March 21, 2025 • 54 mins
Where did wokeness come from? In the finale of Woke Army, we continue our journey by telling the story of how Herbert Marcuse’s disciple got entangled in a horrific crime…and how the movement took a detour that would make wokeness go mainstream.
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Previously on Red Pilled America.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
The sole reason they give for their intention to fire
me is my membership in the Communist Party.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
That this entire incident, starting with the hiring of Miss Davis,
was a deliberate provocation.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
Political opinions should be brought into the classroom.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
They belong in the classroom.
Speaker 6 (01:19):
A court decision last week declared the regent's action unconstitutional.
Speaker 7 (01:24):
Minimus, the university s your base.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
We have to talk about a complete and total change
in the structures of this society.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Four students lay dead on the campus grounds were.
Speaker 8 (01:37):
Shows that they want to find out.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I suppose I just lost that job at UCLA.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Where did Wokeness come from?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I'm Patrick Curlci and I'm Adrianna Cortez.
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And this is Red Pilled America, a storytelling show.
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This is not another talk show covering the day's news.
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Stories Hollywood doesn't want you to hear.
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You could think of Red Pilled America as audio documentaries,
and we promise only one thing, the truth. Welcome to
Red Pilled America. We're at the final part of our
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series of episodes entitled Woke Army. You've probably heard the
first four, but if you haven't, stop and go back
and listen from the beginning. We're looking for the answer
to the question where did Wokeness come from? By telling
the story of how an obscure group of German refugees
started all of this woke madness and what we need
to do is to stop it.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
So in our last episode, we told the story of
how Angela Davis and other revolutionaries escalated their Marxist struggle
on the streets and college campuses of America. California Governor
Ronald Reagan was working to help keep rayticals and militants
out of the state's college campuses. He forced Herbert Marcusa
into retirement at UCSD and blocked the Black Panthers from
officially speaking on college campuses. In defiance, UCLA hired the
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one person that represented both black militants and radical academics,
Angela Davis. The UC regents who governed the University of California,
voted to fire her, citing its longtime policy of not
hiring communists. Angela's childhood friend, Bettina Appathecker, helped the radical
professor rally the troops at UCLA, and Angela joined a
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faculty group in a lawsuit against the UC regents. Ultimately,
a superior court judge ruled that the firing was unconstitutional
and Angela was reinstated. She boldly announced that she'd be
bringing her brand of Marxist politics into the classroom. Then
she joined her teacher, Herbert Marcusa in a victory lap
at the birthplace of student insurrection, UC Berkeley. The two
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laid out a long term plan to ignite a socialist revolution.
The new oppressed groups, identified by Marcusa had to bring
the fight to the streets and more importantly, to the campuses.
They saw the university as the base of their socialist
revolution because it taught the next generation of leaders.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
A few weeks later, the Black Panthers Los Angeles headquarters
was raided by the LAPD and after a five hour
gun battle, the Panthers threw up the white flag. Angela
felt that their socialist revolution was right around the corner,
and she called on revolutionaries to take up arms to
help usher it in. The energy was building. The radicals
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just needed a new trigger to enlist the moderate left
to their cause. That would come in late April nineteen seventy,
when Nixon expanded the Vietnam War into Cambodia. Almost on
Q radicals organized a national student strike. Over one million
students protested on nearly nine hundred college campuses. When the
dust settled students lay dead at Kent State and Jackson's universities,
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and thirty ROTC buildings were burned to the ground. Moderate
anti war students didn't realize it, but they just participated
in a socialist insurrection. The country had had enough. A
counter protest took to the streets opposing the student violence.
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The FBI was in the midst of an effort to
break up organizations like the Black Panthers and Students for
a Democratic Society or SDS. Nixon began an investigation into
the source of the campus unrest, and the UC regents
made moves to terminate Angela Davis once and for all
from her UCLA teaching post. But Angela wanted to keep
up the heat. She began championing a new cause, the
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freedom of the Solodad Brothers, three convicts charged with murdering
a prison guard. She'd taken a liking to one, in particular,
George Jackson, one of the Soldad brothers, in prison nine
years earlier for armed robbery. George Jackson captured and with
Davis's heart and the Frankfurt School disciple began working with
the convict's young Black Panther brother, Jonathan Jackson to rally
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the country around his release. But then in the summer
of nineteen seventy, the effort to free George Jackson took
a dark turn.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
On a hot summer day in August nineteen seventy, a
trial was in session in a Marin County courthouse in
northern California. A black convict named James mcclan was being
tried for the stabbing of a prison guard. The trial
was presided over by Superior Court Judge Harold Haley, a
sixty five year old, thin haired white man with dark
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rimmed glasses. Judge Haley was a pillar of the community.
He'd married his high school sweetheart. They had three daughters together.
Life was good, but something was about to change all
of that. As the trial was in session, a young,
tall black man with the nafro and the courtroom. He
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brought with him a bag, and strangely, he was wearing
a trench coat. Given the time of year and the
hot weather, it was an odd choice of fashion. As
he sat down, he caught the eye of a bailiff
who remembered seeing him the day before in the courtroom
wearing the same jacket as a suspicious young character surveyed
the room. The prosecutor was questioning a defense witness in
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the case, another black convict name Rochelle McGee. Moments later,
all hell broke loose. The trench coated man stood up
and yelled out. A witness described what he said, hit the.
Speaker 9 (07:38):
Floor, and looking to the spectator side of the courtroom,
saw a tall, light complexed negro with bushy hair cunding
a handgun at the back of the neck of Lieutenant
Dixon of Sant Clinton Correctional Force.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
The intruder was Jonathan Jackson, the black panther colleague of
Angela Davis and the younger brother of George Jackson, one
of the primary Solo Dad brothers. As everyone hit the floor,
the man that was on trial asked Jonathan if he
brought the tape. Jonathan gave it to him along with
the shotgun, and McClain taped the shotgun to Judge Haley's neck,
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placing the barrel right below his chin. He told the
judge if I die, you're dying too. While this was happening,
Jonathan gave handguns to the other black convicts, Rachelle McGee
and William Christmas, both were witnesses in the trial and
friends with the defendant, Jonathan Jackson, then pulled out a
shotgun and an M one carbine with a banana clip.
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The three convicts and Jonathan now had complete control of
the courtroom. They had the judge called the Sheriff's office
and McClain took the phone and made a demand.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
We want the Soladad brothers free, or we'll kill Judge Haley.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
The hoodlums next grabbed several hostages, adding to Judge Haley.
They took three white female jurors as well as the prosecutor.
They cautiously began making their way out of the courthouse,
disarming guards along the way. That's when they crossed the
path of a photographer for a local paper.
Speaker 10 (09:05):
Well, I was coming in from an assignment, just a
regular normal assignment, and picked up on the police monitor
a call from the civic center that there was an
armed gunman in the corridor. So I rolled to the
civic center, went up to the court floor, got off
the elevator, and I went around a corner and I
encountered a man with two guns and I was then
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part of the action.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
But the photographer was not taken hostage. He'd soon learn why.
Speaker 10 (09:34):
They wanted the publicity. They invited me to take pictures,
and I was convinced at that time that this was
similar to a Cuban hijack, that there was a purpose
behind it. And one of the men as they left
in the elevator, after they told me that they didn't
want me as a hostage, did say we want the
Sola Dead brothers freed. By twelve thirty today.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Jonathan Jackson, escapees and their hostages made their way to
a van in the parking lot. The photographer could see
them from his vantage point.
Speaker 10 (10:09):
They got all got into the truck after a little
bit of confusion about who was going to drive.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Once they were all in, Judge Haley asked where they
were going. McLean reportedly answered.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
We'd go into the airport and take a plane.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
As Jonathan began to drive, he put his hand outside
the window of the van in it, he was holding
a revolver. Then suddenly he came to a stop. That's
when a flurry of shots were fired. Jonathan pulled his
hand back in the car and it was bleeding. The
prosecutor looked over to the judge and saw one of
the convicts, Rochelle McGee, with the sod off shotgun beneath
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the judge's chin. A moment later, McGhee pulled the trigger,
blowing off the judge's face. Now in a fight for
his life, the prosecutor wrestled a gun from Jonathan Jackson,
shot him with it, then shot in the area of
two of the convicts. A few second months later the
gunflurry ended. The third convict, William Christmas, was outside on
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the pavement laying lifeless. That's when the photographer arrived at
the scene.
Speaker 10 (11:13):
And even then, and as quickly as it was happening,
you could see that the back window was blown out.
There were many bullet holes in the truck who were
visible from the outside. The doors opened and the hostages
bolted out, and we looked in and we could see
the dead convicts and the dead judge.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
The prosecutor was slumped over in the van. He was
shot in the spine by a bullet from outside, paralyzing
him from the waist down. The shocking event was sensational
even by California standards.
Speaker 11 (11:54):
How did it happen that Superior card Judge Harold Haley
and three others were killed.
Speaker 6 (11:59):
The youth who brought guns into Judge Haley's card room
was Jonathan Jackson, brother of one of the Solidad three.
Jonathan had yelled in the courtroom corridor to free the
Solidad brothers before he made his escape.
Speaker 12 (12:11):
And was killed.
Speaker 11 (12:12):
Investigators for the Marine County Sheriff's Department still are not
sure of all the details, but they are piecing together
this story from witnesses and participants in the shocking crime
that took place here yesterday.
Speaker 13 (12:26):
At this point, as near as we can determine, one
of the witnesses in the van said they heard a
shot immediately the judge's head was blown off. The assistant
District Attorney then grappled with the inmates, procured a gun
and shot three of them. During this sension, there was
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other gun fire going on.
Speaker 8 (12:48):
There are still a great many loose ends and a
great deal of speculation about what happened here. Investigators will
now try to determine if there was a conspiracy of
some kind that involved perhaps more persons than those who
actually participated in the bloody event. Investigators say militant organizations
such as the Black Panther Party will be high on
the list of inquiry.
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to red Pilled America. So after a courthouse escape attempt
and a demand to set the Soledad Brothers free, four
people laid dead, including Black panther Jonathan Jackson and Judge Haley,
the investigations started immediately. They searched a satchel they found
in the van. There were books in it. One was
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titled The Politics of Violence in the Modern World. On
the inside cover was the name Angela Y. Davis. Another
book was titled Violence and Social Change. It too had
the name Angela Y. Davis on the inside cover. They
swept the contents of the satchel for prints and found
Angela Davis's print on a book and on two pamphlets.
