Film Date
Nov-68
Film Reference Number
KTVU 99
Description
KTVU News report from November 1968 at San Francisco State College by Claud Mann on the first full day of classes there since President Robert Smith suspended lecturer George Mason Murray. Followed by a Black Students Union (BSU) press conference in which Benny Stewart reads out their demand that Murray be re-instated. Robert Smith reminds the press that many US academic institutions have had to deal with strikes recently and there are also views of student demonstrations on campus and riot police making arrests. Ends with representatives of the Committee for an Academic Environment protesting against their school being closed because of recent disruptions.
Format
16mm newsfilm
Copyright
Cox Enterprises Inc/KTVU