Rally in support of Eldridge Cleaver

KRON-TV news footage from June 1, 1968 featuring scenes from a rally at the Office of California's Department of Corrections, Parole and Community Service Division, at 71 Eleventh Street in San Francisco. This is to support the release of the Black Panther Party's Minister of Information Eldridge Cleaver from jail. Includes views of a large crowd and of Kathleen Cleaver, Bobby Seale and Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) speaking. Note that the film was overexposed in the film camera while Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) was speaking. Opening graphic designed by Carrie Hawks.

This 16mm film reel was kindly donated to the TV Archive by David Webb Peoples in April 2023, who used to work as a film editor for KRON in the 1960s.

This 16mm negative film print was transferred in 4K (4096 x 2970) using a Lasergraphics ScanStation film scanner, in May 2024.