- Collection:
- Civil rights films from USC's moving image research collections
- Title:
- McNair, Seal, and Best on Lamar violence--outtakes
- Creator:
- WIS-TV
- Publisher:
- University of South Carolina. Moving Image Research Collections
- Date of Original:
- 1970-03-03
- Subject:
- School integration--South Carolina
Riots
Civil rights - People:
- McNair, Robert E. (Robert Evander), 1923-2007
- Location:
- United States, South Carolina, Darlington County, Lamar, 34.16877, -80.06257
United States, South Carolina, Richland County, 34.0218, -80.90304
United States, South Carolina, Richland County, Columbia, 34.00071, -81.03481 - Medium:
- motion pictures (visual works)
- Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/H264
- Description:
- Wayne Seal, Governor's Press Secretary during a press conference. Comments on charges that are to be brought against the responsible parties in the incident. In Columbia, Governor Robert McNair reads a prepared statement during a press conference. Reassures parents that everything possible is being done to restore order to "this troubled area." In Lamar, South Carolina, Jeryl Best is interviewed. Defends the mob action as "concerned parents who just lost their right way of thinking for a few minutes." Describes Federal Marshall's shooting tear gas canisters at the mob. Says that this was a Gestapo tactic. Declares that "we're fighting Communism." These comments refer to the Lamar riots on March 3, 1970, when approximately 150-200 white men and women rioted in a violent response to court-ordered desegregation in Lamar, South Carolina. Rioters attacked buses carrying elementary to high school aged children, fought with law enforcement officers, and overturned two empty school buses that students had recently fled.
- Metadata URL:
- http://cdm17173.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p17173coll18/id/118
- 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:
- Sound
Film: 16mm. Sound. Color. Reversal: positive. 1.37:1 (Academy). Magnetic. Acetate.
02:55 - Original Collection:
- Civil Rights Films from Moving Image Research Collections
- Contributing Institution:
- University of South Carolina. Moving Image Research Collections
University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections - Rights:
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