Press conferences & confrontation at State (December 1968)

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KTVU News report from December 1968 at San Francisco State College featuring a series of press conferences on campus, including a Third World Liberation Front (TWLF) spokesman (Dr Juan Martinez) explaining to reporters their pre-conditions for negotiating with the administration, followed by views of mass demonstrations on campus. Mounted police are shown patrolling 19th Avenue, President S.I. Hayakawa inspects burnt out classrooms, students are beaten and arrested and a firecracker is set off outside the Administration Building. Also features an eyewitness report of how one protester fired off blank rounds from a pistol into the air during confrontations with police. Please note this footage includes brief glimpses of Bill Moore operating the KTVU camera. He was the first African American news cameraman in California.

Originally aired on
KTVU
Date aired
Dec-68
Recording medium
16mm color, co-magnetic sound film
14:51
Rights for this video belong to
Cox Enterprises Inc/KTVU
Type of material
archival newsfilm
Identifier
KTVU 3
Views
3517

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