| Political Messages |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential
Library (http://www.eisenhower.utexas.edu/ddehp.htm) "One segment of the Eisenhower Library audiovisual archives consists of 675,000 feet of motion picture film. The largest portion of the motion picture holdings covering the presidential years was given to the President by national network television companies. The Library also has a number of documentary films relating to World War II, as well as, original film footage covering such subjects as the surrender of the Italian fleet at Malta and German surrender films. Although the Library cannot loan film, it will provide a non-broadcast quality cassette reproduction. The library also has manuscripts and audio recordings." |
| Gerald R.
Ford Library and Museum (http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/ford/Ford.html) "The Library is more than a place for storing 20 million documents and a half million audiovisual items; it is really a bundle of programs designed to make the huge mass of paper and film truly accessible. Archivists first locate, acquire, and organize collections of material, then create detailed narrative summaries (called "finding aids") that describe the collections. Researchers use these descriptions, along with PRESNET (a computer database describing more than 63,000 collections, series, and folders) and the advice of the archivists to find their way to documents on their topic." |
| John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Library (http://www.cs.umb.edu/jfklibrary/index.htm) This collects a potpourri of JFK-related materials, including 34,000 million of pages of documents and manuscripts, 147,000 photographs, 6,600 reels of film, nearly 11,000 reels of audiotape, and 25,000 cataloged books. |
| Herbert Hoover Presidential
Library (http://www.hoover.nara.gov/) Contains Hoover speeches, radio interviews and related reading scripts. |
| The
Political Communication Center--University of Oklahoma
(http://www.ou.edu/pccenter/) The Political Communication Center catalogs political advertisements and other related material. The archive contains more than 56,000 radio and television commercials representing candidates running for offices from the U. S. Presidency all the way down to school boards. Also included in the collection are commercials by political action committees, ads sponsored by corporations and special interest groups on public issues, and commercials done for foreign elections. Many items in the archive are one-of-a-kind. |
| Presidential Campaign TV Ads at the University of Rhode Island "The collection includes hundreds of ads from television's golden age and all current presidential campaign ads." Call (401) 792-1000 or (401) 792-2552 for more info. |
| Harry S. Truman Library
and Museum (http://www.trumanlibrary.org/) This library contains just about all you’d ever want to know about President Truman, including documents, speeches, documentaries, and newsreels relating to Truman and persons and events from his administration. |
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Kimberly A. Neuendorf |