File Master #248 8/10/79 through 8/15/79
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1. Police Helicopters 8-10-79
00:00:03 - 00:00:29
Somewhat pixelated coverage of police helicopters on the ground.
2. Shuttle -Bebe- 8-10-79
00:00:31 - 00:02:31
The space shuttle flies in to Atlanta Hartsfield Airport atop its 747 transporter plane. As the shuttle circled the airport and touched down, a few hundred people waited behind a chain link fence, reporter's voice describes--a smaller crowd than was expected. "Every baggage carrier and truck in the area waited along the runway to welcome the Enterprise to Atlanta," she says. Camera follows the Enterprise as it lands atop its 747 transporter plane in front of a large "Fly Delta Jets" sign. The space shuttle program is way over budget and way behind schedule, but to the people who stood in the blazing heat to see it today, it was the most exciting thing in the world to spend their tax dollars on, says reporter's voice. A mother, interviewed, says she came to see it because her daughter, Mary Katharine, was born the day it flew in 1977. She thought her daughter, a toddler, who she held in her arms, ought to see what came into the world with her. A teenage boy said, in the future we are going to be flying things like this for commercial and military uses. Other people are interviewed. The Space Shuttle will be here for twenty-four hours, says reporter's voice off camera, and will leave for St. Louis tomorrow and it is expected there will be bigger crowds tomorrow because, reporter tells us, as one spectator explained, it’s a little like seeing "Moonraker" and "Battlestar Gallactica" all rolled up into one.
Reporter: Emmerman, Bebe
3. Shuttle Traffic 8-10-79
00:02:33 - 00:04:13
Reporter reports from a helicopter above Stone Mountain. We see Stone Mountain then footage of people waiting for the Space Shuttle to arrive in Central City Park and on rooftops of Atlanta's tall buildings. The shuttle was spotted by those in the copter at 12:36 coming out of the east with a chase plane, but the chopper couldn't keep up with the 747 upon which the shuttle was riding piggy-back as it headed towards Six Flags amusement park to give the western portion of the metro Atlanta area a view, explains reporter's voice. The shuttle did a fly-by at the airport which, with its fly-over above the metro area, burned approximately four thousand gallons of fuel, explains reporter. We see the shuttle flying piggy-back through a hazy sky.
Reporter: McClellan, Don
4. Marta Fares 8-10-79
00:04:15 - 00:04:50
MARTA buses pull past a bus stop and drive on Atlanta's streets.
5. Ambulance Service -File- 8-10-79
00:04:52 - 00:05:14
Ambulance and fire truck sit in driveway of North Fulton County fire station on Holcomb Bridge Rd. Different ambulance drives fast down North Fulton street with sirens blaring. Camera, inside ambulance, captures footage out front window of ambulance as it drives.
6. Apartment rape 8-10-79
00:05:15 - 00:07:22
This summer there has been a series of break-ins here, says reporter's voice off camera, as we see apartment complex and residents sitting on chairs at pool with clothes on in the evening for a meeting. The women say, continues reporter, a few months ago a man began going door to door asking for information, saying he was a magazine salesman, asking if they lived alone and if their husband was in. Since that happened, there were two attempted rapes and one rape. The residents believe this man is the rapist. Jose Marquano [sp] says this was the man who confronted his wife in their living room a few weeks ago. Jose tells reporter he saw the man through his back window. A woman, Jo Stewart, reporter tells us, says an overnight guest was surprised when the man came in her bedroom. Jo speaks to reporter saying that her friend described him as a soft-spoken man who looked Armenian. Rhonda Griswold tells reporter that the man tried to stop her when she was jogging one day. She describes him as having curly hair, a mustache, about five foot ten inches tall with medium build. He spoke to her something that wasn't understandable, so she nodded and kept going. Reporter's voice explains that residents have begun to put boards in their windows and doors (we see a board in a window) and have asked DeKalb County police to patrol their area more (patrol car drives down street). A red and white sign reads, "Hacienda Apartments. 2203. Apartment Available." Reporter closes in front of apartments saying that the apartment management told residents that they are going to hire a security guard. Residents say they won't sleep soundly until that happens.
Reporter: McClamma, Sharon
7. Georgia Power 8-10-79
00:07:22 - 00:09:00
Public Service Commission hearing at which Georgia Power asked for two hundred and thirty million dollars, but only got a little more than half that, $122.9 million, says reporter's voice off camera as people sit at tables going over paper work at the commission meeting. Georgia Power refused the offer and will take the commission to court, continues reporter. Georgia Power official is interviewed: "if you look at the rate of inflation since our last price increase, and use the National Consumer Price Index, you're talking about a rate of inflation through the second quarter of 1979 of about seventeen percent. The commission's action today awarded us a little over a nine percent increase. Inflation impacts us a lot more severely than any other business just because of the tremendous construction we have going. So, I think anyone can understand that we can't live on less than the rate of inflation." Reporter says in front of camera, if this one hundred and twenty-two million dollars stands up in court, it's not an easy matter to tell Georgia Power to go out and take this money from your customers. That money is dictated by the Public Service Commission, reporter continues as we see footage of the commission’s meeting. The Public Service Commission is allowing Georgia Power to increase minimum bills by fifty cents, to four dollars a month. A reconnection of power will now cost $7.50 and for anyone requiring new service, it will cost five dollars for a hook-up. Georgia Power wanted to charge twelve dollars. A one percent late fee will now be added to delinquent bills and of course, reporter explains, your kilowatt hour will become more expensive, perhaps raising the bill by three dollars a month, but all could change when the appeal goes before a judge.
Reporter: Bjorkman, Ernie
8. Space Shuttle 8-10-79
00:09:02 - 00:10:36
Similar footage as in clip no’s 2 and 3. Reporter’s voice off camera says, the excitement started to build around noon with people in Central City Park and on rooftops waiting for the space shuttle to arrive which was about sixteen minutes late. Reporter’s narration of the arrival of the shuttle riding piggy-back on its 747 through the haze continues, “it sort of hovered over the runway, floating along like an immense butterfly. We realized it was doing what we all like to do from time to time. It was showing off.” After a quick turn around the airport, the shuttle landed to ooh’s and ah’s and camera clicks. People waited behind a chain link fence. Deke Slayton, one of the astronauts who walked on the moon was there, reporter tells us [This information is incorrect, but Slayton did pilot the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project docking module in 1972 and served in several other NASA supervisory roles. Source: https://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/slayton.html]. For most Americans, the space shuttle program is exciting even though it’s over budget and behind schedule, continues reporter. It is the only link with the mysteries of the future and according to one female spectator, reporter tells us, “it’s the only thing the federal government does that’s really creative.”
Reporter: Emmerman, Bebe
9. Homicides Noon S.U. 8-11-79
00:10:37 - 00:11:52
Reporter stands in front of City of Atlanta Police Headquarters saying, “today is August eleventh. Since August first there have been twelve homicides.” That is more than one killing a day and the epidemic continues unchecked because there have been only three arrests made, one in connection with a domestic incident with two homicides instances of sudden anger. The other nine homicides are related to either drug, robbery or unknown causes. Two arrests were made for the two killings from last night, one in which a man killed his wife; the other in which a man killed his roommate. The third murder from last night is expected to be drug-related, the other from a robbery. “Atlanta’s murder investigators are hoping the GBI agents and state patrol officers that Governor Busbee is willing to send over to help Atlanta’s police personnel shortage, will also help ease the incredible pressure being put on this city’s homicide division.”
Reporter: Pickard, Marc
10. Hydrogen Car 8-11-79
00:11:53 - 00:13:32
Three young men work on a white car in messy garage. Reporter’s voice off camera says, “at first glance, it doesn’t overwhelm you, but this car is the way I try to convince people I am, not much right off the bat, but once you get to know me I grow on you.” The car’s engine is being modified by students and faculty at Georgia Tech to run off hydrogen—more efficiently than other hydrogen-powered cars have been able to. A male student interviewed says, “this is the first turbo-charged hydrogen-powered cars the United States has seen and to the best of our knowledge…the world.” What this car will do is eliminate the problems other hydrogen engines have: back-flashing, rough idling, and poor fuel economy, he tells reporter. Reporter’s voice says that the group from Georgia Tech will be going to a competition in Michigan in which thirty-six other student groups will compete to be judged on performance, fuel consumption, innovation and safety. One student welds metal parts. This car has a chance, continues reporter’s voice. It runs faster than fifty miles an hour, can go about one hundred miles on a tank of hydrogen and if massed produced, would cost between five and ten thousand dollars. It would not be an exaggeration to call this the car of the future and remember, you saw it first here and at Georgia Tech, reporter’s voice closes as we see him watching the students work on the car.
Reporter: Pickard, Marc
11. Mayor 8-11-79
00:14:35 - 00:14:39
Mayor Maynard Jackson speaks at a press conference in the hallway in front of his office. He says, “he thinks it’s the state’s obligation to help the people of Georgia. That includes the people of Georgia who live in the city of Atlanta. I mean we’re entitled to receive the help, but we’re also very grateful that there is a willingness on the part of the governor to take whatever steps are required to make this aid available to us.”
12. Roseannadanna 8-11-79
00:14:41 - 00:15:38
Woman impersonates Gilda Radner performing as Radner’s Roseanne Roseannadanna character. Reporter’s voice off camera says it is not either of the two, but Pat Martin of Atlanta, one of the winners at Rich’s Saturday Night Live Look-alike Contest along with Jane Leader who performed as SNL’s Lisa Lubner. A young woman dressed like the Lisa Lubner character speaks to contest master of ceremonies in one of Rich’s departments. Pat won a fifty dollar gift certificate and free hair and make-up session, continues reporter’s voice. It was part of a promotion by Rich’s Junior Fashion Division. WSB’s Monica Kauffman was there at the Lennox Mall store to help judge the contest, reporter’s voice closes. We see Monica Kauffman smiling next to the contest moderator.
