WLBT Newsfilm Collection

Items

  • MP_198001_D172_0308_ref.mov

    Description: Miss. Economic Council Conference. Lt. Gov. Charles L. Sullivan speaks. Dr. James Hardy from the Univ. Medical Ctr. and singer Bobbie Gentry also speak.

    Event: Miss. Economic Council Conference

  • MP_198001_D173_0309_ref.mov

    Description: Inauguration of Dr. Porter Lee Fortune as Chancellor of the Univ. of Miss. Additional: College Presidents

    Event: Dr. Porter Lee Fortune

  • MP_198001_D174_0310_ref.mov

    Description: Reporter interviews various people involved in the Arts Festival. Gov. John Bell Williams is shown the facility for the festival.

    Event: Arts Festival

  • MP_198001_D175_0311_ref.mov

    Description: Reporter discusses drugs and high school students in Jackson. He interviews several school officials concerning drugs. Additional: drug abuse, marijuana

    Event: Drug Abuse

  • MP_198001_D176_0312_ref.mov

    Description: Turnkey Housing Development shown in Harrison County. Additional: Miss. Regional Housing Authority, Housing

    Event: Turnkey Housing Project

  • MP_198001_D177_0313_ref.mov

    Description: *Democratic Reform Committee Meeting with Charles Evers, Aaron Henry, Senator Birch Bayh and Fannie Lou Hamer. Additional: Democratic Party

    Event: Democratic Reform Committee

  • MP_198001_D178_0314_ref.mov

    Description: Reporter interviews Dr. Kirby Walker, Superintendent of Jackson Public Schools. Scene changes to Mayor Allen C. Thompson and others addressing a large audience. This segment is silent - possibly ceremony honoring Walker who retires in July.

    Event: Dr. Kirby Walker Interview

  • MP_198001_D179_0315_ref.mov

    Description: Reporter interviews William F. Buckley, Jr.

    Event: William F. Buckley, Jr.

  • MP_198001_D180_0316_ref.mov

    Description: News Conference with Hubert H. Humphrey. Additional: Democratic Party, Loyalist Democratic Party

    Event: Hubert H. Humphrey News Conference

  • MP_198001_D18_0867_ref.mov

    Description: Circuit Clerk office shown. Office of Atty. William Higgs shown. Barnett Building. Men load boxes into moving van. (Possibly move of Higgs from Barnett Building)

    Event: Circuit Clerk Office/Higgs

  • MP_198001_D18_0868_ref.mov

    Description: Possibly Miss. Teachers Assoc. meeting at Jackson State College.

    Event: Miss. Teachers Assoc.

  • MP_198001_D18_0869_ref.mov

    Description: *Black students from Tougaloo Southern Christian College are taken to police car after arrested for attempting to integrate library. Additional: Libraries, Segregated Facilities

    Event: Municipal Public Library

  • MP_198001_D18_0870_ref.mov

    Description: *Unidentified man. Scene changes to Dr. Ralph Abernathy, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bernard Lee walking across the street. (possibly to the Masonic Temple) Scene changes to Attorney William Kuntsler, attorney for the Freedom Riders. (smoking a cigarette) People arriving at courthouse for arraignment of Freedom Riders.

    Event: Abernathy/King/Freedom Riders

  • MP_198001_D18_0871_ref.mov

    Description: *Episcopal clergy and others enter municipal building. News conference after release on bond from Jackson jail. Scene changes to Rev. I.S. Sanders, Rev. T.B. Brown and E.A. Mays. Episcopal clergy arrested when they tried to eat together in a bus station restaurant in Jackson. Convicted on breach of peace charges. Rev. Robert L. Pierson may be the priest reading a statement to reporters outside of the municipal building. Additional: Segregated Facilities

    Event: Epsicopal Clergy Released on Bond

  • MP_198001_D18_0872_ref.mov

    Description: *Miss. State Fair. Police arrest blacks. One of the arrested is Robert Honeysucker. Rev. Eddie O'Neil is shown talking to police. Jackson Police Captain J.L. Ray and Medgar Evers are shown talking to one another.

