62. Audio Examples from the Lawrence Gellert Collection (1:33:09)

Date:
2020-11-04
Summary:
This item is a set of examples from the collection [United States, North and South Carolina, Georgia, African Americans, 1920s-1930s] collected by Lawrence Gellert. Some content and language may be offensive. The examples have been selected to accompany the monograph, A Sound History: Lawrence Gellert, Black Musical Protest, and White Denial, by Steven Garabedian, published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 2020. The larger collection of Lawrence Gellert recordings are described in the IUCAT record (https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/2231335 ). Some of these recordings were made using a primitive recording device and the audio quality is very poor. Titles are taken from those provided in Gellert's notes or have been created based on the song content. Gellert did not document the names of performers for their safety, and that is why the performers for most of these recordings are unknown.

63. B-52 Strike (00:41)

Date:
2020
Main contributors:
Ron Osgood
Summary:
U.S. Marine Suel Jones describes the power and terror of a B-52 Strike.

69. Bob Forbes' Hall of Fame Video Bio (02:41)

Date:
2020
Main contributors:
Forbes, Bob
Summary:
Video bio of Bob Forbes, inducted to Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2020; Bob Forbes started broadcasting WBOW-AM in in 1947 in Terre Haute, Indiana, while still in college at Indiana State Teachers College. In 1948, Forbes joined WTHI-AM when it first went on air. WTHI-TV then launched in 1954 as the 10th Hoosier television station; Forbes was WTHI-TV’s first and only sports anchor at the station until he retired in 1985. He was the longtime voice of the Indiana State Sycamores, including the Larry Bird-led NCAA runner-up basketball team in 1979. Forbes was inducted into the Indiana State University Athletic Hall of Fame in 1984 for his broadcasting career and into the Indiana Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association Hall of fame in 2006. He died in January 2005 and was inducted posthumously to the Indiana Broadcasters Hall of Fame. --Words from the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers

70. Bob Ross' Hall of Fame Video Bio (02:39)

Date:
2020
Main contributors:
Ross, Bob
Summary:
Video bio of Bob Ross, inducted to Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2020; Although a native of Florida, Bob Ross lived and worked in Muncie, Indiana. His “Joy of Painting” program is still nationally and internationally syndicated and was produced at WIPB-TV, a community PBS station affiliated with Ball State University. Ross’s programs have been carried by nearly 300 television stations, covering an estimated 80 million households. Ross died in 1995 at the age of 52. --Words from the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers