Collection Contents

Biographical sketches 1990-2010

Personal correspondence 1959-2012

Obituary 2012

Writings and speeches

Speeches

Speech delivered to the Berkeley Rotary Club 1980-12-31

“Black History Week” 1983

“Black man in the media” undated

“Men’s day – One nation under god and the media” undated

“Talk for Marsha’s mother” undated

Writings

Ben’s Mail Bag 2003

“A Cuban adventure” 2002-02-15

Newspaper clippings 1967-1981

Certificates

San Francisco State College certificate of meritorious achievement 1969-11-26

San Francisco State University diploma 1963-08-23

Postal transportation service Examiner’s office room 1957-03-22

N.A.A.C.P. El Cerrito Branch commendation of Ben Williams 1973-06-09

Rotary Club certificate of appreciation 1980-12-31

Summer Institute on Law and Ethics in Urban Society at Stanford University 1969-08-22

Boys’ Clubs of America certificate of appreciation 1973-10-28

Niagara Movement Democratic Club certificate 1983-02-12

Next Step Learning Center certificate and photograph undated

National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, San Francisco / Northern California Chapter silver circle award undated

Society to preserve and encourage radio drama, variety and comedy friend of PERDVAC certificate 2000-11-11

Arrested landing aboard the first nuclear powered aircraft carrier U.S.S. Enterprise CVAN-65 1966-06-20

ACLU membership card 2004

California State Legislature assembly resolution KPIX-TV Oakland News Bureau chief Ben Williams 1990-03-07

College Bounders Committee, Inc. National Association for United Services presents outstanding services to education award 1979-04-15

Broadcast Communication Arts Department School of Creative Arts San Francisco State University present Broadcast Media Award to KPIX-TV “Sara Jane Moore” interview 1977-04-24

Correspondence 1960-1964

Newspaper story drafts circa 1960s

Pay stubs 1963-1964

Berkeley Civil Defense Organization press pass circa 1960s

Notes circa 1960s

Press releases circa 1960s

Employment application 1965-09-17

Business cards undated

Promotional material

KPIX 5 Show Slant press release

Again we’re honored brochure circa 1960s

Talent contract 1972-08-15

Correspondence

Internal correspondence 1968-1990

General correspondence 1965-1990

Pay stubs undated

Artist’s sketches

Courtroom sketch of Ben Williams at Huey P. Newton trial 1968-08-13

Courtroom sketch of Ben Williams at Juan Corona retrial awaiting verdict, Hayward, California 1982

Reporter’s notebooks

Huey P. Newton trial 1968

Jesse Jackson presidential campaign circa 1988

News report transcripts 1974-1976, 1981 and undated

Press passes

San Francisco Papal visit, John Paul II 1987

1984 presidential campaign 1984

San Francisco Police Department press pass 1978-1983

Oakland Police department press passes 1965-1990

Funeral of Huey P. Newton, Allen Temple Baptist Church pass 1989-08-28

California Highway Patrol press pass 1972

Atlanta Journal-Constitution presidential debates pass undated

Sara Jane Moore

Correspondence

1976-1977

1978

1979-1982

1985

1987

2004-2005

Newspaper story drafts 1975

News report transcripts 1976

Women’s Refections, newsletter of the Federal Corrections Institution (Alderson, WV)

Vol. I. No. 17 1978-12-13

Vol. II, No. 3 1979-01-17

Awards

Top Mr. Personality of 1968 donor Texas College Alumni 1968

Association of Catholic Newsmen Edward V. McQuade Radio-TV award for distinguished programing in the field of social justice, KPIX-TV “Old folks at home 1971

Ben Williams charter board member Next Step Learning Center 1999-10-13

Lincoln University Alumni Association San Francisco Bay Area Chapter distinguished service award 8

National Association of Black Journalists 1989 journalism award first place sports features for outstanding coverage of the Black condition presented to Ben Williams, KPIX-TV for “Travis Williams" 1989

Bay Area Black Media Coalition presents Beverly Ann Johnson award undated

Dub tape for B. Williams, Cal professor, Umatic tape undated

Corporation for Public Broadcasting Local Television Program Awards show, Moscone/Milk 1978-11-27

