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Found in WSLS-TV (Roanoke, VA) News Film Collection, 1951 to 1971 ›1965

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March

Video clips and corresponding anchor scripts from March of 1965.

Roanoke City Council meeting

Roanoke sister city Wonju, South Korea, sends gifts

Investigators study crimes committed inside the Virginia State Penitentiary

City council members comment on controversy in fire department

City council to appoints committee to study employee pay schedule

Ferrum Junior College hosts 150 Virginia college students for Model United Nations

State reports industrial growth in Franklin County, Va.

Roanoke Shenandoah Club hears Allright parking company executive

Botetourt sheriff's deputies escort alleged murderer to preliminary hearing

Businesses flourish in Franklin County, Va.

Virginia Tech plays against Virginia Military Institute in possible last game in Roanoke

VEC employees recognized for years of service

Downtown Roanoke lights up Christmas tree for shoppers

Congressman Richard H. Poff advocates budgetary and fiscal reforms

Small plane crashes in Botetourt field

Roanoke City Manager Arthur Owens addresses the Roanoke Jaycees

Roanoke's segregated Booker T. Washington Junior High School to have new building

Experimental treatment program in Roanoke for nine-year-old brain-damaged boy attracts many volunteers

Virginia's Junior Miss, Linda Farmer, arrives in Roanoke

Civil rights attorney Samuel Wilbert Tucker files Green case

Head of Dulles International Airport G. Ward Hobbs addresses Roanoke officials

Interview with Dr. Melvin J. Humphrey

Interview with D.E. Buz Lukens

Interview with D.E. Buz Lukens, continued

Protesters in Farmville, Va., march in honor of the Rev. James Reeb, who was killed during a demonstration for civil rights in Selma, Ala.

Highway reopens after landslide in Botetourt County

Interview with Virginia Lieutenant Governor Mills Godwin

Speech given at the Kiwanis Club of Roanoke

Integration begins slowly in most Virginia towns, with only one or two black students attending

Roanoke County Board of Supervisors approves trash and garbage removal ordinance and sets date for hearing on proposed revision of county voting precincts

Remodeling Hotel Roanoke

Virginia State Corporation Commission approves Appalachian Power Company dam in Grayson County

Roanoke Junior Women's Club members practice for annual revue

Father and son survive car crash with train near Roanoke

Roanoke's Transportation Museum Committee reviews access, Jupiter missile

Officials meet to discuss financial incentives to attract new businesses to Virginia

Interview with J. Albert House

Woods Brothers Coffee Company opens new plant in Roanoke

In Roanoke, American Association of University Women meets to review educational television

Roanoke Merchants Association holds its annual meeting at Hotel Roanoke

Roanoke City Council discusses Proposed New Zoning Ordinances, hires a personnel director

Press conference about statewide sales tax with representatives of the Virginia Gasoline Retailers and the Independent Garage Owners of Virginia

Painting maintenance equipment on exhibit at Hotel Roanoke

Associated Transport builds large trucking terminal at Roanoke airport

Roanoke citizens watch space flight on TV

Rescuers free man trapped on tractor on Windy Gap Mountain

Radford, Va., voters defeat bond issue for capital improvements

Roanoke, Va., school board hears argument in favor of full-time janitor at roach-infested Hurt Park Elementary School

United Steelworkers strike Roanoke Iron and Bridge Works

Roanoke police catch alleged safecracker

Heizer of the Virginia Gasoline Retailers Association comments on possible state sales tax

Heizer of the Virginia Gasoline Retailers Association comments on assessment rates of possible state sales tax

New truck weighing station on Route 81 in Botetourt County awaits its scale

Interview with bank worker about attempted bank robbery in Roanoke

Police investigate attempted robbery at First Federal Bank in Roanoke

Interview with Becky Spradlin, a bank teller who witnessed attempted bank robbery in Roanoke

Apartment fire kills two people in Roanoke, Va.

Roanoke City Council meets in closed session

Roanoke City Manager Arthur Owens speaks at a meeting of General Electric employees

Four injured in head-on car crash near Salem

Virginia state social workers meet to discuss increased need for mental health care

Virginia Tech coaches meet with Roanoke alumni

Roanoke Democratic candidate for House of Delegates decries Republican candidates

In Roanoke, Dr. Albert J. Glass opens conference on mental health and hygiene

Attorney Larry Musgrove runs for the Roanoke floater seat in the House of Delegates

Attorney Rodney Fitzpatrick leads call for new consolidated government of Roanoke city and county

Cement company representative faces Montgomery County officials

Blue Ridge Boy Scout Council holds rally

Chairman Sam Carey reports results of the Virginia Mental Health Study Commission

Roanoke Republican John Hagen criticizes Democrat Larry Musgrove

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