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News - Police and Crime

 File — Reel: WMAR-MISC-565
Identifier: WMAR-MISC-565

Shot List

1. Police moving recovered property following mass looting spree in snowstorm (2/20/1979) 0:07 2. 20th Century TVA RCA dispatch 0:26 3. Testimonials of children looting 0:39 4. Police issues with side street closures 1:30 5. Robbery scene in snow 1:50 6. Interview with Baltimore Street business owner 2:46 7. Mayor William Donald Schaefer on looting 3:47 8. Looted stores 4:26 9. Interviews with business owners in Old Town Mall 6:00 10. Tour of damages by Goldstein's owner 7:02 11. Old Town Mall looting segment outro 7:38 12. Interviews with business owners in Old Town Mall 8:11 13. ??? 10:57 14. Interview with business owner on city's lack of response 12:51 15. Looted stores 15:29 16. Interview with Goldstein's owner on responsibility for looting 16:08 17. Storeowners restocking clothes on racks 18:56 18. Cleanup of looting 19:31 19. Interview with Mr. Clifton 21:33 20. Lewis Furniture Store intro segment outtakes 26:48 21. Residential housing 29:11 22. Old Town Mall 30:31 23. Police moving recovered property 30:41 24. Interview with Sargent Mike Baskin on recovered property 32:18 25. Police moving recovered property 34:19 26. Interview with Sergeant Stein on location of recovered property 36:01 27. Interview with Sargent Mike Baskin on how merchants should recover stolen goods and police staffing 36:46

Dates

  • Creation: 1948-1993

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research. Material from the collection may be viewed in the Special Collections Research Room. Some items may have access limitations due to physical format. Some footage from the the collection has been digitized and made available online for streaming through the Internet Archive and is available through this finding aid.

Extent

1 Reels ; Film: 16mm

Language of Materials

English

Repository Details

Part of the Baltimore Studies Archives Repository

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