Multistory Oregon Institute of Technology building under construction / "Dr. Wright" speaks about need for library building--library had been moved out of "commons building" into basement of gymnasium--asking for a $4.5 million library building--only college in the state system that doesn't have a library building--need for dormitories / silent shots of construction / / brief, truncated interview with woman about Rogue Community College, have done away with arena registration, classes are geared to adult students, describes college programs

Shot sheets in M1B Box 3 describe clips 5642-5643 thusly:

5642 oit building--prez

5643 r.c.c.

Silent, color completely faded to red: Rider gallops up to man holding horse, mounts and rides off (Pony Express reenactment) / Woodrow Wilson rides up in early car, speaks to pilot / mailbags loaded onto Curtiss Jenny / Jenny takes off / / B&W: elderly VIPs (veteran airmail pilots?) holding mailbag / poster: "50th Anniversary U.S. Air Mail" / man carries bag onto DC-9 / / Silent, color completely faded to red: view over wing of biplane at low altitude / loading mailbags onto airmail plane at night / still photos of airmail planes / passengers boarding airmail plane / sorting mail / Ford Trimotor in air / / B&W: man exits Pacific Northwest Bell car in TV station parking lot with stack of phone books, hands them to women / interior: women distribute books in KTVM 5 offices

Men talking around table in empty coffee shop or lodge / deserted lake / pan across docks, boats, canoes / back to men talking, "Medford Oregon" banner visible on wall

High schoolers lounging near parking lot, "Homecoming" banner in distance / various shots, closeups of group / / Duff Water Treatment Plant construction site near Rogue River / family with three small children, man points to building / pans of building / interior plumbing, tanks, control room, construction workers / settling tanks, water flowing / concrete being poured / control room, panel

Bob Duncan walks to building at lumber mill / shakes hands with millwright / hands brochure to driver of loader / hands brochures and shakes hands with other workers / / good color, silent: man spray paints small aircraft / stewardess poses with airplane / larger West Coast jet airliner taxiing / stew waves at airplane / executives pose with plane in new livery / tug tows plane on tarmac

B&W footage is badly developed.

Man shovels gravel from roadway into truck / Grants Pass Sanitation Service truck arrives / following sanitation truck through windshield of car / garbage men load trash onto truck / hydraulic compactor panel on truck opens / loaded dump truck speeds past  / / fire wardens with Medford Fire Department truck / warden walks to residence, interviews family at doorstep

Titles: "Progress Parade Issue No. 8" "Mapping Your Vacation": service station attendant services couple in convertible / motorist pulls road map from rack / couple examine map with attendant, he gives directions / closeup of map / traveling shot of cartographers at drawing tables / mapmakers examine maps, books, paste town name on map / man at "touring service" marks map for custom trip / "Our country is the only one in the world where road maps are provided free by oil companies" / couple drive past / / "Oil and Water DO Mix": seagull, wake of ship, freighter on ocean / deck hands painting deck / in engine room / aerial shot of oil tank farm / hoses connected to tanker / valves / tanker casts off and gets under way / ship's telegraph / mess room / storm at sea / captain at map table / radio shack / barges on inland waterway / railroad tank cars / oil pipelines / oil tank truck, Citadel Oil Co. / connecting hoses to unload tanker / shipbuilder's drawing room / welding in boatyard / launching ship / / "Teeth of the Hunter": oil derrick in field / hauling up pipe / drilling bit / closeup of bit: "the teeth of the hunter" / different types of bits / man holds driling plug / jet bit / display of different sizes of bits / lifting lengths of pipe to change bit / hoisting new bit to rig platform / spinning pipe on rig / / "These true stories of progress of work have been presented as a public information service oby the American Petroleum Institute" "The End"
 

