KNTV Channel 11 News Reels September 14, 1979

Description: Original camera footage edited for broadcast for KNTV San Jose Channel 11 news. No broadcast script exists for this date. Reel 1: Segment 1 (silent): Night footage of Black man on stretcher being loaded into an ambulance by ambulance personnel. Cut to Black woman in dress walking down street with policemen. The ambulance drives away. She is at entrance to home with police, then she turns around and walks away. Segment 2 (silent): San Jose City Council meeting in chambers, with sparse audience. Segment 3 (silent): Football game during the day, in an arena that is fenced on one end with buildings visible. Reel 2: Segment 1 (sound): Interview with man in an office. Reporter off-camera. "I believe that as a professor at San Jose State College, that Dr. [Mervyn] Cadwallader has gone beyond the bounds of academic respectability in advocating trial marriage, encouraging young people to perhaps live together without benefit of marriage. I have proposed that the tutorials program at San Jose State College be discontinued not on the basis of academic freedom, but primarily because I felt San Jose State's chief academic officer when the program was undertaken it wasn't properly planned, that at the end of the first year approximately 40% of the students who started the program had dropped out of the program, or were either not invited back into the program to continue for a second year. I believe that freshmen who enter college should not be exposed to ideas by professors who are certainly very prestigious as far as students are concerned regarding the undertaking of marriage on a trial basis." [Mervyn Cadwallader was professor of sociology and the humanities at San Jose State College and director of its Experimental Program in Humanities and Science, and the author of "Marriage as a Wretched Institution" published in the November 1966 issue of Atlantic magazine] Segment 2 (sound): KNTV Reporter Frank Goran reports from the Kennedy Memorial Plaza at Santa Clara University. Over shots of the memorial, he reads from script. "Tomorrow the nation pauses to reflect inwardly on the third anniversary of the death of John F. Kennedy. It is no official day of mourning. Life goes on as usual, the shops are open, and it's just another ordinary day. But tomorrow will not go unnoticed, and those who may have temporarily forgotten November 22nd, 1963, will no doubt be prodded into remembering by the newspapers, radio and television. Even though tomorrow is a day to remember, it is difficult to say anything further or add anything new to the image of the man and the president. It seems everything has been said about him in the multitude of books written, the endless supply of magazine articles, the photo albums, the phonograph records, the press conferences, and continuing controversy over his assassination. His widow is in all the news almost every day, and her picture on the cover of any magazine guarantees a sale. The memory of JFK whatever else it may be is certainly a million dollar business for the mass media. There may be a danger in all these accolades and all this publicity. This is a land of fad and fashion, style and obsolescence, where the old model is replaced by the new, where the truth is often updated and glamorized for the all important mass appeal. It is possible that John Kennedy may be eclipsed by his own stereotype, shot out of focus by the subtle wisdom of the ad man and buried in the public mind of the professional marketeer. It is always so with the American hero. Our giants are at least as tall as Paul Bunyan and our imagination is as great as the great outdoors. Truth often becomes trite by massive repetition, and so John Kennedy the man, and the verity of what he said and did becomes dangerously obscured in jingles and technicolor. Kennedy said the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, and he said the goal from that fire can truly light the world. Thankfully the fire of those words and almost everything else he said survives the blanket of publicity, and the real man remains illuminated. On the anniversary of his assassination it might be a good idea to listen to those words, to listen to what he said himself, instead of what the experts say he said. This is Frank Goran, Channel 11 news, Kennedy Memorial Plaza at Santa Clara University." Reel 3: Segment 1 (silent): Camera pans across covers of books and magazines on John F. Kennedy, tabloid magazines with Jackie Kennedy on the cover. Segment 2 (sound): Interview with space scientist wearing glasses, short-sleeve shirt, and pocket protector. Reporter: "Would it be possible to carry out the mission without any visual sightings, entirely on instruments?" "Uh, it depends on the guidance and control scheme, and how much propulsion capability you had. It is technically possible for the man to conduct the entire mission but frequently using a totally manned system without computer support is much more costly in terms of the fuel, and doesn't leave an adequate margin of safety with the boosters that exist today. We are looking at the visual capabilities to a large degree because we feel the man can play an important role in serving as a backup system perhaps even as a primary system, for some missions and certainly so that we can specify exactly what he can do as well as we can specify what the equipment can do. We don't know this yet." Reel 4 (silent + sound): Silent shots of wrapped bundles of straw or rushes by side of road, for roof