Plea for clemency for Britt and Westbury--outtakes

Description: Item Description Title Plea for clemency for Britt and Westbury--outtakes News Story Number WIS-TV News Story 61-177 Sound or Silent Silent and sound Contributing Institution University of South Carolina. Moving Image Research Collections Digital Collection Local Television Newsfilm Collections Collection Name WIS-TV News Collection Date 1961-06-19 Decade 1960 Temporal Coverage Filmed on June 19, 1961. Content Description Relatives of Otis Britt and Douglas Westbury visit South Carolina Governor Ernest Hollings to plead for executive clemency. Women walk down hall to door marked Governor. Closeup sign. Women and men come out of Governor's office. Unidentified man speaking says, we begged the Governor to give these men life instead of the electric chair. He turned us down. and I've known Otis Britt for fifteen years and he hasn't had a chance on life. Long shot people in parking lot. Interior: medium shot Governor Hollings seated at desk. Man in prison cell. Closeup another man. Medium shot prisoners being escorted into building. Britt and Westbury were convicted and sentenced to death for the September 7, 1958 murder of South Carolina Highway Patrolman Harry Boyd Ray. Governor Hollings did not grant clemency, and the pair were executed later that day (June 19, 1961). Geographic Location Columbia (S.C.) Subject Criminal justice, Administration of. Capital punishment. Hollings, Ernest F., 1922- Creator Name WIS-TV (Production unit) Rights Copyright Moving Image Research Collections. All rights reserved. For further information please contact University of South Carolina, Moving Image Research Collections, Columbia, SC 29208. Physical Format Film: 16mm. Silent and sound. B&W. Reversal: positive. 1.37:1 (Academy). Sound. Acetate. Citation Plea for clemency for Britt and Westbury--outtakes. (WIS-TV News Story 61-177.) WIS-TV News Collection. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina. S.C. County Richland County (S.C.) Time Period Civil Rights Era (1955-1969) Type Moving Image Format video/H264 Media Type Motion pictures (visual works) Run Time 02:33 Digitization Specifications This standard definition .h264 video is an access copy derived from a captured videotape master of a film original. Date Digital 2017-10-11 Language English Website https://digital.library.sc.edu/collections/local-television-newsfilm-collections/