Bolinas oil spill

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KQED News report from Bolinas on January 21st 1971, featuring scenes of residents constructing an oil log boom at night by the seashore, to try and prevent an oil slick from entering the Bolinas lagoon.

Originally aired on
KQED
Date aired
1/21/71
Recording medium
16mm color co-magnetic sound film
4:44
Rights for this video belong to
NCPB/KQED
Type of material
archival news film
Identifier
KQN 1135
Views
10091

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Comments

Over a year ago, HH wrote…

An unforgettable and transformative experience.

I make a brief cameo appearance at 0.45. Age 11, Pendleton shirt and red bandana, "trying to help."

Over a year ago, Eric Nelson wrote…

That's how it's done.

Hard work, cooperation ,purpose, and no politicians standing in the way of the task at hand. 

Well done.

Over a year ago, michelle mcmanus-dunn wrote…

I was only 9 years old and sara weston and i rode our ponies down brighton to the beach and saw all of the oil.  I remember spending the next two days laying down straw hay.

Over a year ago, david lotz wrote…

a lifelong friend, john b. krause and i were at fort cronkite for twelve days working on just about everything that 'needed doing', haulin birds, berm construction, rescuing a couple of army guys out of the surf , and some 'informal' lodging aquisition from the army. i closed down my shell station in fairfield during our efforts at cronkite. this is the first time i have seen anything about the events of jan & feb of 71, and i cannot help but notice the "SLIGHT" differences between then and now when 300million souls are too busy pointing the finger of blame to actually HELP

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