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Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty file 1952-1998

General Physical Description note: 1-7, 13

Scope and Contents note

Consists of clippings, reports, memoranda, correspondence, newswires, photographs, and ephemera.

Arrangement note

Arranged in four groups: General, Administrative operations, Broadcast operations, and Blueprints then alphabetically by physical form or by subject in some cases.
 

General 1972-1993 and undated

box 1, folder 1-5

Address books and telephone directories 1983 and undated

box 1, folder 6-7

Background information on RFE/RL and New York Programming Center 1976

 

Clippings and collected writings 1972-1993

box 1, folder 8

1972-1977

box 1, folder 9

1980-1987

box 1, folder 10-11

1991-1992

box 2, folder 1

1993-1994

box 2, folder 2

Name tag and press passes 1986-1992

box 2, folder 3

RFE/RL souvenir notebook 1980s

 

Administrative operations 1955-1998

 

Director's Guild of America 1965-1993

box 2, folder 4

General 1969

box 2, folder 5-6

Collective bargaining agreements 1965-1973

box 2, folder 7

Memoranda and correspondence 1955-1993

 

Memoranda and correspondence 1971-1998

 

Chronological 1971-1998 and undated

Scope and Contents note

Includes the New York Programming Center and RFE/RL corporate offices and correspondence printed out from the arkusa@rfel.org email account
box 2, folder 8

Undated

box 2, folder 9-11

1971-1980

box 9, folder 12-14

1984-1995

box 3, folder 1

1997-1998

box 3, folder 2

From Glenn Ferguson to Board of Directors 1979-1982

 

Personnel 1980-1993

box 3, folder 3

Albert H. Arkus permanent file 1980-1993

box 3, folder 4

News and Current Affairs Style and Procedure Manual 1992 July

box 3, folder 5-11

Performance reviews 1985-1993 and undated

box 3, folder 12-14

Policies and related memoranda 1990-1993

box 3, folder 15

Salary schedules 1983, 1991-1993

box 3, folder 16

Printed matter 1984-1998

Scope and Contents note

Includes an assortment of pamphlets published by RFE/RL
box 4, folder 1-2

Printed matter 1988-1993

Scope and Contents note

Includes issues of Shortwaves, a monthly publication for RFE/RL employees
 

Reports and studies 1968-1993

box 4, folder 3

RFE technical facilities report 1968

box 4, folder 4-6

Corporate affairs weekly reports 1976-1977

box 4, folder 7

Research and analysis of eastern European countries 1980

box 4, folder 8-10

Board of International Broadcasting annual reports and related materials 1981-1993

box 4, folder 11

Computer history and modernization program circa 1988

box 5, folder 1

Integrated network study 1991 January

box 5, folder 2

Washington D.C. studio monthly reports 1993 September

box 5, folder 3-5

RFE/RL Annex 1993-1995

Scope and Contents note

Includes schedules and memoranda relating to the shut down of the New York Programming Center
 

Broadcast operations 1952-1998

box 5, folder 6

General 1992

 

Coverage of special events 1979-1995

Scope and Contents note

Includes correspondence, newswires, maps, planning materials, brochures, and photographs
box 5, folder 7-15

Pope John Paul II's visit to U.S. 1979

box 5, folder 16

Winter Olympic Games, Lake Placid 1980

box 6, folder 1

Winter Olympic Games, Lake Placid 1980 (contd.)

box 6, folder 2

Winter Olympic Games, Calgary 1988

box 6, folder 3

Other sports and sporting events 1989-1995

box 6, folder 4

Interview transcripts 1966-1976

box 6, folder 5

Media credentials 1995-1998

box 6, folder 6

Newsletters 1971-1972

box 6, folder 7-10

Newswires 1976-1993

box 7, folder 1

Press kits 1971-1972 and undated

box 7, folder 2-3

Program schedules 1952-1953, 1973-1987

box 7, folder 4

Report 1992 October

box 7, folder 5-7

Telecommunications technology pamphlets, instructions, and other documentation 1988-1993

box 7, folder 8

Miscellany 1979-1993

Scope and Contents note

Includes notes, diagrams of office furniture, and photocopy of sheet music
 

Photographs and Slides 1960s-1970s

General Physical Description note: 7

Scope and Contents note

Color photographs, negatives, and slides grouped by format
box 7, folder 9-10

Slides depicting RFE reporters at work, broadcast towers and infrastructure, and maps 1960s

box 7, folder 11-14

RFE/RL staff, probably at New York Programming Center 1970s

 

Printed matter 1980-1995

General Physical Description note: 11

Scope and Contents note

Consists of newspapers, clippings, magazines, journals, and brochures, arranged alphabetically by format
box 8, folder 1-2

Clippings and newspapers 1980-1993

Scope and Contents note

Includes some photocopies
box 8, folder 3-4

European Broadcasting Union journals 1988-1990

box 8, folder 5

Production music catalog undated

box 8, folder 6-9

Sound engineering magazines 1992-1993

box 8, folder 10

Sound engineering societies flyers 1992-1995

 

Sound recordings 1968-1995

General Physical Description note: 8-10

Scope and Contents note

Consists of 1/4-inch sound tape reels and audiocassette tapes, arranged by format, chronologically
 

