Hunters Point Groundbreaking Ceremony

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Film Date
5/3/71
Film Reference Number
KPIX 105062
Description
KPIX Eyewitness News report from May 3rd 1971 in San Francisco featuring scenes from a groundbreaking ceremony for a new housing development in the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood. Includes views of Rev. Charles Lee speaking to crowds of residents breaking ground with shovels of a young woman singing and also of Eloise Westbrook speaking: "I said I wasn't gonna cry but I been cryin ever since I stood on this here stage because I know and you know that this is what we have dreamed for for many years." Ends with various shots of the neighborhood and it's present housing conditions.
Format
16mm newsfilm