One of the pamphlets was associated with the M one
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carbine used by Jonathan Jackson in the getaway attempt. An
investigator checked Jonathan's wallet and found a yellow slip of
paper on it was a phone number. They tracked it
to a public payphone near the American Airlines ticket counter
at the San Francisco Airport. They questioned workers there. A
Pacific Southwest Airlines ticket agent sat on the day of
the shooting just a few minutes before two pm, Angela
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Davis came running up in a panic to the counter
and bought a ticket to Los Angeles. She paid by check.
The ticket agent said Angela had no luggage. They heard
from another officer he claimed he stopped Angela Davis and
Jonathan Jackson at the Mexico border about a week prior
to the shootout. Investigators spoke to a custodian An officer
and a shuttle driver at the San Quentin prison. They
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placed Angela with Jonathan at the prison on August fourth
and August fifth, as he visited his brother George Jackson.
The shootout happened on August seventh. A bailiff claimed he
saw Jonathan in the courtroom the day before the shooting,
wearing the same trench coat. When Jonathan showed up, he
learned that the trial had cut short that day, so
he left. Could this have been a test run? Investigators
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dug further and found four separate witnesses that placed Angela
with Jonathan at a gas station across the street from
the Marine court house the day before the shootout. They
also began tracking down the guns used in the escape attempt,
and that's when things got even more interesting. One was
purchased at a Western surplus in Los Angeles by Angela
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Davis two days before the shootout. A pair of employees
from a San Francisco area pawn shop said Angela, accompanied
by Jonathan, purchased a shotgun from their store. The clerks
recognized Angela because of her distinct look, and they even
asked her for an autograph. The shotgun turned out to
be the one that blew off Judge Haley's head, and
every one of the private guns used in the failed
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escape attempt were purchased by Angela Davis. The stunning news
began making its way to the media, and.
Speaker 8 (17:12):
The two of the guns used in the courtroom were
bought by Angela Davis. She was the teacher fired from
the University of California at Los Angeles.
Speaker 14 (17:21):
Angela Davis is now reported to be in Toronto, Canada.
It is not certain why she went there, if indeed
she did or went, although friends claim it was about
two weeks ago. She has not been charged with anything,
although rumors do persist that conspiracy to commit murder is
being considered. If that is the case, then presumably police
would have to be prepared to prove that she gave
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those guns to a minor with the intent of using
them and the escape attempt.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
A State officials spoke to reporters about discovering who bought
the guns.
Speaker 15 (17:50):
What was she doing with those guns?
Speaker 16 (17:53):
I am the foggiest idea what she was doing with
the guns at that time. Obviously, since that time, the
guns have had rather an interesting way throughout the state
of California, finally winding up in Marine County, and from
our information, the guns that were used in the killing
of the people in Marine County.
Speaker 17 (18:08):
Do you think it's true communist revolutionary style for her
who have bought these guns in her own name?
Speaker 16 (18:14):
And that'd be difficult. That'd be difficult to say. There's
nothing to be said that a communist has to be smart.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Investigators felt they had enough to get an arrest warrant
for the Marxist academic.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
All right.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
As this was in motion, a funeral service was held
for Judge Haley.
Speaker 18 (18:36):
Judge Haley, for whom mass was set here today, died
in one of the most bizarre escape attempts ever staged.
Nearly one hundred law enforcement officers joined perhaps a thousand
Marinites at Saint Sylvester Catholic Church for the Mass. The
Sheriff's office now believes from witnesses that there were shots
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fired from the escape van before the judge was killed.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
On the other side. Out of town in Oakland, the
Black Panthers held a funeral for Jonathan Jackson.
Speaker 12 (19:07):
The convicts who died earned themselves a hero's funeral and
the God of honor from the Black Panthers.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Astonishingly, thousands of white, black and brown people lying to
the streets holding their fists in the air to salute
the young man responsible for the whole bloody affair practically
pulled from the pages of Herbert Marcuse's repressive tolerance. They
were not only accepting, but celebrating the despicable actions coming
from the radical left, including the killing of an innocent judge.
Speaker 12 (19:35):
Even as the convicts were being buried, the police were
busily tracing the guns which had been used in the shootout,
and they'd all been registered in the name of Angela Davis.
On the strength of this, a warrant was issued for
her arrest and her name was put on the FBI
list of the nation's most wanted criminals.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
But Tina Apathecker Angela Davis's childhood friend that helped organize
the nineteen sixty four UC Berkeley student protest attended the
funeral with her husband. A black militant friend of Angela's
walked up to Bettina and, without looking in her eyes,
said loud enough for Bettina to hear that Angela had
been implicated in the killings and that she'd gone underground.
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Angela Davis was on the run. She thought about leaving
the country, maybe Cuba or Canada, but knew that if
she left, she'd never be able to come back. So
Angela made her way to a friend in Chicago, a
guy named David Poindexter. She hid in his apartment, but
Pointdexter got in a fight with the neighbor, and they
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were afraid that the neighbor would wrap them out if
the FBI came knocking, so they fled to Miami. Meanwhile,
the FBI got a tip that Angela was in Chicago.
They went to the Windy City and leaned on Poyndexter's
ex girlfriend. They learned that Angela had been in the area,
but fled with Poindexter to his mother's hometown of Florida.
The FBI also got the make of the car they
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were driving, they were closing in on them. After the
FBI questioned Poindexter's mom, Angela knew she had to get
out of Floria as well. While the FBI was hunting
for her in Miami, Angela and her companion took off
to the Big Apple, but it wasn't long before the
FBI got a call law enforcement found Angela's vehicle parked
an NYC Howard Johnson. On October thirteenth, nineteen seventy. Agents
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descended on the motel and nabbed Angela as she was
en route to her room.
Speaker 19 (21:29):
Black Revolutionary Angela Davis appeared without her distinctive afril hairdo
as she was arraigned in New York City today as
a fugitive from Justice.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
President Nixon spoke to the Justice Department about the arrest.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
I think that the actions of the FBI and apprehending
Angela Davis a rather remarkable story. Again, in the long
history of remarkable stories of apprehensions by the FBI, is
an indication that once the federal government, through the FBI,
moved into an area, we shall see to it that
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though me who engage in such terroristic acts are brought
to justice.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Angela's comrade, Patina Appathecker, immediately flew to NYC to begin
working on a campaign to get her free. Angela was
desperately trying to avoid being extradited to California and why.
Speaker 12 (22:19):
The big question after the arrest was whether Miss Davis
would be extradited from New York to stand trial in California,
an issue of more than academic importance because under Californian law,
any person aiding and abetting the commission of a crime
becomes as guilty as those who actually carry it out.
This meant that Miss Davis would face a possible death
penalty if found guilty in California. It was a prospect
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she fought strenuously against in the New York courts, supported
by vociferous crowds of demonstrators on the streets outside. But
all the shouting and marching didn't influence the courts, and
Miss Davis was duly sent back to San Rafael to
stand trial with Russell Magee.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
On arrival in California, Bettina and Angela started brainstor forming
on a public campaign to get her free. They first
needed to start raising money for her defense. The Communist
Party was there to answer the call.
Speaker 12 (23:11):
A nationwide free Angela Davis movement was rapidly organized among
America's radicals, with branch committees in fifty cities for the
Mataban Communist Party. The whole affair is a much needed
shot in the arms. Angela Davis has become their first
martyr for years, and the party is now trying to
raise fifty thousand dollars for her defense.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Her team of lawyers and supporters went to work as well.
They began crafting a narrative Angela was being framed.
Speaker 20 (23:45):
The attempts in the press to link her with a
shooting in moren two months ago is based solely on
police informer allegations and has no basis in fact. The
pillory of Angela Davis comes at a time when she,
with others, was exposing in a mass way the condition
of the prison set.
Speaker 21 (24:03):
The more that I see of the state of California,
the more doubtful I've become whether or not there's any fairness.
The more I become impressed by mister McGee's position that
is a conspiracy, a statewide conspiracy, perhaps a nation wide
a conspiracy to murder him and miss Davis. I don't
know the names of the conspirators. I don't know the
particular dates that they met in the greed. I don't
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know exactly what their ultimate purpose is, except that as
it affects my client, immediately I feel that they're trying
to take her life.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
It was really a preposterous position. It was indisputable that
the guns were purchased by Angela Davis, yet her lawyers
and spokesman continued to argue that she was being framed.
What did they expect law enforcement to do disregard the
fact that Angela's guns were used to kill a judge.
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She must have understood the optics of her situation, because
Angela took to the media from behind bars to deal
with the issue of the guns.
Speaker 22 (25:01):
People are very upset when they hear that black people
have weapons, their own weapons. As I grew up in Birmingham, Alabama,
some very very good friends of mine were killed by bombs,
bombs that were planted by races.
Speaker 23 (25:15):
Uh.
Speaker 22 (25:16):
I remembered from the time I was very small. I
remember the sounds of bombs exploding across the street, our
house shaking. I remember my father having to have guns
at is disposed of at all times. Because of the
fact that at any moment someone we might expect to
be attacked.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
But she wasn't carrying guns for her protection at all times,
because if she was, they would have been in her
possession and not used in the murder of a judge.
Angela appeared to be using a victim argument as a deflection.
Her owning guns wasn't the question. What was under scrutiny
was that her guns were used to murder a judge,
and all in an attempt to free a convict that
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she'd been working to set free. The connection seemed obvious.
When preliminary hearings took place in Angela's trial, she began
to do something shocking to most law and order loving citizens.
She embraced Michelle McGee, the convict involved in the murder
of Judge Hayley.
Speaker 17 (26:16):
At least on the surface, the federal courtroom was different.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
There were no uniform guards.
Speaker 17 (26:21):
Rochel McGhee was not chained to his chair as he
is in Marin County, and he and Angela Davis were
allowed to sit next to each other and even embraced
on being brought into the courtroom.
Speaker 6 (26:32):
Miss Davis, who was participating in her own defense, Thus
far cried out during the hearing free Rachel McGhee.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
The move was either sincere or tactical. Either way. By
supporting the black convict involved in murdering a judge, she
showed the radicals on the street in college campuses that
she was one of them. To the very end, well
it appeared to be working. Radical academics began speaking out
in her defense.
Speaker 9 (27:02):
Oh, the way I feel it right now is the
way I think.
Speaker 14 (27:04):
All black people have felt throughout history.
Speaker 9 (27:06):
When they've seen their sisters and mothers being taken off
and raped.
