Panthers: David Hilliard Press Conference on POWs

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Film Date
10/22/69
Film Reference Number
KPIX 100491
Description
KPIX Eyewitness News report from October 22nd 1969 by Ben Williams featuring a press conference by Black Panther Party Chief of Staff David Hilliard who is proposing a prisoner exchange: if Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale are set free by the U.S. government then North Vietnam will release a battalion of American soldiers. Hilliard explains that further details of this deal may be obtained from their Minister of Information Eldridge Cleaver who is currently in Algeria.
Format
16mm newsfilm