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try to get out there now. We don't want There you go. Don't look at the women and Children. Yeah, Yeah. Have been referred to by the interior apartment and saying except three conditions. Is that nothing? That's right. Mhm. Okay. Please place under the whole

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no commercial vessels around the island, boy. Yeah. Thank you for calling. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. No. Mhm. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Right. Mhm. Okay, Yeah. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. Good. Yes.

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Why now beat up. Okay, we're going to be a people. It's just gentlemen, we will have more copies of the press release. We only have seven, but we're making some more. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Even before the state of California was incorporated. And it

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has been exclusive federal jurisdiction ever since. How troops out there or Coast Guard personnel during the time. During this time? Yes, there will be caretakers for the island posted there. And in addition, um, it would be certainly my advice locally to individual private shipowners that they

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not attempt to, uh, go near the island, at least for the present. Until things are more secure. Will there be civilian caretakers or what? At the present time, it's anticipated. Perhaps Mr Panin would like to answer that question. The island is actually the title is with

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the General Services Administration. And it will be primarily police for the present. Mr. Hannan's responsibility to secure and maintain the island we already have out there. Federal protective officers, federal people. Well, there they are. They are. They are armed. They are uniform card? Yes. How many

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of the matter? I couldn't tell you. There's some of them on the way out. Now we will add as many more as necessary. Could you give us an estimate of how many there are? I assume that with the marshals who are still out there and others

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that probably 5 to 10 guards are out there now with additional ones being called and sent out there. Yeah, you know that. Hey, What? I've seen too white people standing over by the kitchen. I decided to come down and see why they were there. Why white

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people are on the island in the first place and why they haven't got them kicked off. And so I decided to try and get him kicked off. The next thing I know, there are all these dudes running around with shotguns and clubs, man saying Don't move,

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Don't move. Stay right where you are and sick and saying Come over here all at the same time. And then he went and got some brothers and sisters down the apartments, and they had all these other dudes lined up against the wall. Man. How many around

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the island? How many came on the island was about how many people? I don't know. There was about 20 maybe more. What kind of guns do they have? They had shotguns and clubs, Okay? And what did they say they say they were doing? They just said

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that we all have to get off the island. They said something about putting on, uh, lighthouse back in or some kind of excuse like that. And that's all they were. Excuses, that's all. Like you've got full of history Books are full of excuses. What had started

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as a symbolic invasion in November of 1969 and later turned into a bitter struggle for the small band of Indians who vowed to hold Alcatraz forever was ended here today. You've got what happened after you were searching. Uh, then they told me. They told us to

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stand in one place. So we stood there and then and then they told you know, they took us down to the docks and, uh, they took them women and Children on on one boat, and then they took us on another boat and took us over the

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treasure on them. But here's the thing is we were negotiating with the government on the quiet, and the meeting started April the 13th of this year. And they guaranteed us during these meetings that there would be no arrest and no one will be taken off. The

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island would be no action taken against the people on the island till the negotiations were completed and they broke their word on it. Have you been given any reason for today's action? We heard nothing official to us. One reason we heard through our attorney was that

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they supposedly arrested some people for selling Carpenter. And that's why they went in. And another reason we heard on the radio was that they wanted to put their navigational equipment out there. Mr. Browning ahead of press conference, you mentioned something about the theft. I think $680

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worth of copper wire. Anything about that? I don't know anything about that. But Mr Browning told us that we wouldn't be harassed in any way until the negotiations were oversold. He said you weren't harassed, John. Coming out there taking people off the island without their possessions

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is harassment. Bringing our people out there is harassment. When they gave us their word that there would be no action taken against us while negotiations were going on, were you negotiating? I was one of the negotiator has the names. We had people from Washington, D. C.

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The Justice Department. We had people from H E W and the government want to give us money on the island. We couldn't come to terms on it because we didn't want money. But the one word that went out in the beginning was that there would be

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no action taken against Alcatraz Indians as long as the negotiations are being conducted. Oh, yeah. Fuck you. Okay. Excuse me. I did some of the other building back in the hole. Mhm. I was I was sitting in a friend's room and another guy came up and

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said there were two armed reporters on the lower level. Hold on. The reporters? Yeah, he said, Well, you see, one agent had a camera. So that's the reason he thought they were armed reporters. And I went down there, you know, and I looked at all he

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looked at him and I ran back up. And I told this other guy that there was some people down there with rifles. So we went down there and, uh, just as we got down there, the whole the whole courtyard was covered with FBI agents with rifles,

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FBI agents and marshals. I guess they all had rifles and shotguns. What did they say? They didn't say anything because I walked out. I turned around and I started to walk back in the building. And then they hollered at me and told me to come on

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out. So I went out and and they and they searched me. Yeah, U s attorney, uh, been talking about this. Mentioned that there was a theft of $680 worth of copper wire. I believed you know anything about people are full of lies, and I don't believe

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them. I don't believe what people can be very suspicious of. Was there any trouble in the whole incident? No physical job? No. How could we resist? Were unarmed. They took our knives. So therefore we're unarmed against shotguns and clubs. And what can we do? Yeah, agent

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service. Mhm. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah, after All. Right. Mhm. Mhm. Look at that. That tower with yeah, November later arrived going again. Out of all the first line of the first time a week.