May 1960 . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 161-162, [050060-053160] . 875 negatives (estimate)
Caryl Chessman execution and death penalty protests and events [05-01-60 - 05-03-60, ca. 70 negatives, and 05-01-60?, ca. 20 strip* negatives]
Caryl Chessman Protest -- San Quentin Prison (May 01, 1960) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 161, [05-01-60.01-03] . 24 negatives
Shots of crowd listening to speakers with loudspeakers in view. Steve Brandt lies in grass under blankets with dog Mike and mother Jacqueline Brandt near "A meaningless death" sign. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Porter sit with children, while Mike Kamel holds sign. Two people wrapped in blankets huddle by sign "Capital punishment involves us all in murder"; others stand nearby (death penalty, social protests). Pickets walk with signs amidst police presence. Group of men in suits. Views of guard tower. Police escort men in suits across bridge in front of prison
Caryl Chessman Case -- Attorneys Exit Court -- Post Office Building (May 01, 1960) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 161, [05-02-60.01] . 2 negatives
George Davis, Rosalie Asher and William Linhart exit Goodman's court and walk down hall after hearing news of execution (death penalty).
Caryl Chessman Case -- Reading Decision -- State Building (May 02, 1960) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 161, [05-02-60.02] . 2 negatives
Clerk William Sullivan of the Supreme Court reads decision to George Davis and reporters (death penalty).
Caryl Chessman -- Execution Day -- San Quentin (May 02, 1960) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 161, [05-02-60.03] . 13 negatives
Man holding microphone interviews members of crowd, while person with camera stands nearby. Cars line streets and people gather near prison. Close-ups of protestors. Protestors march with signs like "Let the Supreme Court answer to the people". View of protestors marching. Long-shot of crowd outside San Quentin. Car exiting the gates of the prison (social protest, death penalty).
Caryl Chessman Protests -- Actor Marlon Brando -- San Quentin Prison (May 02, 1960) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 161, [05-02-60.04] . 7 negatives
Marlon Brando speaks to crowd. Brando stands with guards [who have stopped him]. Brando stands in front of San Quentin gate. Brando is interviewed by reporter, stands with others, sips coffee.
Caryl Chessman Case -- Rally -- San Quentin (May 02, 1960) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 161, [05-02-60.05] . 3 negatives
Attorney General George T. Davis going to see Caryl Chessman while photographer stands nearby. Davis walks with reporters [after having seen Chessman]. Davis talks to prison guards.
Caryl Chessman Execution -- San Quentin Prison (May 02, 1960) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 161, [05-02-60.06-08] . 12 negatives
Warden Fred R. Dickson tells the press about Caryl Chessman's "last moments" during a press conference on prison grounds. The first of the official witnesses to the execution arrive, lead by Los Angeles police officer Andrew Brennan, husband of one of Chessman's victims. Views include front gate an guard tower at San Quentin. Close-ups of Brennan [negatives in poor condition 3/30/1999].
Caryl Chessman -- San Rafael (May 03, 1960) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 161, [05-03-60.01-02] . 9 negatives
View of shut casket indoors by window. Four men carry casket down stairs toward awaiting hearse while guard and another man stand by. Men wheel casket into building. Two men hold piece of paper outside of hearse. Men wheel casket outside away from hearse. Hearse leaves gates of cemetery. Close up of roses on casket. Chessman's typed and handwritten letter to Call Bulletin reporter Mary Crawford.
PTA convention (Parents' and Teachers' Association) (education) [05-02-60 - 05-05-60, ca. 30 negatives]
Children at Gough School for the Deaf (education) (disabled persons) [05-09-60, 4 negatives]
Public School Week -- Gough School for the Deaf (May 09, 1960) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 161, [05-09-60.01] . 4 negatives
Teacher Flora Charnow sits in chair and beats on drum with students Laura Carroll, Irene Rodriguez, Barry Cossman, and Patricia Brigham, who are seated on the floor (eduction, disabled persons).
