Target...Austin, Texas (1960)

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TARGET...AUSTIN, TEXAS
1960
20 min. / B & W
A Presentation of KTBC-TV's Project 7
Written & Narrated by Cactus Pryor
Script Consultant: Mattie Treadwell
Directed & Edited by Gordon Wilkison

CAST:
Coleen Hardin as Dorothy Klukis
Harvey Herbst as Roger Klukis
Charles Lasater as Clarence Phillips
Terrell Blodgett as himself (Austin Civil Defense Director)
Bob Gooding as himself (KTBC radio announcer)
Tom Atra as himself (Newspaper Salesman)
C.L. Davis as himself (Shoeshine Man)
Matt Martinez as himself (owner of El Rancho Restaurant)

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  News & Politics

[tamagoMMA]

I love how beer was part of the fallout shelter inventory.. that's Austin for ya!

[dougnewton]

These people back in 1960 had have no idea what traffic is...

[hmadison]

OMG...the bomb hit 25 miles west of Austin! That's Drippin'...I'm toast!!!

[Graham Conrad]

Even though I was born in Ft. Worth, raised in Dallas, I still consider Austin my home. Fuck y'all I'm from TEXAS.

[altfactor]

I suspect that some of the actors playing other people in this film were played by KTBC staffers.

By the way, KTBC-TV was owned by the family of future President Lyndon Johnson and for years was the only TV station in the area.

In 1966, when a gunman shot numerous students at the University of Texas, KTBC contributed reports for the evening newscasts of all three networks.

[chumpychumpychump]

Austin TX population in 1960: 186,545.

Large? I'm not so sure. Is Brownsville in 2013 a "large" city? 

Even today, the part of Austin that matters is probably 50,000 or so. The rest of it might as well be Anywhere USA.

[Blurgle3]

Kim Jong Un needs to stay off YouTube.

[Mike Murphy]

That was pretty dumb. It would never stay quiet for more than a few hours.

Idiots would be out stealing shit immediately.

[Mike Murphy]

Took me a minute to recognize Cactus!

[JuanitoJohnes53]

fuck the use