Rescue at Brackenridge Hospital

Duration: 0:02:34

Year Published: 1960s

Format: 16mm

Sound: silent

Description: This silent footage from an Austin-based network news affiliate, likely KTBC-TV, shows the rescue at Brackenridge Hospital of what appears to be a painter whose basket malfunctioned, leaving him dangling from a fourth story window. The worker is brought to safety as a crowd gathers below; nurses Camille Clay and Leda Brice greet him on the ground.