House Committee on Un-American Activities hearing at San Francisco City Hall (spectators, witnesses, pickets, riot police, Harry Bridges, etc.) (HUAC, communism) [05-12-60 - 05-14-60, and 05-25-60, ca. 100 negatives]
Un-American Activities Hearing -- City Hall (May 12, 1960) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 161, [05-12-60.02-04] . 8 negatives
Crowd of spectators wait in rotunda in City Hall. Three men stand together, two are writing. Guards stand in front of door to supervisors' chambers. A woman takes oath in the courtroom. Crowd lines up to enter hall. Elevated view of line going through rotunda to hallway. Long-shots of line on stairs towards rotunda. Inspectors Nathaniel Pedrini and William Brazil hold Archie Brown, who is grabbing the rail, during the committee hearing. Witness and teacher Martin Marquez of Pacific Grove sits before judge with his council (HUAC, communism, social protests).
Un-American Activities Hearings -- Demonstration -- Union Square (May 12, 1960) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 161, [05-12-60.05] . 4 negatives
Assemblyman Phillip M. Burton speaks to lunch time crowd at Union Square crowd. Protestors stand with signs (HUAC, communism, social protests).
Un-American Activities Hearings -- Riot -- City Hall (May 13, 1960) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 162, [05-13-60.01] . 14 negatives
People sit and stand around man's desk taking notes. Views of police officers arresting protestors in front of City Hall. Officers drag protestors toward paddy wagon. Officers put man on stretcher. Elevated view of protestors and police in front of City Hall. Police officer sits in chair indoors holding back of head. Close-up of woman sitting indoors with book in hand (HUAC, communism, social protests).
Un-American Activities Hearings -- Riot Ambulance -- City Hall (May 13, 1960) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 162, [05-13-60.07] . 1 negative
UC Berkeley students Mary McIntosh and Jane O'Grady on way to central hospital in the ambulance outside of the City Hall riots (HUAC, communism, social protests).
Un-American Activities Hearings -- Students Riot -- City Hall (May 13, 1960) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 162, [05-13-60.10] . 35 negatives
Views of the hearing taking place inside City Hall while a large crowd of students crowds the exterior halls to the court room. Students sit on the steps inside City Hall and refuse to move, being dragged down the steps by police officers. Students outside City Hall hold signs saying "witch hunters go home" and "Is this Circus worth $300,000,000 a year?". Head shots of some of the students involved in the protest (HUAC, communism, social protests).
Un-American Activities Hearings -- Student Rioters in Jail -- City Prison (May 13, 1960) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 162, [05-13-60.12] . 18 negatives
Many of students who participated in the riot are talking to officers in the city prison. Robert Meisenbach is being fingerprinted while others are being released on bail. Included is a Subpoena for the photographer to come to the court case of Robert Meisenbach (HUAC, communism, social protests).
Un-American Activities Hearing -- City Hall (May 14, 1960) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 162, [05-14-60.01-02] . 23 negatives
A large crowd of people protest in front of City Hall while police stand near blockades marking street closure. Archie Brown speaks and gets thrown out. Two men sit during hearing. Four men walk through rotunda. Close-up of man protesting outside while reporter takes notes. People picket in front of City Hall carrying signs like "Congressman Roosevelt said get rid of the committee" and holding American flag, while mounted police officer waits in street (HUAC, communism, social protests).
Un-American Activities Hearing -- Struggle With Unruly Man -- City Hall (May 14, 1960) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 162, [05-14-60.03] . 1 negative
An "unruly man" Jerry Kamstra is being hauled inside City Hall by policemen. [Additional 35mm negatives of arrest missing March 1999]. (HUAC, communism, social protest).
Un-American Activities Hearing -- Crowd Protests Hearings -- City Hall (May 14, 1960) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 162, [05-14-60.04-05] . 21 negatives
Views of the inside of the hearing room. A few angry protesters make inside the court room and are escorted out screaming by police officers. A small group of protesters outside the court room turns into an overflowing crowd of over two thousand protesters picketing and blocking the street. Protesters hold signs reading "SHAME, SHAME" and "We walk to preserve freedom". One lone man pickets the protesters with a sign reading " I Protest mob rioting, get out and vote you hypocrites, students". (HUAC, communism, social protests).
Harry Bridges -- City Hall (May 19, 1960) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 162, [05-13-60.03] . 5 negatives
Three workers mop floors in City Hall. Man talks to Hary Bridges while others stand by. Bridges walks away from City Hall being questioned by reporters (labor, HUAC, communism?).
