- Collection:
- WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
- Title:
- Series of WSB-TV newsflim clips of Georgia Department of Family and Children Services director Bill Burson discussing the need for family planning and issues concerning food security for children, Atlanta, Georgia, 1967 December 28
- Creator:
- WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Burson, William H., 1928-1997
- Date of Original:
- 1967-12-28
- Subject:
- Birth control--Georgia
Family planning--Georgia
Promiscuity--Georgia
Food security--Georgia
Occupational training--Georgia - People:
- Burson, William H., 1928-1997
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Atlanta Metropolitan Area, 33.8498, 84.4383
- Medium:
- moving images
news
unedited footage - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- In this series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips probably from Atlanta, Georgia on December 28, 1967, DFACS director Bill Burson discusses the important of providing family planning counseling and also issues concerning food scarcity for children.
The clips open with Burson sitting at his desk speaking. His comments are transcribed in full below:
Burson: "This certainly is an area of proper concern for the legislature. We do have a family planning law which offers some help. It allows us to give family planning counseling and guidance and assistance to women who are married, who have children, or who are pregnant, but this of course leaves out the broad group of the unmarried person who does not have children."
An unidentified off screen interviewer is heard and the remainder of their interview is transcribed below:
Interviewer: "Should we have some plan to give advice to these people?"
Burson: "I think that there's no doubt that we must do more in the area of family planning assistance."
Interviewer: "How do you answer to critics who say that such legislation only fosters promiscuity?"
Burson: "Well of course you undoubtedly will have an element of that in it, but I think that if you have to weigh a little promiscuity against a lot of illegitimacy, you're better off with a little promiscuity."
The clip cuts out and then resumes with the next portion of the interview, which is about dependent children. This portion of the interview is transcribed below:
Burson: "I don't see how you can possibly deal with the problems of dependent children by starving those children and denying them the necessities of life. Admittedly, we have a problem and I wouldn't want to minimize it in the slightest, but I think that we must work in programs with preschool education and in programs with job training for adults in order to break this welfare cycle."
[Clip cuts away and shows Burson at his desk then resumes.]
Burson: "In 26 counties of Georgia, unless there is a change of heart, there will be no assistance of any form involved."
Interveiwer: "...is the chance then that in 26 counties some children could starve to death?"
Burson: "Yes I would say there is a chance. I would hope that the local agencies, the concerned citizens, the civic groups, and the churches would see that this is not the case."
Title supplied by cataloger. - Local Identifier:
- Clip number: wsbn52680
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/news/id:wsbn52680
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/news/id:wsbn52680
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/ugabma_wsbn_wsbn52680/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: wsbn52680, Series of WSB-TV newsflim clips of Georgia Department of Family and Children Services director Bill Burson discussing the need for family planning and issues concerning food security for children, Atlanta, Georgia, 1967 December 28, WSB-TV newsfilm collection, reel 1429, 8:59/10:37, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, The University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia
- Extent:
- 1 clip (about 1 mins., 38 secs.): color, 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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