Ralph Story papers, 1940-2007

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Ralph Story papers, 1940-2007

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Ralph Story was a broadcast journalist and television host for more than four decades, hosting programs such as -- an Emmy-winning weekly magazine series that ran on KNXT-TV from 1964 to 1970, , Ralph Story's , the KNXT Channel 2 Evening News and numerous prime time specials. Renowned especially for his local interest reporting, Story served as correspondent, reporter and anchor for radio and television news from the 1940s to the 1980s, and was a prolific lecturer on the media and California history. The collection consists of scripts and professional documentation spanning Story's career. Ralph Story's Los Angeles The $64,000 challenge A.M.

66 document boxes (33 linear feet); 9 oversize boxes

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University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.

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Story, Ralph

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Ralph Story was born Ralph Bernard Snyder on August 19, 1920 in Kalamazoo, Mich. In high school and at Western Michigan College, he worked part time as a radio announcer, and eventually left college to pursue a career in radio full time, first in Grand Rapids, Mich. and then Buffalo, N.Y. His radio career was interrupted when he joined the Air Force during World War II. After the war, he returned to Buffalo to work as an announcer and program director for CBS radio affiliate WGR. In 1948, CBS ra...