thatching. Older man wrapping them and carrying them to a stone cottage [3069 Rio Road, Carmel by the Sea], where there is a ladder set against the exterior wall. Two young children are seated on the ground watching. He shows them two large paddle tools [leggett and brush?], and starts carrying bundles up to roof. Reporter Dennis Rowedder interviews owner of the cottage. Rowedder: "Why did you decide to have your cottage here thatched?" "Well, of course, I spent the last three years in England in the Cotswolds, and I was tremendously thrilled by seeing the thatching there, and I've been saving up my money every since. I finally found the man, and was able to bring him over." Rowedder: "You brought him here over from England? Is it an expensive business?" "Considering the size of this building, it's extremely expensive. I imagine a full-size house would be enormously expensive." Rowedder: "Exactly why did you want it thatched then?" "Well, it gave me a tremendous thrill to see them over there, and of course I live next door, and I was anxious to look out the window and see a thatched roof any time I wished." Rowedder then interviews the thatcher. Rowedder: "Did you come here straight from Stratford?" "Yees." Rowedder: "You weren't working on Anne Hathaway's cottage by any chance, were you?" "Yes, I was." Rowedder: "Not the original of course." They both laugh. "No, not the original." Rowedder: "How long do you think it'll take you to do this?" "I would say about two months given good weather and all, and I do believe you get good weather here." Rowedder: "Occasionally [laughter] -- well, we're trying to get you some rain to make you feel at home I guess. Uh, Peter, although you've come here from England, you've got the most delightful Irish accent. I guess really I shouldn't be speaking to you, but are you from Ireland originally?" "Yeees, from Donegal -- well, I think it's all right for an Englishman to speak to me." Rowedder: "I tell you what, we'll fight when we get off camera." Laughter. [The thatcher is likely Peter Slevin, a master thatcher from Donegal] Reel 5 (sound): Interview with a man on topic of Economic Opportunities Commission and Economic Opportunity Act. Reporter off-camera. "Because the EOC was -- should've been -- established as a coordinating body to carry out the Economic Opportunity Act of which the community action programs are only a part, and the EOC is organized with its directors as if the community action program were the overall program, which it isn't. In effect, we are using the community action funds to develop and administer non-common acting programs. The overall EOC in my estimation should have been organized with local governing body, persons from local agencies as overall governing body and under it should have been a community action body made up of poor people, because this is their program, intended for them to be used as they see fit. Our approach is to take strictly according to the law, and the law's purpose was plainly stated to create opportunity to learn, opportunity to work, opportunity to live in decency and dignity. This to us means the three E's: education, employment and environment. In other words, to go back and correct the cause of the problem and not to treat the results. In general the EOC has been developing a considerable amount of service-type programs which we call a Christmas basket solution to the problem. We are trying through common effort, participation and coordination to go back to the system that's creating this situation in the first place and open up the opportunity for education, the opportunities to work and the opportunity to have decent housing, decent services and facilities. To live in decency and dignity. This is our different approach." Reel 6 (sound): Man in prison jumpsuit conferring with his lawyer in courtroom. Followed by interview with prosecuting attorney by reporter Dick Currier. Currier: "Now, Levy's bail is set at $100,000 -- is the bail that high in each case?" Attorney: "No, in some of the other cases, the bail is 50,000 dollars and in the case of the individuals who are in custody other than Mr. Levy, the bail is just 10,000 each." Currier: "Why is his bail so high?" "He was the boss of the operation. There's little doubt that Mr. Levy ran the operation and profited mainly from it." Currier: "What are the charges involved?" "The charges involved are conspiracy, grand theft, and forgery." Currier: "How did that work, what was their modus operandi?" "Basically, the way they worked was going to business firms that were owed money by other business firms, offering to collect the money not as a collection bureau but rather as a business factor. They would then get the names and the amounts of the debts owed by the debtors, they would collect it, they would get promissory notes rather than cash to the firms they dealt with, and they wouldn't pay off. And of course this was done to the tune of, certainly huge amounts of money both in this state and other states. It's almost impossible to estimate how much was involved." Currier to camera: "Levy's attorney, Theodore Flier, from Los Angeles, has just appeared in Superior Court Judge Kelley's court, where he asked for a reduction of bail from 100,000 to 15,000 dollars. He said he could personally vouch for Levy as a friend of the family for more than 12 years, but his appeal was denied. This is Dick Currier, Channel 11 news, at Superior Court." 11/21/66 A-E 659; 11/21/66 F-G 659; 11/21/66 H-I 659; 11/21/66 J 659; 11/21/66 K 659; 11/21/66 L 659