AIM press conference on Oglala incident

About This Item

KQED News report from June 27th 1975 featuring a press conference held by the American Indian Movement (AIM), about yesterday's shooting of Little Joe Killsright Stuntz by the FBI at the Jumping Bull Ranch, in the Lakota Sioux Pine Ridge Reservation, near Oglala (South Dakota). A spokesman refers to the killing of Killsright as "murder" and goes on to declare that: "The history of the United States is one of 200 years of death and destruction of Indian people." Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz describes their perspective on this incident and explains they feel that the FBI approached a private residence: "Very aggressively and people felt they had to defend themselves."

Type of material
archival news film
Duration
0:58
16mm b&w co-magnetic sound film
Rights for this video belong to
NCPB/KQED
Date aired
6/27/75
Originally aired on
KQED
Identifier
KQN 2316
Views
5377

Related Items