Helen Chavez Reads Statement to Press
About This Item
KPIX Eyewitness News report from December 5th 1970 in Salinas (Monterey County, CA) featuring views of United Farm Worker members keeping a vigil outside the jail where their leader Cesar Chavez is detained. Also includes scenes of his wife Helen Chavez reading a statement from Cesar to reporters, in which he explains: "I am prepared to pay the price for civil disobedience. I am still very committed; not bitter at all." She goes on to confirm that Cesar is in fine spirits and she's just given him a book about Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi to read.
- Originally aired on
- KPIX-TV
- Date aired
- 12/5/1970
- Recording medium
- 16mm color, magnetic sound film
- 1:37
- Rights for this video belong to
- CBS5 KPIX-TV
- Type of material
- newsfilm
- Identifier
- KPIX 103848
- Views
- 3972
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