Huey Percey Newton, founder of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, would be 68 years old if he hadn’t been shot in Oakland on this day in 1989 by Tyrone “Double R” Robinson, an alleged member of George Jackson’s Marxist prison gang The Black Guerilla Family.

Here he is engaging William F. Buckley on his show Firing Line in a preliminary thought-game before getting deep into the kind of civil dialogue on political theory that’s absolutely impossible to find on television today.
 

Huey was one cool and intelligent human being.

William F. Buckley speechless if only for a few minutes, awesome. Caveat, I do not like William F. Buckley, he has his agenda but at least he’s genuinely looking for insight. (or seems to).

What’s more, they agreed on the answer. You’d REALLY never see that today.

You can, in fact, find such interviews on television.  They’ve been relegated to National Public Television, since the other major networks deal exclusively in the sound bite these days.

To an even greater degree, National Public Radio still provides thoughtful and insightful and worth listening to interviews.

Frequently, both have entire interviews, which are often too long for the available air time, available on their web sites.