KPIX Eyewitness News report from October 8th 1969 by Evan White in San Francisco featuring scenes from a press conference by the NAACP, announcing their intention to ask the Department of Labor to investigate and hold hearings on the exclusion of minority workers from certain skilled trades in selected cities.... (more info)
KPIX News report from 1966 featuring Nancy Clark interviewing Ronald Reagan on a ranch, about issues relating to state partisan politics. He refers to "so called Liberals" and goes on to state that: "They themselves become the witch hunters now and want a blanket assurance that someone who belongs to an organization of which they disapprove would never be considered for a job in government." Clark won a Golden Mike Award for her work in this report.... (more info)
KPIX Eyewitness News report from August 7th 1968 in Miami Beach (Florida) featuring an interview with Nancy Reagan, who discusses her role as the wife of Ronald Reagan, in both his capacity as California's Governor and also as Republican Presidential Primary nominee. She expressed a wish that: "More men who are not politicians would become actively involved in politics. I think it would be a very good and a healthy thing for the country. I think the whole thing needs a breath of fresh air."... (more info)
97. NANCY REAGAN: SHE IS IN TOWN TO PROMOTE SPECIAL KIDS ADOPTIONS
KPIX Eyewitness news report from the Oakland Audiotorium on September 18th, 1969, at the Black Panthers' first national conference on anti-fascism. Reporter Mike Lee describes the conference as "unconventional" but also "well organized and orderly," and speculates that this conference may represent a turning point for the nations' student radicals and minority groups. Includes footage of Huey P. Newton's lawyer Edward M. Keating who talks to the audience about a recent trip to see Newton in prison. Also features exterior shots of conference attendees milling around the steps of the Oakland Auditorium, and concludes with silent footage of the conference underway. See also KPIX report reference number KPIX 39179. Remastered, edited and catalogued for the web by Shira Peltzman.... (more info)
KRON News report from November 10th 1969 by Mike Mills featuring views of reporters, federal authorities and American Indian activists on Alcatraz Island, followed by scenes of Mohawk Richard Oakes reading a proclamation to federal official Mr Hammon: ?We the Native Americans reclaim this land known as Alcatraz Island in the name of all American Indians by right of discovery. We wish to be fair and honorable in our dealings with the Caucasian inhabitants of this land and hereby offer the following treaty. We will purchase said Alcatraz Island for $24 and glass beads and red cloth, a precedent set by the white man?s purchase of a similar island about 300 years ago.? Also includes an interview with Oakes in which he elaborates on the American Indian activists plans for Alcatraz. After listening to Oakes, Hammon offers everyone a lift back to the mainland, which they accept. Also see KPIX-TV's news report from the same day, currently streaming in DIVA (film reference number KPIX 100633).... (more info)
KQED News report from September 5th 1975 in South San Francisco (San Mateo County), examining the tension between economic expansion in California and the preservation of Native American sacred burial sites. Includes scenes from an archaeological dig, views of an Ohlone Indian cemetery and also interviews with several pundits, who discuss the issues involved.... (more info)
KQED News report from January 8th 1974 featuring silent scenes from a demonstation in support of Native American civil rights, held outside the Federal Court House on Golden Gate Avenue in San Francisco.... (more info)
KQED News report from August 29th 1973 featuring a press conference with Lehman Brightman, in which he announces that a charge of employment discrimination towards Native Americans is being filed against the Justice Department and other Federal agencies. He explains: "This twelve page complaint is unprecedented in the fact that it's a first in the nation to be filed with the newly created Office of Indian Rights, which is within the Justice Department." Also includes scenes of other speakers discussing this issue, one of whom points out that the Justice Department has indicted more Native Americans than they have hired, over the past three years.... (more info)
KPIX Eyewitness News report from November 30th 1973 featuring a press conference protesting against the Vietnam draft, in which Janet McCloud demands that all those being held against their will by the armed forces be released. She points out that whilst many Native Americans enlisted to fight in World War II, they had a choice to do so in most cases. She also goes on to explain that now: "Many young white people are finding ways to get out of this but they still need the men. So they come on our Indian reservations and take every eligible young man ... Every one of them!"... (more info)
KRON News report from November 9th 1969 by Mike Mills featuring scenes of American Indian activists dancing on San Francisco's Vista Pier, catching a ride on the Monte Cristo yacht and swimming over to Alcatraz Island (in one case being pulled out of San Francisco Bay onto a boat). Also includes views of Mohawk Richard Oakes reading a proclamation to reporters (with Al Miller) and of Adam Fortunate Eagle on the Monte Cristo.... (more info)
KPIX's Evan White reports from Pine Lake Park in San Francisco on November 15th 1970, where American Indians are holding an environment festival. Adam Nordwall (Fortunate Eagle) explains: "We, as Indian people, still hold all of the land in California ? The Bay is losing ground more and more and it's becoming a cesspool and if we don't save the Bay, the Bay is gonna kill all of us in revenge because of pollution." Also features scenes of crowds enjoying a display of traditional Indian dancing.... (more info)
606. NESTLE BOYCOTT: a truck full of Nestle coupons will arrive at the Co?s New York headquarters next saturday part of the efforts of the coupon boycott.
