City Makers; 3; Mayor Sam Yorty
- Series
- City Makers
- Episode Number
- 3
- Episode
- Mayor Sam Yorty
- Producing Organization
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- Contributing Organization
- Library of Congress (Washington, District of Columbia)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip-512-w08w951s1s
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- Description
- Episode Description
- This is the third episode in an eight-part series on contemporary urban problems. Samuel Yorty, 59, is preparing this year to seek a third four-year term as mayor of Los Angeles, the nation's third largest city. He is questioned on "City Makers" by Larry Allison, former city editor of the Long Beach (Calif.) Independent-Press-Telegram, who is on a leave of absence from the paper while studying as a Niemen Fellow at Harvard University. Dr. Kenneth B. Clark, host for "City Makers," join in questioning Yorty. The black community of Watts is a major topic of conversation. Yorty refers to the area as "a ghetto problem, not a slum problem" and tries to draw a distinction between the riots in Watts and those that have taken place in the black neighborhoods of other major cities. Yorty concedes there is a serious public transportation problem for the residents of Watts, many of whom have no access to good jobs elsewhere in the Los Angeles area. However, he puts much of the blame for the 1965 civil disorders there on television news coverage, which he says inflamed Negroes by showing them acts of brutality against civil rights demonstrators. Yorty decries what he calls the communist "strategy of moving in on anything that they classify as a struggle," and asserts that radical youth movements, both black and white, have been infiltrated and are being exploited by communists. The mayor also discusses his on-going dispute with the Los Angeles Times and his relationship with Robert Kennedy, including their 1966 feud in which the late senator accused Yorty of neglecting ghetto problems. "City Makers" is produced for National Educational Television by NET's Boston affiliate station, WGBH, on the campus of Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass. Producer: Henry Morgenthau. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Series Description
- In City Makers, an 8-part series, Dr. Kenneth Clark conducts half-hour interviews with important figures discussing the troubles plaguing American cities. Dr. Clark was a professor of psychology at City College of the City University of New York, and was also visiting professor at Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass., when he hosted this series, which was recorded in color.
- Asset type
- Episode
- Genres
- Talk Show
- Topics
- Social Issues
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Duration
- 00:29:28
- Credits
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Producing Organization: WGBH Educational Foundation
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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Library of Congress
Identifier: cpb-aacip-ef50f1af403 (Filename)
Generation: Copy: Access
Color: Color
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Library of Congress
Identifier: cpb-aacip-2a3f6099cda (Filename)
Generation: Master
Color: Color
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Library of Congress
Identifier: cpb-aacip-d41bd3c2b77 (Filename)
Format: 2 inch videotape: Quad
Duration: 0:29:22
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Identifier: cpb-aacip-a922c9af359 (unknown)
Format: video/mp4
Generation: Proxy
Duration: 00:29:28
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- Citations
- Chicago: “City Makers; 3; Mayor Sam Yorty,” Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed August 26, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-w08w951s1s.
- MLA: “City Makers; 3; Mayor Sam Yorty.” Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. August 26, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-w08w951s1s>.
- APA: City Makers; 3; Mayor Sam Yorty. Boston, MA: Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-w08w951s1s