19701970s NEWS
Various news stories from Florida (mostly around Jacksonville) - 7/6/70
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Springfield Lions citizenship 7/6
Secreatary of State office
City officials - opera
Downtown Rotary Club
Disney World ground breaks
American Legion 4th of July 7/4
Gaines arrive alive program 7/4
26th and Canal accident
Holiday auto accidents
Mt. Herman School Vandals 7/5
Fernandina - keystone hotel
Gator bowl
Duval jailbreak attempt 7/4
Bethune ele. school
Mathews Bridge - westside
Nurses with rescue units
Davis st. shooting
12th and Lloyd lightning 7/3
Fernandina Beach - wind damage
New Berlin Road
Atl. Blvd and Giruin Road fatal crash
Jaycees - death march for holiday weekend
no audio
Springfield Lions citizenship 7/6
Secreatary of State office
City officials - opera
Downtown Rotary Club
Disney World ground breaks
American Legion 4th of July 7/4
Gaines arrive alive program 7/4
26th and Canal accident
Holiday auto accidents
Mt. Herman School Vandals 7/5
Fernandina - keystone hotel
Gator bowl
Duval jailbreak attempt 7/4
Bethune ele. school
Mathews Bridge - westside
Nurses with rescue units
Davis st. shooting
12th and Lloyd lightning 7/3
Fernandina Beach - wind damage
New Berlin Road
Atl. Blvd and Giruin Road fatal crash
Jaycees - death march for holiday weekend
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| 01:00:03 3.61 |
Car crashed into a tree. car badly smashed. police and onlookers are at the scene.
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| 01:00:09 9.53 |
Tractor trailer overturned (lies on its side). CU water or gas streams out of a hole in the truck. Pan along the ground shows the stream of liquid flowing into the ground.
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| 01:00:23 23.4 |
cutaway a still shot of a river or stream.
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| 01:00:25 25.17 |
cutaway to a wide street in a town with little traffic flow- ls of a person standing in the middle of the street, maybe a policeman.
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| 01:00:30 30.79 |
street sign U.S. 1 and Dunn Ter
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| 01:00:43 43 |
Car wreck - vehicle crashed against bushes. A truck crashed, on its side
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| 01:00:53 53.39 |
Ext. Springfield Lions building. CU shiny gold lion statue at front of building
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| 01:01:01 61.01 |
Man is presented with a plaque at Lion's meeting. Large Lions Club banners hang on wall.
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| 01:01:30 90.59 |
The words "Secretary of State" (Florida) over the doorway of building
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| 01:01:34 94.39 |
Businessman with a pipe in his mouth walks into room holding small sign that reads "Stan Tait #1".
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| 01:01:46 106.11 |
A Ground Breaking - Workers wearing red baseball hats climb out of a dump truck. Businessman with pipe in his mouth puts on same red cap with the letters DP. Other businessmen wear the same hat, mingle with workers at a work site. Workers with lawn mowers. A bulldozer pushes debris. Men begin shoveling the ground.
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| 01:02:54 174.15 |
Rotary Club of Jacksonville meeting 7/6/70
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| 01:03:29 209.38 |
Faded footage - a smiling young lady and man with a shovel break the ground outside an orange grove - this could be the ground breaking for what was to be Disney World in 1970. Officials shake hands, onlookers.
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| 01:03:58 238.69 |
Footage clears and is in color - the couple with two officials toast with orange juice.
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| 01:04:00 240.86 |
Circular sign "Burnett Park (and red directional arrow)"
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| 01:04:06 246.11 |
Blue tint to film - People sit in outdoor bleachers, couple with an umbrella. Cutaway to a local non professional baseball game (shot through a chain link fence).
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| 01:04:11 251.79 |
Cutaway to American Legion 4th of July (1970) celebration. American flag in parking lot. People gather outside in front of building, lots of kids. Picnic games - three legged race, American flag blows in the wind, kids race in swimming pool.
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| 01:04:42 282.95 |
Ext. Florida Highway Patrol building. CU Sign outside building. CU Florida Highway Patrolman behind the wheel of his vehicle.
