Jan 28, 2025
In 2022 footage was unearthed in Minnesota’s WCCO film library of Prince at age 11 being interviewed during a Minneapolis teachers strike, in 1970.
While digging around in old news film in the basement of the WCCO TV station for footage of the 1970 Minneapolis teachers strike, production manager Matt Liddy found footage of what proved to be Prince at 11 years old, being interviewed by a reporter, outside his former junior high school Lincoln Junior High School.
"I think they should get a better education too cause, um, and I think they should get some more money cause they work, they be working extra hours for us and all that stuff."