Speaker 7 (27:09):
What they're doing to her is an exaggerated form of
what happens every day to black people in this country.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Yeah, Angela Davis and you have Michelle McGee her co
defendant in this case, both of them of political business.
Speaker 21 (27:22):
Some people represent the struggle physically and others represented vocally.
Speaker 22 (27:25):
Angela Davis is a spokeswoman for the struggle behind everything.
She's still my sister, and I wanted her to survive.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Angela and Bettina Appathecker also came up with another brilliant plan.
Two days before the murder of Judge Haley Black Panther
co founder Huey P. Newton was acquitted for murdering a
police officer. A coalition of white and black militants successfully
applied public pressure, leading to the release of the black panther.
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Angela wanted to do the same, so her and Bettina
worked on editing a book that could be used as
a political weapon to or organized communist support from both
in and outside of America to demand her freedom. They
released the book in nineteen seventy one, and the Marxist
left from all around the world began to demand the
release of the so called political prisoner Angela Davis.
Speaker 12 (28:18):
In America, supporters of the black liberation movements are stepping
up the pressure in the campaign to free Angela Davis,
the black philosophy, lecturer and communist who is now facing
a charge of murder in California. The American left is
incensed over the case, but interest in it has not
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been confined to the United States. Overseas, the response to
the Angela Davis case has been almost as strong as
in America. Over two thousand West Germans gathered to demand
freedom for the black militant teacher, and left wing groups
all over Europe have staged similar protests. From Russia, a
group of scientists has written to President Nixon asking him
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to ensure that the case is jug with full limp
partianity of humanity. At the center of this storm is
a slim, attractive black girl who, at twenty seven, has
already established an impressive academic record. The philosopher Herbert Markcus
called her his best pupil in thirty years.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
The Free Angela media campaign reached such global proportions that
it attracted the type of people that loved a virtue signal.
Celebrities Jane Vonda, Leonard Bernstein, and Sammy Davis Junior spoke
out in her defense. Yoga Ono and John Lennon released
an Angela Davis tribute song, but Rita Franklin even offered
to pony up bail money. The problem with that was
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Angela was facing the death penalty given her record. The
judge thought her possible death sentence meant she was a
flight risk, so he refused bail. But then something remarkable happened.
Speaker 6 (29:59):
Official word came from the Supreme Court Clerk's office at
noon when the actual decision was passed out to reporters
by a six to one vote, the court ordered life
imprisonment for convicted murderer Robert Anderson, and made its ruling
applicable to all persons now sentenced to die.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
The California Supreme Court ruled the death penalty unconstitutional.
Speaker 6 (30:20):
The court said that capital punishment degrades and dehumanizes all
who participate in its processes, and is unnecessary to any
legitimate goal of the state and incompatible with the dignity
of man and the judicial process.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
The ruling meant that Angela Davis was now eligible for bail,
and in February nineteen seventy two, they found the bail
money from an unexpected source.
Speaker 24 (30:43):
Her attorney, Howard Moore, said that the man who put
up the one hundred thousand dollars for the surety bond
was Roger McPhee of Fresno County, a cooperative farmer. Angela
Davis and her supporters were, of course, ecstatic at her
release from jail.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
After release, Angela went to Betina Appatheker's house to celebrate.
Speaker 5 (31:03):
So far, I've felt better than I have in sixteen months.
The real reason why I feel better is because now
I'm able to give much more of myself to the
struggle to fee all of our sisters and feathers.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
The trial began a month later in March nineteen seventy.
Herbert Marcusa and Bettina Apatheker could be seen attending as
moral and tactical support. One big surprise was that Angela
was added to the defense team as co counsel. This
was a stroke of genius. It allowed her to make
the opening argument without having to be cross examined. In
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her opening statement, she admitted to having purchased all of
the guns, but denied giving them to Jonathan Jackson. She
challenged the prosecution to provide any evidence that proved that
she had any knowledge or intent of the escape attempt.
Angela argued that when she heard the police were looking
for her, she didn't run, She just made herself unavailable.
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Angela claimed she feared for her life at the hands
of the cops. She was being targeted for her work
in trying to free the Soladad brothers. It was just
that simple.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
The prosecution made the same arguments that they'd made at
the time of her indictment.
Speaker 12 (32:22):
Angela Davis is accused not of carrying out the crime,
but of supplying guns to those such as Russell McGhee,
who allegedly did so. Macgee was one of two convicts
appearing in the trial when the kidnapping took place.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
There weren't many surprises during the prosecution's case. They laid
out the circumstantial evidence, the guns, that her near constant
companion leading up to the shootout was Jonathan Jackson, the
fact that she fled, the witness testimony to Jonathan and
her being together, and so on. But the prosecution did
include evidence that came in late to the case. You
may recall that the motive for the Marine County courthouse
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shootout was to free the Soledad brothers, and in particular,
Jonathan Jackson's older brother, George Angela, had been working to
free him in the months leading up to the shootout.
From jail, Angela spoke about how she first met him.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
First time I met him was on the occasion of
one of the court appearances in Silas, California. I had
not really expected, uh the scene that confronted me when
I walked into that courtroom and sat down and UH
saw coming into the courtroom three black men who were
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chained and shackled. I had never seen black men before
with chains all over their bodies.
Speaker 18 (33:43):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
It was certainly reminiscent of slavery, and in spite of
the fact that they were completely uh suppressed in a
physical sense, you could see from the attitude and their
demeanor when they entered the courtroom that they uh were
not for a moment going to resign themselves to that situation.
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That they had a very profound fighting spirit. And it
was that which really affected me very strongly.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
When Angela became in prisoned as well, she began to
write to George. In one instance, in July nineteen seventy one,
Angela and George were astonishingly allowed to meet in a
holding cell outside of a Marin Civic Center courtroom while
they were both still incarcerated. It was reportedly the first
time they'd spend time together in the same room for
a long stretch of time. They were intimate. Immediately after
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their meeting, Angela began writing George love letters over a
period of a month. The letters were smuggled out of
Angela's detention center and delivered to George Jackson at San Quentin.
He kept them hidden in his cell, but in August
nineteen seventy one, George attempted an escape from prison and
was killed in the process. When his cell was searched.
Angela's letters were found, the prosecution made them the centerpiece
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of Angela's motive.
Speaker 25 (35:09):
Prosecutor Albert Harris wound up his case by trying to
establish Miss Davis's love for Soladad brother George Jackson as
the motive for her alleged participation in the escape plot.
Just before he rested, he read to the jury edited
portions of an eighteen page diary or letter written to
Jackson eleven months after the shootout. I am totally intoxicated
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overflowing with you. The letter said that so much love
could exist anywhere I never realized. The next day, Harris said,
she wrote, I'm crazy with love and desire, and I
guess you're already willing to accept all the consequences. Miss
Davis and her attorneys had fought hard to keep the
diary from being entered as evidence.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
In another letter, she wrote about their first meeting in
May nineteen seventy, saying, as I was pulling myself together
after the court appearance in Selenez, I was struck by
a similar sense of inexorably succumbing to you, just you
being absorbed by that huge, beautiful man with whom I
had instantly and unexpectedly fallen in love. End quote. In
another passage, she wrote, quote love you, love you with love,
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even more unbounded, even more unconquerable, your lifelong wife. End quote.
After nine weeks and over one hundred witnesses, the prosecution
rested its case. Now it was the defense's turn.
Speaker 26 (36:29):
The defense will attack that series of events as coincidental
and not proving anything other than Miss Davis's concern for
her own safety and her involvement in militant leftist political causes.
Speaker 18 (36:40):
They scoff at.
Speaker 26 (36:41):
The allegations of love for Jackson being a motive in
a conspiracy to free him.
Speaker 18 (36:46):
For Attorney Howard.
Speaker 25 (36:47):
Moore admits she bought the gun and that young Jonathan
Jackson had access to them.
Speaker 18 (36:52):
Both Moore and miss Davis deny she planned.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
With Jackson for the escape.
Speaker 25 (36:57):
They say she left the state because she knew she
was to be persecuted for her political activism and her
the Jackson.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Angela Davis never testified. Her team largely took a standard
approach to their defense. They focused on the circumstantial nature
of the prosecution's case, trying it every turn to poke
holes to prove a reasonable doubt her defense attorney challenged
the witness's testimony placing Angela with Jonathan Jackson on the
days leading up to the shootout. It simply wasn't his client.
Speaker 19 (37:25):
Defense attorney Leo Bratton said he did not know who
the person was that the prosecution witnesses had identified as
Angela Davis. Boddy said it wasn't his job to find out.
Angela Davis is no fool. He continued, why would she
buy a gun to blow it judge's head off and
buy it in her own name? The prosecution's theory is absurd.
The jury will begin deliberating her guilt or innocence tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
After a thirteen week trial, both sides rested the jury
went into deliberation. But just when people thought the case
couldn't become more sensationalized, shocking news hit the airwaves.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
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Speaker 1 (39:28):
Welcome back to Red Pilled America. So, after thirteen weeks,
both sides in the Angela Davis trial rested. The jury
went into deliberation, But just when people thought the case
couldn't become more sensationalized. Shocking news hit the airwaves.
Speaker 15 (39:44):
I heard one of the stewardess has come running us
to the other stewardess and she said, as you said,
it's happening to us. And I asked her, what was
happening to us? And then I saw a man in
an army uniform come up the aisle and going to
the cockpit, and I knew it were being highjacked. I
started crying. I told my husband.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
A militant faction of the Students for a Democratic Society
or SDS, hijacked a plane and demanded both money and
the Angela Davis be let free.
Speaker 6 (40:09):
The hijacker had announced over the intercom earlier, SDS men,
relax our demands are being met, and another message had
included the word weather Men, which is a radical offshoot
of Students for a Democratic Society. After a refueling stop
in New York where the passengers were let off, the
Western seven twenty h took off again for Algeria with
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a half a million dollars. During yesterday's hijacking, in which
it was thought Miss Davis had been demanded by the hijacker,
the defendant was brought to the courtroom. She looked distraught
and tired.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
Angela's defense team claimed no knowledge of the hijacking. They
wanted their fate to be handed by the jury, and
that was, no doubt a calculated decision. You see, Angela's
lawyers applied a novel approach to jury selection. At the
time in nineteen seventy two, jury selection took a very
unsophisticated approach, but for Angelus case, five black psychologists volunteered
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to help with the process to develop personality profiles for
each prospective juror. They carefully watched them, whether they interacted
with others, how they acted at lunch period, whether they
were talkative. They slipped questions to Angela's lawyers to acquire
the necessary data. Ultimately, they helped Angela's team select a
group of jurors that would give her the best chance
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for an acquittal. It's been an approach to jury selection
ever since because it worked. After just thirteen hours of deliberation,
an all white jury found Angela Davis innocent on all counts.
