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I understand that you are coordinating a group to go to St. Augustine. Could you tell us who is going in what they plan to do down there. Well actually I'm. Only one of those well almost where I am. Really there's no coordinator or Mr.. Preacher to the university on our route. Made an announcement this morning. MORIAL Kirk. People were needed in St. Augustine were requested by a doctor a. Dentist who was coordinator Southern Christian Leadership Conference. And there will be one car leaving tonight. There are far people that are going to be going down in their car and you want their names. Yes well it's going on for William Barker. Michael Boyd or William. Are they Harvard student there are three of them are undergraduates who are. Ph.D. candidates who work this spring.
They plan to go down previously to. The farmers are No. None of them have gone before but all of them are the sort of person you want to arm they have to go. What do they have to accomplish and St. Augustine. Primarily to respond to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to come. And support. Worker attempting to make the city realize that it is a National City has a great heritage. Be integrated. I don't think there's any chance at all you know we hear of a carpetbagger thing. I don't think there's any chance that they're going as Northern activists trying to do something to the south. They simply are going as people are wanted and are needed and demonstrating that this is a country were rightly we are. Quite welcome and well maybe living.
Contracting Doctor arriving will be assigned to people. And they will be participating instead and they'll be participating and whatever the Negro community might be a city or it might be such a thing as happened today walking along or perhaps even to go to a church. If Erez. Do you plan on sending more people from this area to take their place. Yes. And do you have any specific people in mind there are other people. Quoting myself from the number of others who are willing to go. I think it isn't. Far from. Our general. What our karma comes to grow so this is a staggered group in other words every time one group becomes it is arrested then they sent more people down. Yes. Particularly and said August 3 and this is a concern of people and most of the people are from. Colleges and
Universities or from the churches. Why do you believe that St. Augustine is particularly concerning language. Primarily because we have been invited to come or bar people in St. Augustine thank you.
Series
Dateline St. Augustine
Producing Organization
WGBH Educational Foundation
Contributing Organization
WGBH (Boston, Massachusetts)
AAPB ID
cpb-aacip/15-440rz7gm
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Series Description
"Dateline Augustine is a news series that aired from 3/24-4/3, 1964. It featured on the spot coverage of the struggle for civil rights in America's oldest city, St. Augustine, Florida. The series was produced by Ted Mascott and T.F.Conley in St. Augustine, FL, and the coordinating producers in Boston were Leslie Darren and N. Arnold Shaw."
Description
Caroline Lester phone interview with Rev. Moomah discussing the Harvard students traveling to support demonstrations in St. Augustine.
Description
Public Affairs
Created Date
1964-03-29
Genres
News
Topics
News
Media type
Sound
Duration
00:03:43
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Producing Organization: WGBH Educational Foundation
Production Unit: Radio
AAPB Contributor Holdings
WGBH
Identifier: 64-3004-00-00-002 (WGBH Item ID)
Format: 1/4 inch audio tape
Generation: Original
Duration: 00:03:00
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Chicago: “Dateline St. Augustine,” 1964-03-29, WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed July 16, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-440rz7gm.
MLA: “Dateline St. Augustine.” 1964-03-29. WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. July 16, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-440rz7gm>.
APA: Dateline St. Augustine. Boston, MA: WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-440rz7gm