Dick Thornburgh papers. Series XIX, Video materials, 1978-2002.

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Dick Thornburgh papers. Series XIX, Video materials, 1978-2002.

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Dick Thornburgh collection contains 248 videos from the years 1978-2002, which begin with Thornburgh's gubernatorial campaign in 1978, and continue up to 2002, including his campaign for U.S. Senate in 1991. All the videos have been reformatted for preservation and 55 videos (14.5 hours total) are available here online in low/high bandwidth, in Windows Media and Quicktime formats. Subjects and events include: campaign ads, inaugurals, budget addresses, appearances on McNeil/Lehrer both as Governor and Attorney General, news conferences from the week of the accident at Three Mile Island, a brief clip of the welcoming by Governor Thornburgh of Pope John Paul II to Philadelphia, 1979, Attorney General's announcement of Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL) related indictments, and the first anniversary of the signing of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA). Videos from 1993-2002 relate to Thornburgh's activities as Governor of Pennsylvania and Attorney-General of the United States.

248 videotapes.

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Following rather close on the heels of the unsuccessful 1966 campaign for U.S. Congress, yet another Thornburgh campaign got underway. Newly elected Pennsylvania Governor Raymond P. Shafer made constitutional reform a priority for his administration and voters were asked in the May 1967 primary to call a limited Constitutional Convention. Thornburgh's long standing interest in judicial reform and his then developing concerns about local government tempted him to run in his own Forty-third Distri...

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