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Title: NewsTrak videotape collection
Dates: 1987-2006
Collection number: MS0037
Creator:
NewsTrak
Collection Size:
91 linear feet
(91 boxes)
Repository:
Center for Sacramento History
Sacramento, California 95811-0229
Abstract: The NewsTrak Videotape Collection consists 91 boxes of media coverage collected by the NewsTrak media monitoring firm from
various television news stations, public relations firms, and government, corporate and non-profit public relations departments
in the Sacramento area between 1987-2006. Media coverage includes media releases by local public relations firm Runyon, Saltzman
& Einhorn, coverage of local and state politicians including Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gray Davis, and Pete Wilson during their
terms as California governor, the Rodney King verdict, Proposition 5 on Indian Tribal Gaming, and public relations videos
created by corporate and governmental public relations departments such as PG&E, UC Davis Medical Center, Kaiser Permanente,
Sutter Health, and Pacific Bell. The collection has extensive coverage of crime and murder trials in Sacramento in the 1980s-1990s
and included footage of serial killers Dorothea Puente, Eric Royce Leonard "Thrill killer," Michelle Cummisky "Batgirl killer,"
Wesley Shermantine, one of the "Speed Freak Killers," and other murder trials such as Tammy Holycross, Alex Dell Thomas, Erin
Rae Kuhn-Brown, Curtis Dean Anderson Jr., Paul Lloyd Hensley, and Ramon Salcido that recieved extensive local and national
television coverage. Also included is local Sacramento media coverage of national news events such as the 9/11 bombings and
President Bill Clinton's sex scandal and impeachment.
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
Collection is open for research use.
All requests to publish or quote from private collections held by the Center for Sacramento History (CSH) must be submitted
in writing to csh@cityofsacramento.org. Permission for publication is given on behalf of CSH as the owner of the physical
items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the patron.
No permission is necessary to publish or quote from public records.
[Identification of item and/or item number], [box and folder number], NewsTrak videotape collection, MS0037, Center for Sacramento
History.
The NewsTrak Videotape Collection was donated to the Center for Sacramento History on November 30, 2018 by Brenda Ross / NewsTrak,
LLC (accession #2018/039).
Inventory created by April Austin in 2018. Finding aid created by Sean Heyliger in October 2019.
Scope and Content of Collection
The NewsTrak Videotape Collection consists 91 boxes of media coverage collected by the NewsTrak media monitoring firm from
various television news stations, public relations firms, and government, corporate and non-profit public relations departments
in the Sacramento area between 1987-2006. Media coverage includes media releases by local public relations firm Runyon, Saltzman
& Einhorn, coverage of local and state politicians including Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gray Davis, and Pete Wilson during their
terms as California governor, the Rodney King verdict, Proposition 5 on Indian Tribal Gaming, and public relations videos
created by corporate and governmental public relations departments such as PG&E, UC Davis Medical Center, Kaiser Permanente,
Sutter Health, and Pacific Bell. The collection has extensive coverage of crime and murder trials in Sacramento in the 1980s-1990s
and included footage of serial killers Dorothea Puente, Eric Royce Leonard "Thrill killer," Michelle Cummisky "Batgirl killer,"
Wesley Shermantine, one of the "Speed Freak Killers," and other murder trials such as Tammy Holycross, Alex Dell Thomas, Erin
Rae Kuhn-Brown, Curtis Dean Anderson Jr., Paul Lloyd Hensley, and Ramon Salcido that recieved extensive local and national
television coverage. Also included is local Sacramento media coverage of national news events such as the 9/11 bombings and
President Bill Clinton's sex scandal and impeachment. A majority of the tapes are on Betamax, Umatic, or DV cams formats.
Boxes 1-36 have item-level descriptions of videotapes. Boxes 37-91 have only box-level description.
Series 1. Media coverage videotapes
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Kaiser Permanente
NewsTrak
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Runyon, Saltzman & Einhorn
Sutter/CHS (Firm)
UC Davis Medical Center
California. Governor (2003-2011 : Schwarzenegger)
Murderers--California--Sacramento
Murder--California--Sacramento
King, Rodney
Sacramento (Calif.)--History
Television--California