Dr West on Hippies

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Film Date
9/22/67
Film Reference Number
KPIX 33473
Description
KPIX Eyewitness News report from September 22nd 1967 at San Francisco's Commonwealth Club featuring scenes from a speech about hippies by Dr West (see note at the bottom of this paragraph). He discusses the cultural and stylistic influences on the counter-culture movement in Haight-Ashbury and expresses a belief that the African American community is dismissive of what he characterizes as an almost exclusively white middle-class phenomenon. He paraphrases one African American community leader who apparently said: "All we want for our people is what these kids have given up." Note: this news report was assigned the title of "Dr West on hippies" by the KPIX-TV news team on the day it was shot. We have been unable to positively identify the speaker as yet.
Format
16mm newsfilm