| Summary: | The following segments are included:
0:00:00: Meeting of the Montgomery City - County Personnel Board on September 6, 1967, the day of a public hearing held to discuss embezzlement charges against municipal employees. Among the speakers is city attorney Ira DeMent, who mentions that the case would continue, despite the recent and unexpected hospitalization of a key witness. (WSFA-TV cameraman Stan Tarilton is briefly visible in the foreground of the footage.)
0:01:57: Interview with school superintendent Walter McKee about the first day of school in Montgomery, Alabama, on September 7, 1967. He discusses enrollment and attendance in the wake of recent federal desegregation orders. Also included is silent footage of a large assembly of local teachers (both white and black) at Robert E. Lee High School on September 6.
0:04:28: Interview with Alfred Goldthwaithe state Republican Party chairman, on September 6, 1967. He discusses a statement by the Alabama GOP, which he will deliver to the Republican National Committee in Washington D.C. later in the week: "The southern states represent more than one half of the delegates necessary to nominate a candidate on the Republican ticket for the presidency next year, and we feel that if we can emphasize at this point certain planks which should go into to our platform next year and put the emphasis more on what our ideas and views are, what our principles are at this time, rather than the man, then we'll go a long way toward finding the right man next year."
0:06:18: Exterior of the house in Auburn, Alabama, where Mary Lynn Sinclair (9), Sarah Elizabeth Sinclair (18), and Mary Durant (8) were murdered the night of September 6, 1967. Edward Albert Seibold, former student at Auburn University, was later captured and convicted of the killing; he had previously dated Cathey Sinclair, older sister of two of the victims. Cathey, her mother Juanita, and another sister, Faye, were also home the night of the murder. All survived, though Mrs. Sinclair was shot when Seibold broke into the house. The footage is silent.
0:06:56: Interview with Alfred Goldwaithe state Republican Party chairman, on September 6, 1967. He discusses potential candidates in the upcoming 1968 presidential election, including George Romney, Rockefeller, Ronald Reagan, and George Wallace.
0:08:08: Gary Dickey, former editor of the student newspaper at Troy State College, speaking at a press conference on September 8, 1967, after Judge Frank Johnson ruled in his favor in a federal lawsuit filed against the school. Dickey had been denied readmission for the fall term after writing editorials critical of state government officials, most notably a censored editorial praising University of Alabama president Frank Rose for defending freedom of speech on his campus. (Troy president Ralph Adams maintained that a newspaper should not criticize its owner; since TSC was a state-funded institution, he prohibited the publication of negative stories about state government officials.)
0:08:59: Interview with Dr. Keith Jackson, newly president of Huntingdon College, on September 8, 1967.
0:09:49: Dr. Harry Philpott speaking at a press conference at the Montgomery Area Chamber of Commerce on September 8, 1967, just before Governor Lurleen Wallace signed a bill authorizing the establishment of an Auburn University branch in Montgomery. Among those seated with him are Holman Head (on the left, wearing glasses), head of the Chamber's Education Committee; Senator Joe Goodwyn, Mayor Earl James; and James Pruett, director of the University of Alabama Montgomery Center.
0:10:47: Gary Dickey, former editor of the student newspaper at Troy State College, speaking at a press conference on September 8, 1967, after Judge Frank Johnson ruled in his favor in a federal lawsuit filed against the school. He discusses his future education plans, which will likely include transfer to another state school where he can obtain a degree in journalism. (He ultimately enrolled at Auburn University.)
0:12:09: Dr. Harry Philpott speaking at a press conference at the Montgomery Area Chamber of Commerce on September 8, 1967, just before Governor Lurleen Wallace signed a bill authorizing the establishment of an Auburn University branch in Montgomery.
0:13:42: Interview with producer Marc Merson in September 1967 about the filming of "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" in Selma, Alabama. He discusses the production schedule; plans to use local people as extras in the film; and the decision to change the location and time period of the story from the original setting in Carson McCullers's book (Columbus, Georgia, in the 1930s).
0:15:43: Interview with Dr. Keith Jackson, newly president of Huntingdon College, on September 8, 1967.
0:16:56: Search for murder suspect Edward Albert Seibold in Auburn, Alabama, on September 9, 1967. Seibold was captured in Miami, Florida, on September 16 and was later convicted of killing Mary Lynn Sinclair, Sarah Elizabeth Sinclair, and Mary Durant the night of September 6. The footage is silent.
0:18:10: Members of the Alabama Air National Guard undergoing training in riot and sniper control at Dannelly Field and the Fort Dixie Graves Armory in Montgomery in September 1967. Also included is an interview by WSFA-TV's Bob Inman with Major General Taylor Hardin, commander of the of the 31st Division of the Alabama National Guard.
0:20:21: Colonel C. W. Russell, director of the Alabama Department of Public Safety, reporting on the number of traffic fatalities in Alabama the previous weekend. Also included is a message to Alabama students: "I want to talk to the boys and girls who go to school. I suggest you, number one, go strictly by the safety rules getting on and off the bus; number two, obey the traffic officer or whoever is in charge at the school crossing; number three, obey all school signs; and number four, be alert at all times."
0:21:16: First meeting of the policy committee of the Montgomery community shelter plan September 11, 1967. According to an article published in the Montgomery Advertiser on that date, the purpose of the group was to "help civil defense authorities plan what action should be taken to protect Montgomery city and county residents in the event of nuclear attack." Included is a clip of Price C. McLemore, local civil defense coordinator who received a merit certificate from the group. The footage is silent.
0:21:41: Drivers' safety course led by instructors from the National Safety Council in the House chamber at the Capitol in Montgomery on September 11, 1967. The course, which ran for four days, was sponsored by the women's division of the State Safety Coordinating Committee.
0:23:13: Employees picketing outside a Uniroyal (U.S. Rubber) plant in Opelika, Alabama, on September 11, 1967, during a strike. One of the men is carrying a sign that reads, "Equal Pay for Equal Work." The footage is silent.
0:23:50: Members of the Alabama Air National Guard undergoing training in riot and sniper control at Dannelly Field and the Fort Dixie Graves Armory in Montgomery in September 1967. Also included is an interview by WSFA-TV's Bob Inman with Major General Taylor Hardin, commander of the of the 31st Division of the Alabama National Guard.
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