On exiting the courtroom, one jurist looked at Angela's cheering supporters,
smiled and raised the Black Power fist to the crowd.
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In fact, the jury held Angela in such high regard
that a majority of them joined in the celebration parties
of her acquittal. At one of the gatherings, Angela rejoiced
in the decision.
Speaker 27 (42:00):
Really a wonderful feeling to be back among the people,
would be back among all of you who fought so
long and so hard, among all of you who actually
achieved my freedom. And I really wish you could have
been there in the courtroom at the moment when those
three not guilty verdicts were pronounced, Becau because that they
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through was just as much yours as there was none.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
By the end of the trial, America had changed. The
public had not only grown tired of the violence, it
welcomed government actions to decisively end it through a series
of raids and prosecutions. The Black Panthers had been successfully disintegrated.
The Black Power ringleader Stokely Carmichael not only left the organization,
he left the country. The Students for a Democratic Society,
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or SDS, had also been fractured when the organization effectively dissolved.
By the early nineteen seventies, a militant faction of SDS
known as the Weathermen, went underground. In addition to hijacking
a plane to try and free Angela Davis, the Weather Underground,
as it came to be known, bomb the Pentagon, US Capital,
a New York police station, and other locations. If there
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were any flames left to use violence for social change.
The Weather Underground effectively smothered the embers. The group turned
public opinion against the militant efforts. But what effectively ended
this Marxist revolution was that the US government got smart.
It removed the fuel that was inciting moderates to work
with the radicals. You may remember that after the violence
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and destruction caused by the nineteen seventy national student Strike,
President Nixon organized a commission to study the cause of
campus unrest. By the summer of nineteen seventy, hints on
the conclusion of that work began to make its way
out to the public, and in August nineteen seventy interview,
while Angela Davis was still on the run, Vice Press
President's Bureau Agnew spoke about a primary instigator of the
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campus unrest.
Speaker 23 (44:07):
We have a very extreme professor such as Marcuse poisoning
literally poisoning a lot of young minds with what I
would consider to be some of the most irresponsible drivel
that I've ever read or heard.
Speaker 1 (44:25):
The Campus Unrest Commission issued its findings in September nineteen seventy,
and in it they cited the radical professor Herbert Marcusa
as a key figure in providing the intellectual rationale for
the Marxist insurrection. They concluded that students were being drawn
to these radical figures because of the Vietnam War. The
head of the Commission, William Scranton, highlighted this point in
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September nineteen seventy.
Speaker 7 (44:47):
It is true that the amount of campus's disruption and
violence certainly was much less in the period when the
war seemed to be going in the direction of terminating,
and people were beginning to come back to the United
States via for example, late last fall and this last
winter and early spring. And certainly it got much stronger
(45:09):
after the Cambodian We all know that after the Cambodian invasion.
So the less accentuation there is of American participation and
the more return of men, the more helpful it is.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
Of course, the American government now understood that if they
removed the incentive for moderates to march with the militant Marxists.
The unrest would subside. By nineteen seventy five, the Vietnam
War was over. The Marxists no longer had the flashpoint
(45:43):
to give their small minority outsized power on the streets
and college campuses of America. People were tired of the violence,
campus unrest, burning down of buildings, killings, and bombings. These
Marxist revolutionaries had hit a roadblock with their radical activism.
Their tried and true strategy of violence in inciting moderates
on college can campuses was not only no longer working,
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it wasn't going to work. So what these radicals and
militants did was they went back to college reflecting on
the era when Herbert marcusa RETABOC at UC San Diego,
the former chancellor of the school, inadvertently touched on the
radical student's eventual playbook.
Speaker 28 (46:25):
I wouldn't let the governor of California intrude on our
independence and freedom of a faculty to operate this school
as we saw fit. And I'll be damned if I'm
going to let a group of students do it either.
That is, we govern the University of California, we faculty,
and if the students wished to join us, let them
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become faculty.
Speaker 1 (46:47):
And that's exactly what the Socialist revolutionaries did. Herbert Marcusa
died in nineteen seventy nine, but his teachings would immediately
take hold In one particular American institution. The Marxist radicals,
educated by the ideas of the Frankfurt School, put all
of their chips on academia. The universities had already warmed
up to the ideas of the Frankfort School places like UCSD,
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UC Berkeley, UCLA, Brandeis College, and Columbia. They were already
infected with Marxist radicals. So after the tumultuous nineteen sixties,
Marxism flourished at these universities in departments like the humanities
and theoretical based studies. Philosophy was infected. English departments were
plagued as well. Women's studies would eventually become gender studies,
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and they touted the woke doctrine. African American studies and
Chicano studies adopted wokeness as well. Critical legal studies built
on the Frankfort School's critical theory and would eventually develop
critical race theory. The university began to openly accept the
radical and militant Marxists into their teaching staffs, a place
where they can turned students into a woke army.
Speaker 2 (47:53):
After Angela Davis was fired from her UCLA job, Ronald
Reagan said she'd never work in the UC system again.
That prediction didn't age well. In nineteen ninety one, UC
Santa Cruz appointed her professor in the History of Consciousness.
She literally became a woke professor. Three years later, she
was appointed to the UC Presidential Chair in African American
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and Feminist Studies. She'd go on to lecture at colleges
all over the world, and the universities opened their doors
to other militants. Many of the SDS revolutionaries, even ones
that planted bombs and were responsible for the deaths of Americans,
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were eventually accepted into professor positions. The co founder of
the Black Panthers, Bobby Seal, who'd been accused of murder,
would go on to teach Afro American studies at Temple University.
Through academia, they'd eventually take over the media, pumping out
students from journalism school infected with the woke ideology. They'd
link with Marxist radicals in Hollywood that had survived the
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communist purge of the nineteen forties and nineteen fifties and
had quietly retaken Tinseltown in the nineteen seventies. What the
Frankfurt School identified as the mass cultural industries of Hollywood,
music and art would eventually fully adopt the woke ideology
of the Marxist intellectuals. They'd be comrades with academia. Through storytelling,
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they would help shift pop culture towards wokeness and reinforce
the wins of the Marxists in every cultural institution. When
Big Tech arose, it became populated by college graduates who
had all been filtered through woke universities. Big tech was
bound to accept cancel culture, an ideology invented by Herbert
Marcusa himself. The Marxists had effectively taken over every institution
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that defines what it means to be American, and they
did it methodically over decades.
Speaker 1 (49:50):
Which leads us back to the question where did wokeness
come from. It came from Marxism. Wokeness is Marxism repackaged.
Wokeness was developed by a small group of German intellectuals
to spark a socialist revolution in the Western world. All
of the insanity you've been experiencing in society, the cancel culture,
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social justice warriors, critical race theory, all of the new
pronouns political correctness, the purging on social media, the diversity,
equity and inclusion departments, biological men competing in women's sports,
affirmative action, the constant claims of institutional racism, the grooming
of kids. All of this wokeness that you are experiencing
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is nothing less than a Marxist revolution. When we open
this series, we heard how surprised Greg Guttfeld was on
the spread of wokeness. It is everywhere you look. I
don't think I've seen anything spread so fast in my life.
But we know that wokeness did not spread quickly. It's
been nearly a century in the making. You have to
almost admire their level of dedication. Like grains of salt
(50:55):
slowly being added to a cup of water, you don't
see the salt until the water is completely saturated. Then
once that life last grain is added, you suddenly see
salt everywhere in the glass. The Frankfurt School, launched in
nineteen twenty three, It would eventually repackage Marxism and identify
the institutions that define the culture of Western civilization, those
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being academia and what they called the mass culture industries
of film, radio, music, magazines, and books. They then made
the long march through the institutions, slowly adding converts to
their cause. When violence on the streets and campuses no
longer worked blocking them from saturating our culture with Marxism,
the disciples of the Frankfort School took a different route.
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The ideology flourished in academia and in Hollywood and in
the media, slowly adding converts until that last grain of
salt was added in twenty twenty, when again a Marxist
insurrection exploded in America, disguised as Black Lives Matter protests.
But it's no secret now America is experiencing a socialist revolution,
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and the only way to stop it is to take
a queue from the Marxists themselves. We need to make
the long march through the institutions and purge wokeness with
the truth. We have no other choice. We need to
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create our own cultural institutions, our own Hollywood, our own
publishing industry, our own media, our own storytelling industry, and
perhaps most importantly, we need to retake our schools. That
is an institution that we cannot create on our own,
and it has become a factory for creating radicals. It
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won't be easy because wokeness is so deeply embedded in academia,
but we need to retake the schools and use every
legal tool available to purge wokeness from the system. We
must make the risk of promoting wokeness so enormous that
the worst offenders recede to the fringes where they belong.
To eliminate this repackage Marxism known as wokeness, we must
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take the long march through the institutions.
Speaker 2 (53:09):
The good news is that we know what we have
to do. We just need to do the work. Take
an action to help build our own institutions, to retake
our schools. Take an action to help us build a
red pilled America. Because if we don't, and if this
series doesn't propel you to act, then we deserve to
live in the world that the Marxists have built. Ksman,
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you're one of the youngest and first drag queen flash kids.
Speaker 16 (53:34):
Not all boys have a penis, and not all girls
have a vagina.
Speaker 26 (53:39):
California Reparations task Force is making history with a major
decision on who will receive compensation.
Speaker 2 (53:45):
And even this idea that like it's, oh, it's we
can't talk about sex with kids.
Speaker 1 (53:49):
It's like, first of all, we probably can.
Speaker 14 (53:51):
My dad says, you can't just say that your baby
is gay before.
Speaker 11 (53:54):
He gets a chance to tell us he's gay.
Speaker 23 (53:57):
Destroying property which can be replaced is not violent.
Speaker 13 (54:01):
As a three parent family.
Speaker 1 (54:03):
Like LGBTQ people, can.
Speaker 2 (54:05):
You provide a definition for the word woman? I can't.
Speaker 12 (54:09):
You can't not okay this context.
