- Collection:
- WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
- Title:
- Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of President John F. Kennedy and Governor of California Pat Brown at the White House Conference on Narcotic and Drug Abuse offering remarks on the problem of non-narcotic drugs, Washington, D. C., 1962 September 27
- Creator:
- WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
- Date of Original:
- 1962-09-27
- Subject:
- Presidents
Congresses and conventions
Drug addiction
Narcotics
Narcotic laws
Barbiturates
Amphetamines
Speeches, addresses, etc.
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
Brown, Edmund G. (Edmund Gerald), 1905-1996 - Location:
- United States, District of Columbia, Washington, 38.89511, -77.03637
- Medium:
- news
unedited footage - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- In this series of WSB newsfilm clips from Washington, D.C. on September 27, 1962, at the White House Conference on Narcotic and Drug Abuse, President John F. Kennedy and Governor of California Pat Brown offer remarks on the problem of non-narcotic drugs. The clips open on the exterior of the Harry S. Truman Building. The next clip shows people seated in the State Department auditorium. The next clip shows a close-up of an unidentified white woman. The next clip shows President John F. Kennedy speaking at a podium. His speech is transcribed in full below:
"One problem meriting special attention deals with the growing abuse of nonnarcotic drugs, including barbiturates and amphetamines. Society's gains will be illusory if we reduce the incidence of one kind of drug dependence only to have new kinds of drugs substituted. Abuse of these drugs is increasingly creating problems of abnormal and antisocial behavior, highway accidents, juvenile delinquency, and broken homes. The Congress is now considering legislation which I requested to strengthen Federal authority to control the manufacture and distribution of barbiturates and stimulant drugs. This key area should be the subject of continuous, intensive scrutiny. The sooner effective devices for preventing abuse of these drugs are implemented, the less severe the problem will be."
The next clip shows a group of men in the audience looking at papers. The next clip shows a man at the podium. His speech is transcribed in full below:
"The tide was not easily turned. The victims, the addicts, are sick and the peddlers are slick. And the war goes on, mostly at night. In the search for the most effective laws, we've had to walk a path between extremists who call for the death penalty for peddlers on one hand, and then on the other side those who would give free heroin to addicts."
Supporting information was taken from the following source: John F. Kennedy: "Remarks to the White House Conference on Narcotic and Drug Abuse.," September 27, 1962. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=8905
Title supplied by cataloger.
Clip number: wsbn3366533665 - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/news/id:wsbn33665
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:ugabma_wsbn_wsbn33665
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: wsbn3366533665, Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of President John F. Kennedy and Governor of California Pat Brown at the White House Conference on Narcotic and Drug Abuse offering remarks on the problem of non-narcotic drugs, Washington, D. C., 1962 September 27, WSB-TV newsfilm collection, reel 0749, 55:28/57:07, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, The University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Ga
- Extent:
- 1 clip (about 2 min.): black-and-white, sound ; 16 mm.
- Original Collection:
- Original found in the WSB-TV newsfilm collection.
- Holding Institution:
- Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection
- Rights:
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