John Trudell on arrow firing incident
About This Item
KRON-TV news footage from August 14th 1970 featuring brief scenes from a press conference at Fisherman's Wharf by John Trudell (1946-2015), a member of the Santee Sioux, in which he gives the American Indians occupying Alcatraz Island's version of events about when an arrow was fired at a passing ferry boat. He claims this was related to safety issues which were being ignored by ferry operators and the Coast Gaurd and: "With one 42 cent arrow we stopped it." Opening graphic designed by Carrie Hawks.
- Date
- 8/14/1970
- Format
- 16mm color magnetic sound film
- Digital Format
- mp4 file
- Genre
- local newsfilm
- Copyright Holder
- Young Broadcasting of San Francisco, Inc.
- Duration
- 0:42
- Identifier
- KRON 2461-4
- Views
- 2623
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