Fatal stabbing at Deuel Vocational Institute (near Tracy, CA)
About This Item
KPIX-TV news footage from July 12 1971 with reporter Mike Lee featuring views of the Deuel Vocational Institute in San Joaquin County near Tracy, CA which recently experienced a "riot" involving 200 inmates. Prisoner Thomas O'Neill was fatally stabbed during this disturbance but not as a part of the riot itself. Note that Deuel was "deactivated" as a California correctional facility on September 30, 2021. Also includes a brief interview with Associate Superintendent Hacker, who states: "The stabbing, as far as we know at this point, was not related to the disturbance... The disturbance ... occured in a different housing wing and the stabbing, which may be racially motivated, was between black and white inmates." Opening graphic designed by Carrie Hawks.
This 16mm film print was transferred in 4K (4096 x 2970) using a Lasergraphics ScanStation film scanner, in February 2021.
- Date
- 7/12/1971
- Format
- 16mm color reversal print, with co-magnetic soundtrack
- Digital Format
- mp4 video file
- Genre
- local TV newsfilm
- Copyright Holder
- CBS5 KPIX-TV
- Duration
- 1:59
- Identifier
- KPIX 105651
- Views
- 1026