WFAA - February 7 - 8, 1971 Part 2

0:00, 1:54, 7:40, 10:23 - (February 8, 1971) Frank Carlucci, national director of the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), holds a press conference in Dallas to announce the appointment of Phillip V. Sanchez as the new national OEO assistant director of field operations (Carlucci is seated between Sanchez and James W. Griffith, regional OEO director); additional silent footage of Sanchez being interviewed; Sanchez discusses the significance of his new position; Carlucci goes on to introduce Sanchez; additional silent footage from the press conference; Judi Hanna reporting. 0:42 - Aftermath of a fire at 3414 Pointer Street in the West Dallas housing projects (Silent). 1:10, 14:00 - Two men discuss why the Mexican American community of Fort Worth is looking for Hispanic leaders, saying that getting involved in politics might be the only way to make progress and improve conditions; Art Sinclair reporting. 2:51 - (February 8, 1971) A preliminary master plan for an expansion of Fair Park is presented to the public by the Dallas Park Board and urban planning consultant Marvin Springer; Springer, seen standing before a chart, recommends the demolition of some Fair Park buildings (including the band shell, the Gas Building, and the Margo Jones Theatre) as well as the acquisition of nearby land and the expansion of the Midway, which he would like to see open year-round; various shots from the meeting and around Fair Park (Silent). 3:34 - A group, which includes members of the Dallas City Council, meets in a banquet room; a man draws a diagram on a chalkboard (Silent). 4:05 - The Harlem Globetrotters are in Dallas for a 2-day stand at Memorial Auditorium in Dallas; in a gymnasium, a Globetrotter hosts a basketball clinic, with several children wearing YMCA t-shirts. 6:24, 8:58 - (February 8, 1971) At a meeting of the Dallas City Council, discussions resume for the construction of a new City Hall, with Councilman Ted Holland saying that economic conditions have improved since the last time the construction was discussed; also discussed is the proposed ordinance by Councilman George Allen that Dallas ban leaded gasoline by 1985 – two of the opponents to the ordinance are Nancy Johnson, representative for the Air Quality Coalition of North Central Texas, who believes that the ordinance is not necessary as there is currently no evidence that gasoline lead emissions are harmful to humans but suggests that the more pressing problem is stopping industrial air pollution, and Charles E. Simons, executive vice president of the Texas Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Association; additional silent footage from the session; Teel Salaun reporting. 10:41, 12:04 - (February 8, 1971) A meeting of the Fort Worth City Council is underway, during which neighborhood residents demand the city take action against the showing of X-rated movies at the Riverside Drive-In (3500 NE 28th); spokesperson Fay Anderson, holding a strip of 35mm film, addresses the council; additional shots from the drive-in show the marquee advertising “Fannie Hill Meets Dr. Erotico,” “Spiked Heels and Black Nylons,” and “Candy Baby”; additional footage of Anderson being interviewed (Silent); Anderson says that she would like for the theater to be out of the neighborhood altogether, but a fence would be acceptable; when asked if residents had considered moving, she says that having the theater in the neighborhood makes it difficult for residents to sell their homes. 11:29 - Brief shot of Marion Ernest McMillan, who is believed to have been arrested in Ohio; McMillan, a leader of the local Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) left Dallas in 1969 while out on bond facing a 10-year sentence for property destruction at a South Dallas grocery store (the person arrested turned out to not be McMillan) (Silent). 11:33 - Brief shot of singer Jimmy Dean in a Dallas courtroom where he faces a civil lawsuit filed by Star Promotions Inc. who claim that Dean failed to perform at a venue in Lubbock in 1962 (Silent). 12:59 - (February 8, 1971) Shots from the DWI trial of Garland Police Chief Robert T. (Bob) Wade in the Dallas courtroom of Judge Ben Ellis; seen are Ellis, Wade, and defense attorney Charles Tessmer (red, white, and blue tie) (Silent). 13:37 - Bobby Joe Daniels is on trial in a Dallas courtroom for the murder of Albert Mott Chattin Jr., a NASA contractor whose body was found in an open field in Richardson near Texas Instruments in October 1969; Daniels is seen with his court-appointed attorneys, Louis Bedford and Bruce Cunningham (Silent). 14:46 - (February 8, 1971) Natalia Makarova, a Russian ballerina who defected from the Soviet Union in September 1970, is in Dallas to perform with the American Ballet Theatre (ABT) at the State Fair Music Hall; Makarova, in a fur hat, is seen speaking at a press conference and smoking a cigarette; with her are other dancers in the troupe, including Erik Bruhn and Carla Fracci (Silent).