The War on Poverty in Bexar County - The Trinity University Collection

Duration: 5:11

Year Published: 1960s

Sound: sound

Description: In this 1960s television news report for San Antonio’s KENS-TV, reporter Jim Abbot details programs created to address poverty in Bexar County, including home economic classes and new water and sanitation facilities. The projects were the result of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s “War on Poverty,” a central initiative of his Great Society domestic agenda that sought to end hunger, illiteracy, and unemployment. The film also includes silent news footage of neighborhoods in west Bexar County.