Reporter: Glozier, Cindy
13. Homicides 8-11-79
00:15:40 - 00:17:13
Green Van drives down residential Atlanta street. Crime scene tapes blocks off an apartment in public housing complex. Reporter’s voice over is the same as in clip no. 9 regarding the twelve homicides in eleven days in Atlanta. Reporter’s voice continues with new information about the first of last night’s homicides taking place at Big John’s Tavern at 310 Ponce de Leon [Avenue]. We see the front of the tavern within a strip of stores. A man outside in a cowboy hat holds a yellow sign advertising a car wash. Cars whizz by. Fred Taratonis [sp] shot his wife Dorothy about nine o’clock last night, explains reporter. She died at 3:15 in the morning. Reporter’s voice continues to narrate the homicides that took place the prior night and in early morning hours: the next homicide was here in the parking lot of the Empire liquor store, the scene eleven days ago of another homicide. Camera shows us a low building with glass front and side and a zigzagging roof design. A black man gets into a car parked in front of the store. We see that the store has bars that look like a fence behind the plate glass windows to prevent a break-in. William Owens, age fifty-nine, was shot, the victim of an apparent robbery. At 2:15 in the morning, Bobby Lee Moore was shot to death outside his house at 288 Fairburn Road. The killing is expected to be drug related. There is no suspect in this murder. We see a long driveway and a large lawn with trees dotting the landscape. And homicide 146 happened at 2253 Evans Lane shortly after 2:30 this morning when Israel Furtig stabbed his roommate, Willy Smith, to death. Children play in front of the two-story apartments including number 2253 which we are shown in a close-up. Police are still searching for suspects in two of the killings and overall of the twelve homicides in August so far, only three arrests have been made, one domestic and two, sudden anger. The other nine, robbery-related, drug-related and cause unknown are still without suspects. Police and detectives tend to a man that was shot who is lying in the middle of a street at night as spectators look on. Reporter closes in front of Atlanta police headquarters saying, as in clip no. 9, “Atlanta’s murder investigators are hoping the GBI agents and state patrol officers that Governor Busbee is willing to send over to help Atlanta’s police personnel shortage, will also help ease the incredible pressure being put on this city’s homicide division.”
Reporter: Pickard, Marc
14. Talmadge Birthday 8-11-79
00:17:15 - 00:18:56
People sit at tables at banquet at the Atlanta Hilton wearing stick on name tags. They smile at the speakers words. Reporter’s voice off camera says, about one thousand people attended the birthday celebration and most of them paid twenty-five dollars each or forty dollars per couple to be there in support of the senator. Camera focuses on various people. The money collected at the event went to the Talmadge Scholarship Fund at the University of Georgia Law School. Before last year such collections had been given to the senator as a birthday present, but recent investigations into Talmadge’s finances stopped that practice. His backers said the investigation by the Senate Ethics Committee has left him a stronger man. Talmadge speaks at the podium saying, “the past year has been particularly trying and I think most of that water is now over the dam. I think it’s made of me a stronger man; I think it’s made of me a more courageous man; I think it’s made of me a more humble man; and I think it’s made of me a man who is nearer to my maker. Never in my life have I been more grateful, more humble and I stand here before you tonight. And also my friends, never in my life have I been more determined than I am here tonight.” Reporter’s voice explains that Talmadge’s supporters say that his problems in Washington [D.C.] are not felt strongly here at home and they will back him for as long as he decides to seek political office. Talmadge receives a standing ovation as he finishes his speech and leaves the podium.
Reporter: Glozier, Cindy
15. Apt Body 8-12-79
00:18:57 - 00:19:36
A hearse with the name Moreland printed on one window drives onto the lawn of an apartment complex. Black residents look on. A black man pulls a body bag out of an upstairs apartment door. Two men indelicately carry the body down the steps in the black body bag. Onlookers can be seen near the bottom of the steps. Three men prepare to load the body, now on a rolling stretcher, into the hearse.
16. State Troopers 8-12-79
00:19:38 - 00:20:59
Police cars drive on Atlanta street at night. Reporter’s voice says, about thirteen Georgia State Patrol
Troopers were out on the streets of downtown Atlanta tonight, finishing up their shifts, familiarizing themselves with traffic patterns and just getting used to the city. They have been assigned to the heart of downtown to become more aware of areas around hotels and convention centers. They say they’ve already experienced some of what they expect to see downtown over the next few weeks. One trooper gets out of his car and talks to a white man in the street. Reporter interviews one trooper. He says, mostly they are riding in the downtown, problem area where most of the crimes are happening and stopping people for driving violations. Reporter’s voice continues saying that about ten percent or sixty troopers will be sent to Atlanta this week, which includes about thirty state patrol cars. Also the state is sending in an undisclosed number of GBI [Georgia Bureau of Investigations] agents to beef up the Atlanta police force. Tonight was a dry run for the troopers, but tomorrow night they’ll be out in full force helping Atlanta police, reporter closes on dark Atlanta street with cars driving by.
Reporter: Glozier, Cindy
17. Soybeans 8-12-79
00:21:01 - 00:23:11
A soybean pod is open exposing its beans. Reporter’s voice off camera says talking about soybeans is not going to make you the life of the party, but important to American and worldwide economy they are. A sign with graphs touts the benefits of soybeans. Someone points with a pen point to the evidence of soybeans on a food label. Reporter’s voice calls out where soybeans can be found as the camera shows us these items on grocery shelves: margarine, shortening, vegetable oils, salad dressing, packaged foods. The list is a long one and the demand is growing, reporter says happily, as we see the label of a jar of mayonnaise. Almost twelve billion dollar’s worth of soybeans were grown in this country last year, almost seven billion dollars of which were exported. The United States grows between one half and two thirds of the world’s soybeans. Does it put this country in the same positions as OPEC, asks reporter’s voice as camera keeps showing us food and labels. Does it allow us to counter-balance our dependence on foreign oil? Reporter speaks to the president of the American Soybean Association, Merlyn Groot [https://soygrowers.com/about-asa/past-presidents/], who says that we say that forty to fifty percent dependence on foreign oil is too high, but Europe is double dependent on soybeans as a food source as we are dependent on imported oil, that’s power that has to be used with discretion. And for us to restrict that market would be a disaster to the U.S. economy and a disaster to soybean farmers, because if the product does not move, we do not get income to farmers. It is power that can be used in a justifiable, moral cause that will reap economic benefits and that is what we are here to try to do. Groot is here with the rest of the American Soybean Association for its national convention this week in Atlanta. An older couple stand looking at a kiosk belonging to Top Farmers of America. They are willing to accept that soybeans have less charisma as hangnails, reporter jokes, but they are working to show this country’s consumers to what extent the soybeans affect our lives.
Reporter: Pickard, Marc
18. State Troopers 8-12-79
00:23:12 - 00:24:48
State patrol car drives into driveway of state trooper station. Reporter’s voice off camera says, sixty state patrol officers will be assigned this week to aid the Atlanta police department in its fight against its soaring crime rate. Reporter’s voice continues, in accepting Governor Busbee’s help, Mayor Jackson said he does not consider the aid a gift because Atlantans have contributed a great deal of money to the state coffers and they deserve the protection. State patrol officials say it will probably be Tuesday before troopers can be reassigned to Atlanta and that most will come from posts within a thirty mile range of the city like this one in Marietta. Camera shows us the station with trooper cars parked outside and a trooper in an office talking over a radio that is mounted on a stand on the desk. Large sign with pretty scroll work is mounted atop a tall pole so it can be seen from the highway. Reporter interviews several troopers to see how they feel about the reassignment. One trooper says he thinks they need help down there. He tries to be there as often as possible and assign other troopers there as it’s in his territory. As far as criminal acts, we don’t get involved with that. Another trooper hesitates then says, if Atlanta needs us then we are glad to go down there and help them out any way we can. They definitely have a problem there. I hope that our presence there can help them. A third trooper says, I don’t think it can do anything but help. We took about fifteen people down to Columbus, Georgia a year and a half ago and the local people appreciated us; so did the city and I think it’ll work the same here. Reporter closes in front of state patrol station reiterating, as one trooper pulls his car out of the parking spot, that troopers at the Marietta post say Atlanta definitely has a problem and that they’re willing to help out in any way they can.
Reporter: Glozier, Cindy
19. Republic 8-12-79
00:24:50 - 00:25:17
Two small jet planes sit on tarmac. Other planes are shown, one with the name “North Central” printed on its side; one saying “Southern” taxies.
20. Soviet Students 8-12-79
00:25:19 - 00:27:11
Several people greet each other at the airport. Second camera man films this from the other side. Fast music plays off screen as reporter’s voice says off screen, if you didn’t know, you might think this was a group of Atlantans returning home; “instead it is a group of Soviet citizens coming to Atlanta for a week long, for lack of a better word, dialogue.” This group will be based at Georgia Tech with American counterparts and will take part in seminars, dinners, parties, tours of the city, even disco dancing, reporter says with a Russian accent. A small band of musicians play stringed instruments, while one of them sings. A tall bearded man says to the crowd, “Welcome to Atlanta.” A woman translates for the Russian attendees. The group makes a toast and drinks. The reason the group is here, explains reporter’s voice, is to allow representatives from both countries to discuss all the important issues that affect the world: human rights, the arms race, wars of liberation. The reporter speaks through an interpreter with one Russian representative, a youth organization official in the Soviet Union. He agreed, says reporter’s voiceover, that our two countries were wide apart on many issues, but emphasized what must be done is to prevent war. The translator translates the youth organizer’s words, saying to the reporter, “to prevent this danger, we have to work together very actively and negotiate to prevent this and not be afraid to have different views on different matters. We are willing to discuss all the issues honestly and frankly with our American friends and we hope to achieve mutual understanding.” As we see close-ups of the Russian emissaries, reporter’s voice says, maybe it’s idealistic or unrealistic or a sham, but these so-called dialogues have been going on for eight years, four in the Soviet Union and four here. They are privately funded and there is no kid-glove treatment. The discussions and questions are not couched in platitudes. Maybe it’ll work, reporter’s voice finishes as the tall bearded man from the American group finishes his toast and drinks.
21. Marriage License 8-13-79
00:27:13 - 00:28:44
A group of African American protestors picket outside Atlanta city hall. Reporter says, it may sound far-fetched, but this group here says the solution to rising crime in the streets is to turn in your marriage license. One sign being carried reads, ”Repent Before Marrying.” The women in the group wear long smock-like dresses of varying colors and head coverings that match their outfits. The group, explains reporter, is called the Perfect Church, with six hundred members in Atlanta. Another sign reads, “we trusted you America; you betrayed us and gave us a fool to marry!!! The church feels that the way married is now structured, is the cause of increased crime in our cities, so nearly one hundred and fifty members went to the courthouse today to turn in their marriage licenses. Three young black men in grey suits and ties walk up the courthouse stairs with their marriage licenses in hand. Reverend Chambers says, “The laws of this land should not be the source to bind two people together in a holy matrimony.” We know and we feel that the church is supposed to do this and with the church turning this over to the state, and I might say, the United States turning it over to the devil, because he that commits sin is of the devil, then you are breeding corrupt children right out of our homes who come out on the street and violence now is covering the Atlanta area [his pronunciation made it difficult to understand certain words.] Reporter’s voice says Chambers was unsuccessful in getting the licenses revoked by officials within the Fulton County courthouse, he says he will not stop fighting to get the marriage laws changed in the state, adding the making of a nation is the family and until you get families together in the eyes of God, you won’t stop crime. Chambers speaks to the crowd and the woman jump up and down cheering happily.
