Walter Hickel on the Santa Barbara Channel Oil Spill

About This Item

KPIX Eyewitness News report from October 20th 1969 by Belva Davis featuring a press conference with U.S. Secretary of the Interior Walter Hickel, who discusses proposed financial liability for oil companies in the event of oil spills. His comments are made with reference to the recent Santa Barbara Channel oil spill, which involved a blow out at Union Oil's Platform A in the Dos Cuadras Offshore Oilfield, on January 28th 1969.

Type of material
archival news film
Duration
1:51
16mm, color co-magnetic sound film
Rights for this video belong to
CBS5 KPIX-TV
Date aired
10/20/69
Originally aired on
KPIX-TV
Identifier
KPIX 100470
Views
2984

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