This collection contains materials collected by Roy Wetzel, a broadcast journalist and NBC News executive, related primarily to U.S. politics and elections. It includes audio recordings of broadcasts taped from radio stations such as WJR, a CBS affliliate station based in Detroit, Michigan, made during the 1950s.
Contains correspondence, autobiography, reports, radio scripts and other papers relating to Sublette's career with the Detroit Civil Service Commission and his outside interests.
Contains correspondence, legal papers, photographs, scrapbooks and some scripts relating to Meurer's work with George Trendle on The Lone Ranger, The Green Hornet and Sergeant Preston.
Contains correspondence, poems, radio presentations, teaching aids, illustrations, theater programs, yearbooks, songbooks, scrapbooks, certificates of merit, clippings, postcards and photos relating to her activities with the Polish theater and radio in Detroit.
Contains papers relating to Blumenshine's career withWOOD-AM and FM during the 1960s. Also includes details of WOTV policy, procedures and staff and examples of both audio and audio visual tapes used in broadcasting.
Includes a complete bound set of William Cameron's talks, 1934-1942, and printed music programs, 1934-1942 and 1945-1946. Also contains two reel-to-reel audio recordings of Cameron's talks, September 1941-1942.
Sound recordings of Echoes of a Century, a series of programs broadcast on 150 stations throughout the United States illustrating the story of Holland, MI from the origins of the Dutch settlers' decision to immigrate to the New World to the then present-day.
Contains sermon outlines, correspondence and other papers and audio tapes of the America for God broadcasts. The program originated at WCFL and was carried by other midwest stations. All of the extant numbered programs (1-436) have been retained in the collection.
Contains writings about Peale in articles, clippings and publications, along with writings by Peale, including articles, booklets, radio addresses, 1936-1945, a handbook and sermons.
Contains bound and unbound transcripts of radio sermons, mostly from the 1930s, some sound recordings, personal papers, correspondence, issues of "Social Justice" and other papers by and about Coughlin.
Repository/Collector:
National Shrine of the Little Flower Catholic Church
Includes recordings of This is Washington, radio reports to his constituents on his senatorial activities, 1951, and Meet Your Congress, 1951, 1953-1954, containing discussions of politics, domestic and foreign policy during the Eisenhower administration and other issues of then current interest. Also includes recordings of additional radio programs and 1940 campaign broadcasts.
Repository/Collector:
Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan
Includes correspondence, radio transcripts, scrapbooks and recordings of broadcasts. Cushing was a news editor and vice president of WJR, Detroit, MI and moderator of In Our Opinion.
Repository/Collector:
Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan
A writer for radio and television and an advertising executive, the papers include scripts for I Remember Mama, The Firefighters and Reflections. Also includes materials relating to his other work.
Repository/Collector:
Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan
Includes documentation of the dispute between Interlochen and James C. Petrillo, head of the American Federation of Musicians, over the use of non-union amateur musicians in the radio broadcasts of Interlochen performances.
Repository/Collector:
Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan
Contains papers relating to Detzer's work as a writer and editor for "Reader's Digest," including scripts and other papers concerning his activities as a script writer for radio, television and motion picture production.
Repository/Collector:
Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan
Includes scrapbooks, advertisements and other materials relating to WSAM, one of a network of Michigan stations owned by MacDonald, and other papers detailing MacDonald's involvement with the National Association of Broadcasters.
Repository/Collector:
Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan
Contains transcripts of radio broadcasts, 1941-1945, and other papers relating to his trips to China and transcripts of interviews with Chinese leaders.
Repository/Collector:
Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan
Contains correspondence, financial material and printed miscellanea largely concerning the operation of WJR, Detroit, MI and the history of radio broadcasting in general, including a transcript of an oral history interview and John F. Patt's remembrances of radio pioneer George A. Richards. Also includes a letter from Father Charles Coughlin, 1929, containing brief comments on religious broadcasting.
Repository/Collector:
Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan