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.
Segment 1 (silent): Women on the corner of East Jackson Street and Fifth Street in San Jose with a bucket of carnations and other flowers, holding a picket that reads, "Flowers Not Bombs All Children." One of them appears to be Joyce McLean, of the "Napalm Ladies," who was on trial earlier in the summer for protesting at a napalm trucking site in San Jose. The women are in front of Hank's Coffee Shop (211 East Jackson) and appear to be attempting to hand out the flowers to passersby. In the background is a cannery, likely the CalPak Plant No. 39 Pickle Works at 7th and Jackson. Also visible is a piano shop, and the Mandarin Restaurant at 230 East Jackson.
Segment 2 (sound): Dennis Rowedder interviews a nurse from Santa Cruz County. "Well, we felt that they didn't really understand our problem, that perhaps in some way they were not as familiar with the responsibilities that we were trying to carry out. There is a great deal of shortage of nurses here in this area, but primarily in this hospital, and it is due to the scale of wages and we feel very strongly that we need this in order to help the nurses to come in that would be interested in this work. We have a lot of responsibility here. The patients are needing care that has to be given by the registered nurse. She in turn is trying to carry out in every respect the doctor's orders, and she does have to have assistance, and we do have assistance, but we need more registered nurses here in this hospital." Reporter: "In other words, you are understaffed, and -- are you working overtime?" "There are some that are working even double shifts when requested. We are understaffed -- I understand one of the supervisors feels that we are overstaffed, but this, this isn't true. Primarily the younger nurse that would be interested in working in the county just can't work at this scale. They have many responsibilities that perhaps some of the older ones have already worked for many years do not have. They have children to bring up, and their education, and they certainly can't do it at the scale that we're working at now." Reporter: "In other words, you're thinking of..." [cut off]
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