WLBT Newsfilm Collection

Items

  • MP_198001_D16_0083_ref.mov

    Description: *Inauguration of Paul B. Johnson as Governor in front of Capitol. Inauguration speech. Discusses Miss. Research and Development Ctr. Ross Barnett is shown.

    Event: Paul B. Johnson Inauquration

  • MP_198001_D16_0084_ref.mov

    Description: *Gov. Ross Barnett speech to the Legislature concerning his years as Governor. Discusses new industries in the state, a vocational/technical training program, human rights and states' rights. Receives standing ovation. Additional: Industry

    Event: Gov. Ross Barnett

  • MP_198001_D161_0297_ref.mov

    Description: Reporter interviews Mr. Maloney concerning housing situation in the state.

    Event: Housing in Mississippi

  • MP_198001_D162_0298_ref.mov

    Description: Footage after Hinds County Jail Break. Sheriff Fred Thomas interviewed. Additional: Prisons

    Event: Hinds County Jail Break

  • MP_198001_D163_0299_ref.mov

    Description: News conference at Univ. Medical Ctr. Doctors discuss the heart transplant operation. Additional: Medicine

    Event: News Conference on Heart Transplant

  • MP_198001_D164_0300_ref.mov

    Description: *Canton, Madison County. Jack Hill reports on the end to the boycott. Hill interviews people on the street concerning their opinion of the boycott. Additional: Boycotts

    Event: Canton Boycott Ends

  • MP_198001_D165_0301_ref.mov

    Description: Road sign on the ground 'South Hazlehurst' Tornado damage in Hazlehurst is shown - trees, vehicles, homes. Several victims of the tornado are interviewed. Additional: Tornadoes

    Event: Tornado - Hazlehurst

  • MP_198001_D166_0302_ref.mov

    Description: Hazlehurst Tornado. Reporter interviews man from Salvation Army. Emergency Service Vehicle in background. Damage from tornado shown. Clean-up operations are shown. Also contains footage from Jan. 27. Additional: Tornadoes

    Event: Tornado - Hazlehurst

  • MP_198001_D167_0303_ref.mov

    Description: Laurel. Reporter interviews people living in area where tank cars carrying butane exploded. Disaster relief vehicle is shown.

    Event: Butane Explosion in Laurel

  • MP_198001_D168_0304_ref.mov

    Description: Laurel. Reporter talks about explosion of tank cars carrying butane. Area where explosion occurred is shown.

    Event: Butane Explosion in Laurel

  • MP_198001_D169_0305_ref.mov

    Description: Mayor Allen C. Thompson announces his retirement from public office.

    Event: Mayor Allen C. Thompson

  • MP_198001_D170_0306_ref.mov

    Description: *News conference with Charles Evers and Reuben Anderson. Anderson announces candidacy for Jackson City Commissioner. Evers comments on blacks entering politics. Additional: Election Campaigns

    Event: Anderson-Evers News Conference

  • MP_198001_D17_0850_ref.mov

    Description: *Percy Greene, editor of 'Jackson Advocate' newspaper. (possibly at the Masonic Temple) Additional: Newspapers

    Event: Percy Greene

  • MP_198001_D17_0851_ref.mov

    Description: St. Peters Cathedral. Religious ceremony. (possibly consecration of Joseph Brunini as Bishop of Jackson-Natchez Diocese) Joseph Brunini shown. Additional: Catholic Church

    Event: St. Peters Cathedral

  • MP_198001_D17_0852_ref.mov

    Description: Vicksburg, Miss. Footage of Sprague Riverboat. Additional: Riverboats

    Event: Sprague

  • MP_198001_D17_0853_ref.mov

    Description: *Train station. Signs are placed in the train station: 'Waiting Room for White Only', 'Waiting Room for Colored Only' Additional: Segregated Facilities

    Event: Segregated Facilities

  • MP_198001_D17_0854_ref.mov

    Description: *Scenes of Money, Miss. Mailbox of Mose Wright, Uncle of Emmett Till. Possibly Mose Wright shown working in the field. Scene changes to courthouse in Sumner, Miss. (location of trial about the murder of Emmett Till) Defendants J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant shown. Till's mother arrives at the courthouse. Courtroom scenes. Charles Diggs shown. Outside courthouse Circuit Judge Curtis M.Swango (white suit) is shown. Additional: Murders

    Event: Trial, Emmett Till Murder

  • MP_198001_D17_0855_ref.mov

    Description: *Courtroom scenes. (possibly Clennon King Circuit Court Sanity Hearing) Attorney Jess Brown shown seated at a table. Scene changes to room where Jackie Robinson and unidentified man sit at a table. (possibly a news conference) Robinson in town for NAACP meeting.

