Jack Kerouac Dies

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Film Date
10/21/69
Film Reference Number
KPIX 100479
Description
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'.
Format
16mm newsfilm