News Knowledge

This is the third of three episodes featuring former newsman Morton Dean. It focuses on his experiences as a reporter for CBS and ABC in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Kosovo, and Vietnam, and on his new documentary American Medevac, in which he tells the story of his efforts to reunite Vietnam helicopter pilots with some of the soldiers they rescued.

This is the second of three episodes featuring former newsman Morton Dean, who discusses his recent documentary, American Medevac, as well as other interesting chapters in his decades-long career as a news reporter and anchor for CBS and ABC.

This episode features a conversation with former CBS and ABC newsman Morton Dean about his experiences in Cuba and Vietnam, and his new documentary American Medevac, which tells the story of his efforts to reunite Vietnam helicopter pilots with some of the soldiers they rescued.

This News Knowledge episode features a conversation with Ken Paulson, president of the Newseum Institute's First Amendment Center and dean of the College of Media and Entertainment at Middle Tennessee State University.

An edited version of the audio soundtrack of the Vanderbilt Television News Archive's 50th anniversary celebration.

This News Knowledge episode features a conversation with Congressman Jim Cooper, who has represented Tennessee's 5th District in the US House of Representatives since 2003.

This is the second of two episodes focusing on the collaboration between NASA scientist Rick Chappell and broadcast journalist Jim Hartz at Vanderbilt University. In this episode Rick and Jim discuss the recommendations contained in their book "Worlds Apart" regarding the communication of science and technology through the media to the public, with additional context provided by Vanderbilt University Chancellor Emeritus Joe Wyatt.

This is the first of two episodes focusing on the collaboration between NASA scientist Rick Chappell and broadcast journalist Jim Hartz at Vanderbilt University. In this episode Rick and Jim discuss their careers and connections to the US space program, which eventually led them to co-author a book, entitled "Worlds Apart," detailing their recommendations for improving how scientists and journalists communicate science to the public.

This podcast is the second of two episodes focusing on the Iranian hostage crisis, which began on November 4th, 1979 and lasted until January 20th, 1981, and features excerpts of recent interviews with George Washington University Professor William Adams, former George Washington University Television News Study Center Director Fay Scheibman McGrew, and former CBS News foreign correspondent Tom Fenton.

This podcast is the first of two episodes focusing on the Iranian hostage crisis, which began on November 4th, 1979 and lasted until January 20th, 1981, and features excerpts of a recent interview with former CBS News foreign correspondent Tom Fenton. One clarification from Tom Fenton: "I was in Wiesbaden, Germany to see the arrival of the released hostages, not in Algeria."

This episode focuses on the 1973 lawsuit filed against Vanderbilt University by CBS, in which it was claimed that the Vanderbilt Television News Archive's recordings of the CBS Evening News violated CBS's property rights. This episode features excerpts of recent conversations with former Vanderbilt Library Director Frank Grisham and University of California-Irvine Associate Professor Lucas Hilderbrand, and excerpts of 1978 interviews with former Archive administrator Jim Pilkington and the Archive's founder Paul Simpson.

This episode of News Knowledge is the result of last month's visit by Robert Sheldon and his son Ryan with us here at the Vanderbilt Television News Archive, where they were able to view news clips of Robert's father Don Sheldon, who was profiled by CBS News reporter Charles Kuralt in 1974 on the CBS Evening News. Don Sheldon was among the early aviation pioneers who developed the piloting skills necessary to land and take off from glaciers in Alaska, and who built a small hut within sight of what was then known as Mt. McKinley. (More...) Today Sheldon's descendants are fulfilling his dream by constructing a mountain house they've named the Sheldon Chalet, in the same remote, breathtaking location near that same mountain, now known as Denali. To more fully appreciate the truly spectacular natural beauty of this place, use any of these links: http://www.sheldonchalet.com https://twitter.com/mthouse1966 https://www.instagram.com/sheldonmthouse https://www.facebook.com/sheldonmountainhouseandchalet

This episode focuses on the story of the Vanderbilt Television News Archive's inception in 1968 and its early history, as recalled by former Vanderbilt Library Director Frank Grisham, Archive founder Paul Simpson, and the Archive's first administrator Jim Pilkington, and includes audio excerpts of news segments from the Archive's video collection.

At the conclusion of her week of research into the national news networks' coverage of the Charles Manson trial, Cornell University Associate Professor of History Claudia Verhoeven is interviewed for the Vanderbilt Television News Archive's News Knowledge podcast by archivists Russ Mason and Skip Pfieffer.