Description
Oral histories, interviews, and other
primary resources relating to yamada's research for a book on women in broadcast journalism
and a documentary about Japanese American military intelligence officers during World War
II.
Background
gayle k. yamada is a filmmaker and broadcast journalist. She has directed, produced and
written programs for public television and radio for over four decades. Yamada's career
began in the traffic department of KCBS radio station in San Francisco, where she soon moved
to the news department and rose through the ranks. In the early 1980s, yamada was hired as a
researcher for "We the People" with Peter Jennings, later becoming the series' associate
producer. Her credits also include The Spirit of Taiko, Uncommon
Courage: Patriotism and Civil Liberties, Yan Can Cook,
Cooking at the Academy, Maxine Hong Kingston: Talking Story,
Artwear: The Body Adorned, Czeslaw Milosz: The Poet
Remembers, and Julia Morgan: A Life by Design. She is the
co-author, with David Hosley, of Hard News: Women in Broadcast Journalism
(1986).
Extent
8 Linear Feet
(5 flat boxes, 5 cartons, 1 card box, 1 manuscript half-box, 1
map folder)
Restrictions
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Availability
Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of
intended use. Audiovisual & born-digital materials are not available in original format,
and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.