KNTV Channel 11 News Reels January 22, 1966

Description: Original camera footage edited for broadcast for KNTV San Jose Channel 11 news on September 29, 1966. The accompanying script, read by the newscaster, provides details of the stories and completes the broadcast, and can be requested from History San Jose. Segment 1 (silent): Santa Clara University football player, Number 34, poses for camera, followed by shots of the team practicing. Segment 2 (sound): Interview with San Jose Mercury News editor Ken Conn about Swift Company's decision to withdraw its application for a meat processing plant in San Jose. Conn says it was a wise decision, very smart, very good. He doesn't think the Chamber of Commerce will be able to reverse the decision. He also says the Mercury News has not attempted to run the town or influence the decision. Script reads, "...Following its successful vendetta against the meat company coming to San Jose, at least at this time, KNTV reporter Vic Jowers interviewed editor Ken Conn. ((SOF Conn saying how happy he is)) ((play up any nervous gestures and twitches if any)) An allegation by Joseph Pace that he had been pressured by the paper to deny the Swift application when it was to come before the Council was denied by Conn..." Segment 3 (silent + sound): Three Stanford students tell of their experiences in Vietnam. Silent shots of the three young men seated at a table in a small auditorium with an audience, one of whom is writing in a notebook. Each of the students is then interviewed outside the building. Script reads, "A half dozen, who served with volunteers in Asia spent three months in Japan, Korea, Hong Kong and Vietnam. The three who served in Vietnam are Doug Ohmans, Kit Anderton, and Holt Ruffin. All said they were concerned about the war in Vietnam before they went overseas to assist in community development. Their view is now that the U.S. should not immediately pull out of the Asian country...but that the American government is not truthful about the war and its goals. All expressed concern about the effect of American presence in South Vietnam. Doug Ohmans, who spent time in the provincial capital of Na Trang, talked about the American military forces." Ohmans says that there were 15,000 troops living in the town, and there were inadequate facilities, and an increase in inflation, bars and brothels, garbage in the streets, refugees coming to the town and creating shanties in the streets. The social fabric was very disrupted. Script continues, "Holt Ruffin, who worked in Saigon, said some of the special forces bars resembled Tijuana, Mexico. He was skeptical of the recent constitutional convention elections." Ruffin opines that the analysis by officials was way too fast and not sufficient to convince him. There were problems with who was allowed to vote, and who could run as a candidate. Problems with press censorship sort of invalidates elections if people aren't allowed to have free discussion. Script continues, "Kit Anderton, the son of ABC newsman Piers Anderton, spent his three months with Montagnard tribesmen in the central highlands. He said discrimination against them by the South Vietnamese already exists." Anderton says he witnessed persecution of the Montagnard in things such as education, where it's completely segregated, and the Montagnard have a high rate of illiteracy. There were three elected in recent elections, the first time there have been any in government. Segment 4 (sound): KNTV reporter Dennis Rowedder interviews elementary school children in Carmel about Governor Brown, asking questions such as, "Do you know who Governor Brown is?" "What's his job?" "Would you like to be a governor?" "What's the difference between Republicans and Democrats?" "Are there any animals associated with each party?" Most of the children say they would not like to be governor, because he has a lot of problems to solve. Two of the girls say that ladies can't be governors, only governors' wives, but the third girl says she would like to be governor. Segment 5 (silent + sound): Silent footage of audience and speech at Alan Cranston rally in San Jose, followed by interview with Cranston. Script reads, "Cranston addressed 150 telephone company employees at a North Market Street parking lot. After reviewing his proposals for cutting property taxes, Cranston scored the John Birch Society as being equally as damaging to the nation as the Communist Party." Cranston is asked by the reporter what his denunciation of the Birch Society had to do with campaigning for state controller. Segment 7 (silent): Appears to be a San Jose City Council meeting. Mayor Ron James is in attendance. A man is speaking at the front, with a large plan on the wall behind him. This is likely a story on the progress in East San Jose. Script reads, "Eastsiders still feel neglected today in spite of last night's meeting to hash out the area's blight problem. There's apparently going to be no major change there for at least 4 years, and that's supposing a general neighborhood redevelopment plan gets off the ground. During a so-called 'progress report,' Mayor Ron James and city officials outlined what the City-side is prepared to do. County Executive Howard Campen on the other hand spent much of the evening explaining the Board of Supervisors' lack of action and lack of concern with conditions. The city expects to complete the Mayfair Park by January -- this park was promised over three years ago. Additional street lights are planned for the area. According to urban redevelopment director Olney Smith, no immediate solution can be expected because the general project can't get underway until 1970..." Segment 6 (sound): Interview with Dr. Clark Kerr, President of the University of California, asked about student unrest on the Berkeley campus and whether they could bar an upcoming speaker who is expected to be controversial. He is asked to compare today's students with past generations. He says that the University of California campuses are open to the public same as any other public building and that if someone is invited by an authorized student group, then they have the right to speak. He says that the number of students with academic concerns has increased; more students come better prepared than ever before, with more intending to go on to graduate degrees. There has been an increase in non-conformist groups, but the public only sees the 2% that are radical, revolutionary and bohemian. The other 98% of the non-conformist group he would label as 'peace corps types' who have real concerns about injustice but address it by working within society. He thinks none of the future belongs to the revolutionaries, but at least some of it belongs to the peace corps types. Segment 8 (silent): A small grass fire is deliberately set at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, and a woman in shift dress and heels arrives with a fire extinguisher to put it out. She is wearing a "Queen Safety-Rama 1966" sash. Script reads, "75 firms and organizations in the San Jose area will participate in the Safety-Rama, to be held from 9 to 9 in the on Saturday in the Exposition Hall. Queen of the event is Sue Etter, who got a literal baptism of fire this morning. She used a 3-pound dry chemical extinguisher to extinguish the gas-fed flames..." Segment 9 (sound): Story on a team of South African scientists who are about to depart from Capetown on the first of five flights to study the Van Allen radiation belt from 30,000 feet. Segment 10 (color, silent): Astronaut getting into a test space module on a centrifuge. Sign reads, "Centrifuge running" and then a shot of the exterior windows with an astronaut's face in the window.