KPIX Eyewitness News report from October 17th 1969, featuring brief and mostly silent views of O.J. Simpson visiting Galileo High School in San Francisco.... (more info)
KPIX Eyewitness News report from November 25th 1967 by Ben Williams in San Francisco featuring an interview with O.J. Simpson. Includes scenes of Simpson reflecting on how African Americans such as Jim Brown have become successful in pro sports, admitting that: "Right now I'm trying to make it. I came from a pretty rough neighborhood around here ... around Hunters Point. And I feel if I make it that would be a good example for other kids up there."... (more info)
11. O.J.: Orentho James Simpson in town to promote orange juice product & special P.E. funds the Co. is channeling into S.F. high schools
100. Oak Cgrove Buses: bus drivers did not show up to pick up handicapped children today/ at oak grove school district in San Jose good V/o of school buses.
179. OAK SCHOOLS: in Oakland parents were in class rooms instead of kids Bob Newell parent educator wants to teach parents to teach kids the honest approach to problems
325. Oakland arks: arks are 4 floating houses located on teh Oakland Estuary shoreline city officals have been trying to kick the owners off teh land for yrs. but hte arks sit on a legal noman?s land
338. OAKLAND ASBESTOS: efforts being made to control the high level of asbestos in Oakland school summer painting crews are working over the walls and cielings at Peidmont & Venye * Maxwell Park school
356. OAKLAND BARRICADE: Samuel Johnson gave himself up and the 6-month baby about 3:30 a.m.; he held the infant hostage for more than 52 hours; file film 141216 all
357. OAKLAND BARRICADE: police are saying that the man who kept a baby hostage for 52 hrs. in Oakland was tricked into surrendering the mother of the baby told Sammuel Jackson she wouldn?t press charges however that is not the case.
389. OAKLAND BUDGET: Oakland?s city budget proposed will mean an eight million dollar deficit mayor Wilson is planning to ask the port of Oakland for help.
397. OAKLAND CABBIES: 4 cabbies have been killed since last June and 2 of those in the last 6 weeks; cab officials are working closely with police and considering installing bullet proof shields
462. OAKLAND COPS: Howard Johnson a rookie cop in Oakland was fortunate enough to have a job bec. the state funded $$ to Oak. where prop. 13 cut-backs might have affected him.
570. OAKLAND FIREMAN: black firemen from Oakland say they will fight a court rulling that the dept. doesn?t have to hire 2 blacks to each white BAKKE effect.
625. OAKLAND HOUSING: police have traced 8 electric ranges stolen from the authority to a used furniture store in Oakland; 2 suspects known to be authority employees
KPIX Eyewitness News report from May 8th 1969 featuring the Oakland Oaks basketball team beating the Indiana Pacers to win the ABA Championship. Includes: scenes from the game (silent); victory celebrations on court; a press conference with coach Alex Hannum; an interview with Rick Barry and spirited horseplay in the locker room.... (more info)
813. Oakland Residents: a group of residents are making efforts to encourage landlords to keep rented buildings up to standard; today the group stormed the office of SD Virgil Stucki demanding results
KPIX Eyewitness News report from October 22nd 1969 by Belva Davis in Oakland, featuring scenes from Oakland Technical High's International Week. Includes views of students in ethnic costumes dancing, giving demonstrations and socializing. Ends with Davis interviewing a student and wrapping up the story.... (more info)
984. OAKLAND WORKERS: warning signs going up in city offices in Oakland warning of the aftermanth of Jarvis-Gann Initiative -- cut back in city employees. See: 5/5/78
KPIX Eyewitness news report from December 20th 1972 by Frank Goran in Oakland, featuring interviews with organizers (Bill Parr?) and young men who attend a newly opened youth center on East 15th Street. Please note: we have no paperwork for this news clip but from listening to Goran's report it appears this youth center was opened by the San Antonio Area Youth Project.... (more info)
Please note: there were technical problems with the original sound recording. KPIX Eyewitness News report from March 9th 1970 by Rollin Post featuring public obscenity hearings in San Francisco. Includes scenes of people debating the merits of what is referred to as the "smut industry" and an interview with a priest (committee member).... (more info)
KPIX news report from December 2nd 1969, featuring a press conference in which Richard Oakes explains to the press that: "Alcatraz offers the insulation necessary for us to develop intellectually." The Federal representative Mr Hammon is seen refusing to accept that American Indians may occupy Alcatraz Island indefinitely and an Indian spokesman presents an argument in support of their treaty rights to appropriate surplus federal land.... (more info)
KQED news report from November 20th 1969, featuring views of American Indians relaxing on Alcatraz Island and tourists circling the island in boats. There are a series of interviews with protesters who justify their occupation of the island. Dennis Turner replies to a query about the potential threat of federal force being used to evict them by asking: ?How can anyone refuse you legal rights to your own property??... (more info)
1093. OFFSHORE OIL: meeting of scientists discussing offshore oil drilling along the San Mateo coast one consideration is how this will effect the elephant seals who live at Ano Nuevo State Beach.