1/4-inch sound tape 1968-1986 undated

box 9

Environmental crisis #1-RFE-Arkus-Benton undated

box 9

Attn: Mr. Albert Arkus undated

box 9

"This is New York," the New York Production Center, RFE/RL Inc. undated

box 9

10 programs from Mexico (TDR), Czech, Hungarian, and Bulgarian 1968 October 25

box 9

Announcer training studio recording of Mary Ozga 1972 December 21

box 9

Article of the Day and Panorama #264 Tape 1 1975 January 10

box 9

For the Romanian Desk-Panorama (2 items), Tinerama (1 item)-T. Sto'an 1975 August 19

box 9

For Kratch, [unidentified], Russian, Tatar, Bulgarian, Belarusian, Latvian, Estonian, jamming 1986 May

 

Audiocassette tapes 1970s-1995

 

Undated

box 10, folder 1-2

Unidentified

box 10, folder 3

Arkus undated

box 10, folder 4-6

Sound recording of proceedings of RFE/RL meeting in Munich undated

box 10, folder 7

Interview with Ernst and Lory Wallfisch undated

box 10, folder 8

Sample of production music undated

box 10, folder 9

RFE/RL test recording undated

box 10, folder 10

Sound system test undated

box 10, folder 11

Health insurance benefits for RFE/RL employees undated

box 10, folder 12

News piece on strokes and American diet undated

box 10, folder 13

Recording of phone call to San Antonio sheriff's office by RFE/RL New York Programming Center regarding Romanian man shot by secret service undated

 

Hungarian programming undated

box 10, folder 14-15

"Go West Young Man"

box 10, folder 16

Sing an Italian Song

box 10, folder 17

Washington D.C.

box 10, folder 18

Wonderful World of Disney

box 10, folder 19

Bing Crosby Story

box 10, folder 20

Christmas in New York

box 10, folder 21

Russian news undated

box 10, folder 22

Discussion of Chernobyl nuclear disaster (side A) and a discussion about Marxism (side B) undated

box 10, folder 23

New York Programming Center undated

box 10, folder 24

Two men speaking Ukrainian undated

box 10, folder 25

Discussion panel undated

box 10, folder 26-27

Slovakia and Georgia undated

box 10, folder 28

Excerpt of tape from BBC World Service, test of digital transmission undated

box 10, folder 29

Conversation between Albert H. Arkus (New York) and Tom or Dick Bodin (Munich) undated

box 10, folder 30

Audio sampling of sound engineering problems undated

 

1970s

box 10, folder 31

Andre and Francoise Blanchard speaking at a rally 1977 June 11

box 10, folder 32

Discussion between departments, received in Munich Production Center 1977 October 14

box 10, folder 33

Comrex test received in Munich via AVD 1978 April

box 10, folder 34

Mix of recordings. Includes a recording made in the Hotel Dorobanti in Bucharest by Dennis Thompson for RFE/RL Romanian 1978 February 25

box 10, folder 35-36

Conference call regarding ITT World Communications (Arkus and unidentified) 1978 July 25

box 10, folder 37

Mix of recordings. Includes recording of The Tomorrow Show (television program) featuring interview of Alexander Solzhenitsyn regarding American broadcasting into the Soviet Union. Also includes recording of Unesco meeting 1978 November 20

box 10, folder 38

Radio Free Europe 1970s

 

1980s

box 10, folder 39

"Nazis in the U.S.," 60 Minutes, CBS 1982 May 16

box 10, folder 40-42

Research Center for Religion and Human Rights in Closed Societies press conference with U.S. ambassador to Poland, Richard Davis, in attendance 1982 October 28-29

box 10, folder 43

Interview with Wojciech Jaruzelski 1983 July 21

box 11, folder 1

RFE/RL Romanian broadcast 1983 September 9

box 11, folder 2

Reagan in Beijing, CNN news broadcast 1984

box 11, folder 3

International League for Human Rights press conference regarding disappeared persons in Argentina 1984 June 6

box 11, folder 4-18

Coverage of Summer Olympics, Los Angeles 1984 August

box 11, folder 19

Press conference with (probably) Elena Bonner regarding Andrei Sakharov and her experience leaving the Soviet Union circa 1986

box 11, folder 20

News piece about jamming of RFE/RL radio waves and a recording of news programming on WCBS Albany, New York 1988-1989

box 11, folder 21

Tom Bodin memorial 1989

box 11, folder 22

RFE/RL news piece on communist revolution in Afghanistan 1980s

 

1990s

box 11, folder 23

Mix of recordings. Includes air traffic control radio and random clips of musical recordings, probably used for audio checks 1991

box 11, folder 24-25

Coverage of Winter Olympics, Albertville 1992

box 11, folder 26

Diane Rheme (NPR) interviews Dr. Joseph Duffey (Director of U.S. Information Agency) 1993

box 11, folder 27

Final Hungarian program at New York Programming Center 1993 October 29

box 11, folder 28

Sakharov Institute and Soviet Emigré Orchestra discuss Andrei Sakharov and human rights violations in the Soviet Union, 1990s (side A) and recording of NPR programming, 1993-1994 (side B)

box 11, folder 29

Federal funding for Voice of America and RFE/RL circa 1995

box 11, folder 30

NPR news piece about RFE/RL 1995

box 11, folder 31

Funding for RFE news broadcasts 1990s

 

Digital materials undated

Physical Description: 3 3.5-inch floppy disks, 1 5.25-inch floppy disk

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Memorabilia 1988 undated

box 14

Two microphone clips with RFE/RL logo undated

box 12, folder 2

Sign from studio door undated

box 12, folder 3

Cardboard sign with Radio Free Europe logo undated

box 12, folder 4

RFE/RL pin from Winter Olympic games in Calgary 1988

box 13, folder Oversize

Blueprints and diagrams of the RFE/RL New York Programming Center building structure and broadcast signals 1980