WLBT Newsfilm Collection

Items

  • MP_198001_D290_0814_ref.mov

    Description: Don Moore, General Manager of WAPT-TV, discusses opening of television station. Comments on college football on television.

    Event: Don Moore

  • MP_198001_D290_0815_ref.mov

    Description: Cliff Bingham provides weekly police report. Additional: Crime

    Event: Police Report

  • MP_198001_D290_0816_ref.mov

    Description: Car involved in bomb scare is shown parked at Shell gas service station. Men are shown inspecting the car for bomb device. Additional: Bomb Threats

    Event: Bomb Scare

  • MP_198001_D290_0817_ref.mov

    Description: Footage from Southern Governors Conference at Broadwater Beach Hotel on the Gulf Coast.

    Event: Southern Governors Conference

  • MP_198001_D290_0818_ref.mov

    Description: *News conference with Atty. Gen. A.F. Summer concerning public schools in Minnesota. Discusses school desegregation. Scene changes to report on City Council meeting. Scene changes to luncheon for 'Buy Miss. Products' Campaign. (silent) More footage of Summer.

    Event: Summer/City Council/Housing

  • MP_198001_D29_0143_ref.mov

    Description: *Dick Gregory and Charles Evers discuss the program of distributing turkeys to needy families in Miss. Boxes of turkeys are shown. Additional: Entertainers

    Event: Dick Gregory

  • MP_198001_D291_0819_ref.mov

    Description: *Report on ending of boycott in Yazoo City. Additional: Boycotts

    Event: Yazoo City Boycott

  • MP_198001_D291_0820_ref.mov

    Description: Report on the new Jackson branch of Hinds Junior College. Additional: Colleges and Universities

    Event: Hinds Junior College

  • MP_198001_D291_0821_ref.mov

    Description: Jackson Mall. Silent footage of children being tested for vision. Report on vision screening program sponsored by the Miss. Society for the Prevention of Blindness. Scene changes to picket line of members of teamsters union. (silent) Additional: Strikes, Unions

    Event: Prevention of Blindness/Teamsters

  • MP_198001_D291_0822_ref.mov

    Description: Freedom Forum sponsored by Miss. Farm Bureau Federation. Lt. Gov. Charles L. Sullivan is speaker. Interview with Mr. Noble, an American citizen, who had been held prisoner by the Russians.

    Event: Freedom Forum

  • MP_198001_D291_0823_ref.mov

    Description: Mr. Wooters, Dir. of the Cotton Producers Institute, is interviewed concerning the cotton industry.

    Event: Wooters

  • MP_198001_D291_0824_ref.mov

    Description: Report on mothers protesting school situation at Lake Elementary School. Silent footage of protest march to City Hall. Additional: Public Schools, Demonstrations

    Event: Mothers March

  • MP_198001_D291_0825_ref.mov

    Description: *Alex Waites, Dir. of Miss. NAACP, discusses school desegregation situation. Additional: Public Schools

    Event: Alex Waites

  • MP_198001_D291_0826_ref.mov

    Description: Report on Labor Day weekend. Additional: Holidays

    Event: Labor Day

  • MP_198001_D291_0827_ref.mov

    Description: Jim Coulter, Jackson Renewal Director, is interviewed concerning public housing plans.

    Event: Jim Coulter on Public Housing

  • MP_198001_D291_0828_ref.mov

    Description: News conference with cast of Sesame Street television program for children. Additional: Educational Television

    Event: Sesame Street

  • MP_198001_D291_0829_ref.mov

    Description: Cliff Bingham provides weekly police report. Additional: Crime

    Event: Police Report

  • MP_198001_D291_0830_ref.mov

    Description: Sen. John C. Stennis discusses Vietnam War.

