[singers] ♪ Don't trouble the water ♪
631
00:38:13,377 --> 00:38:18,587
♪ Leave it alone, why don't you
Why don't you let it be? ♪
632
00:38:18,674 --> 00:38:23,144
[Purdie] It was a protest, but it was
also something that you can love.
633
00:38:23,220 --> 00:38:26,520
The gospel feel. It was like she preached.
634
00:38:26,598 --> 00:38:30,558
-[vocalizing]
-♪ Yes it do ♪
635
00:38:31,311 --> 00:38:36,481
♪ Oh, yeah, yeah ♪
636
00:38:38,193 --> 00:38:42,953
♪ When you're down and out ♪
637
00:38:45,075 --> 00:38:46,735
♪ If you look up ♪
638
00:38:48,078 --> 00:38:50,288
♪ See yourself on the street ♪
639
00:38:52,207 --> 00:38:56,087
-♪ When evening falls ♪
-[singers] ♪ When evening falls ♪
640
00:38:56,170 --> 00:38:58,880
-♪ So hard ♪
-♪ So hard ♪
641
00:38:58,964 --> 00:39:02,514
♪ I'll be there to comfort you ♪
642
00:39:06,430 --> 00:39:09,810
♪ I'll take your part ♪
643
00:39:15,189 --> 00:39:19,149
♪ I'll take it when darkness comes ♪
644
00:39:20,903 --> 00:39:26,623
♪ Pain is all, is all around ♪
645
00:39:28,076 --> 00:39:31,956
♪ Just like a bridge ♪
646
00:39:32,039 --> 00:39:36,419
♪ Over troubled water ♪
647
00:39:39,505 --> 00:39:42,165
♪ I'll be there, lay me down ♪
648
00:39:42,257 --> 00:39:45,967
-[singers] ♪ Like a bridge ♪
-♪ Just like a bridge ♪
649
00:39:46,053 --> 00:39:49,183
-♪ Over troubled ♪
-♪ Over ♪
650
00:39:49,264 --> 00:39:52,024
♪ Troubled water ♪
651
00:39:53,185 --> 00:39:56,225
♪ I'm gonna be there
To lay ♪
652
00:39:56,313 --> 00:39:58,823
[singers] ♪ Come and lay me down ♪
653
00:39:58,899 --> 00:40:02,239
-♪ Lay me down ♪
-♪ Come and lay me down ♪
654
00:40:02,319 --> 00:40:03,949
♪ Oh, yeah ♪
655
00:40:08,700 --> 00:40:10,950
[woman] He suffered. He gave his life.
656
00:40:11,036 --> 00:40:14,666
{\an8}But I hope he gave his life for something.
For a reason.
657
00:40:14,748 --> 00:40:16,578
{\an8}-[male reporter] For what?
-For what?
658
00:40:16,667 --> 00:40:18,997
So we Blacks can have a chance
in this country
659
00:40:19,086 --> 00:40:21,336
that we call ours as well as yours.
660
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:24,880
We can have a chance.
We can walk the street.
661
00:40:24,967 --> 00:40:26,387
We can live decently.
662
00:40:27,761 --> 00:40:29,511
We can get good jobs.
663
00:40:29,596 --> 00:40:31,426
He had a stigma.
664
00:40:31,515 --> 00:40:35,055
Convict number 25985. A stigma.
665
00:40:35,143 --> 00:40:38,903
And when-- [stammers] If he would've
came out-- He was due out March of '72.
666
00:40:38,981 --> 00:40:40,821
He would've came out,
he couldn't have got a job.
667
00:40:40,899 --> 00:40:42,359
They wouldn't have gave them any.
668
00:40:42,442 --> 00:40:44,442
{\an8}♪ Everybody gather round ♪
669
00:40:44,528 --> 00:40:47,608
{\an8}♪ And listen to my song ♪
670
00:40:50,033 --> 00:40:52,583
{\an8}♪ I've only got one ♪
671
00:40:55,122 --> 00:40:59,792
♪ We who are young
Should now take a stand ♪
672
00:41:00,419 --> 00:41:05,259
{\an8}♪ Don't run from the burdens
Of women and men ♪
673
00:41:05,340 --> 00:41:10,050
♪ Continue to give, continue to live ♪
674
00:41:10,137 --> 00:41:12,597
♪ For what you know is right ♪
675
00:41:12,681 --> 00:41:16,561
[protesters chanting]
Free Angela! Free Angela! Free Angela!
676
00:41:16,643 --> 00:41:19,403
When we cry "Free Angela Davis,"
677
00:41:19,479 --> 00:41:22,149
our cries are only coming
678
00:41:22,232 --> 00:41:25,402
and our love is only coming
as an extension of ourselves.
679
00:41:25,485 --> 00:41:28,025
[applause]
680
00:41:34,077 --> 00:41:38,117
♪ And we just keep on keeping on ♪
681
00:41:38,207 --> 00:41:40,917
{\an8}[Curtis Mayfield]
As a young, Black, creative person,
682
00:41:41,001 --> 00:41:44,171
{\an8}I'm a believer in lending food for thought
683
00:41:44,254 --> 00:41:47,054
through my lyrical contents.
