The KHOU-TV Collection - News Clips, June 13-16, 1968

Duration: 12:21

Year Published: 1968

Sound: sound

Description: This film from KHOU-TV Channel 11 in Houston contains a series of short news segments that would have aired as highlights to news stories. Many are silent and would have been voiced over by the anchorperson during a live broadcast. The titles for each segment are the originals created by KHOU-TV. The clips on this reel all date from June 13-16, 1968. This series includes news segments about the approach of the Icarus asteroid, weather-related traffic incidents, and boat racing on Lake Houston. Also included are press conferences with Congressman Robert Eckhardt about gun control and criminal defense attorney Percy Foreman about James Earl Ray, the assassin of Martin Luther King Jr.