Titles: "This Week's News in Review" / / "On the Political Firing Line": "Joseph McCarthy tangled with Secretary of the Army Stevens" / McCarthy and Roy Cohn in hearing, ex-President Truman on New York City sidewalk entering NBC Studios / sound kinetoscope: Senator Flanders on McCarthy ("His is a one-man party, and its name is McCarthyism") / Eisenhower in press conference (silent) concurs with Flanders, Eisenhower walks to car / / "Puerto Rico: Terrorist Roundup": police in crowd, police arresting people / portrait of Campos / seized firearms, bullet holes in door / / "U.S. Bombers Fly Home": nonstop flight of 45 bombers from England to California: bomber on tarmac, men welcomed by wives and families / Colonel John B. Henry speaks on tarmac / / "Washington: Wilson Meets the Press": Secretary of Defense Wilson appoints Bob Anderson deputy / Wilson speaks: sound kinetoscope / Charles Thomas replaces Anderson; Thomas speaks / / "Los Angeles: Car Gets Big Lift": rear of car suspended in air by fountain from broken hydrant / "woman driver" interviewed by police / / "Buffalo, N.Y.: Fire Wrecks Warehouse": 10-story warehouse on fire, multiple pumpers pouring water on building / / "White House": teenage 4-H club members walk past camera, are greeted by President Eisenhower in White House / Eisenhower accepts book / / "Morocco: Sultan Survives Attack": cavalry in review / sultan walks by / sentry on rooftop / assembled dignitaries / bloody survivors of hand-grenade attack / sultan drives off, followed by running subjects / / "Sports: Billy Martin Joins Army": Yankees baseball player Martin kisses family members / drives off in Cadillac / inducted, shakes hands with officer, smiles for cameras / / "The Wild West Goes to London": sign: "Bar-B-Q Ranch" / double-decker buses arrive / sign on bus: "To Texas from Piccadilly Circus" / sign: "Dismount Here"  / Texan in cowboy costume surrenders six-shooter / 1300 attend barbecue at U.S. Air Force base near London /  beef being barbecued / square dancers / / "Next Week: Another Review of the News of the Week"

Talkie interviews are wavy; I assume they're high-quality kinetoscopes

Pan across Crater Well Drilling truck / drilling well next to house in country / water or drilling mud splashes about copiously, pan along stream of muddy water to homeowner--looks like East Medford / / group of men walk down sidewalk past camera (Beatty & McDougal Insurance, 204 W. Main, Medford in background), go into building, Sen. Bob Duncan sign in window / very young Bob Packwood self-consciously smirking and schmoozing on sidewalk, Davis Gift Shop, 135 W. Main in background, camera pans to large Re-Elect Wayne Morse sign / Packwood walks down sidewalk into store, Quality Market, 222 W. Main, in background / enters mattress store / reflection in window of hiim shaking hands, passing out brochures / Packwood enters van in front of Winetrout Building emblazoned with "People for Packwood," Crater Lake Motors in background

Judge reading aloud at bench, pan to another judge / speaker reading / man pins corsage on elderly woman / speaker / family members / pinning corsage on another woman / speaker / judge / audience applauds / more of same

Pan across hundreds of middle schoolers and school buses assembled in woods / speaker / students troop past camera / man explains samples of bark, foliage / / good color, silent: men hunkered in barren plowed field--looks like Upper Rogue area / closeup of rough rocks gathered on top of soil / pans across field, tall stakes pounded in ground / closeup of hands with arrowhead / pan across arrowheads mounted on board / hands demonstrate mortar and pestle, grinding stone / assemblage of projectile points

On building: "Phoenix Civic Center" / interiors: voter talking to poll watchers / signing in / closeup of special election ballot to recall Councilman Dale Haggard--Reason why: "He refuses to cooperate and work with other city officials." Haggard's statement: "I was unafraid to stand up to a power structure for the best interests of all the people of Phoenix." / / woman at lectern speaks / pan across band playing national anthem, VIPs and students with hands over hearts / pan across sparse audience, North Medford High School auditorium / speakers / view from back of auditorium, pan across hall

Hand pulls file drawers open, showing thousands of file cards / pan across open drawers / closeup of ballot instructions page / / color, completely faded to red: helicopter spraying seed or fertilizer / pellets falling on conifer branches / bulldozer cutting tree with clippers / yarding logs / loading on log truck / log truck on dirt road in woods

People examining maps in office / map: "Preliminary Zoning, Harbeck-Fruitdale District" / / courtroom: adults and child in jury box / pans across spectators / people taking oath / judge / pan across new citizens / bored child / lawyer speaks / / men standing in field, Josephine County, check is passed, hands are shaken / pan across park / closeup of check: $1000, Murphy Creek Lumber Co. to Grants Pass Junior Chamber of Commerce

Exterior of Carnegie Library, Medford / sign: "Be All You Can Be--READ" / interior: library desk, pan across interior / children standing and reading / librarian demonstrating card catalog / librarian at card catalog

Four-propeller United airliner taxis to gate, Medford Airport / big crowd waiting at gate / passengers disembarking / Robert Kennedy disembarking, diving into crowd / Kennedy mobbed under wing of airplane / Kennedy addressing crowd at microphone / pan across crowd, Medford terminal

See SOHS Films Nos. 1315 and 1324 for footage of RFK in Medford in May 1968

See SOHS Film No. 1329 for footage of RFK memorial service

Per Erich Reeder, November 5, 2019:

0:06 Man in white trench coat is Thomas J. Reeder, RFK's Jackson County campaign manager

0:10 Woman in sunglasses is Joan Redden, wife of Judge James Redden, then Minority Leader in the Oregon House

1:26 James Redden is the leftmost of the two balding men in dark-rimmed glasses

Per Tam Moore, November 5, 2019:

He recalls shooting this footage. Due to the crowd, John Darling stood by with a bicycle to deliver the film to KOBI studios, then where the Rogue Valley Mall is today.