KPIX Eyewitness News report by Dave Monsees featuring views of campus life at SF State College followed by an interview with President S. I. Hayakawa about the Attorney General's freezing of student funds and his personal efforts to raise money for them.... (more info)
KPIX Eyewitness News report from October 6th 1969 by Ben Williams, featuring the first day of a new academic year at UC Berkeley. Includes views of campus life and an editorial from Williams, in which he speculates on potential areas of conflict between students and administration.... (more info)
632. New Admiral Heads Up Treasure Island Operation
KPIX Eyewitness News report by John Lester from the Intel Corporation in Santa Clara, California, on February 11th 1977. Features views of a new microchip being designed and manufactured which will increase gas mileage efficiency and reduce car pollution. Also includes a brief interview with an Intel spokesman.... (more info)
KPIX Eyewitness News report from July 26th 1971 by Ed Arnow at the Japanese Cultural & Trade Center in San Francisco, featuring a performance by the New Orleans Rascals Jazz Band. Includes scenes of the band playing onstage, the audience applauding and the drummer being interviewed.... (more info)
850. NEW SHIP: American President lines christened & put into service the vessel was named the Presidetn Grant/christened by Dorothy Wilson wife of the mayor of Oakland.
1106. NEWTON-Callins: sketches still Callins refuses to testify in the Newton trial he was sent back to jail for decision as to what the judge was going to do to him today.
1117. NEWTON: Preston Callan in court today took the 5th several times in responce to questioning whether Huey Newton beat him in 1974 Callan was put in custody of a bailiff also court room sketches Newton Callan & his wife.
1118. Newton: Preston Callen a key witness in the assault and murder trial Newton will face next week; says today that Newton did not beat him up; recalling his staments about the incident which happened in 1974; SOF Newton?s attorney William Osterhaudt
KPIX Eyewitness News report from September 10th 1978 in the Mission district of San Francisco, featuring very brief scenes from a demonstration against the Somoza regime in Nicaragua.... (more info)
KPIX Eyewitness News report from September 11th 1978 in the Mission district of San Francisco, featuring brief views from a demonstration against US covert military support for the Somoza regime in Nicaragua. Also includes an interview with a protestor, who explains that: "This is a fight against Somoza ... this is an internal problem and no country whatsoever has to be mixed up in the thing."... (more info)
KPIX Eyewitness News report on December 3rd 1976 in San Francisco featuring very brief scenes from a demonstration protesting against US covert operations in Nicaragua. Includes views of people picketing and carrying signs with slogans such as 'CIA Out of Nicaragua' and 'Down with Fascist Somoza'.... (more info)
KPIX Eyewitness News report from February 3rd 1978 by Ed Arnow in San Francisco featuring brief scenes from a corridor outside the Nicaraguan Consulate, which is being occupied by protesters. A masked man explains to reporters that they are not armed but refuse to leave until receiving official word that the Somoza government in Nicaragua has fallen.... (more info)
KPIX Eyewitness News report from November 20th 1976 featuring a protest by Japantown tenants against the Redevelopment Agency, outside San Francisco's City Hall. Includes scenes of protesters marching with banners, speaking to crowds and calling for Mayor Moscone to intervene on their behalf and secure their housing against business speculators.... (more info)
1334. NO FAULT: the Oakland parks & rec has ordered 25 school playgrounds shut down this summer the decision comes in light of prop. 13 cut backs v/o school yard & monkey bars.
SF State College's President S.I Hayakawa gives a press conference in which he states there will be no amnesty for student protesters who were recently arrested on campus. He will insist upon due process and justifies this position by explaining: "To commit violations and to insist that there be no consequences I would say is childish and morally frivolous."... (more info)
KPIX Eyewitness News report from October 12th 1969 by Evan White featuring an interview with a Swedish minister, who worships and delivers sermons in San Francisco's Norwegian Seaman's Church. Includes brief scenes of the church's exterior and a service.... (more info)
1533. NOT: an ax on highway 17/summit road caused commuters to wait in 90 degree heat till highway patrol could clear the jam-up; good jam-up v/o on highway 17; summit
An impressionistic and evocative film from 1951 about San Francisco, directed by Frank Stauffacher (1917-1955) and narrated by Vincent Price. Opens with the text of Walter de la Mare's poem 'An Epitaph': "Here lies a most beautiful lady:/Light of step and heart was she;/I think she was the most beautiful lady/That ever was in the West County." Price's narration consists of a series of excerpts from Robert Louis Stevenson's 1882 essay on San Francisco. Professor Scott MacDonald has written online about Stauffacher's film and the summary below is quoted directly from his work: "The opening section provides a rough overview of the history of San Francisco. The remaining sections focus on, respectively: people negotiating the city's hills via cable car, automobile, and go-cart; the speed of the city's development; the general mixture of ethnic groups and types of people; the Italian-Americans and Fisherman's Wharf; the Chinese-Americans and China- town; the fog; and finally, the city's diverse neighborhoods, a section that leads to the concluding idea of San Francisco as a "City of Contrasts" (? 1997 Ohio University School of Film. All rights reserved)." The TV Archive would like to thank Barbara Solomon - author, essayist and journalist - for granting us permission to stream this film online. It was remastered from San Francisco State University's 16mm, optical sound film print.... (more info)
1537. Nothenberg Hrgs: rudi gets by one hurdle - CAO
KPIX-TV news report from May 7th 1963 at Bodega Bay (Sonoma County, CA) featuring the start of construction by PG&E on the proposed site of a new nuclear power plant. Includes views of the construction site and an interview with a PG&E spokesman, who claims neglible amounts of radiation would be released into the environment by the plant. It should be noted that after a series of local protests, PG&E was forced to abandon its plans in 1964 and the plant was never built.... (more info)
