Trial - Banks & Means

Titles: Trial - Banks & Means (Supplied title)

Description: Native Americans arrive in ceremonial dress. Protestors shout, "Free Banks, Free Means, drop the charges now" and picket outside trial. Dennis Banks arrives at Federal Courthouse in St. Paul and makes a statement to news reporters. Native Americans shake hands with the picketers.Transcribed Title: Trial - Banks & MeansLog Description: Wounded Knee trialNarrative field: AIM. Entire segment occurs in front of Federal building. Indian elders and others disembark from bus and spend time talking and preparing or waiting. "Free the Wounded Knee defendants -- Young Socialist Alliance" on sign held by Indian woman. Indian group soul shakes with everyone in activist Anglo group. "Jail Nixon" sign. Banks arrives and interviews. Anglos march and chant, "Free Banks" as he enters. More shots of the march, the group of Indians, and Banks.Research: Entire segment occurs in front of Federal building. Indian elders and others disembark from bus and spend time talking and preparing or waiting. "Free the Wounded Knee defendants - Young Socialist Alliance" on sign held by Indian woman. Indian group soul shakes with everyone in activist Anglo group. "Jail Nixon" sign. Banks arrives and interviews. Anglos march and chant, "Free Banks" as he enters. More shots of the march, the group of Indians, and Banks.

Dates

• 01/08/1974 (Creation)

Creation

• contributor: KSTP-TV (Television station : Saint Paul, Minn.)
• subject: Banks, Dennis
• subject: Means, Russell
• subject: American Indian Movement

Identifiers

• Video Clip Number: 59306
• Accession Number: AV2006.41

Credit: KSTP-TV Archive, Minnesota Historical Society

Holding Type: Moving Images

Quantity: 1 film segment

Format

• Content Category: moving images
• Format: film
• Standard sound aperture, reduced frame
• Film reel
• Color
• Sound on medium
• Magnetic sound track on film
• Magnetic stripe sound
• Original reversal film
• B wind

Measurements

• 345 feet length
• 4 minutes running time

Subjects

Locations

• Name: Warren E. Burger Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, 316 N Robert Street, Saint Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota, United States

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