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Date (inclusive): 1989-1991
Collection Number: 89031
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
2 manuscript boxes, 1 card file box
(1.2 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Newswire stories on computer disks, video tapes of television news broadcasts, and printed miscellany, relating to the Tiananmen
Square incident in China, American military intervention in Panama, and the fall of the Nicolae Ceausescu regime in Romania.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1989.
[Identification of item],
David
Fowler
collection, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Scope and Content of Collection
Newswire stories on computer disks, video tapes of television news broadcasts, and printed miscellany, relating to the Tiananmen
Square incident in China, American military intervention in Panama, and the fall of the Nicolae Ceausescu regime in Romania.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Video tapes
China -- History -- Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989
Panama -- History
Romania -- History -- Revolution, 1989
box 1
Videorecordings related to world events
Physical Description: 10 VHS video cassette tapes
Video recordings related to news coverage of the Tiananmen Square incident in China, the American military intervention in
Panama, and the fall of the Nicolae Ceausescu regime in Romania.
Original audiovisual materials are not available until they have been reformatted. If interested in accessing these materials,
please contact us for more information.
box 1
box 2
Computer disks circa 1989-1991
onsite digital
Digital newswire stories 1989
Physical Description: 0.25 digital_files
Reports by Associated Press and other news service reporters about events in China, Panama, and Romania. Primarily in English,
some in Spanish. There are often multiple, shorter stories combined in a single digital file. These digital files were recovered
from disks 11 and 13; efforts in 2011 to recover data from the other disks were unsuccessful.
box 3
Computer disks relating to newswire stories circa 1989
Physical Description: 22 3.5 inch floppy disks
Digital files recovered from disks 11 and 13 are available in our reading room (see 'Digital newswire stories'.)
Material from the other 19 disks are not available until processed. If interested in accessing these materials, please contact
us for more information.
Please note that efforts were made in 2011 to retrieve the data from these disks and was unsuccessful.