Reporter: Dorsey, Jocelyn
22. Marriage License 8-13-79
00:28:46 - 00:30:06
Reverend Chambers from clip no. 21 says to his congregation protesting marriage in front of the Fulton County Courthouse, “We’re going to shout, glory Hallelujah.” Congregants echo him loudly and exuberantly. “Praise the lord, he says.” Congregants echo him loudly and exuberantly. “We are free.” Congregants echo him loudly and exuberantly. Reporter’s voice explains that, according to these members of what’s called the Perfect Church, marriages performed by laws are marriages that wallow in sin and marriages that wallow in sin, breed corruption, violence and crime. The group says recent crime statistics back up their beliefs because most murders in this city alone result from domestic quarrels. If marriages were performed totally through the church and not the state, people wouldn’t repent and not sin against their spouses and bring up law-abiding Christian children. Although most of the one hundred and fifty congregants were ready to give up their marriage licenses, at the courthouse today, they were all turned down by officials inside. Reporter takes notes when interviewing church officials and the Reverend Chambers. Congregants have vowed to keep fighting to change marriage laws in the state and bring peace to the city through brotherly love. Reporter closes saying, what they are saying may not be a bad idea. I heard one couple passing by the demonstration today and the woman said to the man, why don’t you get your wife to turn in your marriage license and we’d all be happier.
Reporter: Dorsey, Jocelyn
23. Troopers in City 8-13-79
00:30:07 - 00:32:58
Governor Busbee signs papers at desk at news conference. Reporter’s voice says, Busbee was all business as he signed executive order in the presence of Col. Hugh Hardison of the state patrol, directing GBI agents and state patrol officers to lend assistance to Atlanta to help with the crime problem. Atlanta’s image has been somewhat tarnished, says reporter but noted that Governor Busbee said that the problem is not insurmountable. Busbee says, it is not the first emergency for any city in the state while he’s been governor. We’ve had horrible situations in Columbus and elsewhere and he will commit the resources of the state to correct any situation. “I view this as a very temporary thing,” he finished. View of the Georgia State Capitol gold dome. Reporter in front of the capitol says, shortly after the governor got the machinery in motion, the top law enforcement officials in the state and the city spelled out the details. GBI director, Beverly Ponder, Col. Hardison of the state patrol, Atlanta Public Safety Commissioner, Lee P. Brown, and the city’s police chief, George Napper explained that fifty state patrol officers and an undisclosed number of GBI agents will begin tomorrow morning. The GBI agents will be helping with undercover narcotics work while the state patrol will help with traffic enforcement, accident investigation and traffic control at special events. The extra personnel will allow Atlanta to put an elite crime-fighting team on the streets, who Chief Napper called, the Flying Squad, reporter adds. Napper speaks, saying, the squad will be very visible, mobile, and involved in very intensified and aggressive patrolling tactics throughout the city in identifiable target areas. There will probably be fifty or sixty people involved. One of the key things is that they will not be working any specific hours, but the hours will be determined by the kinds of crimes and problems that are taking place in various communities. Reporter’s voice continues as we watch a trooper talk to a man in the street at night, saying neither the GBI nor the state patrol expect the new assignments will put a strain on them and that Col. Hardison said such requests are made of them all the time. Brown and Napper made it clear, continues reporter, that they have set no specific goals for this operation, but made a pledge that by the time it is over, Atlanta will be on its way to filling the vacancies that have left the police bureau so short-handed. Reporter closes at State Patrol Headquarters parking lot filled with patrol cars saying, if this were another time and another place we well might see the cavalry come to the rescue. It’s the good guys stalking the bad guys, and according to the movies and television, the good guys usually win. Nobody is thinking what will happen if they don’t.
Reporter: Pickard, Marc
24. Democratic Party 8-13-79
00:33:01 - 00:34:16
Elderly white women sit and stand in a group at meeting in office. A group of black people stand in a group in the office as well. Reporter’s voice explains that a group comprised mostly of senior citizens made two stops today. They presented the chairperson for the state Democratic Party with a platform for low and middle-income people. They want the party to create a low-income people committee and they want that committee to be representative of the population of low-income people in the state. The platform calls for the party to pay for those on the committee to go to the national convention. This request will be considered by the Party this fall. At their stop at City Hall, the group intended to meet Mayor Jackson, but he was in a cabinet meeting. Members stand in hall way talking to Leon Hall, director of community development, who assured them of an answer to their requests for traffic lights erected at Hollywood and Jonesboro Rd and an abandoned house torn down within ten days.
Reporter: Moore, Bob
25. Techwood Residents 8-13-79
00:36:18 - 00:36:13
Black woman, Mrs. Green, a resident of Techwood Homes, talks to reporter in the street about the results of efforts by local youth, several of which are seen behind her, on improving the public housing grounds as opposed to the poor quality of work by city workers. Reporter asks if she spoke to the housing authority. She said they had been contacted since 1971. She said they get nothing but promises. Two garbage dumpsters sit in or adjacent to a field of tall grass. This makes the third summer for some of these kids, says reporter’s voice, of working with open dumpsters overflowing with trash. We see trash and flies flying around. As teenagers mow the lawn, the reporter’s voice says not far from here, one of the local teenage girls was raped. Grass and weeds, some as high as five feet have made it impossible for some residents to go out their back doors, continues reporter’s voice. Teens pull large garbage cans filled with weeds as reporter’s voice explains that Mrs. Green says she sees some good coming out of the problem, a sense of community spirit. Reporter interviews some of the kids. A young black boy says, he thinks the community looks better now that they’ve cleaned it up. Reporter, in front of building says, cleaning up the property here at Techwood Homes is not the only problem the tenants have had to face. For example, he says as he points to an outdoor staircase, the tenants have had to contend with an odor that has been there for three months. Another female resident says they don’t know what is creating the odor and she has to keep her windows and door closed. The neighbors are also concerned about a wire, says reporter as we see a wire stretching from outside the building in through a window. Reporter’s voice says its attached to a fuse box inside the apartment and nothing has been done to remove it. They also want the authorities to cover this ditch. We can barely see a ditch hidden amongst the extremely tall grass that hasn’t been mowed yet. Reporter’s voice closes saying that Mrs. Green says the only thing to do is work on what can be done and hope that the housing authority does the rest.
Reporter: Moore, Bob
26. Condos Noon 8-13-79
00:36:15 - 00:37:28
We see historic, low-rise brick buildings with screened in porches. Reporter’s voice off-camera says, conversion of apartments to condominiums is happening at a rapid rate in both DeKalb and Fulton Counties with very little warning to tenants. An attorney, Les Schneider, repeats reporter, says more than twenty percent of apartments in Fulton and DeKalb Counties have been or are being converted and renters who can’t afford to buy a condo will have no place to go because there is already a ninety-seven percent occupancy rate. Today, Les Schneider is trying to persuade the DeKalb County Commission that a four-month moratorium should be placed on condo conversions so the problem could be studied and solutions found. Reporter closes on a treed lawn of a two-story apartment complex saying, Schneider will make the same plea to the Fulton County Commission and is pursuing the protest because he’s seen condo-mania wreak havoc in other cities where he has lived and the apartment complex where he lives is due for conversion next month.
Reporter: McClellan, Don
27. Public Safety 8-14-79
00:37:30 - 00:38:16
Public Safety Commissioner Lee P. Brown speaks to others at conference table at Public Safety Commission meeting. A woman addresses those at a table. Other brief clips are shown with no conclusive message conveyed for the viewer.
28. SCLC 8-14-79
00:38:17 - 00:39:51
Newspaper, “Journal and Guide”, reads, “SCLC, We Support Your Cause. See Special Tribute to SCLC Founder Martin Luther King. Farrakhan Urges Black Uprising.” Reporter’s voice off camera says it’s been twenty-two years since Martin Luther King founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). Large Holiday Inn hotel marquis reads, “Welcome SCLC 79.” Reporter’s voice continues, saying, that the SCLC opened its conference here in Norfolk, Virginia with many of the same problems that Dr. King saw back in 1957. The situation is viewed as critical, says reporter’s voice as mostly black men sit at long tables arranged in a square around the perimeter of a room. The agenda has been labeled, continues reporter, “An agenda for survival.” People in banquet hall clap as reporter’s voice says, during the next three days delegates will tackle a number of crucial issues including a recent resurrection of the Ku Klux Klan. Today, the keynote speaker, congressman, Mickey Leeland of Texas, says reporter as we see Leeland speaking in front of the banquet, says we need a return of black power. Leeland gets a standing ovation. Close-up of older black woman clapping. Close-up of Leeland saying that black power does not mean anti-white, anti-brown; it means doing all that’s necessary in order to empower our own community with the economic strength that it needs. Reporter closes in front of the Holiday Inn marquis saying, among the many issues that need to be discussed by week’s end are, the energy crisis, unemployment and conditions in southern Africa. And while the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is non-political, its president, Dr. Joseph Lowry, says he hopes individual members will not jump too quickly on the question of political endorsements. Repeating Lowry’s words: “That’s what happened the last time. We moved too quickly and got no commitments.”
Reporter: Cassells, Andy
29. Crime Folo 8-14-79
00:39:53 - 00:41:01
Reporter’s voice says, Wayne Scott is an eleven year veteran of the Georgia State Patrol. Camera in the back seat of Scott’s patrol car shows Scott driving. He’s from a family with a line of State Troopers, continues reporter’s voice. His uncle and his cousin and while Scott worked for the DeKalb Police Department, he’s always wanted to be a State Trooper. We see happenings on Atlanta streets out the window of Scott’s patrol car as Scott answers reporter’s question, saying, I hope we can help ‘em. I’m willing to do anything I can to help solve the problems in Atlanta. You can pick up the paper and see they have a problem. The homicide rate is already past 1978. I’ll do whatever my superiors tell me to, he answers when asked by reporter if he’d stay on another year.
Reporter: Moore, Bob
30. Condo Ban 6:00 8-14-79
00:41:03 - 00:42:48
Sign hanging on pole mounted on a lawn reads, “Management: A.F. Winecoff & Co. Carnegie Bldg. 577-1947. No Vacancy.” Reporter’s voice off camera says, “No vacancy” signs are out in full force as apartments in DeKalb and Fulton counties are ninety-seven percent full. Street signs at the intersection of Andrews Road and Peachtree Road with low-rise apartment house in rear. The crunch in residential rental property is being made worse by many apartment owners selling to investors who convert the apartment to condominiums because it’s more profitable than building new ones. So far, reporter’s voice repeats attorney Les Schneider’s words speaking at a DeKalb County Commission meeting, thirty-five hundred have been converted. Reporter’s voice says Schneider has taken up the cause of apartment dwellers who fear condominium conversion because more than twenty-percent of the apartments in Atlanta have been or are in the process of being converted to condominiums. Schneider says to the commission, the situation is such that when carpet-baggers are coming into this city and they are not concerned about the interest of the city or the people who earn between eighteen and fifty-thousand dollars who can afford to pay rent, but who cannot afford to buy. Commissioner, Robert Lanier, says reporter’s voice, suggested the law might be changed to require that condominium conversions meet the same standards as new ones so that the additional cost would discourage apartments from being changed over. But the commissioners say, continues reporter’s voice, they want to look at what other governments have done, before they decide what to do, if anything. Sign on lawn in front of low-rise apartments reads, “Briar Hills Condominium. Office: 1361 Briarwood Dr., N.E. 872-3434. No Peddlers or solicitors allowed.” Reporter closes in front of low-rise apartment saying, Schneider will make the same plea to Fulton County Commission because he’s seen condo-mania create havoc in other cities where he’s lived and because his apartment complex is due to go condo in a month.
