TOMORROW WITH TOM SNYDER IN PUERTO RICO {VERA CLEMENTE} (TV)
Summary
One in this series of late-night topical interview programs hosted by Tom Snyder.
This is the second of two episodes filmed in Puerto Rico. Highlights include: Snyder interviewing Vera Clemente, widow of baseball star Roberto Clemente about her involvement in organizing community sports programs for impoverished Puerto Rican children, a street named after Roberto in San Juan, and speaking with the three Clemente children Roberto Clemente Jr., Luis Roberto Clemente, and Roberto Enrique Clemente; Snyder interviewing blackjack dealer Luis Felipe Gonzalez about the legitimacy of gambling in Puerto Rico, the government training for dealers and government oversight of casinos, and differences between gambling in Puerto Rico and in the United States (including the prohibition of alcoholic beverages at the gaming tables); Snyder interviewing Marguerite Fernández, director of a family planning center in Puerto Rico, about methods of sterilization and birth control used by Puerto Rican couples, the great demand for family planning services offered, relationships between family planning institutions and religious institutions in Puerto Rico, and the participation of patients in helping to run the clinic; Snyder interviewing former governor of Puerto Rico Luis Ferré about the historic Morro Castle, the possibility of incorporating Puerto Rico into the United States as a state, the tax structure of Puerto Rico and how statehood would affect its economic situation, and the relationship between political independence and social freedom; Snyder visiting the courtyard of the Dominican Convent and interviewing “San Juan Star” founder and former editor William Dorvillier and actress and talk show host Ojeña Santiaga about how Puerto Ricans react to the seemingly slow progress of its government and the economic problems plaguing them, and the role of mass media in relation to the people of Puerto Rico. Includes commercials.
Details
- NETWORK: NBC
- DATE: October 7, 1975 12:30 AM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:58:24
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: 100332
- GENRE: Talk/Interviews
- SUBJECT HEADING: TV - Talk/Interviews; Hispanic Collection
- SERIES RUN: NBC - TV series, 1973-1981
- COMMERCIALS:
- TV – Commercials – A.R.M. allergy medicine
- TV – Commercials – Alka-Seltzer antacid
- TV – Commercials – Avis car rental
- TV – Commercials – Banquet pot pies
- TV – Commercials – Brim decaffeinated coffee
- TV – Commercials – Duracell batteries
- TV – Commercials – Earth Shoe footwear
- TV – Commercials – Eastern airlines
- TV – Commercials – Lasting Hold hairspray
- TV – Commercials – One-a-Day multivitamin supplements
- TV – Commercials – Pillsbury cooking dough
- TV – Commercials – Puerto Rico-Sheraton hotel
- TV – Commercials – Star-Kist tuna
- TV – Promos – “Police Woman”
- TV – Promos – “The Midnight Special”
- TV – Promos – “The Rockford Files”
- TV – Promos – “Tomorrow”
CREDITS
- Joel Tator … Producer, Director
- Katherine Coker … Producer
- Pamela Burke … Producer
- Bruce McKay … Producer
- Tom Snyder … Host
- Vera Clemente … Interviewee
- Roberto Clemente Jr. … Interviewee
- Luis Roberto Clemente … Interviewee
- Roberto Enrique Clemente … Interviewee
- Luis Felipe Gonzalez … Interviewee
- Marguerite Fernández … Interviewee
- Luis Ferré … Interviewee
- William Dorvillier … Interviewee
- Ojeña Santiaga (audio id only) … Interviewee
- Roberto Clemente