684
00:41:47,132 --> 00:41:49,472
♪ Many think that we have blown it ♪
685
00:41:49,551 --> 00:41:51,801
♪ But they too will soon admit ♪
686
00:41:51,887 --> 00:41:55,767
♪ That there's still a lot of love
Among us ♪
687
00:41:56,683 --> 00:42:01,153
{\an8}♪ And there's still a lot of faith
Warmth and trust ♪
688
00:42:01,230 --> 00:42:04,440
♪ When we keep on keeping on ♪
689
00:42:06,276 --> 00:42:07,946
Keep on keeping on, y'all.
690
00:42:08,862 --> 00:42:13,332
To any people that may
feel somewhat oppressed,
691
00:42:13,408 --> 00:42:15,988
when you hear these words,
they've got to hopefully
692
00:42:16,078 --> 00:42:20,038
give you a bit of inspiration
as to where you wanna go.
693
00:42:20,123 --> 00:42:23,713
I always said, "Let's follow
the yellow brick road," you know?
694
00:42:25,295 --> 00:42:30,085
♪ Some years back I remember
Still in my mind so well ♪
695
00:42:30,175 --> 00:42:34,425
♪ My mama made this work ethic
And I found it never fails ♪
696
00:42:34,513 --> 00:42:37,223
-♪ Never worry too long ♪
-[singers] ♪ Worry too long ♪
697
00:42:37,307 --> 00:42:38,597
♪ About what goes wrong ♪
698
00:42:39,643 --> 00:42:43,773
♪ Today it's sorrow
We got joy tomorrow ♪
699
00:42:44,565 --> 00:42:47,395
{\an8}[Jennings] A revolutionary
doesn't necessarily have to have a gun,
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00:42:47,484 --> 00:42:48,494
{\an8}you know?
701
00:42:48,569 --> 00:42:52,069
Curtis Mayfield, the music was great.
702
00:42:52,155 --> 00:42:56,865
You have a good time, you dance and party,
but you will leave with a message.
703
00:42:56,952 --> 00:42:59,872
You know? You would leave with a message.
704
00:43:02,541 --> 00:43:07,091
Well, I think throughout this country,
people are becoming increasingly aware
705
00:43:07,171 --> 00:43:13,221
of the fact that whatever the government,
uh, does is not a priori the truth.
706
00:43:13,302 --> 00:43:16,142
And it's not only the struggle around
political prisoners
707
00:43:16,221 --> 00:43:18,891
that has begun to change the climate
in this country
708
00:43:18,974 --> 00:43:21,314
so that an acquittal like this
could occur…
709
00:43:22,519 --> 00:43:25,399
but, uh, also the reaction to the war
in Vietnam
710
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:28,900
and the reaction to, uh,
Nixon's, uh, economic policies.
711
00:43:28,984 --> 00:43:31,284
I think there's a lot more resistance now.
712
00:43:31,361 --> 00:43:33,281
This is the happiest day of my life.
[chuckles]
713
00:43:33,363 --> 00:43:34,413
[reporter speaks indistinctly]
714
00:43:34,489 --> 00:43:39,949
[woman vocalizing]
715
00:43:40,037 --> 00:43:41,827
[applause]
716
00:43:43,165 --> 00:43:46,205
[singing "Amazing Grace"]
717
00:44:02,392 --> 00:44:03,522
Power to the people.
718
00:44:12,611 --> 00:44:16,531
[song continues]
719
00:44:26,208 --> 00:44:30,708
[vocalizing]
720
00:44:42,516 --> 00:44:45,476
[vocalizing]
721
00:45:09,793 --> 00:45:13,923
[vocalizing]
722
00:45:14,006 --> 00:45:15,836
[song ends]
723
00:45:15,924 --> 00:45:19,184
[cheers, applause]
724
00:45:23,849 --> 00:45:25,179
[man] Jim had left the band.
725
00:45:25,267 --> 00:45:26,807
[Mick Jagger]
We were stuck in the south of France.
726
00:45:26,894 --> 00:45:29,314
[man 2] And Sly,
he didn't even want to leave his house.
727
00:45:30,814 --> 00:45:33,944
[man 3] It was getting
progressively more messed up.
728
00:45:34,026 --> 00:45:36,356
[woman] We got heavily into drugs.
729
00:45:36,445 --> 00:45:38,655
[man 2] He never had it under control.
730
00:45:38,739 --> 00:45:41,239
[man 4]
A lot of nights they played like shit.
731
00:45:41,325 --> 00:45:43,945
[Elton John]
We're all completely loose cannons.
732
00:45:44,036 --> 00:45:46,826
[man 5]
The military police came one night.
733
00:45:48,457 --> 00:45:52,377
[man 4] Ahmet Ertegun said to me,
"Get us an album." So that's it.
734
00:45:52,461 --> 00:45:56,471
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