Painted on glass door: "Internal Revenue Service" / interior: agent helps client / IRS logo on wall / people going through door / / postmaster Al Bradford and other man chat in office, pan down to envelope they're discussing / closeup of envelope, return address "Kamera, North Highland Avenue, Hollywood, California," handwritten: "Can you put a stop to this mail being sent . . ."

Rainy day, tow truck parked beside car upside down in roadside ditch, North Pacific Highway, Medford / ambulance / closeup pan of car / removing gurney bearing patient from Industrial Air Products Co., pan to wrecked car / different wreck, Grants Pass, two cars / sign on road: "To Jerome Prairie Rd." "To Schroeder Park" / rear-ended car in Mock's Used Cars parking lot / wrecked Bonneville in gas station parking lot / someone throws rock and breaks side window / interior of car through broken glass

Silent, good color: Air West jetliner in air / VIPs discussing in president's (?) office / maps of Air West routes / president (?) examines maps / closeups of model of airliner with new Air West livery / Air West liner in air again, banks away from us

Men having discussion on roadside, shoulder of Roxy Ann visible in background / closeup of plowed soil, hand tests it for feel / more men join discussion

Smoke billowing from vacant building next to 90 and 9 Tavern, 1324 South Riverside / closeup of burning building, Medford Armory in background / firefighters pulilng hose / spraying building / sign: "This Building for Sale or Lease by Owner" / firefighters spraying building, various shots / pan across scene / water running down gutter, pan to smoking building / ladder truck spraying roof / PP&L Lineman climbs pole through smoke to cut power / more firefighting shots / / through windshield as car drives north on Highway 62 toward Vilas Road / speed limit sign / driving south on Highway 62 toward Vilas / log truck stopped at Vilas, accelerates when light turns green

The building was the Modern Furniture Company building, 1222 South Riverside. See Medford Mail Tribune, March 28, 1968, page 1.

Still photograph of VIPs in mobile bank / closeup and pan of photo / photo of outside of converted bus, with "Crater" pasted over original lettering on bus to change it to "Crater National Bank" / signs: "Shady Cove," "Eagle Point," "Gold Hill," "Prospect"

Passengers disembarking from DC-8 airliner, Medford Airport / VIP greeted / more passengers disembarking / closeup of VIPs chatting outside terminal

Oregon State Police pickup, ambulance at accident site, police rush young victim to unmarked ambulance / dump truck lying on its side, load of dirt scattered, pan to power pole at an angle / police and wrecker work to extricate bodies from automobile / covering body / J&J Market sign, street sign: intersection of Hanley Road and Beall Lane / pan across site / / doctor examines baby on mother's lap, vaccinates arm, baby cries, mother smiles / closeup of baby / closeup of doctor (Dr. Merkel?) drawing medication / sign: "Stop Measles" / vaccinating toddler, toddler gazes accusingly at camera / doctor gives oral vaccine to baby

Killed in accident were tentatively identified as Roseburg residents Richard Wise, 14; Juanita Susan Morberg, 25; and a small boy, one or two years of age. Injured were Paul Wise, "a child believed to be between 3 and 4 years of age, and a girl, about 5 or 6." Admitted to Providence Hospital were a girl believed to be Terry Wise, and a woman believed to be Joan Marie Wise, 33. The driver of the dump truck was not named. See Medford Mail Tribune, March 21, 1968, page 1.

"In critical condition at Providence Hospital is Mrs. Paul (Joan) Wise, 33, of Idleyld  Route, Roseburg. Also in critical condition, but at Rogue Valley Hospital, is her daughter, Barbara Jean, 6, who underwent surgery late Thursday. In satisfactory condition at Rogue Valley is Paul Emery Wise Jr., 4. Terry Lou Morberg, 5, who was hospitalized overnight at Providence Hospital, was released this morning. Killed in the accident were Mrs. Douglas (Juanita) Morberg, 25, also Roseburg; her son, Douglas Earl Morberg Jr., 10 months, and Richard Eugene Wise, 14." The driver of the dump truck was identified as George Holberton of Robert Gilbert Construction Co. Medford Mail Tribune, March 22, 1968, page 1.