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People gathered near parked Greyhound busses waiting to get on. Luggage being loaded into busses. Group photo. Parents and students - students board busses.
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01:00:54 54.93 |
S. Johns River - Body Found. Onlookers peer down at river. Police retrieve dead body and cover it in a white sheet.
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01:01:24 84.58 |
Joel T. Davis runs for US Senate seat (as a Democrat) - makes speech and calls for withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam. He lost the election.
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01:03:48 228.87 |
Canal Association Meeting-no sound. People on boats in the canal.
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01:05:32 332.4 |
CU yellow school bus (front windshield). CU handwritten sign in bus window reads, "Hooray! this is it". (last day of school). Kiods carrying their school books walk down the street, little girl waves at camera. Kids run down the front steps of the school, jump and wave.
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01:07:11 431.72 |
Aerial - a Florida city - maybe Jacksonville and could be the St. Johns River
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01:08:46 526.65 |
Nighttime crime scene. Police and police cars, policeman in his car talks on walkie, onlookers. Male Perp with no shirt in back seat of police car. Policeman records license plate number on Volkswagen Beetle. Int. hardware store, police investigate.
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01:09:25 565.97 |
William Kunstler, attorney and civil rights activist. Makes civil rights speech from podium with two Black Panthers by his side, police guard the stage. Audience shouts and applauds. He talks about people being afraid to open their mouths, he states and poses an analogy - " we are not Nazi Germany yet, but we are in a posture that is so similar to the Weimar Republic (the German Reich)..." On Jan 30, 1933 a new man became chancellor of Germany but even then, silence took the place of rational debate, and the people voted for the Nazi candidate in the last free election in Germany. He goes on to state that there was still time to speak out, to save lives...but silence took the place of speech.
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01:12:01 721.8 |
Kuntsler goes on to express that men cannot be silenced and talks about several incidents such as Fred Hampton who was brutally murdered in the City of Chicago by police and then they were exonerated. He talks about there still being time to protest things like the man who is now on the public enemy list whose crime was tjat he made a speech in Cambridge, MD in 1967, and Black Panther Chairman, Bobby Seale and the electric chair. He goes on to say there is still time to prevent another Kent State, Jackson State, South Carolina State, the blatant murder of 6 black men who picked up a TV from a broken window in a store and that had suddenly become a capital crime in the Southern United States. He makes other comparisons but his main point is that there is still time to come together and speak to the things that have meaning to human beings.
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01:13:31 811.97 |
He states emphatically,
"We can no long bear in our name a massive war that is based on poverty and racism and is destroying an entire nation in Southeast Asia (Vietnam)..." Kunstler reiterates that there is still time and that there are some things that are worth dying for, that are so meaningful... He states that we call upon government and we will take all steps necessary to preserve our dignity and well being of our brothers and sisters here and abroad. |
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Shots of the audience, two Black women hold their hands over their eyes, people listen intently and applaud.
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He concludes that every man, woman and child who can think and analyze will come to the conclusion that maybe Patrick Henry was right, the choices are liberty or death and in that choice if you don't get one you get the other, and that should be a firm resolve.... he repeats about Free Speech, and addressing the Jacksonville audience tells them that they are independent and free people who can make up their own minds, draw their own conclusions and take their own actions as they see fit.
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Kunstler speech ends in applause. Shots of some of the audience made up of Blacks and Whites.
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