- Collection:
- Civil rights films from USC's moving image research collections
- Title:
- Clyburn interviewed about welfare abuses--outtakes
- Creator:
- WIS-TV
- Publisher:
- University of South Carolina. Moving Image Research Collections
- Date of Original:
- 1971-05-07
- Subject:
- Religion
Social work administration
Motion picture journalists
Food stamps
Welfare fraud - People:
- Clyburn, James
- Location:
- 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:
- Ebenezer Lutheran Church is the scene of the Conference on Hunger by the Christian Action Council. Medium shot WIS-TV newsman Tom Howard introduces James Clyburn, assistant to Governor John West for human resources. Clyburn tries to dispel the "welfare Cadillac" myth (which purports that ineligible people misuse the food stamp program). Clyburn suggests more rich people abuse the income tax system, referring to Governor Ronald Reagan of California. Howard introduces Beatric Snide[?] (pronounced "Bee-at'rik Snyd") of the Richland County Welfare Rights Organization. Medium shot Snide, who contends that Senator Ernest Hollings doesn't really care about the poor.
- Metadata URL:
- http://cdm17173.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p17173coll18/id/20
- 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. Color. Reversal: positive. 1.37:1 (Academy). Magnetic. Acetate.
01:41 - 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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