    Event: Sen. John C. Stennis

  • MP_198001_D292_0831_ref.mov

    Description: *Dr. H.S. Kirshman, Acting School Superintendent, provides enrollment statistics of public schools after first day of school. Additional: School Integration, School Desegregation

    Event: Dr. H.S. Kirshman

  • MP_198001_D292_0832_ref.mov

    Description: John Wade, Manager of Miss. Research and Development Ctr., discusses economic impact of school desegregation. Additional: Economy

    Event: John Wade on Miss. Economy

  • MP_198001_D292_0833_ref.mov

    Description: Report on City Council meeting. Some footage of the meeting. Jim Coulter, Jackson Renewal Director, presents housing program for the elderly to the council. Additional: Senior Citizens

    Event: City Council Meeting

  • MP_198001_D292_0834_ref.mov

    Description: *Atty. Gen. A.F. Summer issues court injunction to National Education Assoc. representative James Williams prohibiting entrance onto school property. Scene changes to Lake School where parents are protesting school situation. More footage of Summer and Williams. More footage of Lake School and Summer. Additional: Public Schools

    Event: Summer/Lake School

  • MP_198001_D292_0835_ref.mov

    Description: Congressman Charles Griffin and Lt. Gov. Charles L. Sullivan address Pearl River Basin hearings. Additional: Pollution

    Event: Pearl River Basin Hearings

  • MP_198001_D292_0836_ref.mov

    Description: *Silent footage of parents demonstrating over school situation. Scene changes to news conference with Dr. H.S. Kirshman concerning protest. Additional: Public Schools, School Desegregation, Demonstrations

    Event: School Desegregation Demonstration

  • MP_198001_D292_0837_ref.mov

    Description: Ora Beasley, President of Electric Power Associations of Miss., is interviewed concerning rural housing in the state.

    Event: Ora Beasley on Rural Housing

  • MP_198001_D292_0838_ref.mov

    Description: *Silent footage of construction of off-shore drilling rig in Vicksburg. (Letourneau Marine Plant) Scene changes to parents at Lake School participating in demonstration protesting school desegregation plans. Scene changes to interview with Bill Simmons, Citizens' Council School Administrator. Discusses growth of private schools. Scene changes to report on off-shore drilling rig. Additional: Public Schools, Demonstrations, Oil Industry, School Integration

    Event: Drilling Rig/Lake School/Simmons

  • MP_198001_D292_0839_ref.mov

    Description: Dr. W.L. Jaquith, Director of Whitfield State Mental Hospital, addresses Jackson Optimist Club. He discusses drug abuse and alcohol abuse. A marijuana plant is shown. Additional: Drugs

    Event: Dr. W.L. Jaquith

  • MP_198001_D292_0840_ref.mov

    Description: Silent footage of parents and children participating in demonstration at Lake Elementary School. Scene changes to Cliff Bingham providing weekly police report. Scene changes to Sen. John C. Stennis discussing his opposition to abolishing the electoral college. .assette duplicate does not have sound) More silent footage of Lake School demonstration over school desegregation plan. Additional: Demonstrations, Public Schools, Crime

    Event: Lake School/Police Report/Stennis

  • MP_198001_D293_0901_ref.mov

    Description: News conference with Allen C. Thompson and Ken Perry concerning the organization FOCUS (Freedom of Choice in the United States). Scene changes to report on City Council meeting. Housing for senior citizens is discussed. Scene changes to Tommy Giordano, District Dir. of Census Bureau, reporting on Charles Griffin's election campaign. Scene changes to E.E. Schnellbacher addressing Miss. Marketing Council. More footage of City Council meeting and FOCUS. Additional: Public Schools, School Desegregation, Population Statistics

    Event: FOCUS/City Council/Giordano

  • MP_198001_D293_0902_ref.mov

    Description: News conference with Gov. John Bell Williams. Discusses upcoming Southern Governors Conference on Miss. Gulf Coast. Leslie Lampton discusses plans for conference. Reporter questions Williams concerning public school situation. Williams comments on public schools and private schools.

    Event: Gov. John Bell Williams