SEE IT NOW {KU KLUX KLAN} (TV)
Summary
One in this series of current events documentary programs, hosted by Edward R. Murrow. In this program, Murrow reports on two North Carolina weekly newspapers, the News Reporter of Whiteville and the Tabor City Tribune, which won the Pulitzer Prize for fighting and exposing the Ku Klux Klan. Highlights of this report include the following: the Whiteville Rotary Club congratulates and commends the editors of the two weeklies for their service to the community; the views of Tabor City, where the KKK held a full-dress parade, and Whiteville, where a man was killed and five citizens flogged; the sheriff discusses the floggings; a high school teacher and class discuss the courage of local publishers; Horace Carter of the Tabor City Tribune talks about his coverage of the KKK; and the editor of the News Reporter discusses the KKK. Murrow introduces Jack Beck's report on the arrival of illegal aliens ("wetbacks") from Mexico. Highlights of this report include the following: a U.S. prison train on its run from California to Mexico to return illegal aliens; El Centro, Calif., where many of the Mexicans find farm work; footage of aliens crossing into Calexico, Calif.; Chief Parker, U.S. Border Patrol, discusses apprehending illegal aliens; a border patrol plane searches for Mexicans who are rounded up by patrol cars; the method of entry into the United States by car at the border; and American farmers discuss why they employ Mexicans. Includes commercials.
Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: May 10, 1953 6:30 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:30:00
- COLOR/B&W: B&W
- CATALOG ID: T82:0289
- GENRE: Public affairs/Documentaries
- SUBJECT HEADING: Ku Klux Klan; Mexican-Americans; Migrant labor; News Reporter of Whiteville (newspaper); North Carolina - Race relations; Pulitzer Prize - 1953; Tabor City Tribune (newspaper); U S - Civil rights; U S - Emigration and immigration
- SERIES RUN: CBS - TV series, 1951-1958
- COMMERCIALS:
- TV - Commercials - Alcoa
CREDITS
- Edward R. Murrow … Producer, Editor, Reporter
- Fred W. Friendly … Producer, Editor
- Don Hewitt … Director
- Jack Beck
- Horace Carter