Speaker 2 (54:12):
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Speaker 1 (01:01):
Previously on Red Pilled America.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
The sole reason they give for their intention to fire
me is my membership in the Communist Party.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
That this entire incident, starting with the hiring of Miss Davis,
was a deliberate provocation.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
Political opinions should be brought into the classroom.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
They belong in the classroom.
Speaker 6 (01:19):
A court decision last week declared the regent's action unconstitutional.
Speaker 7 (01:24):
Minimus, the university s your base.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
We have to talk about a complete and total change
in the structures of this society.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Four students lay dead on the campus grounds were.
Speaker 8 (01:37):
Shows that they want to find out.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I suppose I just lost that job at UCLA.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Where did Wokeness come from?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I'm Patrick Curlci and I'm Adrianna Cortez.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
And this is Red Pilled America, a storytelling show.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
This is not another talk show covering the day's news.
We are all about telling stories.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Stories Hollywood doesn't want you to hear.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
The media marks stories about everyday Americans of the globalist ignore.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
You could think of Red Pilled America as audio documentaries,
and we promise only one thing, the truth. Welcome to
Red Pilled America. We're at the final part of our
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series of episodes entitled Woke Army. You've probably heard the
first four, but if you haven't, stop and go back
and listen from the beginning. We're looking for the answer
to the question where did Wokeness come from? By telling
the story of how an obscure group of German refugees
started all of this woke madness and what we need
to do is to stop it.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
So in our last episode, we told the story of
how Angela Davis and other revolutionaries escalated their Marxist struggle
on the streets and college campuses of America. California Governor
Ronald Reagan was working to help keep rayticals and militants
out of the state's college campuses. He forced Herbert Marcusa
into retirement at UCSD and blocked the Black Panthers from
officially speaking on college campuses. In defiance, UCLA hired the
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one person that represented both black militants and radical academics,
Angela Davis. The UC regents who governed the University of California,
voted to fire her, citing its longtime policy of not
hiring communists. Angela's childhood friend, Bettina Appathecker, helped the radical
professor rally the troops at UCLA, and Angela joined a
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faculty group in a lawsuit against the UC regents. Ultimately,
a superior court judge ruled that the firing was unconstitutional
and Angela was reinstated. She boldly announced that she'd be
bringing her brand of Marxist politics into the classroom. Then
she joined her teacher, Herbert Marcusa in a victory lap
at the birthplace of student insurrection, UC Berkeley. The two
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laid out a long term plan to ignite a socialist revolution.
The new oppressed groups, identified by Marcusa had to bring
the fight to the streets and more importantly, to the campuses.
They saw the university as the base of their socialist
revolution because it taught the next generation of leaders.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
A few weeks later, the Black Panthers Los Angeles headquarters
was raided by the LAPD and after a five hour
gun battle, the Panthers threw up the white flag. Angela
felt that their socialist revolution was right around the corner,
and she called on revolutionaries to take up arms to
help usher it in. The energy was building. The radicals
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just needed a new trigger to enlist the moderate left
to their cause. That would come in late April nineteen seventy,
when Nixon expanded the Vietnam War into Cambodia. Almost on
Q radicals organized a national student strike. Over one million
students protested on nearly nine hundred college campuses. When the
dust settled students lay dead at Kent State and Jackson's universities,
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and thirty ROTC buildings were burned to the ground. Moderate
anti war students didn't realize it, but they just participated
in a socialist insurrection. The country had had enough. A
counter protest took to the streets opposing the student violence.
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The FBI was in the midst of an effort to
break up organizations like the Black Panthers and Students for
a Democratic Society or SDS. Nixon began an investigation into
the source of the campus unrest, and the UC regents
made moves to terminate Angela Davis once and for all
from her UCLA teaching post. But Angela wanted to keep
up the heat. She began championing a new cause, the
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freedom of the Solodad Brothers, three convicts charged with murdering
a prison guard. She'd taken a liking to one, in particular,
George Jackson, one of the Soldad brothers, in prison nine
years earlier for armed robbery. George Jackson captured and with
Davis's heart and the Frankfurt School disciple began working with
the convict's young Black Panther brother, Jonathan Jackson to rally
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the country around his release. But then in the summer
of nineteen seventy, the effort to free George Jackson took
a dark turn.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
On a hot summer day in August nineteen seventy, a
trial was in session in a Marin County courthouse in
northern California. A black convict named James mcclan was being
tried for the stabbing of a prison guard. The trial
was presided over by Superior Court Judge Harold Haley, a
sixty five year old, thin haired white man with dark
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rimmed glasses. Judge Haley was a pillar of the community.
He'd married his high school sweetheart. They had three daughters together.
Life was good, but something was about to change all
of that. As the trial was in session, a young,
tall black man with the nafro and the courtroom. He
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brought with him a bag, and strangely, he was wearing
a trench coat. Given the time of year and the
hot weather, it was an odd choice of fashion. As
he sat down, he caught the eye of a bailiff
who remembered seeing him the day before in the courtroom
wearing the same jacket as a suspicious young character surveyed
the room. The prosecutor was questioning a defense witness in
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the case, another black convict name Rochelle McGee. Moments later,
all hell broke loose. The trench coated man stood up
and yelled out. A witness described what he said, hit the.
Speaker 9 (07:38):
Floor, and looking to the spectator side of the courtroom,
saw a tall, light complexed negro with bushy hair cunding
a handgun at the back of the neck of Lieutenant
Dixon of Sant Clinton Correctional Force.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
The intruder was Jonathan Jackson, the black panther colleague of
Angela Davis and the younger brother of George Jackson, one
of the primary Solo Dad brothers. As everyone hit the floor,
the man that was on trial asked Jonathan if he
brought the tape. Jonathan gave it to him along with
the shotgun, and McClain taped the shotgun to Judge Haley's neck,
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placing the barrel right below his chin. He told the
judge if I die, you're dying too. While this was happening,
Jonathan gave handguns to the other black convicts, Rachelle McGee
and William Christmas, both were witnesses in the trial and
friends with the defendant, Jonathan Jackson, then pulled out a
shotgun and an M one carbine with a banana clip.
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The three convicts and Jonathan now had complete control of
the courtroom. They had the judge called the Sheriff's office
and McClain took the phone and made a demand.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
We want the Soladad brothers free, or we'll kill Judge Haley.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
The hoodlums next grabbed several hostages, adding to Judge Haley.
They took three white female jurors as well as the prosecutor.
They cautiously began making their way out of the courthouse,
disarming guards along the way. That's when they crossed the
path of a photographer for a local paper.
Speaker 10 (09:05):
Well, I was coming in from an assignment, just a
regular normal assignment, and picked up on the police monitor
a call from the civic center that there was an
armed gunman in the corridor. So I rolled to the
civic center, went up to the court floor, got off
the elevator, and I went around a corner and I
encountered a man with two guns and I was then
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part of the action.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
But the photographer was not taken hostage. He'd soon learn why.
Speaker 10 (09:34):
They wanted the publicity. They invited me to take pictures,
and I was convinced at that time that this was
similar to a Cuban hijack, that there was a purpose
behind it. And one of the men as they left
in the elevator, after they told me that they didn't
want me as a hostage, did say we want the
Sola Dead brothers freed. By twelve thirty today.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Jonathan Jackson, escapees and their hostages made their way to
a van in the parking lot. The photographer could see
them from his vantage point.
Speaker 10 (10:09):
They got all got into the truck after a little
bit of confusion about who was going to drive.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Once they were all in, Judge Haley asked where they
were going. McLean reportedly answered.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
We'd go into the airport and take a plane.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
As Jonathan began to drive, he put his hand outside
the window of the van in it, he was holding
a revolver. Then suddenly he came to a stop. That's
when a flurry of shots were fired. Jonathan pulled his
hand back in the car and it was bleeding. The
prosecutor looked over to the judge and saw one of
the convicts, Rochelle McGee, with the sod off shotgun beneath
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the judge's chin. A moment later, McGhee pulled the trigger,
blowing off the judge's face. Now in a fight for
his life, the prosecutor wrestled a gun from Jonathan Jackson,
shot him with it, then shot in the area of
two of the convicts. A few second months later the
gunflurry ended. The third convict, William Christmas, was outside on
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the pavement laying lifeless. That's when the photographer arrived at
the scene.
Speaker 10 (11:13):
And even then, and as quickly as it was happening,
you could see that the back window was blown out.
There were many bullet holes in the truck who were
visible from the outside. The doors opened and the hostages
bolted out, and we looked in and we could see
the dead convicts and the dead judge.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
The prosecutor was slumped over in the van. He was
shot in the spine by a bullet from outside, paralyzing
him from the waist down. The shocking event was sensational
even by California standards.
Speaker 11 (11:54):
How did it happen that Superior card Judge Harold Haley
and three others were killed.
Speaker 6 (11:59):
The youth who brought guns into Judge Haley's card room
was Jonathan Jackson, brother of one of the Solidad three.
Jonathan had yelled in the courtroom corridor to free the
Solidad brothers before he made his escape.
Speaker 12 (12:11):
And was killed.
Speaker 11 (12:12):
Investigators for the Marine County Sheriff's Department still are not
sure of all the details, but they are piecing together
this story from witnesses and participants in the shocking crime
that took place here yesterday.
Speaker 13 (12:26):
At this point, as near as we can determine, one
of the witnesses in the van said they heard a
shot immediately the judge's head was blown off. The assistant
District Attorney then grappled with the inmates, procured a gun
and shot three of them. During this sension, there was
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other gun fire going on.
Speaker 8 (12:48):
There are still a great many loose ends and a
great deal of speculation about what happened here. Investigators will
now try to determine if there was a conspiracy of
some kind that involved perhaps more persons than those who
actually participated in the bloody event. Investigators say militant organizations
such as the Black Panther Party will be high on
the list of inquiry.
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to red Pilled America. So after a courthouse escape attempt
and a demand to set the Soledad Brothers free, four
people laid dead, including Black panther Jonathan Jackson and Judge Haley,
the investigations started immediately. They searched a satchel they found
in the van. There were books in it. One was
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titled The Politics of Violence in the Modern World. On
the inside cover was the name Angela Y. Davis. Another
book was titled Violence and Social Change. It too had
the name Angela Y. Davis on the inside cover. They
swept the contents of the satchel for prints and found
Angela Davis's print on a book and on two pamphlets.
