Papers, recordings of radio interviews, and other sound recordings, mostly in connection with Tater's career as host of jazz radio shows, principally at KJZY (Sonoma County, CA), and KETR (Commerce, TX).
Content types:
Performed music, Spoken word, Still image, and Text
Formats:
Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Analog audiocassette, Photographic print, and Text document
Includes brief radio advertisements for a free copy of Robinson's 6,000 word lecture on Psychiana which was available from the radio station carrying the advertisement and a radio address broadcast over KEX, May 17, 1934.
Bryson discus ses his career at CBS, educational broadcasting, the relationships between networks and local stations, fiscal issues and his impressions of academic and broadcasting personalities.
Correspondence, diaries, memoranda, articles, lectures, writings, transcripts of broadcasts, subject files, business and financial records, biographical material, appointment books, newspaper clippings and other papers documenting Bryson's public relations career and his role in developing educational radio and television programs for CBS. Includes material on Department X, a committee organized by Bryson at the request of CBS president William S. Paley to examine issues relating to global changes in politics, economics, science, technology, public opinion and social and government policy in the future.
Bryson was a broadcaster with KTSM, El Paso, TX, 1936-1954, and later a TV news anchor. Collection includes radio scripts for several programs, including Fort Bliss Centennial, Pathfinders of Medicine, 25th Anniversary, Magoffin, Gifts of the Season, El Paso Pays Tribute, Master of Music, Over SW Trails, Voice of El Paso, Southern Union Gas Co. Industry at the Pass of the North, Men of Vision, Through the Years, Farm Reporter and other special programs.
Repository/Collector:
C.L. Sonnichsen Library Special Collections Department, University of Texas-El Paso
Contains personal and professional correspondence, course schedules, rosters, student letters and other material related to Swearingen's career as a professor of history. Also includes unidentified radio broadcasts.