Un-American Activities Hearing -- City Hall Rioters -- Hall of Justice (May 25, 1960) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 162, [05-25-60.01] . 45 negatives
Defendant Evelyn Einstein stand with Attorneys Kurt W. Melchior and Milton Nason in the courtroom. Robert Meisenbach [who allegedly started the riot] stands in the courtroom. Views of lawyers and defendants appearing before Judge Lenore Underwood (HUAC, communism, social protests).
Balclutha (ship) in dry dock [05-13-60, 4 negatives]
Balclutha (ship) Back in Water -- Bethlehem Shipyard (May 13, 1960) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 86, [05-13-56.02] . 5 negatives
Views of the Balclutha docked in the water at Bethlehem Shipyard, bottom scraped and painted. Views of the deck lowering to allow the ship into the water [she will return to Pier 43].
Arrival of President Sukarno of Indonesia and related events [05-19-60, 05-21-60, 14 negatives]
Arrival -- President Sukarno of Indonesia -- Airport (May 19, 1960) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 162, [05-19-60.01] . 10 negatives
Sukarno crouches down to greet child in front of airplane. Sukarno kisses a baby while standing next to Doc J.C. Geiger. Sukarno and Geiger shake hands. Sukarno shakess hands with 'some of his people'.
Meeting -- President Sukarno of Indonesia and Governor -- Hotel St. Francis (May 19, 1960) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 162, [05-19-60.02] . 1 negative
President Sukarno of Indonesia, Governor Edmund G. Brown and US Ambassador to Indonesia Howard Jones sit on couch drinking tea and talking.
Reception -- President Sukarno of Indonesia -- Indonesian Consul's Home (May 21, 1960) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 162, [05-21-60.02] . 2 negatives
President Sukarno of Indonesia, Carol Ahyou, wife of Indonesian Consul Mrs. Daruman, and US Ambassador to Indonesia Howard Jones sit on couch in Indonesian Consul's Home at 2800 Scott Street.
Missile center and control panel demonstration at Presidio (05-19-60, 9 negatives]
Missile Demonstration -- Presidio (May 19, 1960) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 162, [05-19-60.03] . 9 negatives
View of missiles in missile center [in one room for demonstration purposes]. Rudolph Montoya, Marvin Clark, and Sergeant First Class Albert Alvin work at battery control consol [nerve center of firings] (defense).
Contrast between tourists and carnival atmosphere and fishing fleet at Fishermans Wharf (05-20-60, 13 negatives)
Carnival Atmosphere Issue -- Fisherman's Wharf (May 20, 1960) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 162, [05-20-60.02] . 14 negatives
Individual portraits of President of the Association Frank Alioto, President of Harbor Tours Albert D. Elledge, and former wharf employee Joseph Uzzardo. Overall view of the fishing fleet. Mike Geraldi of number nine Fisherman's Wharf stands in his store (one of the largest restaurant and novelty stores on the wharf). Tourists stand on platform looking through telescopes facing towards Alcatraz. Tourists and school children pass the arcade, walk down boardwalk, examine crabs. Fisherman Vincent Spadaro stands on his docked boat saying, "The fishermen are not responsible..." (Two tourists said, "The wharf is tops".)
Trampoline craze [05-21-60, 5 negatives]
Trampoline Craze (May 21, 1960) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 162, [05-21-60.01] . 5 negatives
Boy bounces on trampolines at Forty-eighth and Wawona Streets, across the street from Fleishhacker's. Tempest Storm jumps on trampoline while others watch. Mike Massoni jumps on trampoline while holding uncle John DeMartini's hand. Long-shot of trampoline park with at least sixteen in-ground trampolines. Karen Meeks does a somersault on the trampoline (fashion, fads).
George McLain (Democratic candidate and senior citizens advocate) (05-23-60, 15 negatives)
Press Conference -- George McLain -- Sir Francis Drake Hotel (May 23, 1960) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 162, [05-23-60.01] . 2 negatives
Democratic candidate and senior citizens' advocate George McLain sits at table during press conference surrounding by "Vote for McLain" posters.
Talk to Elderly -- George McLain -- California Hall (May 23, 1960) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 162, [05-23-60.02] . 17 negatives
Views of audience of senior citizens sitting, applauding. Mafa Elston shades hands with George McLain after speech. Elmer A. Bear shakes hands with McLain after speech. McLain stands with Joe Seaquist.