Reporter: McClellan, Don
31. Zoo Feature 8-14-79
00:42:50 - 00:44:20
Families look at rhinoceros at the Atlanta Zoo. Zoo official says, we have a new male fox we recently caught who had been living on the zoo grounds for a couple of years. We introduced it to our females and gave it routine medical checks and the official says he was then covered in fleas. The fox creeps out of what looks like a dog house as the zookeeper coaxes him. Two zebras walk in their enclosure. The zookeeper is in a large cage with the fox. He attempts to spray flea powder on the fox and says that they are now working to eliminate the flea problem they discovered. Swans swim in a pond. A worker sweeps straw in an indoor enclosure.
32. Crime Plan 8-14-79
00:44:22 - 00:46:03
Reporter’s voice off camera explains that Public Safety Commissioner Lee Brown appeared before Atlanta City Council Public Safety Committee, going over each of the twenty-one points and described what was being done. Brown speaks to the committee. Here are the high points that Mayor Jackson and Commissioner Brown are committed to, reporter’s voice explains. Policeman drives motorcycle. The first thing is conveying a greater sense of urgency and aggressiveness in the police bureau by superior officers monitoring the arrest records of their troops. Policeman sits at desk. Close up of file cabinet drawer. It comes as no surprise, says reporter’s voice, that the homicide division is inundated with cases. Three investigators have been given to homicide to handle aggravated assault cases, allowing those in homicide to spend more time on murders. Detectives work in the office. Policeman rides a white horse through a park. A special patrol wagon is being used to handle derelicts and drunks. Reporter speaks in front of Police Headquarters saying another feature of Mayor Jackson’s crime prevention plan was, to allow officers to fill out less paperwork. Officials sit at meeting shown in clip no. 27 as reporter’s voice says, certain ordinances were asked for to control false alarms and increase police visibility and just today the Public Safety Committee takes action on those and others. People sit in hallway of courtroom. Reporter’s voice says the city has asked municipal court judges for stiffer fines and longer sentences to those convicted of prostitution. Reporter’s voice closes with clip of the Public Safety Committee meeting saying that with state troopers and GBI officials helping Atlanta police and with the new twenty-one point plan, Commissioner Brown will not only be the watcher, but the watchee.
Reporter: Pickard, Marc
33. City Bldg Director 8-14-79
00:46:04 - 00:46:43
Mayor Maynard Jackson speaks; blond woman speaks about building inspectors.
34. Rape Status 8-14-79
00:46:45 - 00:47:40
Woman speaks to reporter saying, we’ve asked that they be more about prevention and not just catching the rapist. We want people alerted where when the police identify patterns, they automatically start working with the people who live there to ask for help and we want you to take precautions to protect yourself.
Reporter: Dorsey, Jocelyn
35. Mayor NC 8-14-79
00:47:41 - 00:48:26
Mayor Maynard Jackson speaks at conference saying, the best way for us to deal with our public image is to fight the problem which is what we intend to do. He says he believes the national press will take its cue from the local press and that is what happened before. If we are alarmed about our situation and if we take it out of context, he thinks the national press will do so as well. He says, what he is going to do as mayor is fight the problem and that means to fight crime and what you do as the press corps (he speaks to the Atlanta press) in giving your cue to the national press, is up to you.
36. Crime Plan 8-14-79
00:48:29 - 00:49:54
Police detective smokes a pipe in his office as reporter’s voice says, the greatest priority in the city’s fight against crime is its fight against murder. Detectives work in their office. The homicide division has been inundated with cases, continues reporter’s voice. Three investigators have been given to homicide to investigate assault cases allowing those in homicide to investigate murders. Mounted policeman patrols a city park as reporter says, a special patrol team is being used to handle drunks and derelicts. The city’s administrators have asked municipal court judges to hand out stiffer fines and longer sentences to those convicted of prostitution, reporter’s voice continues over a man walking out of Court Room No. 2. Reporter in front of Police Headquarters says officers won’t have to fill out has much paperwork. Civilians and police work at computer terminals as reporter explains that the plan is to use only civilians to work in communications while shifting sworn officers to the street. Six motorcycle police wait at stop sign, then pull out. Reporter’s voice closes saying, no one is foolish enough to think that crime can be administrated out of existence, but that Commissioner Brown and Mayor Jackson hope that the twenty-one point plan be backed by hard work, competent personnel and the desire to make it work.
Reporter: Pickard, Marc
37. Troopers & Homicides 8-14-79
00:49:55 - 00:51:31
Police car drives on nighttime Atlanta street. Reporter’s voice says, the troopers have been assigned to Zone 5 which is primarily, downtown Atlanta. They are covering the Civic Center, the Omni and places where there are special events. He interviews trooper, Jim Henderson, a black trooper, about what it’s been like tonight. Henderson replies, “We’ve written a couple of traffic tickets and we’ve come pretty close to making a couple of arrests…” He also says, when asked, that he and his fellow troopers will make a difference in a given period if for no other reason that the high visibility. Atlanta’s former homicide chief, W.K. Perry speaks at meeting. Reporter says that Perry believes that the sight of the troopers on the street will make a difference, but if the current homicide chief doesn’t get help, he’s gonna have trouble. To the audience he says the current chief’s hands will be tied just like mine were. Police car sits in front of crime tape blocking off a residence. Sign on police car door reads, “East Point Police.” Sign attached to bush on the lawn reads, “Crime Scene. Keep Out. East Point Police.” People sit on steps across from crime scene. Officials, one carrying a black doctor bag, walk out of house. Policemen and detectives wait near the curb.
38. Turner Yachts 8-14-79
00:51:33 - 00:52:16
Helicopter hovers over a sail boat. Print superimposed on the screen reads, “Plymouth, England.” People are in the rough waters. One person is hoisted out of water on a cable from the helicopter.
39. Central City Money 8-14-79 [new park hours]
00:52:17 - 00:53:19
People and pigeons walk in park. Some people sit on grass. Reporter’s voice off camera says, the plan involves six parks in the downtown Atlanta area. Parks Commissioner, Jerri Elders, designated those parks tonight as neighborhood parks. That means, reporter’s voice continues, according to city law, the parks are off limits from eleven at night to six in the morning. Man climbs a ladder and hangs a sign that reads, “Park Closed 11 PM-6 AM.” Elders says to reporter, “It will make sure that the parks are not full of people over night. It will give the police officers an opportunity to make sure that people aren’t there.” If people refuse to leave the park each night, explains reporter’s voice, they will be arrested.
Reporter: Dorsey, Jocelyn
39a. Clothes shopping with children
00:53:21 - 00:55:13
Mother and daughter shop for school clothes. Reporter asks daughter why she picks clothes instead of her mom. “Because everything she picks out, I don’t like,” answers the girl. Mom, when asked by reporter, agrees that children should be allowed to pick out their own clothing because you get more wear from them. Reporter repeats psychologist, Dr. Joyce Brothers’ words, “It is part of the learning process.” A clip of Dr. Brothers explaining how kids learn to pick the clothes that will feel comfortable depending on the temperature or based on what other kids say. There are so few things where you can give a child a choice and they can get a playback of you look terrific in that Superman shirt. You can’t let a child learn dangerous things. You can’t let him decide whether he’s gonna put his finger in a socket or whether he’s gonna run across a street, but you can let him learn in certain areas which are his province to learn.” Boy tries on school clothes in a store. Girls look at coats hanging in store. Reporter repeats Dr. Brothers’ advice, you decide on how much to spend and point your child to the department and size.
40. Troopers 1st Night 8-15-79
00:55:14 - 00:56:49
Similar footage to clip no. 37. Reporter’s voice says, the Georgia State Troopers patrolled all of the downtown area. They handled the special events at the Omni, the Civic Center and the Stadium. Trooper, Jim Henderson, said his shift was pretty routine. Same footage of Henderson and W.K. Perry in clip no. 37. Then, official is interviewed saying, I haven’t had time to evaluate the situation as to manpower and regard to case load, but if I see in the near future, that this is needed, then I’ll make the request through my chain of command and that’s all the authority that I have to do. And then if the higher ups can give me the manpower, fine. We’d all like to have more manpower. In the meantime, reporter’s voice finishes as police car pulls away on night time street, the state troopers will be around for twenty-nine more days to help turn the tide for Atlanta.
Reporter: Moore, Bob
41. Fulco Commish
00:56:50 - 00:57:39
Clips of proceedings in courtoom for Fulton County commission meeting. Nothing intelligible.
42. Env. Report Inventor 8-15-79
00:57:41 - 00:59:39
Historic photo of men toasting with classes in their hand. They each put in five dollars, says reporter’s voice off camera, and that was the beginning of their company in 1943. The genius behind the Carlat Engineering Company was a Russian Count. Document reads, “The Carlat Co. Plant: 153-16 10th Ave. Phone: FLushing 3-7571 Office: 12-13 154th St. Phone: FLushing 3-4360 Whitestone, Long Island, N.Y. They developed unique plans for airplane wings and helicopter rotors since 1926. A picture of the Count pointing to a device. They all worked at other jobs when finances were tough. A man interviewed said the Count used to develop, repair and alter vending machine equipment for carnivals. Robert Laidson [sp] managed the Carlat company, but he also helped build the magnesium wings for the P80, anything to support the engineering love of his life. A picture of men sitting on and standing next to a flatbed trailer with a wing mounted on its side on the flatbed. It was a backyard outfit--build everything from scratch. Still the testing and research required hundreds of thousands of dollars over ten years. Historic photo of men working in a machine shop. Drawings of a wing design that, reporter’s voice explains, can give greater airplane lift at slow speeds, making flying safer, but back in the 40’s and 50’s only mild interest was expressed by the aviation community. The Navy wrote a favorable report. Reporter asks Laidson, sitting in his living room, why no one was willing to finance their work. Laidson says he doesn’t know, but feels that if they would go over their research again, he thinks they’d come up with the same results. Reporter’s voice closes saying, the black and white pictures are all that’s left of the Carlat Company, many of the workers have died, but Robert Laidson hopes he could still help guide some of the research that is going on today to make airplanes and helicopters safer. The trouble was, back then, they were way ahead of their time. Photo of men standing around a structure with a helicopter blade attached to it.