    Event: Brown/Henry/Robinson

  • MP_198001_D17_0856_ref.mov

    Description: *NAACP meeting. Jackie Robinson shown. More footage of meeting. (possibly at the Masonic Temple)

    Event: NAACP Meeting

  • MP_198001_D17_0857_ref.mov

    Description: *Hazel Brannon Smith, editor of 'Lexington Advertiser.' Scene changes to House Chamber of Miss. legislature. Grey Evans addresses Young Democrats of Miss. Additional: Newspapers

    Event: Hazel Brannon Smith/Young Democrats

  • MP_198001_D17_0858_ref.mov

    Description: *Federal Judge Sidney Mize, Atty. Jess Brown and Federal Judge Claude Clayton. Scene changes to Attorneys Constance Baker Motley and Jess Brown and others examining what may be voter registration records in Hinds County Courthouse.(possibly due to Darby Voter Registration Suit) Motley shown. Scene changes to Gov. James P. Coleman at his desk. Unidentified men shown. More footage of Motley. Unidentified man.

    Event: Mize, Brown, Clayton, Motley

  • MP_198001_D17_0859_ref.mov

    Description: *Negro 4-H Club Training Center. Campground and lake shown. Scene changes to Robert Ezelle, Jr. (local businessman) Unidentified man at podium.(location unknown) Footage of Piney Woods Country Life School. Post Office at Piney Woods shown. Envelopes containing money are opened. (possibly donations for the school)

    Event: 4-H Club/Piney Woods Country School

  • MP_198001_D17_0860_ref.mov

    Description: *Roy Wilkins seated at a table during NAACP meeting. Aaron Henry and Vernon Dahmer attending meeting Roy Wilkins and Medgar Evers talking to one another.

    Event: Wilkins/Henry/Evers

  • MP_198001_D17_0861_ref.mov

    Description: *Unidentified church. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is shown seated at a table and talking. (possibly at this unidentified church) More footage of the church.

    Event: Dr. Martin Luther King,Jr.

  • MP_198001_D17_0862_ref.mov

    Description: *Footage of Medgar Evers. (location unknown) Scene changes to Aaron Henry leaving what may be the Chapel at Alcorn A and M College. Unidentified man. Scene changes to Aaron Henry addressing unidentified meeting.

    Event: Medgar Evers/Aaron Henry

  • MP_198001_D17_0863_ref.mov

    Description: *Federal Judges: Ben Cameron, Sidney Mize and Claude Clayton. (possibly from Darby Trial) Scene changes to Atty. Constance Motley, Atty. Jess Brown and others examining voter registration records at Hinds County Courthouse. Federal Courthouse shown. More footage of Motley and Brown. More footage of federal judges.

    Event: Federal Judges, Motley, Brown

  • MP_198001_D17_0864_ref.mov

    Description: St. Peters Cathedral. Richard Gerow shown. Additional: Catholic Church, Clergy

    Event: St. Peters Cathedral

  • MP_198001_D17_0865_ref.mov

    Description: *Hodding Carter, III and Carl Braden, Exec. Sec. of Southern Regional Educational Fund are shown at the Capitol Building. (unidentified occassion) Scene changes to Civil Rights Advisory Board meeting. Members include Jane Schutt, Dr. A.D. Beittel, Dr. A.B. Britton, Rev. Murray Cox, and Admiral Robert Briscoe.

    Event: Carter, Braden/Civil Rights Meeting

  • MP_198001_D17_0866_ref.mov

    Description: Footage of low-income housing in Jackson. Scene changes to Mayor Allen C. Thompson with unidentified men. More housing. Scene changes to city courtroom. More housing.(possibly High Street extension area) Additional: Poverty

    Event: Low-income Housing

  • MP_198001_D171_0307_ref.mov

    Description: Footage of Coliseum, Capitol Street, First Federal Bldg., Old Capitol Museum and other downtown scenes. Construction work on the Pearl-Pascagoula Interchange is shown. Additional: Highway Construction

    Event: Pearl-Pascagoula Interchange