WLBT Newsfilm Collection

Items

  • MP_198001_D308_1022_ref.mov

    Description: Reporter asks people on the street their opinion of promoting Christmas before Thanksgiving. This is 'Man on the Street Interviews.' Additional: Holidays

    Event: Christmas

  • MP_198001_D308_1023_ref.mov

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

    Event: Police Report

  • MP_198001_D308_1024_ref.mov

    Description: Silent footage of car trunk loaded with cases of liquor. The car had been stopped at a roadblock in Scott County. Scene changes to convention of Miss. Assoc. of Soil and Water Conservation District Commissioners. Kenneth Grant is speaker. Scene changes to Claudia Kipp, a German exchange student, talking about her experiences. Scene changes to Secretary of the Navy, John Chaffee, talking about American prisoners of war. Additional: Exchange Students

    Event: Liquor/Grant/Kipp/Chaffee

  • MP_198001_D308_1025_ref.mov

    Description: Sen. James O. Eastland addresses Jackson Chamber of Commerce. Russ Johnson announces construction of new Holiday Inn. More footage of Eastland. Scene changes to Secretary of the Navy, John Chaffee, talking to newsmen. Scene changes to silent footage of Junior Miss of Jackson contest. City Council meeting report. Silent footage of car trunk containing liquor. Scene changes to Kenneth Grant addressing convention of Miss. Assoc. of Soil and Water Conservation District Commissioners. Scene changes to interview with German exchange student, Claudia Kipp. Additional: Hotels, Exchange Students

    Event: Eastland/Johnson/Chaffee and others

  • MP_198001_D309_1026_ref.mov

    Description: *Mayor Russell Davis discusses appointing a black to the City Planning Board. He recommends Dr. John Peoples of Jackson State College.

    Event: Mayor Russell Davis

  • MP_198001_D309_1027_ref.mov

    Description: Silent footage of legislative conference sponsored by Miss. Economic Council. (MEC) Silent footage of Interstate 20. Silent footage of search for missing 5 year-old Mona Biddy. More footage of MEC conference. Silent footage of man riding horse. Sam Waggoner, Central District Highway Commissioner, talks about opening of Interstate 20 from Jackson to Clinton. Additional: Highways, Missing Persons

    Event: MEC/Missing Girl/Interstate 20

  • MP_198001_D309_1028_ref.mov

    Description: Silent footage of search for missing 5 year-old, Mona Biddy. Scene changes to Christmas Parade. (Dec. 5) More footage of search. Additional: Holidays, Missing Persons

    Event: Missing Girl/Christmas Parade

  • MP_198001_D309_1029_ref.mov

    Description: Dr. William Long addresses meeting of Hinds County Assoc. for Mental Health. He discusses adolescents. Scene changes to republican party fund-raising dinner. Senator-elect William Brock of Tennessee is guest speaker. Silent footage of search for missing 5 year-old Mona Biddy. More footage of Brock. More footage of search. Silent footage showing car containing boxes of whiskey confiscated at roadblock by Miss. Alcoholic Beverage Control Division. More footage of Dr. Long. Additional: Liquor, Missing Persons

    Event: Long/Brock/Liquor/Missing Girl

  • MP_198001_D310_1030_ref.mov

    Description: Ted Biddy makes plea for the release of his missing 5 year-old daughter. Silent footage of airplane carrying banner about continuing the search for Mona Biddy. Additional: Missing Persons

    Event: Ted Biddy

  • MP_198001_D310_1031_ref.mov

    Description: *Gov. John Bell Williams news conference. Scene changes to brush fire near the Methodist orphanage. (silent) Scene changes to Cliff Bingham with the weekly police report. Scene changes to NAACP hearing on the STAR Program. Owen Brooks and Dr. Aaron Henry speak. More footage of Williams. Discusses medicaid and commends the Miss. Medicaid Commission. Additional: Poverty, Crime, Fires

    Event: Williams/Fire/Police Report/STAR

  • MP_198001_D310_1032_ref.mov

    Description: Tom Sadler, Information Officer of Miss. Highway Patrol, records traffic accidents in the state.

    Event: Statistics on Traffic Accidents

  • MP_198001_D310_1033_ref.mov

    Description: *Sound and silent footage of hearings into STAR Program. Aaron Henry and Alex Waites are shown. Scene changes to annual banquet of Jackson chapter of NAACP. Fayette Mayor Charles Evers is speaker. More footage of hearings. More footage of Evers. Additional: Poverty

    Event: STAR Hearing/Charles Evers

  • MP_198001_D310_1034_ref.mov

    Description: *Silent footage of hearings into STAR Program. Alex Waites shown. Silent footage of unidentified man. Dr. Frank Rose is shown with Paige Sumrall, the 1971 Miss. March of Dimes Poster Child. Scene changes to interview with Mr. Zebert concerning Pearl incorporation. More footage of STAR hearings. Alex Waites speaks. Silent footage of unidentified man (possibly former employee of Masonite Plant in Laurel, Miss.) More footage of Rose. Discusses research at Salk Institute.

