Eldridge Cleaver And Timothy Leary In Algeria

Eldridge Cleaver was a Presidential candidate in 1968 on the ticket of the Peace and Freedom Party. That very year, he was injured in a confrontation between the Panthers and Oakland police. Charged with attempted murder, he jumped bail to flee to Algeria, where he was later joined by Timothy Leary who was also a fugitive having escaped from a low security prison where he was serving a ten year sentence for possession of two marijuana roaches. While in Algeria Cleaver placed Leary and his wife under "revolutionary arrest" (kidnapped) as a counter-revolutionary. But as you will see in this rare clip from an hour long video, the two seem to be on good terms, though they do disagree on a few key points. The Learys were later released from custody and left Algeria.