[CamNet on Independent Eye]
Judith Binder and Nancy Cain introduce an episode of CamNet on KCET’s Independent Eye.
Judith Binder and Nancy Cain introduce an episode of CamNet on KCET’s Independent Eye.
“What Trees Do They Plant” is a film produced by the City of Chicago as a response to criticism of the way the Chicago Police Department treated protesters during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Its claim is that the Yippies conducted a deliberate campaign to disrupt the city and harm the police.
Conversations at a George McGovern fundraiser about the 1972 presidential election.
Witness silent film footage of Roosevelt College in its early days as filmed by some of its first students!
Why and how did an integrated college in a segregated city start in downtown Chicago just as World War II was ending? In 1984 an independent documentary filmmaker, Jeff Spitz, found old pictures and film footage about Roosevelt University including a magazine article that referred to the school as “The Roosevelt Experiment.”
Tapping the memories of former students who crossed the color line, particularly Blacks and Jews, the film blends archival images and interviews into an exploration of race, racial quotas and democratic ideals. Former students recall being questioned during an anti-communist investigation that targeted their school.
Chicago Mayor Harold Washington, a former student council president, shares poignant memories of getting into political
arguments in the cafeteria. He called it an “insane but interesting place.”
Shortly after the film’s release Spitz returned to City Hall to interview Mayor Washington about fairness, diversity and clashing visions of government. Mayor Washington’s additional commentary appears at the end of the video.
The news media chronicles the political rise, reign, and fall of Mayor “Lady Jane” Byrne.
Reporter Carol Marin interviews Special Investigative Counsel David Schippers and Congressman Barney Frank (D, MA) regarding the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton.
The above footage was recorded in the 1990’s at the Chicago Hilton, and it is of a formal organizational dinner for Keshet, with the key speakers being an unnamed announcer, Carol Marin, Governor of Illinois James “Jim” Edgar, and US Attorney Jim Burns.