FM00248
1. Police Helicopters 8-10-79
00:00:03 - 00:00:29
Somewhat pixelated coverage of police helicopters on the ground.
2. Shuttle -Bebe- 8-10-79
00:00:31 - 00:02:31
The space shuttle flies in to Atlanta Hartsfield Airport atop its 747 transporter plane. As the shuttle circled the airport and touched down, a few hundred people waited behind a chain link fence, reporter's voice describes--a smaller crowd than was expected. "Every baggage carrier and truck in the area waited along the runway to welcome the Enterprise to Atlanta," she says. Camera follows the Enterprise as it lands atop its 747 transporter plane in front of a large "Fly Delta Jets" sign. The space shuttle program is way over budget and way behind schedule, but to the people who stood in the blazing heat to see it today, it was the most exciting thing in the world to spend their tax dollars on, says reporter's voice. A mother, interviewed, says she came to see it because her daughter, Mary Katharine, was born the day it flew in 1977. She thought her daughter, a toddler, who she held in her arms, ought to see what came into the world with her. A teenage boy said, in the future we are going to be flying things like this for commercial and military uses. Other people are interviewed. The Space Shuttle will be here for twenty-four hours, says reporter's voice off camera, and will leave for St. Louis tomorrow and it is expected there will be bigger crowds tomorrow because, reporter tells us, as one spectator explained, it’s a little like seeing "Moonraker" and "Battlestar Gallactica" all rolled up into one.
Reporter: Emmerman, Bebe
3. Shuttle Traffic 8-10-79
00:02:33 - 00:04:13
Reporter reports from a helicopter above Stone Mountain. We see Stone Mountain then footage of people waiting for the Space Shuttle to arrive in Central City Park and on rooftops of Atlanta's tall buildings. The shuttle was spotted by those in the copter at 12:36 coming out of the east with a chase plane, but the chopper couldn't keep up with the 747 upon which the shuttle was riding piggy-back as it headed towards Six Flags amusement park to give the western portion of the metro Atlanta area a view, explains reporter's voice. The shuttle did a fly-by at the airport which, with its fly-over above the metro area, burned approximately four thousand gallons of fuel, explains reporter. We see the shuttle flying piggy-back through a hazy sky.
Reporter: McClellan, Don
4. Marta Fares 8-10-79
00:04:15 - 00:04:50
MARTA buses pull past a bus stop and drive on Atlanta's streets.
5. Ambulance Service -File- 8-10-79
00:04:52 - 00:05:14
Ambulance and fire truck sit in driveway of North Fulton County fire station on Holcomb Bridge Rd. Different ambulance drives fast down North Fulton street with sirens blaring. Camera, inside ambulance, captures footage out front window of ambulance as it drives.
6. Apartment rape 8-10-79
00:05:15 - 00:07:22
This summer there has been a series of break-ins here, says reporter's voice off camera, as we see apartment complex and residents sitting on chairs at pool with clothes on in the evening for a meeting. The women say, continues reporter, a few months ago a man began going door to door asking for information, saying he was a magazine salesman, asking if they lived alone and if their husband was in. Since that happened, there were two attempted rapes and one rape. The residents believe this man is the rapist. Jose Marquano [sp] says this was the man who confronted his wife in their living room a few weeks ago. Jose tells reporter he saw the man through his back window. A woman, Jo Stewart, reporter tells us, says an overnight guest was surprised when the man came in her bedroom. Jo speaks to reporter saying that her friend described him as a soft-spoken man who looked Armenian. Rhonda Griswold tells reporter that the man tried to stop her when she was jogging one day. She describes him as having curly hair, a mustache, about five foot ten inches tall with medium build. He spoke to her something that wasn't understandable, so she nodded and kept going. Reporter's voice explains that residents have begun to put boards in their windows and doors (we see a board in a window) and have asked DeKalb County police to patrol their area more (patrol car drives down street). A red and white sign reads, "Hacienda Apartments. 2203. Apartment Available." Reporter closes in front of apartments saying that the apartment management told residents that they are going to hire a security guard. Residents say they won't sleep soundly until that happens.
Reporter: McClamma, Sharon
7. Georgia Power 8-10-79
00:07:22 - 00:09:00
Public Service Commission hearing at which Georgia Power asked for two hundred and thirty million dollars, but only got a little more than half that, $122.9 million, says reporter's voice off camera as people sit at tables going over paper work at the commission meeting. Georgia Power refused the offer and will take the commission to court, continues reporter. Georgia Power official is interviewed: "if you look at the rate of inflation since our last price increase, and use the National Consumer Price Index, you're talking about a rate of inflation through the second quarter of 1979 of about seventeen percent. The commission's action today awarded us a little over a nine percent increase. Inflation impacts us a lot more severely than any other business just because of the tremendous construction we have going. So, I think anyone can understand that we can't live on less than the rate of inflation." Reporter says in front of camera, if this one hundred and twenty-two million dollars stands up in court, it's not an easy matter to tell Georgia Power to go out and take this money from your customers. That money is dictated by the Public Service Commission, reporter continues as we see footage of the commission’s meeting. The Public Service Commission is allowing Georgia Power to increase minimum bills by fifty cents, to four dollars a month. A reconnection of power will now cost $7.50 and for anyone requiring new service, it will cost five dollars for a hook-up. Georgia Power wanted to charge twelve dollars. A one percent late fee will now be added to delinquent bills and of course, reporter explains, your kilowatt hour will become more expensive, perhaps raising the bill by three dollars a month, but all could change when the appeal goes before a judge.
Reporter: Bjorkman, Ernie
8. Space Shuttle 8-10-79
00:09:02 - 00:10:36
Similar footage as in clip no’s 2 and 3. Reporter’s voice off camera says, the excitement started to build around noon with people in Central City Park and on rooftops waiting for the space shuttle to arrive which was about sixteen minutes late. Reporter’s narration of the arrival of the shuttle riding piggy-back on its 747 through the haze continues, “it sort of hovered over the runway, floating along like an immense butterfly. We realized it was doing what we all like to do from time to time. It was showing off.” After a quick turn around the airport, the shuttle landed to ooh’s and ah’s and camera clicks. People waited behind a chain link fence. Deke Slayton, one of the astronauts who walked on the moon was there, reporter tells us [This information is incorrect, but Slayton did pilot the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project docking module in 1972 and served in several other NASA supervisory roles. Source: https://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/slayton.html]. For most Americans, the space shuttle program is exciting even though it’s over budget and behind schedule, continues reporter. It is the only link with the mysteries of the future and according to one female spectator, reporter tells us, “it’s the only thing the federal government does that’s really creative.”
Reporter: Emmerman, Bebe
9. Homicides Noon S.U. 8-11-79
00:10:37 - 00:11:52
Reporter stands in front of City of Atlanta Police Headquarters saying, “today is August eleventh. Since August first there have been twelve homicides.” That is more than one killing a day and the epidemic continues unchecked because there have been only three arrests made, one in connection with a domestic incident with two homicides instances of sudden anger. The other nine homicides are related to either drug, robbery or unknown causes. Two arrests were made for the two killings from last night, one in which a man killed his wife; the other in which a man killed his roommate. The third murder from last night is expected to be drug-related, the other from a robbery. “Atlanta’s murder investigators are hoping the GBI agents and state patrol officers that Governor Busbee is willing to send over to help Atlanta’s police personnel shortage, will also help ease the incredible pressure being put on this city’s homicide division.”
Reporter: Pickard, Marc
10. Hydrogen Car 8-11-79
00:11:53 - 00:13:32
Three young men work on a white car in messy garage. Reporter’s voice off camera says, “at first glance, it doesn’t overwhelm you, but this car is the way I try to convince people I am, not much right off the bat, but once you get to know me I grow on you.” The car’s engine is being modified by students and faculty at Georgia Tech to run off hydrogen—more efficiently than other hydrogen-powered cars have been able to. A male student interviewed says, “this is the first turbo-charged hydrogen-powered cars the United States has seen and to the best of our knowledge…the world.” What this car will do is eliminate the problems other hydrogen engines have: back-flashing, rough idling, and poor fuel economy, he tells reporter. Reporter’s voice says that the group from Georgia Tech will be going to a competition in Michigan in which thirty-six other student groups will compete to be judged on performance, fuel consumption, innovation and safety. One student welds metal parts. This car has a chance, continues reporter’s voice. It runs faster than fifty miles an hour, can go about one hundred miles on a tank of hydrogen and if massed produced, would cost between five and ten thousand dollars. It would not be an exaggeration to call this the car of the future and remember, you saw it first here and at Georgia Tech, reporter’s voice closes as we see him watching the students work on the car.
Reporter: Pickard, Marc
11. Mayor 8-11-79
00:14:35 - 00:14:39
Mayor Maynard Jackson speaks at a press conference in the hallway in front of his office. He says, “he thinks it’s the state’s obligation to help the people of Georgia. That includes the people of Georgia who live in the city of Atlanta. I mean we’re entitled to receive the help, but we’re also very grateful that there is a willingness on the part of the governor to take whatever steps are required to make this aid available to us.”
12. Roseannadanna 8-11-79
00:14:41 - 00:15:38
Woman impersonates Gilda Radner performing as Radner’s Roseanne Roseannadanna character. Reporter’s voice off camera says it is not either of the two, but Pat Martin of Atlanta, one of the winners at Rich’s Saturday Night Live Look-alike Contest along with Jane Leader who performed as SNL’s Lisa Lubner. A young woman dressed like the Lisa Lubner character speaks to contest master of ceremonies in one of Rich’s departments. Pat won a fifty dollar gift certificate and free hair and make-up session, continues reporter’s voice. It was part of a promotion by Rich’s Junior Fashion Division. WSB’s Monica Kauffman was there at the Lennox Mall store to help judge the contest, reporter’s voice closes. We see Monica Kauffman smiling next to the contest moderator.
