Records, 1974-1977.

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Records, 1974-1977.

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Records of a communications service founded in 1972 to provide technical training and public access programming for cable television in Madison, Wisconsin, in order to promote community dialogue and social change. Of note are files on People's Video's involvement in the leasing of the Madison cable franchise to Complete Channel Television. Files on several related media organizations include Capital Media Associates, Feminists Against Media Oppression, and the Feminists Video Collective. The latter includes some correspondence with feminist filmmaker Pamela Allen. Materials also document the organization's relationship to funding agencies, VISTA, and the Campaign for Human Development. The processed portion of this collection is summarized above, dates 1974-1976, and is described in the register. Additional accessions date to 1987. Additional accessions include recordings and videotapes concerning the trial of Karleton Armstrong, who was convicted of the 1970 bombing on the University of Wisconsin campus. Featured in the series are Philip Berrigan, Jane Fonda, Ernest Gruening, Tom Hayden, and William Kunstler.

1.0 c.f. (3 archives boxes); plusadditions of 0.2 c.f.,1 tape recording,26 photographs,152 negatives, and227 videorecordings.

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Gruening, Ernest, 1887-1974

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Ernest Henry Gruening (February 6, 1887 – June 26, 1974) was an American journalist and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, Gruening was the Governor of the Alaska Territory from 1939 until 1953 and a United States Senator from Alaska from 1959 until 1969. Born in New York City, Gruening attended The Hotchkiss School, and he graduated from Harvard University in 1907 and from Harvard Medical School in 1912. After completing his studies, he forsook medicine, instead pursuing a career ...

Armstrong, Karleton Lewis

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Fonda, Jane, 1937-

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Jane Fonda (b. December 21, 1937, New York City, NY) is an American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model, and fitness guru. The daughter of actor Henry Fonda, Jane made her Broadway and film debut in 1960. In 1982, she released her first exercise video, Jane Fonda's Workout, which became the highest-selling video of the time. Fonda was a visible political activist in the counterculture era during the Vietnam War and later became involved in advocacy for women. She h...

Berrigan, Philip

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Peace activist. From the description of Oral history interview with Philip Berrigan, 1985. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309742671 Philip Berrigan is a political activist who was an outspoken critic of the Vietnam War. Berrigan was born in 1923, became active in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, and entered into acts of civil disobedience to protest war and the production of nuclear weapons. From...

Kunstler, William M. (William Moses), 1919-1995

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Hayden, Tommy, 1978-

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Political activist, author, and member of the California State Assembly (1982- ). From the description of Papers, 1956-1964. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34364875 ...

Allen, Pamela P., 1943-

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People's Video (Madison, Wis.)

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