- Collection:
- Local Television Newsfilm Collections
- Title:
- Robert F. Kennedy speaks in South Carolina--outtakes
- Creator:
- WIS-TV
- Publisher:
- Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina. Moving Image Research Collections
- Date of Original:
- 1963-04
- Subject:
- School integration--South Carolina
Clemson University
Civil rights - People:
- Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Gantt, Harvey B. (Harvey Bernard), 1943-
Russell, Donald Stuart, 1906-1998
Jones, Thomas F. (Thomas Franklin), 1916-1981 - Location:
- United States, South Carolina, Richland County, Columbia, 34.00071, -81.03481
- Medium:
- motion pictures (visual works)
- Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/H264
- Description:
- Attorney General Robert Kennedy cites multiple statistics regarding education, jobs, and pay that illustrate injustices for African-American children in the United States and the need for civil rights. Kennedy applauds the peaceful desegregation of Clemson University by Harvey Gantt (in January 1963). South Carolina Governor Donald Russell and University of South Carolina President Dr. Thomas F. Jones are seated at the head table with their wives, Virginia Russell and Mary Jones. From reel dated "week ending 63-04-28."
Robert F. Kennedy visits South Carolina - Metadata URL:
- http://digital.tcl.sc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/localtvnews/id/388
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright Moving Image Research Collections. All rights reserved. For further information please contact University of South Carolina, Moving Image Research Collections, Columbia, SC 29208.
- Extent:
- Film: 16mm. Sound. B&W. Reversal: positive. 1.37:1 (Academy). Variable-area optical. Acetate.
02:26 - Original Collection:
- Local Television Newsfilm Collections
WIS-TV News Story 63-671 - Contributing Institution:
- South Caroliniana Library
- Rights:
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