WLBT Newsfilm Collection

Filename Event Description
MP_198001_D308_1022_ref.mov Christmas Reporter asks people on the street their opinion of promoting Christmas before Thanksgiving. This is 'Man on the Street Interviews.' Additional: Holidays
MP_198001_D308_1023_ref.mov Police Report Cliff Bingham provides weekly police report. Additional: Crime
MP_198001_D308_1024_ref.mov Liquor/Grant/Kipp/Chaffee 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
MP_198001_D308_1025_ref.mov Eastland/Johnson/Chaffee and others 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
MP_198001_D309_1026_ref.mov Mayor Russell Davis *Mayor Russell Davis discusses appointing a black to the City Planning Board. He recommends Dr. John Peoples of Jackson State College.
MP_198001_D309_1027_ref.mov MEC/Missing Girl/Interstate 20 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
MP_198001_D309_1028_ref.mov Missing Girl/Christmas Parade 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
MP_198001_D309_1029_ref.mov Long/Brock/Liquor/Missing Girl 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
MP_198001_D310_1030_ref.mov Ted Biddy 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
MP_198001_D310_1031_ref.mov Williams/Fire/Police Report/STAR *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
MP_198001_D310_1032_ref.mov Statistics on Traffic Accidents Tom Sadler, Information Officer of Miss. Highway Patrol, records traffic accidents in the state.
MP_198001_D310_1033_ref.mov STAR Hearing/Charles Evers *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
MP_198001_D310_1034_ref.mov STAR/Waites/Rose/Zebert *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.
MP_198001_D310_1035_ref.mov Christmas Tree at City Hall Arrival of Christmas tree for City Hall. Additional: Holidays
MP_198001_D31_0145_ref.mov U.S. Civil Rights Commission *U.S. Civil Rights Commission Hearing. Members of the commission seated at the table. Mayor Allen C. Thompson and Gov. Paul B. Johnson shown.
MP_198001_D31_0146_ref.mov U.S. Civil Rights Commission *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.
MP_198001_D31_0147_ref.mov Mayor Allen C. Thompson 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.
MP_198001_D311_1036_ref.mov Biddy Search Ended 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
MP_198001_D311_1037_ref.mov J. Tower/A. Henry/C. Evers *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
MP_198001_D311_1038_ref.mov Biddy Search Ended Footage of Ross Barnett Reservoir where body of 5 year-old Mona Biddy was found.
MP_198001_D311_1039_ref.mov Strike/Catchings/Fire 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
MP_198001_D311_1040_ref.mov Statistics on Traffic Accidents Tom Sadler, Miss. Highway Patrol Public Information Officer, reports on latest traffic fatalities in the state. Additional: Traffic Accidents
MP_198001_D311_1041_ref.mov Business Report Charlie Worsham, of Miss. Research and Development Ctr., provides monthly business report. Discusses retail sales and the economy.
MP_198001_D311_1042_ref.mov Police Report Reporter Cliff Bingham provides weekly police report. Additional: Crime
MP_198001_D311_1043_ref.mov Donald Peterson Astronaut Donald Peterson is interviewed concerning practical benefits from the space program. Additional: NASA
MP_198001_D311_1044_ref.mov Sen. John C. Stennis Sen. John C. Stennis discusses current session of Congress. (The.assette duplicate is silent)
MP_198001_D312_1045_ref.mov Summer/Cotton Ginners/City Cnsl. 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
MP_198001_D312_1046_ref.mov Jesse Howell Jesse Howell, Superintendent of Jackson Preparatory Academy, is a featured speaker at Kiwanis Club luncheon.
MP_198001_D312_1047_ref.mov Blood Donors/Duckworth *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.
MP_198001_D312_1048_ref.mov MP & L/Biddy Autopsy/Ted Biddy 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