- Collection:
- WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
- Title:
- Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of East Point, Georgia police officers in the aftermath of breaking up a fight between to groups of teenagers, 1968, August 10
- Creator:
- WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
- Date of Original:
- 1968-08-10
- Subject:
- Violence
Parties
Police
Riots
Vandalism
Juvenile delinquency - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, East Point, 33.67955, -84.43937
- Medium:
- moving images
news
unedited footage - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- In this series of WSB newsfilm clips from August 10, 1968, East Point, Georgia police officers, in the aftermath of breaking up a fight between to groups of teenagers, discuss the situation. The clips begin with some police officers standing outside of their patrol cars, holding guns. The police officers then return to their cars and leave the area. The next clip is an officer giving an interview about the incident. He indicates that a rock had been thrown through a patrol car window. The patrol car had responded to a call of a disturbance in the area. The situation escalated as a crowd of teenagers gathered. The officer then describes how some rocks and bottles were thrown. The next clip is of an elderly gentleman being interviewed about the incident. He describes how the incident involved two groups of teenagers having two seperate parties and one group tried to crash the other's party.
Title supplied by cataloger. - Local Identifier:
- Clip number: wsbn54324
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/news/id:wsbn54324
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/news/id:wsbn54324
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/ugabma_wsbn_wsbn54324/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: wsbn54324, Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of East Point, Georgia police officers in the aftermath of breaking up a fight between to groups of teenagers, 1968, August 10, WSB-TV newsfilm collection, reel 1482, 00:58/03:07, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, The University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia
- Extent:
- 1 clip (about 2 mins., 9 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:
-
