The KHOU-TV Collection - News Clips, April 24 - 29, 1968

Duration: 10:39

Year Published: 1968

Sound: sound

Description: This film from KHOU-TV Channel 11 in Houston contains a series of short news segments that would have aired as highlights to news stories. Many are silent and would have been voiced over by the anchorperson during a live broadcast. The titles for each segment are the originals created by KHOU-TV. The clips on this reel all date from April 24 to 29, 1968. This series features news segments about a hearing related to the prosecution of the TSU Five and a deadly plane crash in Beaumont. Also included is footage of third-party presidential candidate George Wallace during his three-day campaign tour of Texas. Please note, these segments depicts individuals waving the Confederate battle flag. While a contentious debate over the display of Confederate symbols continues to the present day, in the context of the 1960s we can interpret their use as an emblematic resistance to the Civil Rights Movement. Historians point out that the Confederate battle flag largely disappeared after the Civil War, reemerging in 1948 among Southern Democrats protesting federal civil rights initiatives. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, the flag subsequently acquired a strong association with racial segregation and white supremacy. The Texas Archive of the Moving Image does not condone such racial prejudice, but presents the film as it was originally created, because to do otherwise would be the same as to claim this ideology never existed.