Rally for Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
About This Item
KPIX Eyewitness News report from April 5th 1968 in San Francisco by Belva Davis featuring a commemorative service held in Civic Center Plaza for Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who was killed yesterday in Memphis (TN). Includes views of Mayor Joseph Alioto, Terry Francois and others making speeches, including the Right Rev. C. Kilmer Meyers who grimly declares that: "We whites are the ones who by our vicious racism have brought to death this sainted follower of the prince of peace." Also shown are views of large crowds gathered to pay their respects, of Mrs. Charlie Mae Haynes singing 'Take My Hand, Precious Lord' and of riot police inside a Woolworth store.
- Originally aired on
- KPIX-TV
- Date aired
- 4/5/1968
- Recording medium
- 16mm b&w, co-magnetic sound film
- 9:19
- Rights for this video belong to
- CBS5 KPIX-TV
- Type of material
- archival newsfilm
- Identifier
- KPIX 35101
- Views
- 4503
Related Items
Terry Francois on the death of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Coretta King unveils a statue of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on social disruption
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on allocation of resources
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Young Revolutionaries
Rev. H. Boswell on the death of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Speech At Sproul Plaza (1967)
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Urban Riots
Angela Davis supporters at Marin County Civic Center
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on the need for direct action
Chicanos demand Raza Studies in Oakland
Interview with Ossie Davis (1998)
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Racial Segregation
Coretta Scott King visits Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary in Oakland
Dr. Carlton Goodlett on the death of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Bob Wells at the Delancey Street Foundation
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at Stanford
Operation Breakthrough at Tamalpais High School
Angela Davis on fighting injustice
Davis & Marcuse Speak at UC Berkeley