Jolie [?] DeBewards [?] final project, Umatic tape undated

Ben Williams' news report on the Berkeley riots / Press conference with California State Assemblyman John Stull on the firing of Herbert Marcuse 1969

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KPIX News Hour, 1964-08-18 / KPIX live coverage of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination 1964-1968

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Sara Jane Moore interviewed by Ben Williams 1978

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Mt. Diablo fire, KPIX live shot, Ben Williams, Joseph Smith, and Wayne Tiner circa 1977

“Hometown hero,” Next Step Learning Center, KPIX Channel 5 2001-05-01

News reports on the Symbionese Liberation Army's kidnapping of Patty Hearst 1974

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Taped from CBS Report on tv, discussion of [James] Baldwin in San Francisco circa 1960s

Baldwin and Kirkpatrick, French and Perseflage undated

Oxford and James Baldwin discussing “The case for segregation” undated

Integration of University of Mississippi by James Meredith 1962

Ben Williams package undated

Unlabeled vhs-c tape undated

Ben’s retirement #2 1990-03

Travis Williams homeless pro football player undated

West Oakland schools face cutbacks undated

Kids do “Oliver” undated

Black Panther Party (partial recording) undated

Sara Jane Moore circa 1977

Sara Jane Moore (finalized) circa 1977

Anti-war march Oakland Induction Center, Bettina Apetheker undated

“World’s longest continuous balloon release” 1984

Ben Williams undated

Hank Schoepp’s case, San Francisco Police Department undated

Svetlana Ogorodnikova spy case undated

Ben Williams retirement party circa 1990s

Costa Rica artisans 2001

Robbin Island South Africa Capetown undated

Caribbean trip 1993

Cuba trip, starts at Museo de Revolution, beach, interview with English teacher, good talk and music undated

Case Pareto Partners v. Inktomi Corp., OFPD David Brewer, Attorney Joseph Thornhill 1997-10-30

Case: Cardiac v. St. Jude, Depo: Steve Masson, attorney Larry Jarvis 1997-12-11

Unlabeled ¼ reel-to-reel audiotape circa 1960s

Reporter Ben Williams interviewing San Francisco mayor John F. Shelley [001] 1965-05-16

(left-right): Lisa Hobbs, Gale Cook, Bill O’Brien, and Mary Ellen O’Brien having drinks at party [002] 1965-09-11

KPIX News (left-right): Rollin Post, Helen Bentley, Ben Williams [003] circa 1960s

Ben Williams posing with National Association of Black Journalists plaque in subway car, New York, New York [004] circa 1989

Ben Williams posing with National Association of Black Journalists plaque in subway car, New York, New York [005] circa 1989

Ben Williams interviewing workers working on Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) tunnel [006] circa 1960s

Ben Williams and KPIX news crew with employees working on Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) tunnel [007] circa 1960s

Journalist Tom Fleming sitting in chair [008] 2004-09-11

Rosa Parks sitting in chair [009] 1969-12

Group photograph of KPIX news team [010] 1983

Portrait of Juan Corona [reproduction, three copies][011] undated

Equal opportunity in Oakland: a survey of affirmative action successes & failures / Oakland Citizens Committee for Urban Renewal (OCCUR) 1976

feed/ back : the journalism report & review for Northern California [two copies] Fall 1976

Citations of merit for outstanding performance in journalism / Lincoln University Department of Journalism 1969

the Left Bank / Upstairs Art Association [three copies] 1975-04

The San Francisco Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences sixth annual Northern California area Emmy awards program 1977-04-23

Unit-K West U.S.N. mess attendants reunion program 1983

The 27th annual broadcast industry conference, San Francisco State University 1977-04-24

Pamoja vol. 2 no. 1 1981-06

Lions roar newsletter, vol. XL, no. 3 1973-06-13

Arista: magazine for Oakland Athletic Club members, vol. 1 no. 4 1978-07

San Francisco Examiner News Call Bulletin style book 1963

Phone numbers for press, radio, & television San Francisco Bay Area 1985

National Association of Black Journalists salute to excellence program 1989-08-19

