KNTV Channel 11 News Reels January 7, 1966

Description: Original camera footage edited for broadcast for KNTV San Jose Channel 11 news on October 14, 1966. Includes national, local, and sports coverage. The accompanying script, read by the newscaster, provides details of the stories and completes the broadcast, and can be obtained from History San Jose. Reel 1: Segment 1 (sound): Footage of automobiles vying for starting spots at the Monterey Grand Prix Can-Am at Laguna Seca racetrack near Monterey. Interview with Jim Hall, who is asked about the new wing spoiler design and how they do their testing; Phil Hill; Dan Gurney, who is asked about parting ways with Jerry; interview with someone named Chuck [Charles Parsons?] about whether he has a chance for Can-Am points. Bruce McLaren may also be one of the interviewees. Reel 2: Segment 2 (silent): Football practice, related to story on San Jose Apaches. Broadcast script reads, "A former All-American from Miami of Florida has joined the San Jose Apaches. Ed Weisacosky, who was outstanding for the south in the college north-south game last December, has joined the semi-pro football Apaches. Owner-manager Charles Tredway announced Weisacosky's arrival tonight...There were pro scouts at tonight's practice of the Apaches and will be more tomorrow night at Municipal Stadium. ..." Segment 1 (sound): Press conference with Joan Kennedy (wife of Ted Kennedy) and Bernice Brown, wife of Governor Brown, outside of the Triton Museum of Art on South Second Street, San Jose. Mrs. Brown is asked how she feels about polls showing that the governor is trailing Ronald Reagan in the campaign. She says that she's not worried, it will just make them work extra hard. She predicts that the California poll coming out on Sunday will show that the governor and Reagan are very close. She's then asked how she feels physically as the campaign draws to a close. "Fine!" Kennedy is asked if it's hard to juggle all the campaigning demands she must have on account of her name. She says she is only campaigning in Massachusetts, and is here on a special trip on the invitation of Mrs. Brown to support her because she feels this is one of the most important races. She says they are old friends from 1960 when Kennedy lived in California and campaigned for Jack Kennedy. "It's like coming home in a way." Reel 3: Segment 2 (silent): Footage of Bernice Brown and Joan Kennedy touring inside the Triton Museum of Art, and viewing paintings. According to the broadcast script, they officiated the unveiling of two paintings, "Mother and Daughter" by Henrich Seltzner, and "The Christening of the Infant Count Ettore de Bramante" by Vittorio Reggiani. They are accompanied by a group of Democratic women. Both women are seen making speeches, with the audience of women clapping. Segment 1 (sound): Interview with Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors Chairman Charles Quinn about recent report issued by California Attorney General Thomas Lynch detailing illegal practices in the County Assessor's Office. Quinn is asked whether he'd consider suspending current County Assessor Mathiesen, and he says they'd need t rely on County Counsel to make that judgement. Segment 2 (sound): Interview with Santa Clara County Tax Assessor Mathiesen about report issued by California Attorney General Thomas Lynch that details illegal practices in the assessor's office. Reporter refers to allegations that former assessor Hayden Pittman was engaged by a large food processor on a $10k annual retainer and received favored treatment to the amount of $140k in tax savings over two years, and details other charges in the report. Mathieson says that this is the first time these allegations have been brought to his attention and so he can't comment on them; he's asked if he might lose his job as a result of the report, and he says yes, he could lose his job, but it's also probably the first time the public has known the name of their county assessor, and it's important that the public be aware of what the office does and how important it is. Reel 4: Segment 3 (silent): Small plane landing in a field, emergency vehicles, man smiling and shaking hands with another man, plane being towed. Broadcast script reads, "For the third time in the past few months, the same plane made an emergency belly landing at San Jose Municipal Airport. And for the third time, the trouble was the same...a wheel which refused to come down into landing position....The pilot, Ed Scarboro, jumped to the ground, took a few deep breaths, and felt the good feel of solid ground. He was congratulated by Jim Eccles, the pilot who brought the same plane in on the second wheels up landing a few months ago. The aircraft -- a twin engine Queen Air -- is operated by International Air Service, which trains new pilots for Japan Air Lines. " Reel 5: Segment 4 (silent + sound): Dr. Charles Hudson, president of the American Medical Association, is seen giving a talk at Santa Clara University. Followed by sound interview, where he comments on the ethics of nurses going on strike for for higher pay. He says that nurses have a legitimate claim for more reimbursement and are also working for better working conditions; this is a dramatic way for them to make their wishes known. Segment 1 (silent): Banquet hall inside the Cabana Restaurant in Palo Alto. Santa Clara County Medical Society dinner with speaker Dr. Charles Hudson, president of the American Medical Association. Followed by footage of press conference with Dr. Hudson, where the broadcast script indicates that Hudson said he would fight against further expansion of Medicare, he opposes a nurses strike because it's not professional, and he will fight against a nationalized health service. Segment 1 (silent): Views of the objects on display at the Stanford University art gallery as part of the exhibit, "Treasures from Mrs. Stanford's Basement." Broadcast script reads, "The surviving collection of paintings, vases, glassware, statuary, and odds and ends were taken to the university museum after the 1906 quake, and they have been kept there ever since--neglected and all but forgotten. Now, the remains of Mrs. Stanford's basement have been reassembled, dusted off, and displayed in the campus art gallery. And what a sight it is! Stuffy, sentimental, innocent, bourgeois, gaudy, colorful, complacent...and very, very Victorian. It is a reflection and a reminder of the old days of the California aristocracy, the fantastically wealthy magnates and land barons who flourished before the turn of the last century, and who built palaces and castles in the valleys and forests of the primitive golden state." Segment 3 (sound): Reporter Dennis Rowedder interviews Aptos resident John Karchez, who has filed claim to real estate on the moon based on the fact that his grandson's name was carved on the space vehicle Surveyor One, the first object to land on the moon. Karchez says he is charging $1 for U.S. interests, but any other nation will need to pay $1 million. Rowedder offers him one dollar on behalf of KNTV for exclusive news coverage. Segment 2 (sound): Interview with Columbia University professor Richard Hofstadter at Stanford University, who explains the "paranoid style" in American politics. He says it's a way of describing how people respond to public issues, including an excessive disposition to consider that everything is part of a vast conspiracy, to make grandiose predictions, and to inject this into political rhetoric. The reporter asks how this style fits into California politics. Hofstadter says he wouldn't want to comment specifically since he hasn't paid that much attention to California politics, but there are a lot of paranoid types in California politics, and a very large electorate that responds to appeals of this kind. Segment 2 (silent): Appears to be a trade show exhibition for Dewar's White Label scotch whisky. 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