John F. Kennedy campaign ads for television. Digitized to disc, 2007
Scope and Contents
The collection includes CDs and DVDs containing supporting materials and presentations sponsored by the WSU Vancouver Library. Included are featured presentations from Val Ogden and Dan Ogden moderated by Public Affairs professor Mark Stephan. The presentation dates are from March 2, 2007 and April 20, 2007 respectively. Both Val and Dan discusses their careers and history in politics. The Ogdens were WSU Alumni. Additional DVDs and CDs provided for the presentation inlucde radio and TV advertisements that Dan Ogden collected while working as an advance man for the John F. Kennedy General Election campaign.
Other presentations in the collection include audio af an hour long poetry talk with former WSU Vancouver English professor Tim Hunt. The presentation is dated from 2010 and includes readings from a book of poems that Hunt wrote.
In addition to these presentations, the collection also contains a 20 minute video titled Sovereign to Sovereign: Northwest Indian Nations and Lewis and Clark produced by former WSU Vancouver History professor Jackie Peterson. The video features documentary style footage on the subject of Northwest indigenious peoples encouter and relationship with Lewis and Clark.
Dates
- Other: 2007
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is available to access using surrogate files converted to digital formats.
Extent
From the Collection: 7 Compact Discs (CD) ( One CD box containing 7 compact discs. )
From the Collection: 4 Reels (. The four film and audio reels are in their original boxes included in the collection's CD Box.) : Two audio reels. Scotch 3M Magnetic Tape Plastic 1/4” x 150 Feet. One is labeled Credo. One is labeled religion. Two 8mm film reels. One is labeled Kennedy Visits states. One is labeled Contribute-Work-Vote, Vote 1-Minute-1960. This reel is produced by the Advertising Council, Inc. Advertising Council Register and Vote Campaign.
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Abstract
Two videos copied from analog recordings featuring John F. Kennedy presidential campaign advertisements. One is a general campaign advertisement for getting out the vote. The other is an advertisement for Kennedy's state-by-state campaign. TRT- 00:02:03. Digitized in Video Object (VOB) format. Disc: UA.WSUV.2007.005-5.
Repository Details
Part of the Washington State University Vancouver, Archives and Special Collections Repository