Huckleberry House & runaways

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Film Date
5/22/68
Film Reference Number
KQN 58
Description
KQED City Beat news report from May 22nd 1968 by Tony Batten on the work of the Huckleberry House organization with teenage runaways in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco. Includes Batten interviewing Reverend Larry Beggs about the problems faced by the runaways and also three youths who describe their experiences of staying at Huckleberry House. One of them reflects on how: "This isn't a place for people to live you know. It's a place for runaways to come to try and get their problems straightened out."
Format
16mm newsfilm