One of the pamphlets was associated with the M one
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carbine used by Jonathan Jackson in the getaway attempt. An
investigator checked Jonathan's wallet and found a yellow slip of
paper on it was a phone number. They tracked it
to a public payphone near the American Airlines ticket counter
at the San Francisco Airport. They questioned workers there. A
Pacific Southwest Airlines ticket agent sat on the day of
the shooting just a few minutes before two pm, Angela
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Davis came running up in a panic to the counter
and bought a ticket to Los Angeles. She paid by check.
The ticket agent said Angela had no luggage. They heard
from another officer he claimed he stopped Angela Davis and
Jonathan Jackson at the Mexico border about a week prior
to the shootout. Investigators spoke to a custodian An officer
and a shuttle driver at the San Quentin prison. They
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placed Angela with Jonathan at the prison on August fourth
and August fifth, as he visited his brother George Jackson.
The shootout happened on August seventh. A bailiff claimed he
saw Jonathan in the courtroom the day before the shooting,
wearing the same trench coat. When Jonathan showed up, he
learned that the trial had cut short that day, so
he left. Could this have been a test run? Investigators
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dug further and found four separate witnesses that placed Angela
with Jonathan at a gas station across the street from
the Marine court house the day before the shootout. They
also began tracking down the guns used in the escape attempt,
and that's when things got even more interesting. One was
purchased at a Western surplus in Los Angeles by Angela
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Davis two days before the shootout. A pair of employees
from a San Francisco area pawn shop said Angela, accompanied
by Jonathan, purchased a shotgun from their store. The clerks
recognized Angela because of her distinct look, and they even
asked her for an autograph. The shotgun turned out to
be the one that blew off Judge Haley's head, and
every one of the private guns used in the failed
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escape attempt were purchased by Angela Davis. The stunning news
began making its way to the media, and.
Speaker 8 (17:12):
The two of the guns used in the courtroom were
bought by Angela Davis. She was the teacher fired from
the University of California at Los Angeles.
Speaker 14 (17:21):
Angela Davis is now reported to be in Toronto, Canada.
It is not certain why she went there, if indeed
she did or went, although friends claim it was about
two weeks ago. She has not been charged with anything,
although rumors do persist that conspiracy to commit murder is
being considered. If that is the case, then presumably police
would have to be prepared to prove that she gave
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those guns to a minor with the intent of using
them and the escape attempt.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
A State officials spoke to reporters about discovering who bought
the guns.
Speaker 15 (17:50):
What was she doing with those guns?
Speaker 16 (17:53):
I am the foggiest idea what she was doing with
the guns at that time. Obviously, since that time, the
guns have had rather an interesting way throughout the state
of California, finally winding up in Marine County, and from
our information, the guns that were used in the killing
of the people in Marine County.
Speaker 17 (18:08):
Do you think it's true communist revolutionary style for her
who have bought these guns in her own name?
Speaker 16 (18:14):
And that'd be difficult. That'd be difficult to say. There's
nothing to be said that a communist has to be smart.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Investigators felt they had enough to get an arrest warrant
for the Marxist academic.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
All right.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
As this was in motion, a funeral service was held
for Judge Haley.
Speaker 18 (18:36):
Judge Haley, for whom mass was set here today, died
in one of the most bizarre escape attempts ever staged.
Nearly one hundred law enforcement officers joined perhaps a thousand
Marinites at Saint Sylvester Catholic Church for the Mass. The
Sheriff's office now believes from witnesses that there were shots
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fired from the escape van before the judge was killed.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
On the other side. Out of town in Oakland, the
Black Panthers held a funeral for Jonathan Jackson.
Speaker 12 (19:07):
The convicts who died earned themselves a hero's funeral and
the God of honor from the Black Panthers.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Astonishingly, thousands of white, black and brown people lying to
the streets holding their fists in the air to salute
the young man responsible for the whole bloody affair practically
pulled from the pages of Herbert Marcuse's repressive tolerance. They
were not only accepting, but celebrating the despicable actions coming
from the radical left, including the killing of an innocent judge.
Speaker 12 (19:35):
Even as the convicts were being buried, the police were
busily tracing the guns which had been used in the shootout,
and they'd all been registered in the name of Angela Davis.
On the strength of this, a warrant was issued for
her arrest and her name was put on the FBI
list of the nation's most wanted criminals.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
But Tina Apathecker Angela Davis's childhood friend that helped organize
the nineteen sixty four UC Berkeley student protest attended the
funeral with her husband. A black militant friend of Angela's
walked up to Bettina and, without looking in her eyes,
said loud enough for Bettina to hear that Angela had
been implicated in the killings and that she'd gone underground.
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Angela Davis was on the run. She thought about leaving
the country, maybe Cuba or Canada, but knew that if
she left, she'd never be able to come back. So
Angela made her way to a friend in Chicago, a
guy named David Poindexter. She hid in his apartment, but
Pointdexter got in a fight with the neighbor, and they
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were afraid that the neighbor would wrap them out if
the FBI came knocking, so they fled to Miami. Meanwhile,
the FBI got a tip that Angela was in Chicago.
They went to the Windy City and leaned on Poyndexter's
ex girlfriend. They learned that Angela had been in the area,
but fled with Poindexter to his mother's hometown of Florida.
The FBI also got the make of the car they
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were driving, they were closing in on them. After the
FBI questioned Poindexter's mom, Angela knew she had to get
out of Floria as well. While the FBI was hunting
for her in Miami, Angela and her companion took off
to the Big Apple, but it wasn't long before the
FBI got a call law enforcement found Angela's vehicle parked
an NYC Howard Johnson. On October thirteenth, nineteen seventy. Agents
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descended on the motel and nabbed Angela as she was
en route to her room.
Speaker 19 (21:29):
Black Revolutionary Angela Davis appeared without her distinctive afril hairdo
as she was arraigned in New York City today as
a fugitive from Justice.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
President Nixon spoke to the Justice Department about the arrest.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
I think that the actions of the FBI and apprehending
Angela Davis a rather remarkable story. Again, in the long
history of remarkable stories of apprehensions by the FBI, is
an indication that once the federal government, through the FBI,
moved into an area, we shall see to it that
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though me who engage in such terroristic acts are brought
to justice.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Angela's comrade, Patina Appathecker, immediately flew to NYC to begin
working on a campaign to get her free. Angela was
desperately trying to avoid being extradited to California and why.
Speaker 12 (22:19):
The big question after the arrest was whether Miss Davis
would be extradited from New York to stand trial in California,
an issue of more than academic importance because under Californian law,
any person aiding and abetting the commission of a crime
becomes as guilty as those who actually carry it out.
This meant that Miss Davis would face a possible death
penalty if found guilty in California. It was a prospect
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she fought strenuously against in the New York courts, supported
by vociferous crowds of demonstrators on the streets outside. But
all the shouting and marching didn't influence the courts, and
Miss Davis was duly sent back to San Rafael to
stand trial with Russell Magee.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
On arrival in California, Bettina and Angela started brainstor forming
on a public campaign to get her free. They first
needed to start raising money for her defense. The Communist
Party was there to answer the call.
Speaker 12 (23:11):
A nationwide free Angela Davis movement was rapidly organized among
America's radicals, with branch committees in fifty cities for the
Mataban Communist Party. The whole affair is a much needed
shot in the arms. Angela Davis has become their first
martyr for years, and the party is now trying to
raise fifty thousand dollars for her defense.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Her team of lawyers and supporters went to work as well.
They began crafting a narrative Angela was being framed.
Speaker 20 (23:45):
The attempts in the press to link her with a
shooting in moren two months ago is based solely on
police informer allegations and has no basis in fact. The
pillory of Angela Davis comes at a time when she,
with others, was exposing in a mass way the condition
of the prison set.
Speaker 21 (24:03):
The more that I see of the state of California,
the more doubtful I've become whether or not there's any fairness.
The more I become impressed by mister McGee's position that
is a conspiracy, a statewide conspiracy, perhaps a nation wide
a conspiracy to murder him and miss Davis. I don't
know the names of the conspirators. I don't know the
particular dates that they met in the greed. I don't
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know exactly what their ultimate purpose is, except that as
it affects my client, immediately I feel that they're trying
to take her life.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
It was really a preposterous position. It was indisputable that
the guns were purchased by Angela Davis, yet her lawyers
and spokesman continued to argue that she was being framed.
What did they expect law enforcement to do disregard the
fact that Angela's guns were used to kill a judge.
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She must have understood the optics of her situation, because
Angela took to the media from behind bars to deal
with the issue of the guns.
Speaker 22 (25:01):
People are very upset when they hear that black people
have weapons, their own weapons. As I grew up in Birmingham, Alabama,
some very very good friends of mine were killed by bombs,
bombs that were planted by races.
Speaker 23 (25:15):
Uh.
Speaker 22 (25:16):
I remembered from the time I was very small. I
remember the sounds of bombs exploding across the street, our
house shaking. I remember my father having to have guns
at is disposed of at all times. Because of the
fact that at any moment someone we might expect to
be attacked.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
But she wasn't carrying guns for her protection at all times,
because if she was, they would have been in her
possession and not used in the murder of a judge.
Angela appeared to be using a victim argument as a deflection.
Her owning guns wasn't the question. What was under scrutiny
was that her guns were used to murder a judge,
and all in an attempt to free a convict that
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she'd been working to set free. The connection seemed obvious.
When preliminary hearings took place in Angela's trial, she began
to do something shocking to most law and order loving citizens.
She embraced Michelle McGee, the convict involved in the murder
of Judge Hayley.
Speaker 17 (26:16):
At least on the surface, the federal courtroom was different.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
There were no uniform guards.
Speaker 17 (26:21):
Rochel McGhee was not chained to his chair as he
is in Marin County, and he and Angela Davis were
allowed to sit next to each other and even embraced
on being brought into the courtroom.
Speaker 6 (26:32):
Miss Davis, who was participating in her own defense, Thus
far cried out during the hearing free Rachel McGhee.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
The move was either sincere or tactical. Either way. By
supporting the black convict involved in murdering a judge, she
showed the radicals on the street in college campuses that
she was one of them. To the very end, well
it appeared to be working. Radical academics began speaking out
in her defense.
Speaker 9 (27:02):
Oh, the way I feel it right now is the
way I think.
Speaker 14 (27:04):
All black people have felt throughout history.
Speaker 9 (27:06):
When they've seen their sisters and mothers being taken off
and raped.
Speaker 7 (27:09):
What they're doing to her is an exaggerated form of
what happens every day to black people in this country.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Yeah, Angela Davis and you have Michelle McGee her co
defendant in this case, both of them of political business.
