Bobby Seale's Analysis of Events in Chicago (extended)

KRON-TV news footage from August 24th 1968 with reporter Dave Valentine featuring extended scenes from a press conference by Founding Chairman and national organizer of the Black Panther Party Bobby Seale, in which he reflects on the use of intimidation and brute force by National Guard and police against public dissent in Chicago and elsewhere. He attributes this strategy to Vice President Hubert Humphrey and mayor of Chicago Richard J. Daley. Includes comments by David Hilliard, who predicts that: "Chicago is just the precedent for neo-fascism. This the beginning of things to come. I mean it's going to be a continuity of this same kind of repressive violence against any people that wish to stand up against the imperialist regime in the United States." Seale also emphasizes how he thinks the black community will react if Huey P. Newton is found guilty. 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. It contains much more footage than the TV edit which KRON-TV donated to us (only 48 seconds long), which can also be viewed online and illustrates how much news footage was routinely cut by local TV stations immediately after a location film shoot. Peoples was instructed by the station to destroy this film and instead he preserved it.

This negative film print was scanned in May 2024 in 4K resolution (4096x2970), using a 6.5K Lasergraphics ScanStation film scanner.