The Arthur B. Church KMBC Radio Collection contains multiple episodes of The Brush Creek Follies featuring the Rhythm Riders, Oklahoma Wranglers, and Midland Minstrels. Most of the collection is related to the events of WWII, FDR, and Harry Truman, D-Day invasion coverage, reports on the signing of treaties, the dropping of the atomic bomb, coverage of the activities of President Roosevelt and Eisenhower. Other highlights include broadcast about the Cold War, Harry Truman's speeches to a multitude of different groups, events at the White House, some of Roosevelt's fireside chats, national news coverage, film footage of KMBC's dedication as well as a segment of the Microphone Personalities, recordings of Pun and Punishment (9/22/60), coverage of Truman and Churchill at Fulton, MO, Churchill's famed "Iron Curtain" speech, recordings of the Texas Rangers. Also included are W.S. Hedge interviews Arthur B. Clarke (6/22/66), KMBC's 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins (3/24//48), Church's last KMBC broadcast (1/15/51).
Content types:
Performed music, Sounds (Other than music & language), Spoken word, and Two-dimensional moving image
Formats:
Pressed LP disc, Lacquer disc, Metal disc, and Motion picture film
Documents Church's 30 years in radio and television, including as owner and operator of KMBC radio and television in Kansas City, MO from the 1920s-late 1950s. Church was the creative force behind several syndicated shows, including The Brush Creek Follies, The Texas Rangers and Phenomenon. Collection includes photos, published sheet music, scripts, scrapbooks, promotional material, contracts, telegrams, station newsletters and broadcast recordings. Recordings are in the Marr Sound Archives.
Repository/Collector:
Department of Special Collections, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Includes interviews of Ed Bench, KSTL, KATZ and KCFM; Joan Colegrove; Don Corey, KSHE, KADI-FM and KIRL; John Craddock; Rex Davis, KMOX; Harry Eidelman, KCFM; Harry Fender, KXOK and KMOX; Dick and Nancy Friedman, KRCH; Robert Hille, KXOK; Gene Hirsch, WIL; Tim Lyons; Kay Morton; Chuck Norman; Ellie Ohrn; Roy Queen, KMOX; Ollie Raymand, KMOX; Sibley Smith, KCFM.
Contains correspondence, notebooks, diaries, notes, radio scripts and other materials relating to Legere's activities in the American and Canadian labor movements, California politics and the west coast theater.
Repository/Collector:
Olin Library, Department of Special Collections, Washington University
Papers document Hayes's career as a radio broadcaster, 1961-1988, although he began his radio career in the Air Force in 1950 as an announcer for the Armed Forces Radio Service and in 1956 he began work as the black on-air personality and first black news announcer for a station in Alexandria, LA. Includes photocopies of scrapbooks containing publicity literature and photographs reflecting Hayes's radio work from the early to mid-1960s in Chicago, including his work on WMMP, the first black owned station in the Midwest, WSBC, WVON and WGES.
Repository/Collector:
Western Historical Manuscript Collection, University of Missouri-St. Louis