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Retro: Audio of KTLA/5's coverage of the Watts Riots, August 13, 1965

Ultimajock

Ultimajock

...this night, August 13th, in 1965, the Watts district of Los Angeles was burning with riots for the third consecutive day. The Past Daily site has a 45-minute cut on mp3 of the audio from KTLA/5, Gene Autry's independent television station, and how they covered the rioting from the scene and KTLA's Sunset Boulevard studios (inbetween commercial breaks, incongruously enough)...

http://pastdaily.com/2012/08/13/l-a-burns-august-13-1965/
 
Very compelling and an outstanding historical audio document.

Wasn't KTLA's copter footage picked up by the networks??

I recall (I was a tyke then) seeing a KTLA reporter (Stan Chambers??) do a live shot from the KTLA copter for NBC's "Huntley/Brinkley Report" during the riots, talking about how officials were afraid that violence would intensify "after sunset, about four hours from now " (it would have been around 6:30 P.M. EDT; 3:30 in Los Angeles).

Do any videotape or kinescopes exist of KTLA's coverage??
 
...I haven't seen it yet, but the KTLA 40th Anniversary Show is up on YouTube, and I would imagine that if any of KTLA's Watts footage survived, it would pop up sometime there...
 
KTLA has videotape of some of its riots coverage, as well as of the collapse of a dam in the early 1960s and the 1971 earthquake. At one point during the latter, KTLA's color picture from the TeleCopter was being carried live by all three networks and every Los Angeles station.
 
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