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  [The 90’s raw: Colorado Rockies baseball, Rainbow Family gathering]

  Outside Agitators

  Raw footage for the award-winning series The 90’s. The first part of tape is footage of Greg Kurtz at Colorado Rockies baseball practice at Denver University in the early part of the team’s existence, on June 14, 1992. (The team did not begin National League play until the following year.) Kurtz speaks onscreen about the team in the manner of a sportscaster. The second half of the tape covers the Rainbow Family tribal gathering in Rainbow Valley in Colorado. Peace groups from throughout Colorado and the world have convened for a few days on the occasion of the 21st anniversary of the Rainbow Family, culminating in a moment of silent prayer for world peace on the Fourth of July. The group is very cautious about the media, and there is lots of footage of drum circles, a hippie wedding, and other such activities. The footage is from July 1, 1992.

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  [Chicago Slices raw: Bill Ayers]

  Chicago, Chicago Slices, GDDF, NHPRC-2, Outside Agitators, Tom Weinberg

  This is unedited raw footage of Dr. Bill Ayers: PhD in Education, ’60s radical, professor at University of Illinois in Chicago, being interviewed with students in the Golden Apple Scholarship Program to better train future teachers straight out of high school.

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  [The 90’s raw: Venice Beach #2]

  American Way, Outside Agitators, THE 90's

  Raw footage for the award-winning series The 90’s. Maxi Cohen tours California’s Venice Beach, showing us some of its usual characters (mostly various street musicians).

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  [Bughouse Square debates]

  Chicago, Communities, Latinx, NHPRC, Outside Agitators, Studs Terkel

  CAN-TV coverage of the Bughouse Square Debates at Washington Square Park in Chicago in July 2001. The event, a free speech forum, traces its history to the early twentieth century when soapbox orators, beatnik poets and radicals gathered at the park to rant and rave. Generally, the video is a static shot of the podium with occasional cutaways to the crowd.

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  Murder of Fred Hampton, reel 2

  Black, Chicago, Communities, Outside Agitators, Video Makers Choice

  Documentary about the death of Fred Hampton, chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party. The film started out as a simple portrait of Hampton and features lots of footage of his powerful speeches. However, in 1969, Hampton was murdered in his bed at the Panther headquarters by the Chicago police. The event was extremely controversial as the police and the Black Panthers told drastically different versions of the events. The film became instrumental in proving the Panthers’ story that the police broke in to headquarters without warning and killed Hampton without resistance.

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  City Desk: A Look Back

  Chicago Politics, Harold Washington

  A look back at 40 years of City Desk, a political talk show on WMAQ-TV (a local NBC affiliate). As the tape is only a short retrospective, we see clips of many major Chicago figures but do not go in to much detail.

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  [Vito Marzullo raw #4]

  Chicago, Chicago Politics, NHPRC, Politics, Roots of Video, Vito Marzullo

  Raw tape #4 for Vito Marzullo documentary. Ward Office. After the documentary crew sets up the camera and lighting, Marzullo talks casually with a few people who visit the office.

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  [Rostenkowski raw #111]

  Chicago, Chicago Politics, Dan Rostenkowski, NHPRC, Politics

  Raw footage from the 1981 documentary “Rostenkowski,” a portrait of House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski, a powerful figure in Chicago (and national) politics. In this tape, Tom Weinberg interviews former chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee Al Ullman, who describes the role of the chairman and the committee.