Huckleberry House & runaways
About This Item
KQED City Beat news report from May 22nd 1968 by Tony Batten on the work of the Huckleberry House organization with teenage runaways, in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco. Includes Batten interviewing Reverend Larry Beggs, about the problems faced by the runaways and also three youths, who describe their experiences of staying at Huckleberry House. One of them reflects on how: "This isn't a place for people to live, you know. It's a place for runaways to come, to try and get their problems straightened out."
- Originally aired on
- KQED
- Date aired
- 5/22/68
- Recording medium
- 16mm b&w co-magnetic sound film
- 6:07
- Rights for this video belong to
- NCPB/KQED
- Type of material
- archival news film
- Identifier
- KQN 58
- Views
- 13377
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