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We now have 2K (2048x1556) film scans of some of our 16mm films. This is a 1280x720 MP4 copy of our high resolution scan. To order high resolution copies without the timecode and serial number burn-in, please contact Johnson.Library@nara.gov
A description of an experimental project undertaken in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire in 1965 to reduce youth violence in resort communities. Causes of the previous years' riots were thought to be the lack of entertainment for youth, the restrictions on dress, and police halt and search operations. HEW provided $41,000 to finance a program which invoked cooperation of community residents and youth to involve the youth in a constructive effort to provide entertainment, and to foster a less destructive attitude. Police training programs were conducted to encourage police understanding of youth problems. State police were assigned to the area on a permanent basis. Research was conducted on the attitudes of the youth and community residents. The program proved successful in the elimination of arrests and property damage, but created a community controversy on the issue of dancing on the beach. Throughout the film the participants in the program and other community residents express their own points of view about the need for the program, its effectiveness, and the reasons for its outcome.
Additional credit info: Office of Juvenile Delinquency & Youth Development
Sociology, Riot Control, Hampton Beach, N.H.
Source: HEW-- Social & Rehabilitation Service, public domain
We now have 2K (2048x1556) film scans of some of our 16mm films. This is a 1280x720 MP4 copy of our high resolution scan. To order high resolution copies without the timecode and serial number burn-in, please contact Johnson.Library@nara.gov
A description of an experimental project undertaken in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire in 1965 to reduce youth violence in resort communities. Causes of the previous years' riots were thought to be the lack of entertainment for youth, the restrictions on dress, and police halt and search operations. HEW provided $41,000 to finance a program which invoked cooperation of community residents and youth to involve the youth in a constructive effort to provide entertainment, and to foster a less destructive attitude. Police training programs were conducted to encourage police understanding of youth problems. State police were assigned to the area on a permanent basis. Research was conducted on the attitudes of the youth and community residents. The program proved successful in the elimination of arrests and property damage, but created a community controversy on the issue of dancing on the beach. Throughout the film the participants in the program and other community residents express their own points of view about the need for the program, its effectiveness, and the reasons for its outcome.
Additional credit info: Office of Juvenile Delinquency & Youth Development
Sociology, Riot Control, Hampton Beach, N.H.
Source: HEW-- Social & Rehabilitation Service, public domain
![[LBJ Future Forum] Building a Movement: Gun Control in America](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/s7vkIPoetiM/mqdefault.jpg "[LBJ Future Forum] Building a Movement: Gun Control in America
On October 22, 1968, President Johnson signed the Gun Control Act into law— banning mail order sales of rifles and shotguns and prohibiting most felons, drug users, and people found mentally incompetent from buying guns. At the signing President Johnson stated:
“Congress adopted most of our recommendations. But this bill—as big as this bill is—still falls short, because we just could not get the Congress to carry out the requests we made of them. I asked for the national registration of all guns and the licensing of those who carry those guns. For the fact of life is that there are over 160 million guns in this country—more firearms than families.
If guns are to be kept out of the hands of the criminal, out of the hands of the insane, and out of the hands of the irresponsible, then we just must have licensing. If the criminal with a gun is to be tracked down quickly, then we must have registration in this country. The voices that blocked these safeguards were not the voices of an aroused nation. They were the voices of a powerful lobby, a gun lobby, that has prevailed for the moment in an election year.”
Fifty-six years later, President Johnson’s words still ring true.
On October 22, 2024, LBJ Future Forum hosted a conversation about social activism, democracy, and movement building, focusing on the work that is being done now by younger generations on the issue of gun violence prevention. Topics of discussion included the changes we have seen in America since Lyndon Johnson signed the Gun Control Act, how we embrace diversity of thought and find common goals, and how we engage younger voters in the political process.
Austin Mayor Kirk Watson offered welcome remarks.
Speakers:
Amber Goodwin, Founder of Community Justice and Travis County Assistant District Attorney
David Hogg, Co-founder of March for Our Lives
Kimberly Mata-Rubio, Mother of Lexi Rubio, killed in the Robb Elementary shooting
Moderator: Alexandra Samuels, Senior Editor at Texas Monthly")
