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WFAA - March 1 - 2, 1971 Part 1

0:00, 4:51 - (March 1, 1971) At a Dallas City Council meeting, Hispanic leaders Richard Menchaca and Gus Calderon complain that Dallas police have been targeting and harassing members of the Mexican American community following the recent Trinity River Massacre (in which deputies were killed by suspects who were identified as being Hispanic); as they speak, there are shots of Councilwoman Anita Martinez, the sole Mexican American on the City Council (Silent); also speaking before the council is Rev. Peter Johnson, representative for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and local leader of the SCLC anti-hunger program “Operation Breadbasket,” who urges the city to address the situation of hunger among its residents, saying that hunger makes people desperate and describes how it affects the community; one of the men representing Dallas’ Mexican Americans reads from a statement which outlines what his community wants; additional silent footage shows mayoral candidate Al Lipscomb seated in the audience. 1:44 - (March 1, 1971) During a meeting of the Fort Worth City Council, members acknowledge City Manager Howard McMahan who is leaving to start his new job with the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (Silent). 2:30, 7:21 - Dorothy Blessing, former director of Fairchild House (1604 8th Ave.), the Fort Worth Mental Health-Mental Retardation (MHMR) Center's halfway house for psychiatric patients, claims she was fired because of sex discrimination; brief shot of a woman reading a statement and of MHMR board president Jim Stiff, who sits for an interview (Silent); in an interview, Stiff says that Blessing was dismissed because of staff restructuring and does not believe that she has grounds for a suit; he goes on to reveal that the (male) director who had taken over Blessing’s position is leaving Fairchild House for another job; Jim Green reporting. 3:06, 11:52 - Dave Meggyesy, a former linebacker for the St. Louis Cardinals, is interviewed (Silent); he is asked about claims he’s made in his new book, “Out of Their League,” that the National Football League (NFL) dehumanizes its players; he says that his lifestyle is definitely different than the typical NFL player and discusses whether quitting the league was more productive than working within the system to reform it; Verne Lundquist reporting. 3:38, 9:24 - (March 1, 1971) The long-delayed Skyline High School is finally opening in Dallas, and students are celebrating; in interviews, two students – a young woman and a young man named Sandy Wilson – are asked why they are excited to be starting school at Skyline; additional silent shots of students watching the American flag being raised by JROTC cadets; more silent footage of students entering the school for the first time and of a banner reading “Welcome to the Promised Land”; a man speaks at an assembly – seated behind him are Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Dr. Nolan Estes, former DISD Superintendent W. T. White, and school board member Dr. Emmett Conrad. 5:33 - (March 1, 1971) Murder charges against Paul Wayne Howell, who was accused of murdering Dykes Askew Simmons Jr. in September 1969, have been dismissed because of insufficient evidence; Howell, however, did admit to the July 1969 robbery of a liquor store and was sentenced to ten years for that crime; the report goes on to describe Simmons' story as the "Forgotten American" who was charged with murder in Mexico and who escaped from a Mexican jail, exploits which garnered national publicity; Jerry Park reporting. 6:42 - (March 1, 1971) A woman who has been appointed by Fort Worth mayor R. M. “Sharkey” Stovall to his Committee on the Status of Women, discusses how she intends to advise and work with the mayor. 10:08 - (March 1, 1971) Candidates for the Dallas School Board are at the DISD School Administration Building to file for election; candidates seen are Harry Tunstall, James Jennings, Tom S. Williams, and Eugene Smith (Silent). 10:31 - (March 1, 1971) The murder trial of 19-year-old Allan Wayne Murray continues in Judge Charlie Davis' Dallas courtroom; Murray is accused of murdering Patricia Ann Mahanay in Feb. 1970; footage from the proceedings includes shots of the 3 state prosecutors (left to right, Frank Watts, Bill Hill, and Hugh Lucas) as well as shots of the judge and of Murray (Silent). 10:58 - (March 1, 1971) Winners from the Posters for Police contest meet Dallas Police Chief Frank Dyson and are handed the first of 63,000 Police Coloring Books, copies of which will be distributed in area schools; Dyson and Kenneth Tapley, president of the Dallas Association of Insurance Agents (DAIA), the organization which has funded the book’s publication, review a book; the children are Charla Smith, Steve Williams (glasses), Glen Hackler (yellow shirt), and Freddie Gomez (red jacket) (Silent). 14:22 - The Tarrant County Commissioners Court is in session (Silent).