Interview with Ben Williams
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@ Oakland Public Library, African American Museum and Library at Oakland
Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education Caldwell, Earl Williams, Ben
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Interview with reporter Ben Williams. He was the first African American reporter at the San Francisco Examiner when he was hired in 1962. When he was hired in 1966 by KPIX Channel 5, the CBS affiliate in San Francisco, he was the first black reporter to be hired as a television news reporter in the Bay Area.
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