Powers, James – ‘Jimmy’

WXYZ: TV engineering, film and news ENG editing.

• The Detroit Riots: 1967 Peabody Digest

  Video recording located at the University of Georgia main library [OCLC 40400091]

  “WXYZ-TV‘s coverage of the week-long Detroit riots of July, 1967 represented the most comprehensive single job of news reporting in the station’s history.”–1967 Peabody Digest. Captions identify footage from July 23 and 24. Sunset, night and sunrise segments indicate the passage of subsequent days. Includes footage of rioters, looters, burning storefronts and homes, firemen fighting the fires, policemen patrolling the streets, several interviews with onlookers, a brief interview with the governor and excerpts of his press conference.

  Also includes footage of the arrival of federal troops and their patrols in the streets of Detroit, injured rioters and guards being loaded into ambulances, a woman driving through town holding a revolver, aerial views of the devastated downtown area, and prisoners at police headquarters. Reporter Ken Thomas discusses the emotions experienced by the WXYZ-TV staff who covered the riots. Concludes with footage of a police funeral. The majority of the footage is shown without narration.

  Credits: Camera crew led by Ken Thomas; cameraman, John Braddock; soundman, Thomas O’Toole; additional cameramen, Michael Kalush, Ron Little; sound engineers, Bill Hevron, Edwin Scarth; assignment editor, Frank Benesh; film processor, Joe Doneth; film editors, Dean Erskine, Jim Powers; news messenger, Mike Sublett.

• Retirement for Dean Erskin and Jim Powers

  Retirement is both happy and sad. Sad to say goodbye to the pillars of WXYZ. When film was king at WXYZ, both Dean and Jim were czars of editing. When the station changed from film to video tape they remained the czars everyone looked up to.

  

• Retirement at Greektown

  Celebrating retirement for Jim Powers and Dean Erskin at Greektown.

  

• Retirement Is Fun

  Retirement party at Greektown for Jim Powers and Dean Erskin.

  

• WXYZ Newsroom circa 1980s

  WXYZ: An amazing group of people making WXYZ News number one in the market during the 1980s.

  Nelson Burg, Fran Victor, Marv Rockford, Audio: Greg Karrer, Val Clark, Cheryl Chodun, Bill Miller, Jeff Rundell, Bill Becker,  Garrett Glaser,  Terry Frisco, Mark Zahnow,  Denny Shleifer, Andrea Parquet-Taylor, Garry Kelly,  Dean Erskin,  Al Volker, Jim Powers,  Pat Elnicky, Phyllis Eliasberg, John Gross, Charles Munro,  Judy Miller, Tom Cleeves