Letter to Mr. Bill Helms, Program Director, WCIA, Champaign, Illinois. The letter says the intention of WCIA to broadcast Knoetze's fight next Saturday has disturbed many in the Champaign/Urbana community. Such a broadcast will celebrate the worst kind of racism anywhere in the world - apartheid in South Africa. Surely, you do not want to sully the reputation of either WCIA or its advertisers by such an act. The story of Knoetze's shooting and crippling for life a young Black African child has become widely known. Even in apartheid South Africa he was convicted of charges associated with the act. The most direct action WCIA might take would be to eliminate its coverage of Knoetze. A copy of...
Letter to Mr. Bill Helms, Program Director, WCIA, Champaign, Illinois. The letter says the intention of WCIA to broadcast Knoetze's fight next Saturday has disturbed many in the Champaign/Urbana community. Such a broadcast will celebrate the worst kind of racism anywhere in the world - apartheid in South Africa. Surely, you do not want to sully the reputation of either WCIA or its advertisers by such an act. The story of Knoetze's shooting and crippling for life a young Black African child has become widely known. Even in apartheid South Africa he was convicted of charges associated with the act. The most direct action WCIA might take would be to eliminate its coverage of Knoetze. A copy of this letter was sent to the President, Mid-West Television, Inc.