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| 01:05:00 300.72 |
POV from inside the highway patrolcar. patrolman pulls over a vehicle on the highway. takes license from woman driver.
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| 01:05:30 330.52 |
Cutaway, vehicle crash. Car crashed and turned on its side on the side of the road. A van turned on its side. Onlookers. Police officer takes notes or writes a ticket.
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| 01:06:04 364.84 |
CU smashed front end of car. Hood is up, front fender and engine completely smashed.
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| 01:06:15 375.97 |
Police and others near car that seemed to have fallen off the road into a ditch, person tends to victim still in car. Onlookers, rescue vehicle, police on highway direct traffic, crashed guardrail.
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| 01:06:31 391.35 |
ws Mt. Herman School in Jacksonville. Police inside school investigate vandalism, look at papers from open file cabinet. desk drawers open, food from kitchen on the floor, vandalism at the school.
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| 01:07:05 425.54 |
Fernandina Beach - The Keystone Hotel - old historic hotel built in 1912
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| 01:07:40 460.79 |
People, families and kids, gathered in parking lot, police patrol, kids go off to school. Duval County School Busses parked. School Crossing and School Days signs. Kids with big suitcases. Busses take off, kids wave goodbye from windows.
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| 01:08:21 501.26 |
Long line of school busses driving on highway.
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| 01:08:29 509.4 |
Event at a park. Little boy lies on the ground, hands behind his head, relaxed bare chested with shirt open. Mom and kids sit on the grass laughing, smiling and look up in the air, kids make faces. Park full of people, palm trees, balloons, orchestra conductor conducts sailor's band.
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| 01:09:05 545.26 |
pan from feet up. Police officer walks with perp, chained at ankles, shirtless and handcuffed.
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| 01:09:19 559 |
Rear shot Rescue Emergency First Aid Services van.
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| 01:09:37 577.94 |
Open door of parked fire truck reads Aerial No. 18 Ladder. Fireman climbs ladder of building, fireman on roof. Onlookers. Smoking debris om lawn.
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| 01:10:15 615.19 |
CU policeman in police car writes a ticket. Car radio with digital clock reads 6:29.
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| 01:10:49 649.3 |
Young man with hand in peace sign symbol holds handwritten sign in large letters that reads "Speed Trap Ahead". Police officer leads the way directly into jail cell.
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| 01:10:58 658.61 |
Rescue Vehicle pulls away from building. POV from inside the van, a male victim lies on a stretcher, EMT's apply first aid.
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| 01:11:54 714.04 |
Police search a parked auto. Some onlookers, mostly Black folk. Detective holds rifle confiscated from vehicle. Street sign on white post "Davis - Duval St. Detective and police officer talk with Black folk hanging out on street. Hanging sign jutting out from building "Kitchin Post Wine Beer"
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| 01:12:09 729.35 |
Blood stain on front bumper and rear bumper of same white parked vehicle
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| 01:12:18 738.23 |
High winds blow dust and sand through Florida town.
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| 01:12:50 770.21 |
Winds blow old time wooden fishing boats against dock at Fernandina Beach. Large sign reads "Florida Marine Welcome Station".
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| 01:13:05 785.76 |
Small group, 5 - 6, teenage boys walk along perimeter of lake. One of the boys points down at the water, they look around then are seen walking down a dirt road toward a parked emergency van in the distance where several people are gathered, including police.
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| 01:14:04 844.73 |
Nighttime, a dead body wrapped in a white sheet on the road, police officers stand by. Nighttime highway traffic, headlights.
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| 01:14:42 882.04 |
Jaycees Death March for Holiday Weekend:
CU Jacksonville Jaycees sign. CU man plays a bongo drum. Next to him CU a young man, teenager, looks solemn, dressed in black hood holds a sickle like the Grim Reaper. |
| 01:14:55 895.06 |
CU large poster taped to door of car in big letters "Drive Safely or...RIP". Another sign taped to door of car reads "Have a Good 4th Not a Fifth (picture of a bottle of liquor)".
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