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- Date:
10/21/1969
- Reference Number:
- KPIX 100479
- Format:
- 16mm newsfilm
- Description/Summary:
- KPIX Eyewitness News report by Ben Williams from October 21st 1969 in San Francisco, featuring the death of novelist and poet Jack Kerouac. Includes (silent) views of the North Beach neighborhood, City Lights Books and scenes of English Professor Mark Linenthal reading part of Allen Ginsberg's poem 'Sunflower Sutra'.
- Availability:
- Mp4 video file streaming online in DIVA:
- https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/190211
- Collection/Copyright Holder:
- CBS5 KPIX-TV
- Further Details:
- Contact resident Film Archivist Alex Cherian (Email: acherian@sfsu.edu)