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a ee Fe e os 7 t) St CONFIRENTIAL we Bee ee ” Oe: NY 100-161445 rs — 2) “a A tape recording was made of this soeech, excerpts from which are set forth as follows: ee eee ee “Actually, my name is Johnny Cash, It's a pleasure to speak to the inmates at the Pittsbureh Penitentiary here. I'm riding in about a month and a half cause the seven is roing to be moving over to Leavenworth, ‘You try to pet him to come here and do a free concert. We'd appreciate that. Also send us @ book on tunnels. We don't plan to stay in too long. You shouldn't clap so mich. The wind's hlowing this way. TI might get it. I’m sorry. I didn't mean to out you down like that. Pennie was sorry he couldn't come. He has to bone up because he's about to take the witness stand on one or two days. I took the stand end it's a very unusual trial because you're not able to sav too much from the witness stand, They call it self-serving statements. There's a thing that, see, once vou'tve said that you're not guiltv, vou can't sav it any more because that goes towards your defense or something like that. It's a verv unusual trial, Actually, everybody in this room is on trial along with us. It's the first time the Teteral povernment,it's the first time the Federal rnvernment has decided to legislate avainst a state of mind and it was a law, Strom Thurmond's tribute to Martin Luther “ine, It was passed in about two and one-half hours and sent on to the last vresident, 1 forset his name. I ain't too political but (uh) he used to drink a lot, nick up cogs by ¢ the ears, and (ohscene) like that. Anywav, they passed this law. It's the Civin Pipets Act, which in 1994, fascism, you sat to know that if vou are a civil rights worker or a political activist or cultural revolutionary or involved in the black liberation strusgle,. you get to go to prison under the Civil Rights Act. All of _ ——CONFIDANTIAL