Year

1964

Video Details

1964/29:25; B&W; sound; V-95 DA044; S. 828

Description

Host Ralph Rennick shows footage and stories that Miami TV station WTVJ collected in its first 15 years on the air. Mitchell Wolfson, co-host, founded the station, as well as Wometco Enterprises.

There are scenes of the 1951 Orange Bowl Parade, the 1951 Senate Crime Hearings in Dade County on gambling, the 1954 LeRoy Collins - Charlie Johns debate, the 1957 Cape Canaveral Satellite launching, the death of an Italian boat racer at the Orange Bowl Regatta, Castro's arrival in Havana after taking power, Hurricane Donna in 1961, Orange Bowl football, return of soldiers from the Bay of Pigs, and President John F. Kennedy's visit to Miami in 1963.

Contributors

Wometco Enterprises
WTVJ

Geographic Subject

Cape Canaveral
Miami

Personal Subject

Castro, Fidel, 1926-
Collins, LeRoy, 1909-1991
Johns, Charley, 1905-1990
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 1917-1963
Rennick, Ralph, 1928-1991
Wolfson, Mitchell, 1939-

Subject

Aerospace industry
College sports
Cuban revolution
Gambling--Florida
Governors--Florida
Hurricanes
Parades
Politics
Presidents--United States
Space program
Space race
United States Senate
Cold War