Dallas At the Crossroads with Walter Cronkite from 1961 - New 2k Transfer

A Brief history of the city of Dallas with prominent citizens and city leaders urging peace during integration.
G. William Jones Film and Video Collection

[@MF_ZOOM214]

Dr. Luecke was my pediatrician, my mother and brother were also treated by him when they were kids. He was a great man.

[@marthamcsweeney216]

Not a dark skinned face to be seen in the entire film. As though the Black and Brown people living in Dallas were not considered citizens. Read Jim Schutze's book "The Accommodation" to see the complete picture.

[@BarneyBWinnin]

I only saw one black lady crossing the street with the rest of the white crowd toward the beginning of the film

[@matthewconley7381]

I am on Chapter 23 of The Accommodation right now and that's how i found out about this video, crazy.

[@bureedabruner9105]

Re Schutze's statement from the Observer article dated 2010: "Not a single black face appears in the film ..." It is true that none were interviewed or shown in the footage selected by the filmmakers, but it's untrue that no black people are shown in the film. Multiple "Black and Brown" people are, including in the footage/photographs when the man holding his granddaughter remembers Dallas in earlier times (~3:50 - 4:30). In other words, when actual footage of people living in Dallas are shown. And as even the great journalist Walter Cronkite got the facts wrong (the date of the tornado), I appreciate the film's intent for the times.

[@shernitadee]

​@BarneyBWinnin this was a message to the prejudist white people who refused to follow the law and allow the Blacks to intergrate schools, stores, restaurants, parks, bathrooms, waterfountains,... everything! The white supremist being brutal. If minorities spoke up, they would be threatened, cross burnings, hangings. Blacks had no voice in Texas.

[@alfredoluna1404]

@@matthewconley7381 Same!

[@jennifercole281]

I dare say little is more unpredictable than guessing "which way the cat will jump," but despite great community fears Dallas as a city desegregated without violence. The segregation signs were quietly removed from our city busses following the Supreme Court Ruling & Montgomery bus boycott. The Dallas tornado actually occurred on April 2, l957, not l958, & for decades stood as the most photographed tornado science had to study. After the JFK assassination, most Dallasites alive at the time could tell you exactly where they were & what they were doing when the April 57 tornado landed in Oak Cliff & proceeded straight for downtown where it struck the Dallas Morning News & was filmed from its rooftop by some damn brave newsmen before heading northward. This is the youngest I've seen Police Chief Curry, and those are the actual city jail cells that both Lee Oswald and Jack Ruby were housed in. I suppose in l96O they struck fear in the average Dallasite a good deal more than they did to a social & political activist of a subsequent generation like me.

[@schaffermatt]

@5:22 “April2, 1958” for the 1957 tornado. Not too good, since it was only 4 years in the past when this film was made.

[@aghorn]

A message to be reminded of. But also a reminder of what race was unfortunately completely in charge then.

[@mkd1964]

10 years after this video was made, I entered the public school system. Because the school was in an area that straddled the line between middle and lower-middle class neighborhoods, It was naturally integrated. And guess what? We had no racism issues. We had kids of every race. We had teachers of every race. Everyone got along. It was that way all the way through my senior year in high school (1983) where we had white girls dating black boys. Absolutely nobody cared. This was in East Dallas, by the way. The people "in charge" then are the same people in charge now. They're the same people who promote CRT, transgenderism, "equity" and safe spaces; The same people who are offended by speech; The same people who overwhelming voted _not_ to end slavery. The same people who overwhelmingly voted _not_ to give women the right to vote. The same people who overwhelmingly voted _against_ the Civil Rights act. The same people who label everyone a Nazi and a racist, just for disagreeing with them. But it's not actually these people. These people, like the people from 60-70 years ago, are also victims. They're victims of an intentional program of indoctrination to keep us all fighting amongst ourselves over extremely superficial things like race, religion, and gender. It's an age old tactic. Divide and conquer. If you're busy fighting each other, you're too busy to notice who your real enemy is. Haven't you figured out that all of our institutions are controlled by a very small handful of people who _project_ and _inject_ their own "isms" into everything? Want to know where this "institutional racism" is coming from today? It's thriving and actively fostered in two key areas of society: The school system and the media. We now have two full generations of people who've been run through these socialist re-education camps we like to call "universities" and a far-left wing media that injects racism into everything it talks about. I would suggest you drop the "white guilt" complex and start realizing that a very small group of psychopaths have been manipulating ALL of us for a very long time. Ignore the propaganda coming out of your Television and get the Marxists out of the school system.

[@lolaarbenz417]

wtf

[@thomasherrera7934]

Well, I suppose Dallas, and the United States as a whole, made it another 60 years to 2020. N then it all went to hell 😒

[@adams8132]

In reality, Dallas, is at the crossroads of nothing, at least in a geographical context. That’s what’s make Dallas unique in a sick way. 😅