KTVU Collection.
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Student demonstrations are featured at SF State College including students kicking in a glass door and marching through a building chanting: “Hell no, no suspensions!” John Gerassi is seen scuffling with authorities before giving an interview, in which he states the real “anarchy” here is the lack of due process. President John Summerskill gives a press conference in which he claims that: “What occurred at SF State College today verges on civil insurrection,” followed by views of students speaking to crowds on campus. Ends with scenes of students arguing over who has the right to speak through a loudspeaker.
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KTVU's Claud Mann reports from San Francisco's Union Square, where air raid sirens herald the Apollo 11 crew's splashdown in the Pacific Ocean on July 23rd 1969. He interviews several passers-by for their reactions to the historic moon landing: "I'm glad they made it ... I really liked it because I want to pretend in my back yard ... It's been just wonderful, especially in color ... That's groovy ... I think people are apathetic! Where's all the excitement?"
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Extract from a KTVU news report on San Francisco rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company, conducted in an old warehouse (c1967/8). Peter Albin explains the origin of the band's name and Janis Joplin reflects on audience reactions to their performance at the Monterey Jazz Festival. Dave Getz, Sam Andrew, Albin and Joplin all go on to discuss the evolution of rock music and the band's specific influences. Joplin is asked to try and isolate what makes the local music scene so distinctive and points out how: "the thing that makes what they call the San Francisco music scene, as far as I'm concerned, is first of all the freedom to create here." Ends with some spirited horseplay between Joplin and Andrews and a live performance of their song Down on Me.
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KTVU news footage of Marlon Brando and Bobby Seale giving speeches by Lake Merritt in Oakland, following the funeral of Black Panther Bobby Hutton, in April 1968. A somber Brando declares to crowds: "It's up to the individual to do something to force the government to give the black man a decent place to live, a decent place to bring his children up in ... and I'm gonna start right now to inform white people about what they don't know. The Reverend said the white man can't cool it because he's never dug it. And I'm here to try to dig it because I myself as a white man have got a long way to go and a lot to learn."
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KTVU News report from March 6th 1974, featuring sccenes of young children enjoying themselves in an outdoor playground. Includes views of children on swings and climbing frames.
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Scenes from a press conference at SF State College during which four members of faculty explain their decision to resign from their posts. Joseph White states: “There is one and only one purpose to reducing EOP: to prevent non-white students from enrolling in this college … Under these conditions we can only submit our resignations.” Ends with President S.I. Hayakawa’s immediate reaction to these resignations: “Each of the men involved had already made plans to leave” and he goes on to claim that the Black Studies Program might well be “enhanced by their resignations.”
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KTVU News report featuring an interview with heavyweight boxing world champion George Foreman from March 6th 1974, as he trains for a fight with Ken Norton. Foreman discusses another possible contender Henry Clark and reflects on his readiness to fight, declaring that: "It all boils down to can you beat me on a given date? And if I'm at that place on a given date, I don't think you can beat me." Also includes scenes of his sparring in a gym, being watched by a crowd of spectators.
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Scenes from a press conference about the recent violence at SF State College featuring President S.I. Hayakawa and Mayor Joseph Alioto followed by a campus report on recent events by KTVU’s Claud Mann. There is a press conference from the AFT who confirms that the labor council have granted them a strike sanction and Hayakawa responds by claiming the AFT have lost control of the picket line and are in fact “hitchhiking opportunistically” onto the back of the student strike. Ends with views of police making arrests on campus.
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San Francisco State College President S.I. Hayakawa is interviewed from the back seat of his car by a KTVU reporter whilst driving around the city. Hayakawa draws parallels between what he calls "bullying tactics" of campus demonstrators and the National Socialist Party's intimidation of political opposition in Germany during the rise of the Third Reich, explaining: You have to counter gangsterism and violence by counter violence, "There's no other way of stopping it, is there?" There are views of angry demonstrations at the University of Colorado at Boulder, including a scene where a riot policeman wrestles and chokes a young woman on a platform, before dragging her away through an angry crowd (c8:52). Hayakawa gives a press conference in which he informs reporters that students from SF State were allegedly involved in the Boulder college riot and expresses a belief that all current student unrest on US college campuses is linked. He is also seen responding to a BSU press conference about the injury of one of their members on campus, in which he refers to their claims of "white racism" on campus as a "shabby argument." Ends with a representative of the Gator newspaper being interviewed about their need for funds to continue printing and Hayakawa's announcement that a student board needs to be established to recommend guidelines for publications, before he'll release any funds to the Gator.
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KTVU’s Andrea Boggs interviews S.I. Hayakawa at home about his ambition to be made permanent in his role as President of SF State College. He predicts a peaceful Fall semester, claims that his permanent appointment as college President would be good for morale and goes on to address press speculation that he might run for the US Senate. He is seen later in a press conference after the Trustees have indeed confirmed his permanent appointment, reemphasizing his intention to maintain stability at State: “I remain a liberal … but I am also an administrator.” There is a brief glimpse of Dr Nathan Hare interrupting Hayakawa’s speech in the McKenna Theater (see KQN 241 and KPIX 37732A) and closes with George Mason Murray’s lawyer describing his client’s religious conversion and conditions of probation to reporters.
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President S.I. Hayakawa makes an official announcement that the emergency measures he imposed at SF State College to deal with the strike there on January 6th 1969 are rescinded, qualifying his statement with a reminder that: “Freedom of speech does not mean freedom to incite riot.” Ends with Dr Hawkins of the AFT expressing skepticism about Hayakawa’s claim that he isn’t currently interested in entering politics, suggesting he’s using the high profile student unrest at SF State as a platform to enter into politics.
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KTVU News report from March 6th 1974, featuring views of a mime artist pretending to wash cars at a dealership.
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Muhammad Ali holds a press conference to explain the significance of a recent decision to change his name from Cassius Clay to Muhammad Ali (c1965/6). "Muhammad means one who's worthy of all praises and one who's praiseworthy and Ali means the most high. But Clay only meant dirt with no ingredients ... Cassius Clay was the name of the white slave master." He goes on to point out how names are closely linked to stereotypes of both national and ethnic identity and when a reporter ask if he intends to change his name 'legally', Ali rejects the idea that he must ask permission to choose his own name.
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KTVU’s Claud Mann reports from SF State where the Channel 7 news car was set on fire, featuring views of the fire department dealing with this situation. A large crowd of protesters gather outside the Administration Building chanting: “Re-hire Murray now!” and a number of public speakers are shown addressing protesters. Mann delivers a summary of recent events on campus and reflects on how today was relatively quiet and uneventful.
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KTVU News report from March 6th 1974, featuring scenes from a press conference with Mayor Joseph Alioto on negotiating San Francisco city employee wages. Also includes views of a separate press conference, in which a spokesman argues that all city employees deserve a uniformly fair pay structure.
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KTVU News report by Dennis Richmond on the gas by appointment system, at a Texaco gas station in Santa Clara County, from March 6th 1974. Includes interviews with women who approve of the system and station owners, who resent it. One of them claims: "It's an infringement on my free enterprise system and my freedom as an American. And that makes me mad."