Black Panther demonstration in Los Angeles

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Film Date
1/6/70
Film Reference Number
KPIX 101063
Description
KPIX Eyewitness news footage from January 6th 1970 featuring a Black Panther Party demonstration in Los Angeles. Demonstrators carry signs that read "Unity Now!" "Fight Fascism" and "Free Huey" A cameraman can be seen filming the demonstration from a high rise building. A demonstrator speaks to the crowd using a megaphone to say "the Black Panther Party is not separate from black people. The whole history of black people is not separate from the Black Panther Party; it's not separate from what's happening to the Black Panther Party today tomorrow and yesterday." Please note there is some audio distortion present. Remastered edited and catalogued for the web by Shira Peltzman.
Format
16mm newsfilm