Huey P. Newton, the founder of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, talks with KPFA's Public Affairs director, Elsa Knight Thompson at Alameda County Jail in Oakland on May 21, 1968. Newton was being held for the alleged killing of an Oakland policeman. His trial, scheduled for June 10, had just been postponed to July 15, 1968. In this interview, Newton and Thompson discuss Newton's arrest for the killing of an Oakland policeman, and his plans for the future.
