Nurses expand strike to another two hospitals

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Film Date
6/19/69
Film Reference Number
KPIX 38928
Description
KPIX-TV news footage from June 19, 1969 with reporter Belva Davis featuring views of nurses picketing outside a hospital, as they extend a week-long strike at 5 Bay Area hospitals to include Providence and Peralta hospitals in Oakland. Includes an interview with a spokesperson who explains that hospital administrators are refusing to accept their demands for more involvement with staffing and nusrsing procedures, in the form of "so called professional performance committees." Opening graphic designed by Carrie Hawks.

This 16mm b&w positive reversal film print was transferred in 4K (4096 x 2970) using a Lasergraphics ScanStation film scanner, in July 2023.
Format
16mm newsfilm