Reporter: Glozier, Cindy
13. Homicides 8-11-79
00:15:40 - 00:17:13
Green Van drives down residential Atlanta street. Crime scene tapes blocks off an apartment in public housing complex. Reporter’s voice over is the same as in clip no. 9 regarding the twelve homicides in eleven days in Atlanta. Reporter’s voice continues with new information about the first of last night’s homicides taking place at Big John’s Tavern at 310 Ponce de Leon [Avenue]. We see the front of the tavern within a strip of stores. A man outside in a cowboy hat holds a yellow sign advertising a car wash. Cars whizz by. Fred Taratonis [sp] shot his wife Dorothy about nine o’clock last night, explains reporter. She died at 3:15 in the morning. Reporter’s voice continues to narrate the homicides that took place the prior night and in early morning hours: the next homicide was here in the parking lot of the Empire liquor store, the scene eleven days ago of another homicide. Camera shows us a low building with glass front and side and a zigzagging roof design. A black man gets into a car parked in front of the store. We see that the store has bars that look like a fence behind the plate glass windows to prevent a break-in. William Owens, age fifty-nine, was shot, the victim of an apparent robbery. At 2:15 in the morning, Bobby Lee Moore was shot to death outside his house at 288 Fairburn Road. The killing is expected to be drug related. There is no suspect in this murder. We see a long driveway and a large lawn with trees dotting the landscape. And homicide 146 happened at 2253 Evans Lane shortly after 2:30 this morning when Israel Furtig stabbed his roommate, Willy Smith, to death. Children play in front of the two-story apartments including number 2253 which we are shown in a close-up. Police are still searching for suspects in two of the killings and overall of the twelve homicides in August so far, only three arrests have been made, one domestic and two, sudden anger. The other nine, robbery-related, drug-related and cause unknown are still without suspects. Police and detectives tend to a man that was shot who is lying in the middle of a street at night as spectators look on. Reporter closes in front of Atlanta police headquarters saying, as in clip no. 9, “Atlanta’s murder investigators are hoping the GBI agents and state patrol officers that Governor Busbee is willing to send over to help Atlanta’s police personnel shortage, will also help ease the incredible pressure being put on this city’s homicide division.”
Reporter: Pickard, Marc
14. Talmadge Birthday 8-11-79
00:17:15 - 00:18:56
People sit at tables at banquet at the Atlanta Hilton wearing stick on name tags. They smile at the speakers words. Reporter’s voice off camera says, about one thousand people attended the birthday celebration and most of them paid twenty-five dollars each or forty dollars per couple to be there in support of the senator. Camera focuses on various people. The money collected at the event went to the Talmadge Scholarship Fund at the University of Georgia Law School. Before last year such collections had been given to the senator as a birthday present, but recent investigations into Talmadge’s finances stopped that practice. His backers said the investigation by the Senate Ethics Committee has left him a stronger man. Talmadge speaks at the podium saying, “the past year has been particularly trying and I think most of that water is now over the dam. I think it’s made of me a stronger man; I think it’s made of me a more courageous man; I think it’s made of me a more humble man; and I think it’s made of me a man who is nearer to my maker. Never in my life have I been more grateful, more humble and I stand here before you tonight. And also my friends, never in my life have I been more determined than I am here tonight.” Reporter’s voice explains that Talmadge’s supporters say that his problems in Washington [D.C.] are not felt strongly here at home and they will back him for as long as he decides to seek political office. Talmadge receives a standing ovation as he finishes his speech and leaves the podium.
Reporter: Glozier, Cindy
15. Apt Body 8-12-79
00:18:57 - 00:19:36
A hearse with the name Moreland printed on one window drives onto the lawn of an apartment complex. Black residents look on. A black man pulls a body bag out of an upstairs apartment door. Two men indelicately carry the body down the steps in the black body bag. Onlookers can be seen near the bottom of the steps. Three men prepare to load the body, now on a rolling stretcher, into the hearse.
16. State Troopers 8-12-79
00:19:38 - 00:20:59
Police cars drive on Atlanta street at night. Reporter’s voice says, about thirteen Georgia State Patrol
Troopers were out on the streets of downtown Atlanta tonight, finishing up their shifts, familiarizing themselves with traffic patterns and just getting used to the city. They have been assigned to the heart of downtown to become more aware of areas around hotels and convention centers. They say they’ve already experienced some of what they expect to see downtown over the next few weeks. One trooper gets out of his car and talks to a white man in the street. Reporter interviews one trooper. He says, mostly they are riding in the downtown, problem area where most of the crimes are happening and stopping people for driving violations. Reporter’s voice continues saying that about ten percent or sixty troopers will be sent to Atlanta this week, which includes about thirty state patrol cars. Also the state is sending in an undisclosed number of GBI [Georgia Bureau of Investigations] agents to beef up the Atlanta police force. Tonight was a dry run for the troopers, but tomorrow night they’ll be out in full force helping Atlanta police, reporter closes on dark Atlanta street with cars driving by.
Reporter: Glozier, Cindy
17. Soybeans 8-12-79
00:21:01 - 00:23:11
A soybean pod is open exposing its beans. Reporter’s voice off camera says talking about soybeans is not going to make you the life of the party, but important to American and worldwide economy they are. A sign with graphs touts the benefits of soybeans. Someone points with a pen point to the evidence of soybeans on a food label. Reporter’s voice calls out where soybeans can be found as the camera shows us these items on grocery shelves: margarine, shortening, vegetable oils, salad dressing, packaged foods. The list is a long one and the demand is growing, reporter says happily, as we see the label of a jar of mayonnaise. Almost twelve billion dollar’s worth of soybeans were grown in this country last year, almost seven billion dollars of which were exported. The United States grows between one half and two thirds of the world’s soybeans. Does it put this country in the same positions as OPEC, asks reporter’s voice as camera keeps showing us food and labels. Does it allow us to counter-balance our dependence on foreign oil? Reporter speaks to the president of the American Soybean Association, Merlyn Groot [https://soygrowers.com/about-asa/past-presidents/], who says that we say that forty to fifty percent dependence on foreign oil is too high, but Europe is double dependent on soybeans as a food source as we are dependent on imported oil, that’s power that has to be used with discretion. And for us to restrict that market would be a disaster to the U.S. economy and a disaster to soybean farmers, because if the product does not move, we do not get income to farmers. It is power that can be used in a justifiable, moral cause that will reap economic benefits and that is what we are here to try to do. Groot is here with the rest of the American Soybean Association for its national convention this week in Atlanta. An older couple stand looking at a kiosk belonging to Top Farmers of America. They are willing to accept that soybeans have less charisma as hangnails, reporter jokes, but they are working to show this country’s consumers to what extent the soybeans affect our lives.
Reporter: Pickard, Marc
18. State Troopers 8-12-79
00:23:12 - 00:24:48
State patrol car drives into driveway of state trooper station. Reporter’s voice off camera says, sixty state patrol officers will be assigned this week to aid the Atlanta police department in its fight against its soaring crime rate. Reporter’s voice continues, in accepting Governor Busbee’s help, Mayor Jackson said he does not consider the aid a gift because Atlantans have contributed a great deal of money to the state coffers and they deserve the protection. State patrol officials say it will probably be Tuesday before troopers can be reassigned to Atlanta and that most will come from posts within a thirty mile range of the city like this one in Marietta. Camera shows us the station with trooper cars parked outside and a trooper in an office talking over a radio that is mounted on a stand on the desk. Large sign with pretty scroll work is mounted atop a tall pole so it can be seen from the highway. Reporter interviews several troopers to see how they feel about the reassignment. One trooper says he thinks they need help down there. He tries to be there as often as possible and assign other troopers there as it’s in his territory. As far as criminal acts, we don’t get involved with that. Another trooper hesitates then says, if Atlanta needs us then we are glad to go down there and help them out any way we can. They definitely have a problem there. I hope that our presence there can help them. A third trooper says, I don’t think it can do anything but help. We took about fifteen people down to Columbus, Georgia a year and a half ago and the local people appreciated us; so did the city and I think it’ll work the same here. Reporter closes in front of state patrol station reiterating, as one trooper pulls his car out of the parking spot, that troopers at the Marietta post say Atlanta definitely has a problem and that they’re willing to help out in any way they can.
Reporter: Glozier, Cindy
19. Republic 8-12-79
00:24:50 - 00:25:17
Two small jet planes sit on tarmac. Other planes are shown, one with the name “North Central” printed on its side; one saying “Southern” taxies.
20. Soviet Students 8-12-79
00:25:19 - 00:27:11
Several people greet each other at the airport. Second camera man films this from the other side. Fast music plays off screen as reporter’s voice says off screen, if you didn’t know, you might think this was a group of Atlantans returning home; “instead it is a group of Soviet citizens coming to Atlanta for a week long, for lack of a better word, dialogue.” This group will be based at Georgia Tech with American counterparts and will take part in seminars, dinners, parties, tours of the city, even disco dancing, reporter says with a Russian accent. A small band of musicians play stringed instruments, while one of them sings. A tall bearded man says to the crowd, “Welcome to Atlanta.” A woman translates for the Russian attendees. The group makes a toast and drinks. The reason the group is here, explains reporter’s voice, is to allow representatives from both countries to discuss all the important issues that affect the world: human rights, the arms race, wars of liberation. The reporter speaks through an interpreter with one Russian representative, a youth organization official in the Soviet Union. He agreed, says reporter’s voiceover, that our two countries were wide apart on many issues, but emphasized what must be done is to prevent war. The translator translates the youth organizer’s words, saying to the reporter, “to prevent this danger, we have to work together very actively and negotiate to prevent this and not be afraid to have different views on different matters. We are willing to discuss all the issues honestly and frankly with our American friends and we hope to achieve mutual understanding.” As we see close-ups of the Russian emissaries, reporter’s voice says, maybe it’s idealistic or unrealistic or a sham, but these so-called dialogues have been going on for eight years, four in the Soviet Union and four here. They are privately funded and there is no kid-glove treatment. The discussions and questions are not couched in platitudes. Maybe it’ll work, reporter’s voice finishes as the tall bearded man from the American group finishes his toast and drinks.
21. Marriage License 8-13-79
00:27:13 - 00:28:44
A group of African American protestors picket outside Atlanta city hall. Reporter says, it may sound far-fetched, but this group here says the solution to rising crime in the streets is to turn in your marriage license. One sign being carried reads, ”Repent Before Marrying.” The women in the group wear long smock-like dresses of varying colors and head coverings that match their outfits. The group, explains reporter, is called the Perfect Church, with six hundred members in Atlanta. Another sign reads, “we trusted you America; you betrayed us and gave us a fool to marry!!! The church feels that the way married is now structured, is the cause of increased crime in our cities, so nearly one hundred and fifty members went to the courthouse today to turn in their marriage licenses. Three young black men in grey suits and ties walk up the courthouse stairs with their marriage licenses in hand. Reverend Chambers says, “The laws of this land should not be the source to bind two people together in a holy matrimony.” We know and we feel that the church is supposed to do this and with the church turning this over to the state, and I might say, the United States turning it over to the devil, because he that commits sin is of the devil, then you are breeding corrupt children right out of our homes who come out on the street and violence now is covering the Atlanta area [his pronunciation made it difficult to understand certain words.] Reporter’s voice says Chambers was unsuccessful in getting the licenses revoked by officials within the Fulton County courthouse, he says he will not stop fighting to get the marriage laws changed in the state, adding the making of a nation is the family and until you get families together in the eyes of God, you won’t stop crime. Chambers speaks to the crowd and the woman jump up and down cheering happily.
