KTLA News: "Jackie Robinson obituary compilation--miscellaneous footage" (1972)
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The KTLA newsfilm collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive consists of cut and unedited stories, outtakes and fill footage, originally shot on 16mm reversal film stock with magnetic soundtrack. Some footage, particularly material not used for broadcast, may be without sound.
Title: “Jackie Robinson obituary compilation--miscellaneous footage.” Date: October 26, 1972.
Summary: This footage contains three unrelated clips featuring Jackie Robinson. In the first, Robinson is seen meeting and greeting President Richard Nixon. Next, in an interview, Robinson discusses the need to raise low wages of working Americans, particularly "Black people, Puerto Rican people, and minority people..." Finally, Robinson speaks about narcotics addiction, his son's recovery from drug addiction, and the need to get surplus drugs out of home medicine cabinets.
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Complete Record: The KTLA newsfilm collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive consists of cut and unedited stories, outtakes and fill footage, originally shot on 16mm reversal film stock with magnetic soundtrack. Some footage, particularly material not used for broadcast, may be without sound. Title: “Jackie Robinson obituary compilation--miscellaneous footage.” Date: October 26, 1972. Summary: This footage contains three unrelated clips featuring Jackie Robinson. In the first, Robinson is seen meeting and greeting President Richard Nixon. Next, in an interview, Robinson discusses the need to raise low wages of working Americans, particularly "Black people, Puerto Rican people, and minority people..." Finally, Robinson speaks about narcotics addiction, his son's recovery from drug addiction, and the need to get surplus drugs out of home medicine cabinets. Learn more about this UCLA Film & Television Archive project: ucla.in/1SONCuw © 2023 The Regents of the University of California
Transcription
Mr Harry leaving press [Applause] my concern is simply that we get black people Puerto Rican people minority people who are making the minimal amount of money move them up so that their children can go to school with a de with decent closing so they don't have to worry about where they're going to be uh getting food this kind of thing and if we can get the Department of Commerce to lower their sights away from the millionaires 50 or 60 whatever they're going to do and think about masses of people people earning 10 $15,000 a year so that they can meet the kind of problems that we face you can't hardly live in these conditions today with the kind of money these people are making well I think certainly all of us recognize it's the responsibility of each one of us too many of us um well there like I was before my son became an addict but fortunate we were able to get him into the institution daytop uh Incorporated and they worked with him and got him cured uh we feel very strongly about this and we hope that this kind of a program that you have here will get more people interested more of them involved and get them to recognize that in too many instances the medicine cabinet is a start for the drug addiction and we hope that the parents will be concerned enough about it that they will look into the chest and clean out all of those old drugs throw them away be sure they're labeled properly and that's why I think this whole program has come into being because as you pointed out so many people have been involved in medic from the chest
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