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Gerald Ford's America 245. Trip number 6. Portland--flesh/demos. McCall

Raw footage from Gerald Ford's America featuring TVTV on the ground in Portland with Gerald Ford, the media, protestors, and Oregon governor Tom McCall

This tape consists of approximately thirty-three minutes of raw footage from the TVTV shooting of Gerald Ford’s America (1975).

TVTV visited Portland, Oregon, as the president arrived with a media entourage for a high-dollar fundraiser, where TVTV interviewed befurred and bejewelled gala attendees. The new president, who had only taken office three months earlier, was also greeted by a series of protests with chants of “FEED THE POOR! EAT THE RICH!” Included is a conversation at the gala with Oregon governor Tom McCall.

Oregon Governor Tom McCall on Gerald Ford: “It’s a welcome change to have somebody up there—just in a person-to-person sense—who probably reminds every person who ever played football of his old high school coach. And that’s a comforting image. I think that’s about the way he lives his life. He’s not greatly more complicated than that.”


Below is the original TVTV tape log prepared for editing Gerald Ford's America. For the Presidential Diary account of the day, see here.

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