San Francisco County Sheriff/ Jonestown Funerals

Year Published: 1978

Complete Record: Press conference with an African-American man; talks about eating a meal with prisoners in a jail; next clip shows earth moving equipment (construction) moving caskets into the ground (multiple caskets -- looks like concrete caskets); a young African-American man sings during an apparent funeral for Jonetown victims; many of the mourners at the funeral are African-American; next clip is a press conference with a government official discussing the investigation the city of San Francisco was conducting in July of 1977 well before the Jonestown Massacre in February 1978; the man interviewed apparently is the chief of police for the SFPD; speaks about how guns were being shipped to Guyana from San Francisco and that the city was beginning to investigate; next clip is a MS of a stack of books; then an exterior shot of a building (perhaps a school?); then CU on the inside of the school locker; then a CU on a letter from the SF Unified School District; then a CU on a sign reading “John Sweet School”; then a CU on sign reading “Commodore Stockton Elementary School”; then MS on a school playground; then MS on school mural; some more still shots of an empty school playground; CU on sign reading “James Lick Junior High School”; some shots of children playing games in the same school playground; two young white muscular men playing basketball; CU on basketball net; interior shot of teenagers in a classroom studying or taking an exam; students studying in a library; MS of a school band playing musical instruments; line of children playing trumpets; CU on older white male teacher conducting the school band; children playing various wind instruments; teenagers practicing on drums; teenager white girl practicing on the xylophone; next clip again shows the line of caskets being prepared for burial (all of them are identical with the same white color); white men carrying the shrink wrapped caskets out of a truck and lining them up with the others; MS of the entire line of caskets all lined up in a single row; next clip is Mayor Moscone playing basketball; then a man giving an interview talking about him losing his best friend; next clip shows Mayor Moscone being sworn into office and then shaking hands with various people afterwards; then a MS of Mayor Moscone walking down a sideway with his wife? shaking hands with people as he walks; several still images of the mayor and his family; next clip shows the same man continuing to talk about how the Milk/Moscone assasination has affected him; next clip shows a Mr. Burton talking about assasination (very short); next clip shows Mayor Moscone talking about the Board of Supervisors; then various still shots and short clips of Moscone; Moscone taking a tour of his office; then back to Mr. Burton (again very short); Mr. Burton again talking about how close he was to both men who were killed and then starts to cry a little; next clip shows an African-American man giving a press conference talking about a prisoner escape; next clip is the same African-American man continuing to give a press conference; this African-American man is apparently the San Francisco County Sheriff.