Reporter: Dorsey, Jocelyn
22. Marriage License 8-13-79
00:28:46 - 00:30:06
Reverend Chambers from clip no. 21 says to his congregation protesting marriage in front of the Fulton County Courthouse, “We’re going to shout, glory Hallelujah.” Congregants echo him loudly and exuberantly. “Praise the lord, he says.” Congregants echo him loudly and exuberantly. “We are free.” Congregants echo him loudly and exuberantly. Reporter’s voice explains that, according to these members of what’s called the Perfect Church, marriages performed by laws are marriages that wallow in sin and marriages that wallow in sin, breed corruption, violence and crime. The group says recent crime statistics back up their beliefs because most murders in this city alone result from domestic quarrels. If marriages were performed totally through the church and not the state, people wouldn’t repent and not sin against their spouses and bring up law-abiding Christian children. Although most of the one hundred and fifty congregants were ready to give up their marriage licenses, at the courthouse today, they were all turned down by officials inside. Reporter takes notes when interviewing church officials and the Reverend Chambers. Congregants have vowed to keep fighting to change marriage laws in the state and bring peace to the city through brotherly love. Reporter closes saying, what they are saying may not be a bad idea. I heard one couple passing by the demonstration today and the woman said to the man, why don’t you get your wife to turn in your marriage license and we’d all be happier.
Reporter: Dorsey, Jocelyn
23. Troopers in City 8-13-79
00:30:07 - 00:32:58
Governor Busbee signs papers at desk at news conference. Reporter’s voice says, Busbee was all business as he signed executive order in the presence of Col. Hugh Hardison of the state patrol, directing GBI agents and state patrol officers to lend assistance to Atlanta to help with the crime problem. Atlanta’s image has been somewhat tarnished, says reporter but noted that Governor Busbee said that the problem is not insurmountable. Busbee says, it is not the first emergency for any city in the state while he’s been governor. We’ve had horrible situations in Columbus and elsewhere and he will commit the resources of the state to correct any situation. “I view this as a very temporary thing,” he finished. View of the Georgia State Capitol gold dome. Reporter in front of the capitol says, shortly after the governor got the machinery in motion, the top law enforcement officials in the state and the city spelled out the details. GBI director, Beverly Ponder, Col. Hardison of the state patrol, Atlanta Public Safety Commissioner, Lee P. Brown, and the city’s police chief, George Napper explained that fifty state patrol officers and an undisclosed number of GBI agents will begin tomorrow morning. The GBI agents will be helping with undercover narcotics work while the state patrol will help with traffic enforcement, accident investigation and traffic control at special events. The extra personnel will allow Atlanta to put an elite crime-fighting team on the streets, who Chief Napper called, the Flying Squad, reporter adds. Napper speaks, saying, the squad will be very visible, mobile, and involved in very intensified and aggressive patrolling tactics throughout the city in identifiable target areas. There will probably be fifty or sixty people involved. One of the key things is that they will not be working any specific hours, but the hours will be determined by the kinds of crimes and problems that are taking place in various communities. Reporter’s voice continues as we watch a trooper talk to a man in the street at night, saying neither the GBI nor the state patrol expect the new assignments will put a strain on them and that Col. Hardison said such requests are made of them all the time. Brown and Napper made it clear, continues reporter, that they have set no specific goals for this operation, but made a pledge that by the time it is over, Atlanta will be on its way to filling the vacancies that have left the police bureau so short-handed. Reporter closes at State Patrol Headquarters parking lot filled with patrol cars saying, if this were another time and another place we well might see the cavalry come to the rescue. It’s the good guys stalking the bad guys, and according to the movies and television, the good guys usually win. Nobody is thinking what will happen if they don’t.
Reporter: Pickard, Marc
24. Democratic Party 8-13-79
00:33:01 - 00:34:16
Elderly white women sit and stand in a group at meeting in office. A group of black people stand in a group in the office as well. Reporter’s voice explains that a group comprised mostly of senior citizens made two stops today. They presented the chairperson for the state Democratic Party with a platform for low and middle-income people. They want the party to create a low-income people committee and they want that committee to be representative of the population of low-income people in the state. The platform calls for the party to pay for those on the committee to go to the national convention. This request will be considered by the Party this fall. At their stop at City Hall, the group intended to meet Mayor Jackson, but he was in a cabinet meeting. Members stand in hall way talking to Leon Hall, director of community development, who assured them of an answer to their requests for traffic lights erected at Hollywood and Jonesboro Rd and an abandoned house torn down within ten days.
Reporter: Moore, Bob
25. Techwood Residents 8-13-79
00:36:18 - 00:36:13
Black woman, Mrs. Green, a resident of Techwood Homes, talks to reporter in the street about the results of efforts by local youth, several of which are seen behind her, on improving the public housing grounds as opposed to the poor quality of work by city workers. Reporter asks if she spoke to the housing authority. She said they had been contacted since 1971. She said they get nothing but promises. Two garbage dumpsters sit in or adjacent to a field of tall grass. This makes the third summer for some of these kids, says reporter’s voice, of working with open dumpsters overflowing with trash. We see trash and flies flying around. As teenagers mow the lawn, the reporter’s voice says not far from here, one of the local teenage girls was raped. Grass and weeds, some as high as five feet have made it impossible for some residents to go out their back doors, continues reporter’s voice. Teens pull large garbage cans filled with weeds as reporter’s voice explains that Mrs. Green says she sees some good coming out of the problem, a sense of community spirit. Reporter interviews some of the kids. A young black boy says, he thinks the community looks better now that they’ve cleaned it up. Reporter, in front of building says, cleaning up the property here at Techwood Homes is not the only problem the tenants have had to face. For example, he says as he points to an outdoor staircase, the tenants have had to contend with an odor that has been there for three months. Another female resident says they don’t know what is creating the odor and she has to keep her windows and door closed. The neighbors are also concerned about a wire, says reporter as we see a wire stretching from outside the building in through a window. Reporter’s voice says its attached to a fuse box inside the apartment and nothing has been done to remove it. They also want the authorities to cover this ditch. We can barely see a ditch hidden amongst the extremely tall grass that hasn’t been mowed yet. Reporter’s voice closes saying that Mrs. Green says the only thing to do is work on what can be done and hope that the housing authority does the rest.
Reporter: Moore, Bob
26. Condos Noon 8-13-79
00:36:15 - 00:37:28
We see historic, low-rise brick buildings with screened in porches. Reporter’s voice off-camera says, conversion of apartments to condominiums is happening at a rapid rate in both DeKalb and Fulton Counties with very little warning to tenants. An attorney, Les Schneider, repeats reporter, says more than twenty percent of apartments in Fulton and DeKalb Counties have been or are being converted and renters who can’t afford to buy a condo will have no place to go because there is already a ninety-seven percent occupancy rate. Today, Les Schneider is trying to persuade the DeKalb County Commission that a four-month moratorium should be placed on condo conversions so the problem could be studied and solutions found. Reporter closes on a treed lawn of a two-story apartment complex saying, Schneider will make the same plea to the Fulton County Commission and is pursuing the protest because he’s seen condo-mania wreak havoc in other cities where he has lived and the apartment complex where he lives is due for conversion next month.
Reporter: McClellan, Don
27. Public Safety 8-14-79
00:37:30 - 00:38:16
Public Safety Commissioner Lee P. Brown speaks to others at conference table at Public Safety Commission meeting. A woman addresses those at a table. Other brief clips are shown with no conclusive message conveyed for the viewer.
28. SCLC 8-14-79
00:38:17 - 00:39:51
Newspaper, “Journal and Guide”, reads, “SCLC, We Support Your Cause. See Special Tribute to SCLC Founder Martin Luther King. Farrakhan Urges Black Uprising.” Reporter’s voice off camera says it’s been twenty-two years since Martin Luther King founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). Large Holiday Inn hotel marquis reads, “Welcome SCLC 79.” Reporter’s voice continues, saying, that the SCLC opened its conference here in Norfolk, Virginia with many of the same problems that Dr. King saw back in 1957. The situation is viewed as critical, says reporter’s voice as mostly black men sit at long tables arranged in a square around the perimeter of a room. The agenda has been labeled, continues reporter, “An agenda for survival.” People in banquet hall clap as reporter’s voice says, during the next three days delegates will tackle a number of crucial issues including a recent resurrection of the Ku Klux Klan. Today, the keynote speaker, congressman, Mickey Leeland of Texas, says reporter as we see Leeland speaking in front of the banquet, says we need a return of black power. Leeland gets a standing ovation. Close-up of older black woman clapping. Close-up of Leeland saying that black power does not mean anti-white, anti-brown; it means doing all that’s necessary in order to empower our own community with the economic strength that it needs. Reporter closes in front of the Holiday Inn marquis saying, among the many issues that need to be discussed by week’s end are, the energy crisis, unemployment and conditions in southern Africa. And while the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is non-political, its president, Dr. Joseph Lowry, says he hopes individual members will not jump too quickly on the question of political endorsements. Repeating Lowry’s words: “That’s what happened the last time. We moved too quickly and got no commitments.”
Reporter: Cassells, Andy
29. Crime Folo 8-14-79
00:39:53 - 00:41:01
Reporter’s voice says, Wayne Scott is an eleven year veteran of the Georgia State Patrol. Camera in the back seat of Scott’s patrol car shows Scott driving. He’s from a family with a line of State Troopers, continues reporter’s voice. His uncle and his cousin and while Scott worked for the DeKalb Police Department, he’s always wanted to be a State Trooper. We see happenings on Atlanta streets out the window of Scott’s patrol car as Scott answers reporter’s question, saying, I hope we can help ‘em. I’m willing to do anything I can to help solve the problems in Atlanta. You can pick up the paper and see they have a problem. The homicide rate is already past 1978. I’ll do whatever my superiors tell me to, he answers when asked by reporter if he’d stay on another year.
Reporter: Moore, Bob
30. Condo Ban 6:00 8-14-79
00:41:03 - 00:42:48
Sign hanging on pole mounted on a lawn reads, “Management: A.F. Winecoff & Co. Carnegie Bldg. 577-1947. No Vacancy.” Reporter’s voice off camera says, “No vacancy” signs are out in full force as apartments in DeKalb and Fulton counties are ninety-seven percent full. Street signs at the intersection of Andrews Road and Peachtree Road with low-rise apartment house in rear. The crunch in residential rental property is being made worse by many apartment owners selling to investors who convert the apartment to condominiums because it’s more profitable than building new ones. So far, reporter’s voice repeats attorney Les Schneider’s words speaking at a DeKalb County Commission meeting, thirty-five hundred have been converted. Reporter’s voice says Schneider has taken up the cause of apartment dwellers who fear condominium conversion because more than twenty-percent of the apartments in Atlanta have been or are in the process of being converted to condominiums. Schneider says to the commission, the situation is such that when carpet-baggers are coming into this city and they are not concerned about the interest of the city or the people who earn between eighteen and fifty-thousand dollars who can afford to pay rent, but who cannot afford to buy. Commissioner, Robert Lanier, says reporter’s voice, suggested the law might be changed to require that condominium conversions meet the same standards as new ones so that the additional cost would discourage apartments from being changed over. But the commissioners say, continues reporter’s voice, they want to look at what other governments have done, before they decide what to do, if anything. Sign on lawn in front of low-rise apartments reads, “Briar Hills Condominium. Office: 1361 Briarwood Dr., N.E. 872-3434. No Peddlers or solicitors allowed.” Reporter closes in front of low-rise apartment saying, Schneider will make the same plea to Fulton County Commission because he’s seen condo-mania create havoc in other cities where he’s lived and because his apartment complex is due to go condo in a month.
