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Video bio of Joe McConnell, inducted to Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2017;
There are few major sporting events that Goodland, Indiana, native Joe McConnell didn’t cover in his 40-year career. Not only did he call three Super Bowls, the NBA Championship series, the NBA All-Star Game and the American League Championship Series, but he was the voice of multiple professional and college teams that include the Indianapolis Colts, Indiana Pacers and college athletics at Indiana State University, the University of Notre Dame and Purdue University. A graduate of Franklin College, McConnell was five-time winner of the AP/UPI Sportscaster of the Year and was named Sportscaster of the Year in both Indiana (2000) and Illinois (1981). Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels named McConnell a “Sagamore of the Wabash” upon his retirement from Purdue in 2009. McConnell died April 8, 2018, at 79 years old.
--Words from the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers
"Dickerson, I finally get it," a fiscally conservative State Senator from Hendricks County remarked. "He said, 'I'm on the board of directors of the bank and we hired this fellow with a disability. I don't even know what his disability is, but he's one of our best damn employees.'" As executive director of The Arc of Indiana, John Dickerson worked with legislators for decades to "fight on behalf of parents of individuals with disabilities to make the systems responsive." John recounts the evolution of what became the second largest Arc in the country in his 2013 interview. The group emerged out of the national movement by parents who had offspring with intellectual disabilities and wanted to band together to improve the lives of their children. The organization was known as the Indiana Association for Retarded Children when it was founded in 1956. John discusses the changing names of the association as a reflection of changes in language about people with disabilities, as well as The Arc's close relationship with self-advocates.
John talks about the organization's influence on public policy. "The Arc isn't particularly well known in the general public. But we're remarkably well known with policymakers and legislators." He discusses The Arc's effort to get information to families about benefits and services, an initiative to support small businesses owned by people with developmental disabilities, and The Arc Master Trust. The latter is a mechanism enabling families to leave money to benefit their son or daughter with a disability.
John considers the leadership role Indiana has played in the disability arena nationally, despite its relatively low profile. He reminisces about the late Elbert Johns, who was a long-time executive director of Stone Belt Arc in Bloomington. John Dickerson retired as Executive Director of The Arc of Indiana in 2015.
“The Arc name is an interesting story in itself,” says John Dickerson of the history of The Arc. It was in the late ‘40s when parents across the country started organizing to discuss opportunities for their children. The first Indiana state association formed in 1956. Groups were called Parents and Friends of Retarded Children. In the 1970s, there was a movement to get rid of the “R” word, but it didn’t catch on. Finally, in the early ‘80s the name changed to The Arc.
Judith Epp, Jennifer Bass; Betsy Jose; Stephanie Sanders
Summary:
Marriage Equality Collection includes audio and video files, photographs, historical documents and ephemera representing experiences of same-sex couples married in the decade of legal marriage in the U.S. Particular focus is on the experience of couples in Indiana. This archive is growing in both content and scope.
For 30 years, Kathleen Johnston’s investigative reporting has exposed corruption and waste, and effected change in government and business practices. She finds investigative angles in chaotic situations, providing in-depth reports from major national breaking news stories, including 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, the Boston Marathon and the Virginia Tech shooting. She is also a trusted news source on national security issues.
After graduating from IU with a degree in journalism and political science in 1982, Johnston spent two and a half years at the Birmingham Post-Herald in Alabama, before returning to Indiana to work as a reporter at The Indianapolis News.
At the News, she exposed the City-County council’s use of secret caucus meetings to decide issues ahead of its public sessions. The News sued for access to those meetings and won. The case changed Indiana’s open records laws, and the reporting team won the Scripps Howard Foundation’s Service to the First Amendment Award.
She also specialized in politics and sports finance, serving as lead reporter covering major stadium developments for the Indiana Pacers and the Indianapolis Colts and as lead reporter for the 1987 Pan American Games in Indianapolis. She traveled to Cuba to write about logistical issues involving Cuban athletes.
