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Date of Copyright
1966-04-25
Description
Original camera footage edited for broadcast for KNTV San Jose Channel 11 news. The accompanying script, read by the newscaster, provides details of the stories and completes the broadcast. Reel 1: Segment 1 (silent): Two men on a hillside searching with sticks through brush, views across the valley. Team of young men and sheriff using screens to sift through dirt on hillside, man with pipe in his mouth examining debris from site. Script reads, "Search/Williamson Case. Searchers have given up their hunt for a missing Los Gatos man who vanished two weeks ago in the Santa Cruz Mountains. This morning, Undersheriff Paul Tara of Santa Cruz County, and Deputy Ken Lawrence of the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office began a last search for missing Louis Lundorff of 15635 Linda Avenue in Los Gators. The 23-year old man vanished Easter Sunday. His car was found abandoned along Skyline Boulevard south of Highway 9. It was feared Lundorff may have met with a hiking accident. A complete search of the area failed to turn up a trace of the missing man...or his body. Tara and Lawrence said their efforts were futile this morning. 'We've done all we can,' they said. A few miles away, work crews are continuing the minute sifting of the Judy Williamson gravesite off Highway 9. The co-ed's partial skeleton was found earlier this month. Prisoners from the San Mateo County Sheriff's office are digging away the hillside where the body was found in hopes of finding the rest of the skeleton, or a clue leading to Judy's killer. Deputy Coroner Clarence Maggetti called this 'one of the most productive days' as the diggers were unearthing scraps of clothing. An average of a hundred plastic bags of recovered material have ben filed daily since the methodical digging began. It is currently being stored with the coroner, then will be turned over to criminologist Paul Kirk for analysis." Segment 2: Pickets outside UTC, cars going in and out of gates. Script reads, "Striking electrical workers posted pickets today at all five gates leading into the Space Center at Cape Kennedy Florida. They charged bad faith on the part of negotiators for United Technology Center. Meanwhile, pickets maintained their vigil at the United Technology Center plants at Sunnyvale, Coyote and Redwood City. 275 members of locally based Local 1201 of the International Union of Electrical Workers have lodged the charges against UTC. President of the local Allan Acosta charged today that United Technology tried to break the union. Union members voted last night to use all legal means available to prevent such an attempt. Acosta added that the union is doing all in its power to avoid further striking, but are receiving little consideration from plant management. The main issue in the strike, which began last week, is wages." Segment 3 (silent): Extended shot of young African-American man who appears to be dressed in prison uniform, and is seated with other men dressed in same uniform, possibly in a courtroom. The man looks at the camera, then looks away, gives a wry smile. The only story in the script that this might relate to is the jury selection for Clarence McDowell murder case. "Five jurors have been tentatively seated in the murder case of Clarence McDowell...25 were excused because they were against the death penalty...The 21-year old McDowell, charged with the murder of retired nurse Mildred Pedrick in a San Jose laundromat last September, was assigned to trial in the courtroom of Superior Court Judge Raymond Callaghan. McDowell faces the death penalty for the slaying, and for the remainder of the six count indictment against him. He is charged with robbery, burglary, assault with intent to commit rape and assault. The last two charges came when he allegedly attacked co-ed Bernadette Henderson in the parking garage of the Sainte Claire Hotel a week before the knife slaying of the nurse..." Segment 4 (sound, color): Short clip of a boxer wearing a championship belt, posing for cameras wearing a Grossinger's t-shirt; cut to a boxer in a different shirt with cut-off sleeves throwing punches at a boxing reflex/speed ball in front of media. Appears to be Emile Griffith and Dick Tiger preparing for their championship fight. "In boxing...Emile Griffith is the new middleweight champion of the world...the welterweight champ, won a unanimous 15 round decision over Dick Tiger, in their title fight tonight in New York...Griffith scored the only knockdown in the fight, as he floored Tiger with a vicious right to the jaw mid-way through the 9th round. Tiger had never before been knocked off his feet in the 14 years of his professional career. .." Reel 2 (sound): Very short clip of memorial service (bad sound quality). Script reads, "Comrades of the 92 soldiers aboard the Fort Ord to Fort Benning plane which crashed last week paid respects to the dead in a moving memorial service at Fort Ord today. Six companies of the second brigade, elements of the fourth brigade and representatives from the units whose men died in the crash were present. Following the National anthem and the invocation an incident report was read. The cold statistics of the report did not soften the tragedy...76 of the 92 military personnel on board the plane died when it crashed in Oklahoma. The post chaplain, Colonel Oliver Porter offered words of assurance...and a mournful taps concluded the ceremony." 4/25/66 A-E 451; 4/25/66 I 451
Television stations Television broadcasting of news Nineteen sixties Vietnam War, 1961-1975 San Jose (Calif.)--Politics and government Homicide investigation Murder Labor disputes Labor Strikes Boxers (Sports) Memorial services Boxing--Tournaments Fort Ord (Calif.)
Time Period
1966-04-25
Place
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) Santa Cruz County (Calif.) Santa Clara County (Calif.) San Jose (Calif.) Monterey (Calif.) New York (N.Y.)
Provenance
History San Jose California Revealed is supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
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