“The economic status of negroes in the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Area: a report based on the 1960 census of population,” California State Employment Service 1963-05

Sumner High School (St. Louis, MO) reunion 1946-1951 program 1985-08-18

Arthur Jackson v. Frank M. Jordan petition for writ of mandate, Supreme Court of the State of California 1964-09-04

Huey P. Newton funeral program 1989-08-28

Jack LaLanne press packet 2004

Off camera, newsletter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences San Francisco / Northern California Chapter 2000-10

Jesse Jackson itinerary February 26-28, 1988 1988-02-26

Concert honoring National Negro History Week presenting Paul Robeson basso in “An afternoon of music and poetry” with William Duncan Allen, Oakland Auditorium Theatre 1958-02-09

Press statement from Bobby Seale on “Blaxploitation” 1972-09-27

Resolution – Union Local 250-A undated

“Seven relevant issues,” Cedric X 1972-12-07

William Shockley, Alexander M. Poniatoff Professor of Engineering Science, Stanford University, biographical sketch 1972-06-15

“Statement by Senator Robert F. Kennedy” 1968-06-04

The Brief Case, pp. 37-38 1966-01

Bay Area Daily Record, vol. 1 no. 30 1960-12-26

Gary’s political review souvenir edition welcome first National Black Caucus 1972

National Black political agenda presented to the National Black Political Convention, Gary, Indiana 1972-03-11

San Quentin News, vol. XXVI, no. 10 1960-05-12

The Bottom Line: a monthly entertainment & cultural guide, Oakland, CA, vol. 1 no. 5 [two copies] 1992-09

Oakland Metro Reporter, vol. 4, no. 14 1975-03-31

50th anniversary edition celebration The Sun Reporter 1994

The Sun-Reporter, Thomas Courtney Fleming 1907-2006 circa 2006

Morrie Turner

Wee Pals the kid power gang presents significant dates in African-American History [two copies] 1997

African-American Advocate and Wee Pals present the century African-American personalities and events that shaped Black history in America the last 100 years 2000

Salute to pioneering cartoonists of color 1998

Soul corner – Ben Williams undated

Soul corner – Ben Williams undated

Channel 5 button undated

CBS KPIX 5 button undated

California Black TV Commission member button undated

Golden Gate Field press button undated

KPIX 5 Eyewitness News We’re #1 button undated

Eddie Alexander KRON-TV good luck, everybody button undated

Jesse Jackson ’88 button circa 1988

Asians and Pacific Islanders for Jesse Jackson ’88 circa 1988

Jesse Jackson for President in ’88 circa 1988

Run Jesse run! button circa 1980s

Win Jesse Win button circa 1980s

Labor for Jackson ’88 circa 1988

Democratic National Convention San Francisco July 16-19, 1984 button 1984

Jackson for president follow the rainbow button 1984

Latinos for Jesse Jackson ’88 circa 1988

Jesse Jackson for president in ’84 circa 1984

Geraldine Ferraro America’s first woman vice pres. button [three copies] circa 1984

Paul Simon president ’88 button circa 1988

United labor for Alioto for Governor ’74 circa 1974

McGovern peace button circa 1972

Dump Nixon button circa 1970s

Barack Obama si se puede! ’08 button circa 2008

Assorted buttons

Oakland A’s host of the 1987 All-star game button 1987

Welcome to Oakland [A’s] button undated

Soy bilingue bicultural y orgulloso de mi raza button undated

It’s now baby button undated

Happy 20th anniversary BART’s transbay tube 1974-1994 circa 1994

I’m #1 why try harder button undated

Say fromage cheeses from France button undated

Forty Niners XVI XIX pin circa 1980s

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Bike Day bicycle commuter button 1979-10-16

Numero uno button undated

United we stand divided we fall F.F.T. button undated

Card-carrying member of the A.C.L.U. button undated

California State Fair your memories are here button 1986

I’m in the left bank button undated

Racquetball is my game button undated

Fremont is fantastic button undated

Te quiero mas que ayer per menos que manana! Villa Allegre button undated

Welcome home P.O.W.’s button undated

Statue of liberty pin 1986