CBS--Lily and Cleaver Tapes

The Videofreex had been attempting to get their interview with the late Fred Hampton, Chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party, broadcast on mainstream television by CBS. However, the Videofreex had been told that their half-inch tapes could never be broadcast because they would cause the picture on viewer's sets to break up, an assertion later proven to be mistaken. In this tape, recorded on March 5th 1971, we see something of the background of the Videofreex's dealing with CBS. The Videofreex cameraman is walking the hallways of CBS, apparently trying to find out where the Black Panther tapes are located. The shots are mostly close up on people’s torsos and there is some image loss, but the sound is intact. There is a conflict between station personnel and the cameraman: they keep telling him, “You can’t tape in here.” He carries on taping. The cameraman talks to a woman with a French accent, identified in Parry D. Teasdale's book Videofreex only as "Lily".  She has come from Algeria with a video statement from Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver that she is insisting CBS broadcast. A long segment from the tape later became the lead story on the Evening News with Walter Cronkite.