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Original camera footage edited for broadcast for KNTV San Jose Channel 11 news. Includes national, local, and sports coverage. The broadcast script for this date has not survived.
Reel 1 (silent + sound): Extended footage of a junk yard, many different shots of crumpled automobiles. KNTV reporter Frank Gorhan (?) then reports on a recent report on traffic accidents and fatalities with the junk yard in the background. "This is a parking lot. Not the kind where you drive in and later drive away. This lot full of twisted steel and machinery is located on the Hillsdale Road near Monterey Highway in San Jose, and the cars here are California cars just the few of the tens of thousands that were smashed up here in the county or state highways last year, and the first six months of this year. The National Safety Council has released new figures showing the first half of this year's traffic fatalities nationwide. The count comes to 23,570 person, the highest number for that period in the nation's history. In California alone, 2,201 persons died on the state's highways. There were more than 100,000 injuries. 25 persons out of every 100,000 die every year in California. There are more than 8.5 million vehicles not counting trucks, and there are five deaths for every million miles travelled. In the four years of the Vietnam conflict, 2,083 Americans were killed. In California twice that number dies every year. Since the automobile came on the American scene in 1903, well over 1 and 1/2 million persons have been killed in smashups and the cars grow bigger and faster and more powerful. And there are more of them every day of every year. Tens of thousands of new autos roll off the assembly. Many end here, in piles of scraps selling for a few dollars. But the cost is not reckoned in terms of dollars or machinery, it is lives lost. One person dies every five minutes, 82 are injured. Sixty more will be dead by the time the late news is broadcast tonight. This is Frank Gorhan, Channel 11 news, somewhere in a junkyard."
Reel 2:
Segment 1 (sound): Dennis Rowedder interviews a nurse. Reporter: "As far as you know do you think there's any possibility of the nurses changing their minds?" "The majority will not change their minds. I feel very sure of it. The minority have already changed." Reporter: "Do you have the backing from other groups of nurses in other counties?" "We certainly have. We've had a lot of backing. We've had a lot of telegrams, personal telegrams, and particularly stand firm that they are behind us. I know how we felt when San Francisco [?] did not go on, but we are firm and we're going to --" [cut off]
Segment 2 (sound): Interview with woman. Reporter: "This is a growing thing across the country, these welfare rights organizations -- what are your goals. What are you shooting at?" "Primarily to have people get off of welfare. And also to make the recipients aware of their obligations to the welfare department and vice versa." Reporter: "Isn't it generally considered to be the case that the amounts of money paid to welfare recipients simply is not enough to cover the normal needs of a family?" "Definitely not." Reporter: "You mean they do get enough money?" "No, we don't. We don't get enough money. Family units such that have large numbers of children over the amount -- say for instance if you have any six children so on and so forth as I do, the maximum that they will allow you is not sufficient for anyone to live halfway decently." Reporter: "Is it the hopes of this welfare rights organization to overhaul the old concept to give welfare recipients insufficient funds or the very minimum funds?" "Well, the hopes of our organization, they will join us, you see. And in this way they will know that we are not alone, that there are other people interested in our rights as a human being." Reporter: "Do you feel that your rights as a human being, as a citizen of this society, fall into second class status when you go onto welfare?" "Even lower." Reporter: "Why? How? How does this happen?" "Well, it is the general concept of the whole society that anyone who is on welfare is not a person to be counted for. They are not a human being. They are just a statistic."
Reel 3:
Segment 1 (sound): Dennis Rowedder interviews hospital administrator at Santa Cruz County Hospital. "It appears as though some of the nurses are going to stay on the job so we can run the hospital. I would've preferred that all of the nurses stayed."
Segment 2 (silent, color): Satellite simulation in space followed by model being tested inside a laboratory warehouse.
Segment 3 (silent): Small alligators in square, cement pools surrounded by picket fences being fed with fishes. Close-up of eggs in grass.
Reel 4 (silent): Fire fighters putting out a huge industrial fire, bracing each other as they use powerful water hoses. Names on jackets include Skern (or Skeen), Bryant, Leslie (?), Coomya (?). The building appears to be a structure housing dairy delivery trucks.
Reel 5 (sound): Man speaking to camera. "During the last few years I have become more and more concerned about morality. Not so much the morality of individual human beings, as the morality of nations, national governments. I think that there is something wrong in the world when our great nation, the United States, is involved in such an evil activity as the war in Vietnam. I believe that we need to search for a set of basic ethical principles that will be accepted by all of the different people in the world, including members of government. I know that there is a great amount of human suffering in the world because of overpopulation that leads to starvation, imperfect lives of misery, unhappiness for half of the world's people. This is a problem that we must now attack."
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