Mykola Francuzenko was a Ukrainian-American writer (under the pseudonym Mykola Virnyi), translator, theatrical director, radio journalist, and social activist. His literary output includes over 400 works, and he was a writer and broadcaster for the Ukrainian services of both Radio Liberty and the Voice of America during the Cold War. He was known for his speaking and recitation, and was considered a master of the art of the Ukrainian spoken word. His archives contain scripts, working notes, photo albums, and numerous audio tapes, some of which contain unique interview recordings, recordings of poets reading their own works, live recordings of events in the Ukrainian American community, and radio programming of the Ukrainian services of Radio Liberty and the Voice of America.
Content types:
Performed music, Spoken word, Still image, Text, and Two-dimensional moving image
Formats:
Analog audiocassette, Polyester open reel tape, Acetate open reel tape, Motion picture film, VHS (including SVHS and VHS-C), Data disk (floppy disk), Photographic print, Text document, and Microcassette
Extent:
Approximately 130 open reel tapes and 200 analog audio cassettes, as well as radio scripts, photographs, and text documents
WOR Inaugural 50,000 Watt broadcast 2/22/35 (2 recordings); Ed Fitzgerald/Benay Venuta (actress) 12/28/36 - cut #1; Ed & Pegeen Fitzgerald WOR 25th anniver. 2/22/47 – cut #2; Breakfast with the Fitzgeralds 10/8/44 – cut #3; Gabriel Heatter (commentator) 1940 – "We the People"; The Gambling’s at home Xmas-1954; John B. Gambling Second Breakfast 7/28/1956; Dorothy Kilgallen/Dick Kollmar WOR 11/12/62; Norman/Ruth Peale – at home audition 6/13/63; Vincent Tracy WOR debut show 2/4/64; Jean Shepherd on WOR 8/4/65; Jean Shepherd on KFRC San Francisco; Peter Lind Hayes/Mary Healey WOR 1/24/69; WOR-AM archive ID Themes 1/16/70 - 23 cuts