Jackie Fielder
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583 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 14 Jul
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Secondly, today I have an in memoriam for Diamond Dave Whitaker, who died at age 88 on March 2nd.
Diamond Dave was a ubiquitous character in San Francisco, having moved here at age 19 in 1957.
He was the quintessential lifelong hippie, beat poet, punk rocker, and political activist,
who moved in and out of art and advocacy across the city, and connected with everyone he met along the way, offering poetic musings, a giant smile, and always a twinkle in his eye.
Diamond Day was honored by the Board of Supervisors in 2016, with a resolution commending him for his contributions to the arts, culture, social well-being, and peace, and declaring February 2, 2016, Diamond Day Whitaker Day.
The lore around Diamond Dave is endless.
He was an early mentor to Bob Dylan, turning him on to Woody Guthrie, Jack Kerouac, and allegedly marijuana.
Two sessions from Dylan's Through the Open Window bootleg series were recorded at Diamond Dave's house in Minneapolis.
He shared his personal accounts of many major historical events he witnessed in person, which he called his hip story.
Martin Luther King Jr.
's I Have a Dream speech in D.C.
as a passenger on the further bus to the human being in 1967, and later that year at the death of the hippies funeral, and so many more pivotal moments in our nation's and our city's history.
He seemed to always be everywhere in San Francisco's counterculture history.
He cooked free food with the Diggers in the Summer of Love and Food Not Bombs in the 1990s through the 2010s.
He was one of the founders of KPOO Radio in the 1970s and hosted a long-running live music and poetry show on Pirate Cat Radio, which would later become Mutiny Radio in District 9 at the corner of Florida and 24th Street.
While that radio station closed a few years ago, he did not stop writing and reciting poetry here and there and really everywhere.
He was a member of the Flower Shop Art Collective next to the Alamany Farmer's Market.
He was a lifelong student at City College and for many years was celebrated as the oldest senator of City College's Associated Student Council.
His legacy is a long, winding road of poetry, music, art, and protest.
And I express my condolences to his family, friends, and the broader community of hundreds of San Franciscans who knew him so well.
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