Guide to the Benjamin V. Williams Papers
Guide to the Benjamin V. Williams Papers
Collection number: MS 194
African American Museum & Library at OaklandOakland, California
- Processed by:
- Sean Heyliger
- Date Completed:
- 2017-02-17
- Encoded by:
- Sean Heyliger
Biography / Administrative History
Scope and Content of Collection
Biographical material
Series Scope and Content Summary
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
Journalism
Series Scope and Content Summary
San Francisco Examiner / Bay Area Daily Record
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
KPIX 5
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
Audiovisual material
Series Scope and Content Summary
News stories
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
KPIX News Hour, 1964-08-18 / KPIX live coverage of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination 1964-1968
Sara Jane Moore interviewed by Ben Williams 1978
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
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
Home movies
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
Assorted tapes
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
Assorted printed material
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
News buttons
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
Political buttons
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