After 12 years, Johnston moved into broadcast, taking a job as investigative producer at WTHR-TV in Indianapolis. During her five years at WTHR, she co-managed a five-member team that won more than 40 national, state and local awards, including the station’s first DuPont-Columbia Silver Baton for its coverage of mismanagement of the fortune of Lilly pharmaceutical heiress Ruth Lilly.
At WTHR, Johnston also uncovered a local trend of drunk driving case dismissals due to police officers’ failure to appear in court to testify, a story that won honors from Investigative Reporters and Editors. She also traveled to New York to cover 9/11.
Johnston joined CNN in 2004. As a senior investigative producer, she won numerous national and regional awards, including Emmys, Peabodys and Murrow awards.
At CNN, she broke the news that medical workers may have euthanized patients at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. She uncovered Medicare fraud in the medical devices business and wasted tax dollars along the Canadian border, resulting in the cancellation of a $32 million Department of Homeland Security contract. She conducted an exclusive interview with the trooper in the Sarah Palin “Trooper gate” scandal, and she reported on Congress’ refusal to disclose its spending earmarks. After her team’s year-long coverage, Congress began publishing its earmarks. Her team won the National Press Foundation’s Everett McKinley Dirksen Award and a national Emmy for its coverage.
A series of stories by Johnston’s team on ordinary citizens who had been added to the Transportation Security Administration’s watch list resulted in Congressional hearings and reformed watch list practices.
She produced several documentaries, including the acclaimed Footnotes of 9/11, which was released for the event’s 10-year anniversary. Other documentaries uncovered the unsafe infrastructure of cruise ships and the dangerous world of professional wrestling.
In 2015, Johnston became the sole investigative producer at CBS News in Washington. Her role included a special emphasis on homeland security issues, including the Paris and San Bernadino attacks.
She left CBS News in 2016. She now lives in Indianapolis again and freelances.
Kelly, Frankie, Jennifer Bass; Betsy Jose; Stephanie Sanders
Summary:
Marriage Equality Collection includes audio and video files, photographs, historical documents and ephemera representing experiences of same-sex couples married in the decade of legal marriage in the U.S. Particular focus is on the experience of couples in Indiana. This archive is growing in both content and scope.
“We have an opinion and it matters,” states Kelsey Cowley. Unfortunately, Kelsey didn’t feel many people listened to her during her school years. She says, “They just didn’t understand people with disabilities to the whole extent.” As President of Self-Advocates of Indiana, Kelsey is encouraging people with disabilities to get involved in their communities. She says, “If we can’t get the communities…to work along with us, then a lot of changes that want to be made by advocates won’t happen.” Kelsey was interviewed in 2017.
Video bio of Ken Speck, inducted to Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2017;
Ken Speck served as an on-air personality at WIRE-AM in Indianapolis from 1970 to 1985 before moving to KRPM-FM in Seattle, where he helped take the station from No. 42 in the market to No. 1 within five months. During Speck’s time at WIRE-AM, the station received numerous Station of the Year awards. Arbitron ranked Speck No. 1 in his time slot for years. His radio work began in 1955 in Ohio at Kent State University’s WKSU-FM and then WAND-TV, WCMW-FM and WCNS-AM. His early years included working at WCAR-AM in Detroit and as program director at WSLR-AM in Akron, Ohio. There, his station was ranked No. 1 in Billboard Magazine’s radio response rating. Speck’s tireless charity and fundraising work for many groups resulted in numerous awards including the CASPER Award from the Central Indiana Community Service Council.
--Words from the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers
The Kentucky Research Data Center (KRDC) is a collaboration between the University of Kentucky and the U.S. Census Bureau established by a grant from the National Science Foundation in 2016. KRDC is part of the nationwide system of Federal Statistical Research Data Centers whose mission is to expand the data infrastructure available to qualified scholars and students with approved projects by providing access to restricted individual- and firm-level data from participating federal statistical agencies. KRDC is maintained by a regional consortium of leading research institutions, including Indiana University. This infosession is designed for IU researchers interested in developing research projects using the KRDC.