Speaker 21 (27:22):
Some people represent the struggle physically and others represented vocally.
Speaker 22 (27:25):
Angela Davis is a spokeswoman for the struggle behind everything.
She's still my sister, and I wanted her to survive.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Angela and Bettina Appathecker also came up with another brilliant plan.
Two days before the murder of Judge Haley Black Panther
co founder Huey P. Newton was acquitted for murdering a
police officer. A coalition of white and black militants successfully
applied public pressure, leading to the release of the black panther.
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Angela wanted to do the same, so her and Bettina
worked on editing a book that could be used as
a political weapon to or organized communist support from both
in and outside of America to demand her freedom. They
released the book in nineteen seventy one, and the Marxist
left from all around the world began to demand the
release of the so called political prisoner Angela Davis.
Speaker 12 (28:18):
In America, supporters of the black liberation movements are stepping
up the pressure in the campaign to free Angela Davis,
the black philosophy, lecturer and communist who is now facing
a charge of murder in California. The American left is
incensed over the case, but interest in it has not
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been confined to the United States. Overseas, the response to
the Angela Davis case has been almost as strong as
in America. Over two thousand West Germans gathered to demand
freedom for the black militant teacher, and left wing groups
all over Europe have staged similar protests. From Russia, a
group of scientists has written to President Nixon asking him
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to ensure that the case is jug with full limp
partianity of humanity. At the center of this storm is
a slim, attractive black girl who, at twenty seven, has
already established an impressive academic record. The philosopher Herbert Markcus
called her his best pupil in thirty years.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
The Free Angela media campaign reached such global proportions that
it attracted the type of people that loved a virtue signal.
Celebrities Jane Vonda, Leonard Bernstein, and Sammy Davis Junior spoke
out in her defense. Yoga Ono and John Lennon released
an Angela Davis tribute song, but Rita Franklin even offered
to pony up bail money. The problem with that was
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Angela was facing the death penalty given her record. The
judge thought her possible death sentence meant she was a
flight risk, so he refused bail. But then something remarkable happened.
Speaker 6 (29:59):
Official word came from the Supreme Court Clerk's office at
noon when the actual decision was passed out to reporters
by a six to one vote, the court ordered life
imprisonment for convicted murderer Robert Anderson, and made its ruling
applicable to all persons now sentenced to die.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
The California Supreme Court ruled the death penalty unconstitutional.
Speaker 6 (30:20):
The court said that capital punishment degrades and dehumanizes all
who participate in its processes, and is unnecessary to any
legitimate goal of the state and incompatible with the dignity
of man and the judicial process.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
The ruling meant that Angela Davis was now eligible for bail,
and in February nineteen seventy two, they found the bail
money from an unexpected source.
Speaker 24 (30:43):
Her attorney, Howard Moore, said that the man who put
up the one hundred thousand dollars for the surety bond
was Roger McPhee of Fresno County, a cooperative farmer. Angela
Davis and her supporters were, of course, ecstatic at her
release from jail.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
After release, Angela went to Betina Appatheker's house to celebrate.
Speaker 5 (31:03):
So far, I've felt better than I have in sixteen months.
The real reason why I feel better is because now
I'm able to give much more of myself to the
struggle to fee all of our sisters and feathers.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
The trial began a month later in March nineteen seventy.
Herbert Marcusa and Bettina Apatheker could be seen attending as
moral and tactical support. One big surprise was that Angela
was added to the defense team as co counsel. This
was a stroke of genius. It allowed her to make
the opening argument without having to be cross examined. In
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her opening statement, she admitted to having purchased all of
the guns, but denied giving them to Jonathan Jackson. She
challenged the prosecution to provide any evidence that proved that
she had any knowledge or intent of the escape attempt.
Angela argued that when she heard the police were looking
for her, she didn't run, She just made herself unavailable.
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Angela claimed she feared for her life at the hands
of the cops. She was being targeted for her work
in trying to free the Soladad brothers. It was just
that simple.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
The prosecution made the same arguments that they'd made at
the time of her indictment.
Speaker 12 (32:22):
Angela Davis is accused not of carrying out the crime,
but of supplying guns to those such as Russell McGhee,
who allegedly did so. Macgee was one of two convicts
appearing in the trial when the kidnapping took place.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
There weren't many surprises during the prosecution's case. They laid
out the circumstantial evidence, the guns, that her near constant
companion leading up to the shootout was Jonathan Jackson, the
fact that she fled, the witness testimony to Jonathan and
her being together, and so on. But the prosecution did
include evidence that came in late to the case. You
may recall that the motive for the Marine County courthouse
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shootout was to free the Soledad brothers, and in particular,
Jonathan Jackson's older brother, George Angela, had been working to
free him in the months leading up to the shootout.
From jail, Angela spoke about how she first met him.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
First time I met him was on the occasion of
one of the court appearances in Silas, California. I had
not really expected, uh the scene that confronted me when
I walked into that courtroom and sat down and UH
saw coming into the courtroom three black men who were
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chained and shackled. I had never seen black men before
with chains all over their bodies.
Speaker 18 (33:43):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
It was certainly reminiscent of slavery, and in spite of
the fact that they were completely uh suppressed in a
physical sense, you could see from the attitude and their
demeanor when they entered the courtroom that they uh were
not for a moment going to resign themselves to that situation.
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That they had a very profound fighting spirit. And it
was that which really affected me very strongly.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
When Angela became in prisoned as well, she began to
write to George. In one instance, in July nineteen seventy one,
Angela and George were astonishingly allowed to meet in a
holding cell outside of a Marin Civic Center courtroom while
they were both still incarcerated. It was reportedly the first
time they'd spend time together in the same room for
a long stretch of time. They were intimate. Immediately after
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their meeting, Angela began writing George love letters over a
period of a month. The letters were smuggled out of
Angela's detention center and delivered to George Jackson at San Quentin.
He kept them hidden in his cell, but in August
nineteen seventy one, George attempted an escape from prison and
was killed in the process. When his cell was searched.
Angela's letters were found, the prosecution made them the centerpiece
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of Angela's motive.
Speaker 25 (35:09):
Prosecutor Albert Harris wound up his case by trying to
establish Miss Davis's love for Soladad brother George Jackson as
the motive for her alleged participation in the escape plot.
Just before he rested, he read to the jury edited
portions of an eighteen page diary or letter written to
Jackson eleven months after the shootout. I am totally intoxicated
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overflowing with you. The letter said that so much love
could exist anywhere I never realized. The next day, Harris said,
she wrote, I'm crazy with love and desire, and I
guess you're already willing to accept all the consequences. Miss
Davis and her attorneys had fought hard to keep the
diary from being entered as evidence.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
In another letter, she wrote about their first meeting in
May nineteen seventy, saying, as I was pulling myself together
after the court appearance in Selenez, I was struck by
a similar sense of inexorably succumbing to you, just you
being absorbed by that huge, beautiful man with whom I
had instantly and unexpectedly fallen in love. End quote. In
another passage, she wrote, quote love you, love you with love,
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even more unbounded, even more unconquerable, your lifelong wife. End quote.
After nine weeks and over one hundred witnesses, the prosecution
rested its case. Now it was the defense's turn.
Speaker 26 (36:29):
The defense will attack that series of events as coincidental
and not proving anything other than Miss Davis's concern for
her own safety and her involvement in militant leftist political causes.
Speaker 18 (36:40):
They scoff at.
Speaker 26 (36:41):
The allegations of love for Jackson being a motive in
a conspiracy to free him.
Speaker 18 (36:46):
For Attorney Howard.
Speaker 25 (36:47):
Moore admits she bought the gun and that young Jonathan
Jackson had access to them.
Speaker 18 (36:52):
Both Moore and miss Davis deny she planned.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
With Jackson for the escape.
Speaker 25 (36:57):
They say she left the state because she knew she
was to be persecuted for her political activism and her
the Jackson.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Angela Davis never testified. Her team largely took a standard
approach to their defense. They focused on the circumstantial nature
of the prosecution's case, trying it every turn to poke
holes to prove a reasonable doubt her defense attorney challenged
the witness's testimony placing Angela with Jonathan Jackson on the
days leading up to the shootout. It simply wasn't his client.
Speaker 19 (37:25):
Defense attorney Leo Bratton said he did not know who
the person was that the prosecution witnesses had identified as
Angela Davis. Boddy said it wasn't his job to find out.
Angela Davis is no fool. He continued, why would she
buy a gun to blow it judge's head off and
buy it in her own name? The prosecution's theory is absurd.
The jury will begin deliberating her guilt or innocence tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
After a thirteen week trial, both sides rested the jury
went into deliberation. But just when people thought the case
couldn't become more sensationalized, shocking news hit the airwaves.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
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Speaker 1 (39:28):
Welcome back to Red Pilled America. So, after thirteen weeks,
both sides in the Angela Davis trial rested. The jury
went into deliberation, But just when people thought the case
couldn't become more sensationalized. Shocking news hit the airwaves.
Speaker 15 (39:44):
I heard one of the stewardess has come running us
to the other stewardess and she said, as you said,
it's happening to us. And I asked her, what was
happening to us? And then I saw a man in
an army uniform come up the aisle and going to
the cockpit, and I knew it were being highjacked. I
started crying. I told my husband.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
A militant faction of the Students for a Democratic Society
or SDS, hijacked a plane and demanded both money and
the Angela Davis be let free.
Speaker 6 (40:09):
The hijacker had announced over the intercom earlier, SDS men,
relax our demands are being met, and another message had
included the word weather Men, which is a radical offshoot
of Students for a Democratic Society. After a refueling stop
in New York where the passengers were let off, the
Western seven twenty h took off again for Algeria with
(40:32):
a half a million dollars. During yesterday's hijacking, in which
it was thought Miss Davis had been demanded by the hijacker,
the defendant was brought to the courtroom. She looked distraught
and tired.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
Angela's defense team claimed no knowledge of the hijacking. They
wanted their fate to be handed by the jury, and
that was, no doubt a calculated decision. You see, Angela's
lawyers applied a novel approach to jury selection. At the
time in nineteen seventy two, jury selection took a very
unsophisticated approach, but for Angelus case, five black psychologists volunteered
(41:05):
to help with the process to develop personality profiles for
each prospective juror. They carefully watched them, whether they interacted
with others, how they acted at lunch period, whether they
were talkative. They slipped questions to Angela's lawyers to acquire
the necessary data. Ultimately, they helped Angela's team select a
group of jurors that would give her the best chance
(41:26):
for an acquittal. It's been an approach to jury selection
ever since because it worked. After just thirteen hours of deliberation,
an all white jury found Angela Davis innocent on all counts.
