Celebrating Women's History!
Our American Women Making History & Culture, 1963-1982 project, funded by a grant from the National Historic Records and Publications Commission, continues to progress. Help us continue to preserve and make available for future generations this
incredible history! For a contribution of $100 or more we will thank you with a copy of our American Women Making History & Culture, 1963-1982, Vol. 2 Sampler! Click here to donate today!
Joseph Gallucci Speaking at the Orphan Film Symposium
Culpeper, Virginia April 8th, 2016
The Pacifica Radio Archives is proud to have participated in two exciting conferences this year. In February 2016, Archives Director Brian DeShazor and Archivist Joseph Gallucci traveled to Washington, D.C. to participate in the first-ever Radio Preservation Task Force conference, a historic gathering of radio preservationists and scholars from all over the world. Gallucci presented "Out on the Air: A Brief History of Pacifica's LGBT Programming," a survey of Pacifica's unique contributions to LGBT history, at the Library of Congress' Madison Building in Washington, D.C. DeShazor presented as part of the opening plenary "Radio Preservation: The State of the Nation" on the second day of the conference at the Hornbake Library at the University of Maryland, College Park, along with representatives of the Library of Congress, WNYC, and NPR. DeShazor and Gallucci also attended meetings of the African-American and Civil Rights Caucus and the Gender and Sexuality Caucus of the RPTF, respectively. View C-SPAN's coverage of Prof. Paddy Scannell's keynote address at the Radio Preservation Task Force here: http://www.c-span.org/video/?405381-2/preservation-archival-audio
In April 2016, Gallucci participated on a Radio Preservation Task Force panel at the Orphans Film Symposium in Culpeper, VA, home of the Library of Congress' National Audiovisual Conservation Center. The Orphan Film Symposium is an international gathering of approximately two hundred archivists, historians, curators and artists who convene every two years to discuss "orphaned" media, or media that lacks institutional parentage. There, Gallucci spoke about our National Historic Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)-funded American Women Making History and Culture, 1963-1982 preservation project, on a panel convened by Shawn VanCour on behalf of the Radio Preservation Task Force. It was a lively panel filled with a wide variety of voices from within the radio preservation community, and the American Women presentation garnered much positive feedback and interest from the audience. PRA is excited to continue our relationships with the larger audiovisual archives community!
From the Vault 518: Illeana Douglas Introduces Helen Gahagan Douglas
This week on From the Vault we welcome actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and Turner Classic Movies host Illeana Douglas, who introduces us to a 1973 interview with her grandmother, Helen Gahagan Douglas, and shares some touching personal stories.
Helen Gahagan Douglas was was born November 25th, 1900 and died on June 28, 1980; during the 1920's and '30's, Douglas worked as a stage and screen actress, and had one starring role, in the 1935 film She. In 1944, Douglas was elected to the United States Congress, as a Democratic representative from California's 14th Congressional District, where she would go on to serve three terms; in 1950, she ran for Senate, losing out to Richard M. Nixon - who she nicknamed "Tricky Dick" for his unsavory campaign tactics. The name stuck.
At the time of this 1973 interview, the Watergate scandal was in full swing, and Douglas discussed at length Nixon's "dirty tricks," Nixon's 1950 smear tactics, and the necessity of election reform.
This recording was preserved and made available for broadcast thanks to a grant from the NHPRC at the National Archives, and is part of the collection, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982.
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