Vanderbilt Television News Archive
According to their information, the Vanderbilt Television News Archive is the world’s most extensive and complete archive of television news. It operates as a Unit of the Vanderbilt University Libraries.
The collection spans the presidential administrations of Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush. The core collection includes evening news broadcasts from ABC, CBS, and NBC (since 1968), an hour per day of CNN (since 1995) and Fox News (since 2004). Special news broadcasts found in the Archive include political conventions, presidential speeches and press conferences, Watergate hearings, coverage of the Persian Gulf War, the events of September 11, 2001, the War in Afghanistan, and the War in Iraq.
All the items in its collection are available to the pubic through a loan service. The length of the loan period is flexible. They charge service fees to cover their costs.
Hartmut Buettner @ October 31, 2009