On exiting the courtroom, one jurist looked at Angela's cheering supporters,
smiled and raised the Black Power fist to the crowd.
(41:49):
In fact, the jury held Angela in such high regard
that a majority of them joined in the celebration parties
of her acquittal. At one of the gatherings, Angela rejoiced
in the decision.
Speaker 27 (42:00):
Really a wonderful feeling to be back among the people,
would be back among all of you who fought so
long and so hard, among all of you who actually
achieved my freedom. And I really wish you could have
been there in the courtroom at the moment when those
three not guilty verdicts were pronounced, Becau because that they
(42:25):
through was just as much yours as there was none.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
By the end of the trial, America had changed. The
public had not only grown tired of the violence, it
welcomed government actions to decisively end it through a series
of raids and prosecutions. The Black Panthers had been successfully disintegrated.
The Black Power ringleader Stokely Carmichael not only left the organization,
he left the country. The Students for a Democratic Society,
(43:00):
or SDS, had also been fractured when the organization effectively dissolved.
By the early nineteen seventies, a militant faction of SDS
known as the Weathermen, went underground. In addition to hijacking
a plane to try and free Angela Davis, the Weather Underground,
as it came to be known, bomb the Pentagon, US Capital,
a New York police station, and other locations. If there
(43:21):
were any flames left to use violence for social change.
The Weather Underground effectively smothered the embers. The group turned
public opinion against the militant efforts. But what effectively ended
this Marxist revolution was that the US government got smart.
It removed the fuel that was inciting moderates to work
with the radicals. You may remember that after the violence
(43:44):
and destruction caused by the nineteen seventy national student Strike,
President Nixon organized a commission to study the cause of
campus unrest. By the summer of nineteen seventy, hints on
the conclusion of that work began to make its way
out to the public, and in August nineteen seventy interview,
while Angela Davis was still on the run, Vice Press
President's Bureau Agnew spoke about a primary instigator of the
(44:06):
campus unrest.
Speaker 23 (44:07):
We have a very extreme professor such as Marcuse poisoning
literally poisoning a lot of young minds with what I
would consider to be some of the most irresponsible drivel
that I've ever read or heard.
Speaker 1 (44:25):
The Campus Unrest Commission issued its findings in September nineteen seventy,
and in it they cited the radical professor Herbert Marcusa
as a key figure in providing the intellectual rationale for
the Marxist insurrection. They concluded that students were being drawn
to these radical figures because of the Vietnam War. The
head of the Commission, William Scranton, highlighted this point in
(44:45):
September nineteen seventy.
Speaker 7 (44:47):
It is true that the amount of campus's disruption and
violence certainly was much less in the period when the
war seemed to be going in the direction of terminating,
and people were beginning to come back to the United
States via for example, late last fall and this last
winter and early spring. And certainly it got much stronger
(45:09):
after the Cambodian We all know that after the Cambodian invasion.
So the less accentuation there is of American participation and
the more return of men, the more helpful it is.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
Of course, the American government now understood that if they
removed the incentive for moderates to march with the militant Marxists.
The unrest would subside. By nineteen seventy five, the Vietnam
War was over. The Marxists no longer had the flashpoint
(45:43):
to give their small minority outsized power on the streets
and college campuses of America. People were tired of the violence,
campus unrest, burning down of buildings, killings, and bombings. These
Marxist revolutionaries had hit a roadblock with their radical activism.
Their tried and true strategy of violence in inciting moderates
on college can campuses was not only no longer working,
(46:05):
it wasn't going to work. So what these radicals and
militants did was they went back to college reflecting on
the era when Herbert marcusa RETABOC at UC San Diego,
the former chancellor of the school, inadvertently touched on the
radical student's eventual playbook.
Speaker 28 (46:25):
I wouldn't let the governor of California intrude on our
independence and freedom of a faculty to operate this school
as we saw fit. And I'll be damned if I'm
going to let a group of students do it either.
That is, we govern the University of California, we faculty,
and if the students wished to join us, let them
(46:46):
become faculty.
Speaker 1 (46:47):
And that's exactly what the Socialist revolutionaries did. Herbert Marcusa
died in nineteen seventy nine, but his teachings would immediately
take hold In one particular American institution. The Marxist radicals,
educated by the ideas of the Frankfurt School, put all
of their chips on academia. The universities had already warmed
up to the ideas of the Frankfort School places like UCSD,
(47:09):
UC Berkeley, UCLA, Brandeis College, and Columbia. They were already
infected with Marxist radicals. So after the tumultuous nineteen sixties,
Marxism flourished at these universities in departments like the humanities
and theoretical based studies. Philosophy was infected. English departments were
plagued as well. Women's studies would eventually become gender studies,
(47:31):
and they touted the woke doctrine. African American studies and
Chicano studies adopted wokeness as well. Critical legal studies built
on the Frankfort School's critical theory and would eventually develop
critical race theory. The university began to openly accept the
radical and militant Marxists into their teaching staffs, a place
where they can turned students into a woke army.
Speaker 2 (47:53):
After Angela Davis was fired from her UCLA job, Ronald
Reagan said she'd never work in the UC system again.
That prediction didn't age well. In nineteen ninety one, UC
Santa Cruz appointed her professor in the History of Consciousness.
She literally became a woke professor. Three years later, she
was appointed to the UC Presidential Chair in African American
(48:15):
and Feminist Studies. She'd go on to lecture at colleges
all over the world, and the universities opened their doors
to other militants. Many of the SDS revolutionaries, even ones
that planted bombs and were responsible for the deaths of Americans,
(48:36):
were eventually accepted into professor positions. The co founder of
the Black Panthers, Bobby Seal, who'd been accused of murder,
would go on to teach Afro American studies at Temple University.
Through academia, they'd eventually take over the media, pumping out
students from journalism school infected with the woke ideology. They'd
link with Marxist radicals in Hollywood that had survived the
(48:59):
communist purge of the nineteen forties and nineteen fifties and
had quietly retaken Tinseltown in the nineteen seventies. What the
Frankfurt School identified as the mass cultural industries of Hollywood,
music and art would eventually fully adopt the woke ideology
of the Marxist intellectuals. They'd be comrades with academia. Through storytelling,
(49:19):
they would help shift pop culture towards wokeness and reinforce
the wins of the Marxists in every cultural institution. When
Big Tech arose, it became populated by college graduates who
had all been filtered through woke universities. Big tech was
bound to accept cancel culture, an ideology invented by Herbert
Marcusa himself. The Marxists had effectively taken over every institution
(49:43):
that defines what it means to be American, and they
did it methodically over decades.
Speaker 1 (49:50):
Which leads us back to the question where did wokeness
come from. It came from Marxism. Wokeness is Marxism repackaged.
Wokeness was developed by a small group of German intellectuals
to spark a socialist revolution in the Western world. All
of the insanity you've been experiencing in society, the cancel culture,
(50:10):
social justice warriors, critical race theory, all of the new
pronouns political correctness, the purging on social media, the diversity,
equity and inclusion departments, biological men competing in women's sports,
affirmative action, the constant claims of institutional racism, the grooming
of kids. All of this wokeness that you are experiencing
(50:31):
is nothing less than a Marxist revolution. When we open
this series, we heard how surprised Greg Guttfeld was on
the spread of wokeness. It is everywhere you look. I
don't think I've seen anything spread so fast in my life.
But we know that wokeness did not spread quickly. It's
been nearly a century in the making. You have to
almost admire their level of dedication. Like grains of salt
(50:55):
slowly being added to a cup of water, you don't
see the salt until the water is completely saturated. Then
once that life last grain is added, you suddenly see
salt everywhere in the glass. The Frankfurt School, launched in
nineteen twenty three, It would eventually repackage Marxism and identify
the institutions that define the culture of Western civilization, those
(51:17):
being academia and what they called the mass culture industries
of film, radio, music, magazines, and books. They then made
the long march through the institutions, slowly adding converts to
their cause. When violence on the streets and campuses no
longer worked blocking them from saturating our culture with Marxism,
the disciples of the Frankfort School took a different route.
(51:40):
The ideology flourished in academia and in Hollywood and in
the media, slowly adding converts until that last grain of
salt was added in twenty twenty, when again a Marxist
insurrection exploded in America, disguised as Black Lives Matter protests.
But it's no secret now America is experiencing a socialist revolution,
(52:01):
and the only way to stop it is to take
a queue from the Marxists themselves. We need to make
the long march through the institutions and purge wokeness with
the truth. We have no other choice. We need to
(52:23):
create our own cultural institutions, our own Hollywood, our own
publishing industry, our own media, our own storytelling industry, and
perhaps most importantly, we need to retake our schools. That
is an institution that we cannot create on our own,
and it has become a factory for creating radicals. It
(52:45):
won't be easy because wokeness is so deeply embedded in academia,
but we need to retake the schools and use every
legal tool available to purge wokeness from the system. We
must make the risk of promoting wokeness so enormous that
the worst offenders recede to the fringes where they belong.
To eliminate this repackage Marxism known as wokeness, we must
(53:06):
take the long march through the institutions.
Speaker 2 (53:09):
The good news is that we know what we have
to do. We just need to do the work. Take
an action to help build our own institutions, to retake
our schools. Take an action to help us build a
red pilled America. Because if we don't, and if this
series doesn't propel you to act, then we deserve to
live in the world that the Marxists have built. Ksman,
(53:29):
you're one of the youngest and first drag queen flash kids.
Speaker 16 (53:34):
Not all boys have a penis, and not all girls
have a vagina.
Speaker 26 (53:39):
California Reparations task Force is making history with a major
decision on who will receive compensation.
Speaker 2 (53:45):
And even this idea that like it's, oh, it's we
can't talk about sex with kids.
Speaker 1 (53:49):
It's like, first of all, we probably can.
Speaker 14 (53:51):
My dad says, you can't just say that your baby
is gay before.
Speaker 11 (53:54):
He gets a chance to tell us he's gay.
Speaker 23 (53:57):
Destroying property which can be replaced is not violent.
Speaker 13 (54:01):
As a three parent family.
Speaker 1 (54:03):
Like LGBTQ people, can.
Speaker 2 (54:05):
You provide a definition for the word woman? I can't.
Speaker 12 (54:09):
You can't not okay this context.
Speaker 2 (54:12):
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