2. Police Riot Training Miles Field

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Police Riot Training Miles Field

Police and Sheriff deputies at Miles Field, practicing riot control with batons; advertising visible on ball park fences. Oregon State Police Captain Byron Hazelton conducted a three-day mob control school in Medford. Police attended from Medford, Ashland, Klamath County Sheriffs, Kingsley Air Force base, and Jackson County sheriff’s office. They conducted the same school in Eugene, Corvallis, Astoria and Pendleton. Some of the Medford police shown are Sgt. George Lucas and patrolmen Glenn Schneider, Fred Johnston, Robert James and Charles Millard. See photo, Medford Mail Tribune, May 21, 1965, page 1.
Original NID
147705
Location
M6A Box 5 5E/97E
Year or Date Range
'5-20-1965'
Producer
KOBI
Film Length
'00:01:17'
Color
Black & White
Internal Link
SOHS Film 0087 5-20-1965 Police Riot Training
Notes

News clip 1:15 1:30 written on holddown tape