Cesar Chavez Memorial (Updated six months ago)
KPIX local Emmy Award winning report on the funeral procession and memorial celebrations for civil rights activist Cesar Chavez, from Delano in Kern County, California (1993). Features interviews with farm workers, Jimmy Smits, Jesse Jackson and Pete Wilson, who all reflect on what the life and work of Chavez meant to them. Dolores Huerta states that: "Cesar's death has ensured the life of the United Farm Workers." Also includes scenes of over 35,000 mourners passing through the streets of Delano, pallbearers carrying Chavez's coffin and UFW members singing union songs.
Tags: cesar chavez, dolores huerta, fernando chavez, interviews, jesse jackson, jimmy smits, joe kennedy, pete wilson, united farm workers (ufw)
Added to San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive on May 8, 2009.
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- Originally aired on: KPIX Eye on the Bay News
- Date aired: c1993
- Recording medium: 3/4" U-matic video tape
- Rights for this video belong to: CBS5 KPIX-TV
- Duration: 4:32
- Type of material: legacy video tape
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- Emmys 642 - Chavez.mp4 (37.91 MB – MPEG4 video)
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