Film Date
6/16/76
Film Reference Number
KPIX 131339
Description
KPIX Eyewitness news report from June 16th 1976 on a workshop with the White Panthers and the San Francisco Police Department. The clip features John Sinclair who co-founded the left-wing organization at Huey P. Newton's suggestion addressing members of the San Francisco Police Department including Chief of Police Charles Gain. Sinclair discusses the widely held sentiment that "all the residents of certain neighborhoods in San Francisco are potential criminals." He argues that this assumption should have stopped with the change in city administration. Also contains a shot of Sinclair passing out leaflets to the SFPD representatives. Remastered edited and catalogued for the web by Shira Peltzman.
Format
16mm newsfilm
Copyright
CBS5 KPIX-TV