National Educational Television and Radio Center Perlmutter, Alvin H Willis, Jack (Film producer) Squier, Robert D Malafronte, Donald Addonizio, Frank Buggs, John McCutchen, Richard Talbot, Malcolm Still, Timothy Black, Albert Lewis, Leon Lynch, Richard Jefferson, Kim Field, John Carey, Thomas Curvin, Robert Sagner, Allan
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2 hour piece, produced by NET and initially distributed by NET in 1967. It was originally shot on videotape. This film is a special report on riots in Newark and other American cities. it consists of two parts: the first is a 90-minute dialogue between Negro spokesmen and white community leaders, organized by NET in Newark just after the riots in an effort to relieve continuing tensions and to work toward solution of the citys festering problems; the second part is a 30-minute interpretative discussion taped in Washington, DC, one week later and enlisting leading authorities on problems in urban affairs and civil rights who place the Newark meeting in the larger perspective of national problems. Part I presents the Newark meeting itself which was attended by 20 panelists and an audience of some 200 local residents many of whom participate in the heated exchanges on such subjects as police brutality, housing, education, unemployment, and racial attitudes. Leon Lewis, station director of radio station WLIB, moderates this section. Panelists include: Donald Malafronte, assistant to the mayor of Newark; Albert Black, head of The Human Relations Commission; City Councilman Frank Addonizio; Timothy Still, head of the Newark antipoverty program; Robert Curvin, former head of Newark CORE; Richard Lynch, vice president, New Jersey AFL-CIO; Phil Hutchins, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee; Allan Sagner, president of Beth Israel Hospital; Malcolm Talbot, vice president, Newark-Rutgers University; the Reverend Kim Jefferson, Council of Churches; and Msgr. Thomas Carey, Queens of Angels Church. Part II consists of...
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