About this project

The transcription from video to electronic text was the work of a graduate student in the Political Science Department at the University of Georgia. During the Summer of 2001, he spent three months in the Media Department working 40 hours per week transcribing the videotaped interviews into electronic text.

The existence of the Web version began with a joint effort between an intern at the University of South Carolina and the Walter J. Brown Media Archives at the University of Georgia. The intern spent one hundred and thirty hours extended over four months in the winter semester of 2002 on the project. The project was guided by the head of Media Archives, Ruta Abolins, and a faculty advisor, Bob Molyneux. Librarians at the University of Georgia who specialize in a variety of subject areas were consulted in order to offer the best presentation of the digitized text for the user.

This text is the transcription of the first in a series of interviews with Richard Nixon which were conducted by his close friend and former employee Frank Gannon in 1983. The entire series is over 30 hours long. Presented here are the contents of the first 6 video tapes in the series, or about 7 hours of interviews.

Credits:

Ruta Abolins
Bob Molyneux
Robert Rhudy
Mary Miller
Laura Shedenhelm
Susan Tuggle
Nan McMurry
Susan Gants
Sheila McAlister
Gail Morton
Tim Mixon
G. Harlan Smith

Special thanks:

Thanks to Jesse Raiford, president of Raiford Communications for the donation of the material to the Media Department at the University of Georgia Libraries.

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