Peter Behr Press Conference on Point Reyes
About This Item
KPIX Eyewitness News report from October 24th 1969 featuring a press conference by Chairman of the 'Save Our Seashore' campaign Peter Behr, about the need to secure funds for Point Reyes National Seashore. He explains that if $38 million dollars isn't found immediately to purchase 30,000 acres of land which remains in private ownership, then: "What began as a moral commitment on the part of the government, will end as a significant conservation tragedy.
- Originally aired on
- KPIX-TV
- Date aired
- 10/24/69
- Recording medium
- 16mm color, co-magnetic sound film
- 1:08
- Rights for this video belong to
- CBS5 KPIX-TV
- Type of material
- archival newsfilm
- Identifier
- KPIX 100512
- Views
- 4778
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