KPIX Eyewitness News report from September 12th 1978 by Jim Avila in Almaden Valley (San Jose), featuring an Ohlone petition to stop a developer building on an Ohlone village site. Includes views of the land in question and an interview with a spokesman for the Ohlone Indian Cultural Association, who explains what the site reveals about their culture and heritage.... (more info)
Please note: there was a technical fault with the audio levels during filming, which affected sound quality. KPIX Eyewitness News report from October 19th 1969 by Belva Davis in San Francisco, featuring scenes of traditional folk dancing at Oktoberfest. Also includes an interview with a festival organizer.... (more info)
A documentary film by Saul Rouda and David Dobkin, made in collaboration with SF Newsreel, about the 1968-9 student and faculty strike at San Francisco State College. Features scenes of students demonstrating, clashing with riot police on campus and being arrested. Also includes views of riot police beating students and threatening them with drawn revolvers, and of the following giving speeches/press conferences: Ron Dellums; Danny Glover; Dr Carlton Goodlett, S.I. Hayakawa; Roger Alvarado; Mayor Joseph Alioto and Jerry Varnado. Saul Rouda loaned the TV Archive his 16mm answer print, to produce this low-res online screener. Any requests to use or license this footage should be directed to Saul Rouda (Email: srouda@aol.com). Please contact the film archivist for further details.... (more info)
1413. On the issue of student deferment of draft registration
Please note: there is a significant loss of picture quality in the 16mm film prints that comprise this 3-part documentary, due to chemical decomposition. Part I has been digitally remastered and color corrected by Monaco Digital Film Labs, to compensate for this. Any users interested in viewing Part II, which features a heated studio debate between the citizens who appear in Part I, should contact the film archivist for more details: acherian@sfsu.edu or 415-817-4261.
Introduced as: "A television inquiry into American racism," this Peabody Award winning documentary (part I of III) was produced by the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, aired on May 20th 1968 and is presented by chief Group W commentator Rod MacLeish. It examines: "Whether it's possible to bridge the dreadful chasm between the American races or whether ... our days as one nation indivisible are numbered." Part I was filmed in the weeks immediately prior to the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in 7 major U.S. cities: San Francisco; Chicago; Pittsburgh; Boston; Philadelphia; Baltimore and Newark. It includes three sequences shot in San Francisco. Pharmacist Wesley Johnson, Jr. is followed walking along Fillmore Street, pointing out that whilst he is surrounded by African American consumers, virtually all of the neighborhood property and businesses are owned by white people. Lawyer Edward Stern describes how he's defending African American students from SF State College, who are charged with breaking into the student newspaper building and discusses the fear of white liberals that American society is increasingly polarized along racial lines. Ends with Don Herman and other African American students from the Black Student Association of City College San Francisco declaring their goal of introducing "revolutionary black consciousness" into society, so a new generation will grow up with the freedom to express themselves and study their own culture and heritage. Thanks to historical researcher and consultant Paul Lee for establishing the date when this program first aired.... (more info)
KPIX Eyewitness News report by Rollin Post and Jim Anderson from the Geary Theater in San Francisco on January 21st 1967, featuring the opening night of American Conservatory Theater's (ACT) production of Moliere's comedy Tartuffe. Includes an interview with ACT's executive director William Ball, on-stage scenes from a rehearsal of the play's first act and views of people arriving at the theater.... (more info)
KPIX Eyewitness News report from February 27th 1967 by Rollin Post and Wanda Ramey at Tamalpais High school in Marin County, featuring a student initiative called Operation Breakthrough, which is aimed at addressing racial tensions and segregation within the 1700 students (10% of which are African American). Includes scenes of students discussing racial issues, a girl being interviewed about her expectations for Operation Breakthrough and brief scenes from a speech by the Right Rev. C. Kilmer Meyers (Episcopal Bishop of California), who defines the issue as: "A personal problem. And a personal problem can be met only by what you're doing. That is face to face ... With no holds barred. With a frank facing of all the stereotypes which white people have of negroes. And indeed the stereotypes which negroes frequently have of white people."... (more info)
KPIX Eyewitness News report from October 22nd 1969 featuring scenes of a counter culture expedition ('Operation Liferaft') from Waldo Point (Sausalito) to the Department of Public Social Services in San Francisco.... (more info)
KPIX Eyewitness News report from May 17th 1970 by Ben Williams featuring interviews with a group who are trying to get the California abortion law declared unconstitutional. One man argues that with a qualified doctor and the latest equipment, it's safe to perform the procedure out of a doctor's office. A woman refers to abortion as "a status crime," in the context that affluent women already have easy access to abortion. A physician from Oklahoma "Dr Henrie" (possibly Dr. J. Bryan Henrie?) explains that he's been performing abortions illegally since being "busted" in 1962 and wants to see the law changed, so qualified practitioners can offer abortions "when a woman wants it done."... (more info)
KPIX Eyewitness News report from September 9th 1974 by Lynne Joiner featuring how residents of San Francisco's Japantown feel they are being forced to relocate by urban redevelopment. Includes views of the neighborhood and an interview with a spokesman opposed to this process, who explains that: "The kind of redevelopment that's going on right now is mainly to create this area as a tourist trap and we feel this is wrong because ... it drives out residents and small business people ... it ... puts a price on our culture and heritage."... (more info)
KQED reports on a demonstration by members of faculty at SF State College and an announcement to students about an opportunity for them to have input into the decision making process. A member of faculty asks for volunteers to communicate the news around campus, as there is no PA system. President Robert Smith talks to reporters about the class discussion groups that will consider proposals for a conference. An angry student questions why the member of faculty speaking didn?t insist that classes were cancelled during convocation. She explains she didn?t know this was the case. The current situation with regards to the Black Students Union, the police presence on campus and Mayor Alioto is related to the crowd in a series of ?live? updates. This footage presents an excellent illustration of how events on campus were influenced by the difficulties everyone concerned had in communicating with each other.... (more info)
