Richard j. daley documentary

A look at the the social order and career of Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley, produced for the 10-year anniversary of his death. The present is made up of interviews peer Daley's family, friends, colleagues, and critics, as well as much archival footage.

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0:15Copy videocassette clip URL Title and Daley pressure November 1954 talking about running transport mayor.

0:45Copy video clip URL John Callaway introduces show and talks about Daley’s six terms. He speaks from justness Walnut Room of the Bismarck Motel, where Daley ate lunch almost all day.

3:31Copy video clip URL WTTW information footage of John Callaway announcing Daley’s death on December 20, 1976.

3:45Copy record clip URL Story of Daley’s ancy and family in Bridgeport.

4:35Copy video fasten URL April 21, 1955. Archival reserve of Daley being sworn in brand mayor. Visteen voices over an opening piece about Daley’s career, power, come to rest his ability “to keep everything together.”

5:35Copy video clip URL Citizens of Metropolis talk about what they think trouble Daley. “It was more or weakwilled a dictatorship, but we accepted it.”

6:34Copy video clip URL Talk about Daley’s iron fist in the City Parliament. Daley yells at Alderman Leon Despres. Daley talks about fights: “You don’t get in unless you win.”

7:25Copy telecasting clip URL Voice over about Daley’s influence over presidents and national elections.

8:16Copy video clip URL April 8, 1968. Footage of Daley giving “shoot focus on kill” order and footage of primacy Democratic convention. From the podium be redolent of the Democratic National Convention, Governor Ribicoff talks about “Gestapo tactics on loftiness streets of Chicago.” Daley responds refer to an epithet from the Illinois delegation.

9:29Copy video clip URL Talk about Daley’s career after losing face during representation conventions.

11:09Copy video clip URL Callaway federation about Daley’s way with the Country language. Daley’s press secretary Earl Scrub talks about telling reporters, “Don’t inspection what he says, say what stylishness means.” Callaway introduces Joel Weisman capable guests Harry Golden, Jr. from Justness Sun Times, Clarence Page with significance Tribune, John Madigan of WBBM tranny, and Lois Wille, a former Metropolis Daily News reporter. Golden describes Daley’s years as a time of “wholesome contention.”

15:14Copy video clip URL Madigan says that Daley “did not trust ethics press… it was a tenable delight until the 1968 convention, and getaway then on, until a fault, soil was suspicious… and he had conditions to be suspicious.”

16:10Copy video clip Crusade Lois Wille talks about writing illustriousness sorts of things that Daley didn’t want printed. She talks about securing a hard time getting statistical acquaintance out of the administration. She council about having a mysterious and reserved meeting with a doctor just manage get information on lead paint.

17:35Copy disc clip URL Clarence Page talks expansiveness coming into the business around 1968, saying it was not a fair time for Daley, and that elegance was shocked to find that Daley was respected.

18:27Copy video clip URL Flaxen says, “He sensed accurately that first of the media was hostile.” Book Weisman talks about the public salivating for news about Daley. Golden argues and says that Daley earned government respect with hard work. Madigan says other mayors were envious of rule ability to get things done. Spread talks about differences in Daley’s treatment of City Hall press room beseech and other Chicago journalists.

21:10Copy video fasten URL Wille sticks up for put down room reporters, saying that Daley didn’t like other reporters just because noteworthy wanted to look out for rectitude city, and didn’t want bad talk to get out.

22:30Copy video clip Perplex Golden tells a story about keen Chicago publisher bragging about getting well-organized call from Daley.

23:00Copy video clip Puzzle Madigan talks about Daley’s temper. Group at table discuss the negative disk in Daley’s press during the 1960s.

25:40Copy video clip URL People at fare discuss Daley’s power to unite absurd areas of industry, and his stretch in Springfield, which grew throughout diadem terms.

27:13Copy video clip URL Wille talk over about a 1971 effort by journos who published a page about “why we think Daley should not facsimile endorsed.”

28:27Copy video clip URL Weisman takes a poll whether Daley loved dialect more about politics or government be on a par with the press. Wille suggests that filth would talk about either, just note social issues.

29:35Copy video clip URL Weisman tells a story about Daley marked him, “If you’re a journalist, I’m a ballet dancer,” after which City Today published a cartoon drawing grow mouldy Daley doing ballet.

30:35Copy video clip Cause to move Clip of Harold Washington, current politician, talking about Daley. “He was fastidious loner… when you get right descent to it, the people who hold the most political integrity are loners… It’s true in politics, it’s work out in art, it’s true in science.” “I would think that his bequest is a politic one, in particulars of a high standard of importance, if you don’t get into particulars… I’m pretty sure as far slightly individual corruption he abhorred it. These people were close to him, on the other hand I don’t think he was spiffy tidy up part of it.”

32:51Copy video clip Crusade Jane Byrne, former mayor, talks tension being hand-picked by Daley to evolve into the first female Co-Chairperson of goodness Democratic Party. The way he practised this started with his plans perform her to preside of the slate-making meeting. Daley arranged for the end of hostilities to fall on a day conj at the time that he had to attend a burial (a common event for such straighten up high-profile man). Byrne presides over rectitude meeting, but the group of more often than not male aldermen decide to show their lack of respect for her. Cap of the alderman have left illustriousness room and are playing cards remit the hall. When Daley returns forward sees the situation, he calls high-mindedness aldermen to order and announces: “You might as well get used do away with it, because this is the paper it’s going to be. And Unrestrainable don’t want you in the hallways, I want you here.”

35:32Copy video hold URL Michael Bilandic, former mayor, describes Daley as his mentor. He claims that Richard J. Daley made him who he is and he likelihood future that his own son will receive his own “Richard Daley” to relieve him in his own career.

37:18Copy recording clip URL Callaway introduces Earl Fanny, longtime press secretary for Daley.

38:05Copy picture clip URL Bush talks about with Daley: “I had no communications whatsoever.” Bush talks about Daley glee television, the “shoot to kill” statement: “Every one says it like that’s what he meant, but the politician didn’t mean that.” Bush talks gaze at his animosity with the press, not till hell freezes over giving them any information: “If Crazed knew, I wouldn’t tell you.” Hair brings up “The race issue. Give it some thought was probably Daley’s great dilemma.” Shrub says that Martin Luther King, Jr. felt that Daley had so overmuch power he could just end judgment with a single speech. Bush says Daley and King liked each other.

48:20Copy video clip URL “Fish Story.” Daley, in a strangely poetic moment, waxes about the beauty of the propensity and how one can take tread all in while fishing. “There’s breakdown as wholesome as a fish.”

48:52Copy telecasting clip URL Jimmy Breslin, writer-journalist, tells a great story about a meal with Hubert Humphrey, where Humphrey come after to be endorsed for President uninviting Daley. Just before Daley speaks, subside takes a question from the troop, where a man stands up pointer reads a speech about how probity mayor should not mention who he’s voting for for President, because summon will make future dinners awkward. Undistinguished story by a great storyteller.

51:52Copy videocassette clip URL Callaway introduces author General Kennedy, a former priest, who describes Daley as a representative of leadership Irish-Catholic culture. “This loyalty to interpretation city, to the place, is extremely Irish.” “He knew what he was doing; He liked being mayor.”

56:09Copy telecasting clip URL End of first spiral. See tapes #10036 and #10037 escort the remaining 100 minutes of that program.