Reporter: McClellan, Don
31. Zoo Feature 8-14-79
00:42:50 - 00:44:20
Families look at rhinoceros at the Atlanta Zoo. Zoo official says, we have a new male fox we recently caught who had been living on the zoo grounds for a couple of years. We introduced it to our females and gave it routine medical checks and the official says he was then covered in fleas. The fox creeps out of what looks like a dog house as the zookeeper coaxes him. Two zebras walk in their enclosure. The zookeeper is in a large cage with the fox. He attempts to spray flea powder on the fox and says that they are now working to eliminate the flea problem they discovered. Swans swim in a pond. A worker sweeps straw in an indoor enclosure.
32. Crime Plan 8-14-79
00:44:22 - 00:46:03
Reporter’s voice off camera explains that Public Safety Commissioner Lee Brown appeared before Atlanta City Council Public Safety Committee, going over each of the twenty-one points and described what was being done. Brown speaks to the committee. Here are the high points that Mayor Jackson and Commissioner Brown are committed to, reporter’s voice explains. Policeman drives motorcycle. The first thing is conveying a greater sense of urgency and aggressiveness in the police bureau by superior officers monitoring the arrest records of their troops. Policeman sits at desk. Close up of file cabinet drawer. It comes as no surprise, says reporter’s voice, that the homicide division is inundated with cases. Three investigators have been given to homicide to handle aggravated assault cases, allowing those in homicide to spend more time on murders. Detectives work in the office. Policeman rides a white horse through a park. A special patrol wagon is being used to handle derelicts and drunks. Reporter speaks in front of Police Headquarters saying another feature of Mayor Jackson’s crime prevention plan was, to allow officers to fill out less paperwork. Officials sit at meeting shown in clip no. 27 as reporter’s voice says, certain ordinances were asked for to control false alarms and increase police visibility and just today the Public Safety Committee takes action on those and others. People sit in hallway of courtroom. Reporter’s voice says the city has asked municipal court judges for stiffer fines and longer sentences to those convicted of prostitution. Reporter’s voice closes with clip of the Public Safety Committee meeting saying that with state troopers and GBI officials helping Atlanta police and with the new twenty-one point plan, Commissioner Brown will not only be the watcher, but the watchee.
Reporter: Pickard, Marc
33. City Bldg Director 8-14-79
00:46:04 - 00:46:43
Mayor Maynard Jackson speaks; blond woman speaks about building inspectors.
34. Rape Status 8-14-79
00:46:45 - 00:47:40
Woman speaks to reporter saying, we’ve asked that they be more about prevention and not just catching the rapist. We want people alerted where when the police identify patterns, they automatically start working with the people who live there to ask for help and we want you to take precautions to protect yourself.
Reporter: Dorsey, Jocelyn
35. Mayor NC 8-14-79
00:47:41 - 00:48:26
Mayor Maynard Jackson speaks at conference saying, the best way for us to deal with our public image is to fight the problem which is what we intend to do. He says he believes the national press will take its cue from the local press and that is what happened before. If we are alarmed about our situation and if we take it out of context, he thinks the national press will do so as well. He says, what he is going to do as mayor is fight the problem and that means to fight crime and what you do as the press corps (he speaks to the Atlanta press) in giving your cue to the national press, is up to you.
36. Crime Plan 8-14-79
00:48:29 - 00:49:54
Police detective smokes a pipe in his office as reporter’s voice says, the greatest priority in the city’s fight against crime is its fight against murder. Detectives work in their office. The homicide division has been inundated with cases, continues reporter’s voice. Three investigators have been given to homicide to investigate assault cases allowing those in homicide to investigate murders. Mounted policeman patrols a city park as reporter says, a special patrol team is being used to handle drunks and derelicts. The city’s administrators have asked municipal court judges to hand out stiffer fines and longer sentences to those convicted of prostitution, reporter’s voice continues over a man walking out of Court Room No. 2. Reporter in front of Police Headquarters says officers won’t have to fill out has much paperwork. Civilians and police work at computer terminals as reporter explains that the plan is to use only civilians to work in communications while shifting sworn officers to the street. Six motorcycle police wait at stop sign, then pull out. Reporter’s voice closes saying, no one is foolish enough to think that crime can be administrated out of existence, but that Commissioner Brown and Mayor Jackson hope that the twenty-one point plan be backed by hard work, competent personnel and the desire to make it work.
Reporter: Pickard, Marc
37. Troopers & Homicides 8-14-79
00:49:55 - 00:51:31
Police car drives on nighttime Atlanta street. Reporter’s voice says, the troopers have been assigned to Zone 5 which is primarily, downtown Atlanta. They are covering the Civic Center, the Omni and places where there are special events. He interviews trooper, Jim Henderson, a black trooper, about what it’s been like tonight. Henderson replies, “We’ve written a couple of traffic tickets and we’ve come pretty close to making a couple of arrests…” He also says, when asked, that he and his fellow troopers will make a difference in a given period if for no other reason that the high visibility. Atlanta’s former homicide chief, W.K. Perry speaks at meeting. Reporter says that Perry believes that the sight of the troopers on the street will make a difference, but if the current homicide chief doesn’t get help, he’s gonna have trouble. To the audience he says the current chief’s hands will be tied just like mine were. Police car sits in front of crime tape blocking off a residence. Sign on police car door reads, “East Point Police.” Sign attached to bush on the lawn reads, “Crime Scene. Keep Out. East Point Police.” People sit on steps across from crime scene. Officials, one carrying a black doctor bag, walk out of house. Policemen and detectives wait near the curb.
38. Turner Yachts 8-14-79
00:51:33 - 00:52:16
Helicopter hovers over a sail boat. Print superimposed on the screen reads, “Plymouth, England.” People are in the rough waters. One person is hoisted out of water on a cable from the helicopter.
39. Central City Money 8-14-79 [new park hours]
00:52:17 - 00:53:19
People and pigeons walk in park. Some people sit on grass. Reporter’s voice off camera says, the plan involves six parks in the downtown Atlanta area. Parks Commissioner, Jerri Elders, designated those parks tonight as neighborhood parks. That means, reporter’s voice continues, according to city law, the parks are off limits from eleven at night to six in the morning. Man climbs a ladder and hangs a sign that reads, “Park Closed 11 PM-6 AM.” Elders says to reporter, “It will make sure that the parks are not full of people over night. It will give the police officers an opportunity to make sure that people aren’t there.” If people refuse to leave the park each night, explains reporter’s voice, they will be arrested.
Reporter: Dorsey, Jocelyn
39a. Clothes shopping with children
00:53:21 - 00:55:13
Mother and daughter shop for school clothes. Reporter asks daughter why she picks clothes instead of her mom. “Because everything she picks out, I don’t like,” answers the girl. Mom, when asked by reporter, agrees that children should be allowed to pick out their own clothing because you get more wear from them. Reporter repeats psychologist, Dr. Joyce Brothers’ words, “It is part of the learning process.” A clip of Dr. Brothers explaining how kids learn to pick the clothes that will feel comfortable depending on the temperature or based on what other kids say. There are so few things where you can give a child a choice and they can get a playback of you look terrific in that Superman shirt. You can’t let a child learn dangerous things. You can’t let him decide whether he’s gonna put his finger in a socket or whether he’s gonna run across a street, but you can let him learn in certain areas which are his province to learn.” Boy tries on school clothes in a store. Girls look at coats hanging in store. Reporter repeats Dr. Brothers’ advice, you decide on how much to spend and point your child to the department and size.
40. Troopers 1st Night 8-15-79
00:55:14 - 00:56:49
Similar footage to clip no. 37. Reporter’s voice says, the Georgia State Troopers patrolled all of the downtown area. They handled the special events at the Omni, the Civic Center and the Stadium. Trooper, Jim Henderson, said his shift was pretty routine. Same footage of Henderson and W.K. Perry in clip no. 37. Then, official is interviewed saying, I haven’t had time to evaluate the situation as to manpower and regard to case load, but if I see in the near future, that this is needed, then I’ll make the request through my chain of command and that’s all the authority that I have to do. And then if the higher ups can give me the manpower, fine. We’d all like to have more manpower. In the meantime, reporter’s voice finishes as police car pulls away on night time street, the state troopers will be around for twenty-nine more days to help turn the tide for Atlanta.
Reporter: Moore, Bob
41. Fulco Commish
00:56:50 - 00:57:39
Clips of proceedings in courtoom for Fulton County commission meeting. Nothing intelligible.
42. Env. Report Inventor 8-15-79
00:57:41 - 00:59:39
Historic photo of men toasting with classes in their hand. They each put in five dollars, says reporter’s voice off camera, and that was the beginning of their company in 1943. The genius behind the Carlat Engineering Company was a Russian Count. Document reads, “The Carlat Co. Plant: 153-16 10th Ave. Phone: FLushing 3-7571 Office: 12-13 154th St. Phone: FLushing 3-4360 Whitestone, Long Island, N.Y. They developed unique plans for airplane wings and helicopter rotors since 1926. A picture of the Count pointing to a device. They all worked at other jobs when finances were tough. A man interviewed said the Count used to develop, repair and alter vending machine equipment for carnivals. Robert Laidson [sp] managed the Carlat company, but he also helped build the magnesium wings for the P80, anything to support the engineering love of his life. A picture of men sitting on and standing next to a flatbed trailer with a wing mounted on its side on the flatbed. It was a backyard outfit--build everything from scratch. Still the testing and research required hundreds of thousands of dollars over ten years. Historic photo of men working in a machine shop. Drawings of a wing design that, reporter’s voice explains, can give greater airplane lift at slow speeds, making flying safer, but back in the 40’s and 50’s only mild interest was expressed by the aviation community. The Navy wrote a favorable report. Reporter asks Laidson, sitting in his living room, why no one was willing to finance their work. Laidson says he doesn’t know, but feels that if they would go over their research again, he thinks they’d come up with the same results. Reporter’s voice closes saying, the black and white pictures are all that’s left of the Carlat Company, many of the workers have died, but Robert Laidson hopes he could still help guide some of the research that is going on today to make airplanes and helicopters safer. The trouble was, back then, they were way ahead of their time. Photo of men standing around a structure with a helicopter blade attached to it.
