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1966-05-24
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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 + sound): Boxers Bobby Scanlon and Luis Molina preparing for their boxing match, getting weighed. Interview with Molina about what to expect from the fight. He refers to Scanlon's "dirty tricks" and "funny tricks" with a smile. Script reads, "Ray Echavarria and Pete Gonzales fought to a wild ten round draw, in the preliminary to the main event between Luis Molina and Bobby Scanlon... in that fight..???????" [It's possible the broadcast script was written before the fight was over] Segment 2 (silent): Crowd of people outside a McDonald's fast food restaurant, speaking to police, cleaning up broken McDonald's tables outdoors, a car crashed on the sidewalk. Script reads, "A car -- engine at full speed -- slammed through a crowded outdoor restaurant in San Jose today. The bizarre accident took place at McDonald's hamburgers at Third and San Carlos. A shaken, ashen-faced driver -- 20 year old Gale Clair Garn, Junior, of Sacramento, told this story to police. After stopping at McDonalds for refreshments, he started his engine and prepared to leave the parking lot. He shifted to reverse, but instead the car lurched forward, plowing across an outside patio where customers were eating. The car smashed through two cement tables. McDonald's manager Robert McLair was cleaning one of the tables. He and the table were tossed several feet. McLair received minor injuries. The car -- its accelerator stuck all the way down -- kept going -- out into the oncoming traffic of San Carlos Street, and then back onto the sidewalk a half block away where it came to rest...still dragging a piece of the cement table. Miraculously the only other casualties were newsstands which were sliced in two by the car." Segment 3 (silent): Exterior of Al's Sporting Goods, street shots, couple behind counter, gun display. Cut to an African-American man in the back of a patrol car, a gun, bullets, same man walking with police officers. Script reads, "An armed robber in San Jose this afternoon forgot to bring along his own gun. So he used a gun belonging to his victim. The robber walked into Al's Sporting Goods store at 79 East Santa Clara [Street] and asked to see a shotgun. One of the proprietors, Bob Gomes, showed the man a 12 gauge shotgun, whereupon the customer popped a shell in the weapon, pointed it at Gomes, and hustled Gomes and his mother, Loraine, into the back of the store. The robber fled on foot taking the gun and a case of ammunition. Later this evening, San Jose police officers -- Sergeants Gene Brown and Lloyd Ralston -- arrested a suspect in his room at the Rainbow Hotel on North First Street. He was identified as 22-year old Carl Devone Sewell. The stolen gun and the ammunition were found in his room. Sewell was taken to police headquarters and booked on a charge of armed robbery." Reel 2: Segment 1 (silent): Pickets outside napalm facility, with police cars driving past, stopped; crates with napalm bombs seen from a distance, and up close on a truck. Cut to lone man walking on sidewalk outside of San Jose City Hall, wearing sandwich board that reads, "Help carry the torch of freedom to Vietnam -- support napalm" on one side, and "Make San Jose home of napalm -- Village Barbecue LBJ-style" on the other. Script reads, "Four San Jose housewives held a day-long vigil today at the entrance of a San Jose trucking firm to protest the firm's transport and storage of napalm. The firm, Doudell Trucking Company, is currently contracted to transport and temporarily store napalm for the Federal government. Since Doudell is a common carrier, spokesmen say it is not the company's prerogative to refuse such a contract. The four women made their appearance at the trucking terminal at 545 Queens Lane this morning at 10 o'clock. Some ten or twelve other persons were on hand for moral support. San Jose police units arrived about 15 minutes later, informed the women of the criminal charges that could be made should they try to block traffic, and then drove away. The women said that they would attempt to stop any truck going to or from the terminal carrying napalm. The group of placard bearing housewives included Aileen Hutchinson, Joyce McLean, Beverly Farquharson, and Lisa Kalvelage. The pickets said they would be back tomorrow since no trucks appeared today. Later today, a lone demonstrator showed up in front of the San Jose City Hall. 24-year-old engineering assistant Dana Sudburough of San Jose said he had taken the day off from work to protest the storage of napalm here in San Jose. He said that he had read of the napalm storage at Doudell Trucking and thought he should do something about it. Sudburough carried a sandwich board placard which, one one side, declared 'Help carry the freedom torch to Vietnam...support napalm.' On the other side of the board, the statement, 'Make San Jose home of napalm...village barbecue...LBJ style.' Sudburough said that he might continue his vigil tomorrow morning." Segment 2 (silent + sound): Shots of men planting a NFWA flag by side of road, group of clergy and non-clergy on vista overlooking Santa Clara Valley. Interview with Sal Gonzales about the prayer vigil in support of the striking Delano farm workers, "We have been suffering for some 8 months...we are praying for growers to see our cause is just." Script reads, "The striking Delano farm workers who have employed boycotts, pickets and a 300-mile march to Sacramento in their efforts to win union recognition, now have a prayer vigil going on the Mount Hamilton foothills overlooking San Jose. The vigil began at sundown on the grounds of the Carmelite Brothers Monastery on Clayton Road. A few farm workers and sympathizers are expected to man the outdoor kneeling bench -- hastily bit today - around the clock. The Carmelite monks came out to watch the beginning of the vigil. They said they would offer prayers for the workers, but declined to pray while the television camera was going. Sal Gonzales, Director of Santa Clara Valley National Farm Worker operations explained the vigil..." 5/24/66 A-C 480; 5/24/66 D-E 480
Television stations Television broadcasting of news Nineteen sixties Vietnam War, 1961-1975 San Jose (Calif.)--Politics and government Boxers (Sports) Traffic accidents Fast food restaurants African Americans Crime and criminals--California Police officers Rifles Anti-war demonstrations Military weapons Pickets Delano (Calif.)--Grape Strike, 1965-1966 Prayer Labor Strikes Agricultural laborers Protests, demonstrations, vigils, etc National Farm Workers Association
Time Period
1966-05-24
Place
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) San Jose (Calif.) Hamilton Range, Mount (Calif.) Delano (Calif.)
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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