    Event: Miss. State Fair

  • MP_198001_D18_0873_ref.mov

    Description: *Possibly Civil Rights Advisory Board hearing. (Dec. 1961) Among those at the hearing are Dr. A.B. Beittel, Medgar Evers, William Higgs, Tom Johnson, Dr. A.B. Britton and Rev. Murray Cox. Scene changes to Beittel with the Freedom Riders at the courthouse in Jackson. This is for the arraignment of the Freedom Riders. Rev. C.T. Vivian and James Bevel are shown walking up steps of the courthouse.

    Event: Civil Rights Hearing/Freedom Riders

  • MP_198001_D18_0874_ref.mov

    Description: Possibly Miss. Teachers Assoc. meeting at Jackson State College.

    Event: Miss. Teachers Assco. Meeting

  • MP_198001_D18_0875_ref.mov

    Description: *Episcopal clergy arrive at City Hall. (possibly to see Judge Russell Moore concerning Freedom Riders) Jack Travis is shown leaving the building. Clergy leave building. Scene changes to room with clergy and Travis. Attorney Jess Brown shown leaving building with others.

    Event: Episcopal Clergy

  • MP_198001_D18_0876_ref.mov

    Description: Heidelberg Hotel. Miss. Labor Council Convention. Unidentified male speaker. Tom Knight is seated next to podium. Francis Perkins addresses audience. Claude Ramsay is seated on platform. Scene changes to Diane Nash Bevel. (Unidentified location)

    Event: Miss. Labor Council

  • MP_198001_D18_0877_ref.mov

    Description: Mayor Allen C. Thompson, Marshall Burke, Assist. U.S. Attorney Gen., Jack Travis, City Commissioner Tom Marshall and others at unidentified meeting in City Hall.

    Event: Thompson, Burke, Travis, Marshall

  • MP_198001_D18_0878_ref.mov

    Description: *Medgar Evers seated at his desk. (possibly announcing school integration attempt in Jackson Public Schools)

    Event: Medgar Evers

  • MP_198001_D18_0879_ref.mov

    Description: *Rev. Ashton Jones is shown praying on steps of Hinds County Courthouse. Jones is shown talking with Sheriff Bob Gilfoy.

    Event: Rev. Ashton Jones

  • MP_198001_D18_0880_ref.mov

    Description: *Police Captain Cecil Hathaway arrests John Salter and Eldri Salter. Others arrested include Ron Mitchell, Walter Mitchell, Charles Bracy and Dorie Ladner. Additional: Boycotts, Demonstrations

    Event: Capitol Street Boycott

  • MP_198001_D18_0881_ref.mov

    Description: *Possibly U.S. Justice Dept. officials inspecting voter registration records of Hinds County. Attorney William Higgs shown talking on the telephone.

    Event: Voter Registration Records

  • MP_198001_D18_0882_ref.mov

    Description: College Park Auditorium. Miss. Teachers Assoc. meeting.

    Event: Miss. Teachers Assoc.

  • MP_198001_D18_0883_ref.mov

    Description: *Demonstrators on Capitol Street regarding Capitol Street boycott. Newsmen take pictures. Among the students arrested are Austin C. Moore, III (wearing plaid jacket) and Jimmy Armstrong. Two black Tougaloo Southern Christian College students stand nearby on sidewalk. (the one wearing white shirt is Israel Robinson - they served as 'spotters' for the demonstration) Additional: Demonstrations, Boycotts

    Event: Capitol Street Boycott

  • MP_198001_D18_0884_ref.mov

    Description: Unidentified man photographs a house. (possibly birthplace of James Meredith near Kosciusko, Miss.) Second house is unidentified.

    Event: House

  • MP_198001_D18_0885_ref.mov

    Description: *Dr. Jacob Reddix, President of Jackson State College and possibly a Jackson State faculty member. Scene changes to office of Mayor Allen C. Thompson. Swearing in ceremony of black city policemen. (August 8) Additional: Law Enforcement Officials, Jackson Police Dept.

    Event: Jackson Police

  • MP_198001_D18_0886_ref.mov

    Description: *Police Brutality hearings by the Civil Rights Advisory Board. Participants include Jane Schutt, Tom Johnson, Rev. R.L.T. Smith, Dr. A.D. Beittel and Dr. A.B. Britton.

    Event: Police Brutality Hearings

  • MP_198001_D18_0887_ref.mov

    Description: *Aaron Henry, Rev. Ed King and Charles Evers. (possibly news conference concerning Freedom Vote) Robert Moses and Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth are shown.

    Event: Freedom Vote