By Mel Frizzell
Collection Overview
Title: Dennis L. McCurdy Papers, 1977-1979, undated
ID: 00/MG 42
Creator: McCurdy, Dennis L.
Extent: 0.4 Linear Feet. More info below.
Date Acquired: 11/12/1979
Languages: English [eng]
Abstract
Dennis McCurdy was a radio news broadcaster for WPMH News and Public Affairs. Contains reel to reel audiotapes of interviews, speeches, and events regarding politics.
Scope and Contents of the Materials
This collection contains reel-to-reel audiotapes of interviews, speeches, and events regarding politics. Included are speeches and interviews of Henry Howell, Andrew Pickens Miller, G. Conoly Phillips, Pat Robertson, Chuck Robb, and Gerald R. Ford. Two tapes of note are a press conference of United States Senator S.I. Hayakawa from California in which he discusses the energy crisis of the late 1970s and the SALT Treaty, and a press conference of Ronald Reagan in Roanoke, Virginia during his campaign for the Presidency in 1979.
Administrative Information
Alternate Extent Statement:
One Hollinger document case
Access Restrictions:
Open to researchers without restrictions.
Use Restrictions:
Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from Special Collections and University Archives, and the holder of the copyright, if not Old Dominion University Libraries.
Acquisition Source:
Dennis L. McCurdy
Acquisition Method:
Gift. Accession #A79-56
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of item], Box [insert number], Folder [insert number and title], Dennis L. McCurdy Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
Box and Folder Listing
- Item 1: Tape 517 - Andrew Miller, undated
- Item 2: Tapes 529 and 532 - General Assembly, 1979
- Item 3: Tape 533 - Election Returns, John Dalton, 1978
- Item 4: Tape 537 - Dalton Interview, 1979 February 10
- Item 5: Tape 546 - Nixon's Checkers Speech, undated
- Item 6: Tape 555 - Carter at JJ Dinner, 1979
- Item 7: Tape 557 - Kemp at Virginia Republican Convention, Dalton, Reagan, undated
- Item 8: Tape 568 - Powell, undated
- Item 9: Tape 569 - Davis, undated
- Item 10: Tape 570 - Coleman, undated
- Item 11: Tape 576 - G. William Whitehurst, 1979 August 27
- Item 12: Tape 580 - Gerald Ford, William & Mary, undated
- Item 13: Tape 79-9 - Perspective: President Ford in Norfolk, Campaign, 1978
- Item 14: Tape 80-1 - S.I. Hayakawa, undated
- Item 15: Tape 80-6 - Henry Howell, Perspective, 1979
- Item 16: Henry Howell - Election Night, 11/8/77; June 1978 Democratic Convention, 1977-1978
- Includes Interview with Chuck Robb, and Speeches by Howell, Pat Robertson, John Warren Cooke, Conoly Phillips