    Event: STAR/Waites/Rose/Zebert

  • MP_198001_D310_1035_ref.mov

    Description: Arrival of Christmas tree for City Hall. Additional: Holidays

    Event: Christmas Tree at City Hall

  • MP_198001_D31_0145_ref.mov

    Description: *U.S. Civil Rights Commission Hearing. Members of the commission seated at the table. Mayor Allen C. Thompson and Gov. Paul B. Johnson shown.

    Event: U.S. Civil Rights Commission

  • MP_198001_D31_0146_ref.mov

    Description: *U.S. Civil Rights Commission Hearing. Speakers are Dr. A.B. Britton, Mayor Allen C. Thompson, John A. Hannah, Gov. Paul B. Johnson, Adams County Sheriff Odell Anders, Natchez Police Chief J. T. Robinson (scar on face), Citizens Council members, press and Civil Rights Workers.

    Event: U.S. Civil Rights Commission

  • MP_198001_D31_0147_ref.mov

    Description: City Hall. Inauguration of Allen C. Thompson as Mayor of Jackson. Oath of Office by City Commissioners Derwood Boyles and Clark Horton. Ross Barnett shown. Thompson speech.

    Event: Mayor Allen C. Thompson

  • MP_198001_D311_1036_ref.mov

    Description: Silent footage of Ross Barnett Reservoir where body of 5 year-old Mona Biddy was found. District Attorney Jack Travis and Jackson Police Chief Lavell Tullos talk with reporters concerning the body. Additional: Murders

    Event: Biddy Search Ended

  • MP_198001_D311_1037_ref.mov

    Description: *Sen. John Tower of Texas is interviewed. Discusses oil prices and oil industry. Scene changes to report on Operation Christmas Search - founded by Campus Life High School Program. Scene changes to NAACP hearing into STAR Program. Aaron Henry speaks. Scene changes to Charles Evers addressing local chapter of NAACP at annual banquet. More footage of Tower. Additional: Poverty

    Event: J. Tower/A. Henry/C. Evers

  • MP_198001_D311_1038_ref.mov

    Description: Footage of Ross Barnett Reservoir where body of 5 year-old Mona Biddy was found.

    Event: Biddy Search Ended

  • MP_198001_D311_1039_ref.mov

    Description: W.G. Bumpus, of Illinois Central Railroad, and Jake Rankin, of Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, are interviewed concerning strike of railroad workers. Scene changes to interview with Jackson Postmaster P.M. Catchings concerning the effect of the rail strike on postal service. Scene changes to cottonseed storage tank still smoldering after fire. (silent) More footage of railroad strike and Catchings. Silent footage of Miss. Youth Congress. More footage of Catchings. Additional: Railroad Industry, Fires, Strikes, Unions

    Event: Strike/Catchings/Fire

  • MP_198001_D311_1040_ref.mov

    Description: Tom Sadler, Miss. Highway Patrol Public Information Officer, reports on latest traffic fatalities in the state. Additional: Traffic Accidents

    Event: Statistics on Traffic Accidents

  • MP_198001_D311_1041_ref.mov

    Description: Charlie Worsham, of Miss. Research and Development Ctr., provides monthly business report. Discusses retail sales and the economy.

    Event: Business Report

  • MP_198001_D311_1042_ref.mov

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

    Event: Police Report

  • MP_198001_D311_1043_ref.mov

    Description: Astronaut Donald Peterson is interviewed concerning practical benefits from the space program. Additional: NASA

    Event: Donald Peterson

  • MP_198001_D311_1044_ref.mov

    Description: Sen. John C. Stennis discusses current session of Congress. (The.assette duplicate is silent)

    Event: Sen. John C. Stennis

  • MP_198001_D312_1045_ref.mov

    Description: Atty. Gen. A.F. Summer talks about new investigative unit to combat organized crime and drug abuse. Interview with cotton ginner. Report on City Council meeting. Two cotton ginners are interviewed after hearings of Miss. Air and Water Pollution Control Commission. More footage of Summer. Additional: Crime, Cotton Industry

    Event: Summer/Cotton Ginners/City Cnsl.

  • MP_198001_D312_1046_ref.mov

    Description: Jesse Howell, Superintendent of Jackson Preparatory Academy, is a featured speaker at Kiwanis Club luncheon.

    Event: Jesse Howell

  • MP_198001_D312_1047_ref.mov

    Description: *Silent footage of C.J. Duckworth news conference. Silent footage of people giving blood. Blood Donor program sponsored by Millsaps College Junior Panhellenic Council. Scene changes to C.J. Duckworth, Exec. Sec. of Miss. Teachers Assoc., discussing program to re-train black teachers who have been displaced due to school desegregation. More footage of blood donor program.

    Event: Blood Donors/Duckworth

  • MP_198001_D312_1048_ref.mov

    Description: Silent footage of Miss. Power and Light Co. plant at Vicksburg. Scene changes to autopsy report of 5 year-old Mona Biddy. Ted Biddy interviewed. Scene changes to Miss. Power and Light Co. plant. Ben Dudding talks about construction of new unit. More footage of Ted Biddy. Additional: Murders

    Event: MP & L/Biddy Autopsy/Ted Biddy