VHS

Tuskegee Airmen 5th Annual Salute Dinner. Carl Rowan Speaker. 26 Oct. 89
N. Carr

VHS tape containing camcorder footage shot at the Fifth Annual Tuskegee Airmen Salute Dinner on October 26, 1989.

The footage begins with shots taken at a reception in Cobo Hall. Attendees socialize while a jazz band performs. The camera pans along parts of an exhibit titled "A Salute to the Tuskegee Airmen" consisting of panels displayed on a divider in the center of the room. Members of the Tuskegee Airmen are visible throughout the room, thanks to their blue suit jackets. The camera captures the videographers--one of whom wears the blue Airmen jacket--as they adjust the picture prior to the beginning of the speeches.

The remainder of the footage consists of brief segments shot during the presentations. The camera pans across the head tables where the guests of honor sit. The video also features a view from the side of the lead table during the color guard's presentation of the flags. The tape also includes several pans across the audience, capturing moments including Airmen rising in response to Alfred Cole's request, and the audience laughing at Judge Damon Keith's jokes about the absent Coleman Young. Near the end of the recording, the presentation of an award to keynote speaker is Carl T. Rowan is captured, as is the color guard's closing ceremony, and the closing blessing by Father William T. Cunningham of Focus: HOPE.

The video is on a TDK T-120 E-HG tape with a handwritten 3M label on the side, and a TDK logo label on the top. The tape is housed within a black plastic TDK E-HG sleeve.