BP HILLARD SPEECH

Description: Black-and-white footage of a Black Panther Party leader — identified by the title as David Hilliard, who served as BPP Chief of Staff — delivering a speech at a podium. The speaker, a Black man with a large natural afro and dark sunglasses, wearing a leather jacket, stands at a table-style lectern with microphones mounted on a horizontal bar, leaning forward and addressing the audience with documents before him; behind him a projected slide is visible on a screen. The speech footage occupies the first minute or two of the reel, after which the remainder of the film is blank leader. The setting appears to be an indoor auditorium or meeting hall, and the footage captures Hilliard mid-speech in a format typical of campus or community political events of the late 1960s.