Firing Line (Television program) broadcast records, 1966-1999: Video tapes from the Firing Line television show, alongside sound recordings, speaker and research files, and other material related to the show. Firing Line is the longest-running show focused on public-affairs with a single host (William F. Buckley, Jr.) in television history, filmed over the span of 33 years with 1,505 installments.
Heisler (Ivan C.F.) motion picture film, 1938: Photographer Ivan C.F. Heisler (1921-1976) was born in Switzerland and immigrated to the United States at age three. Filmed by Heisler during a visit to the Trotskys, this motion picture captures Leon Trotsky and wife Natalie Sedova, alongside their companions, artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, in Coyoacan, Mexico.
Japanese subject collection: Printed matter and objects relating to various aspects of the social, political, and economic landscape of Japan. This collection focuses on military culture throughout Japanese history, including, but not limited to, conflicts such as the Sino-Japanese war of 1894-1895, the second Sino-Japanese war of 1894-1895, and the post-WWII Allied occupation of Japan. Material of note includes manga and action figures material for the recruitment of young soldiers.
Letofsky (Irv) collection: Irv Letofsky (1931-2007) was a movie producer. His collection consists of pressbooks for motion picture in which Ronald Reagan appeared as an actor.
Pasternak family papers, 1877-2013: The Pasternak family papers consist of materials related to Russian painter Leonid Pasternak and his wife Rosalia; their sons Boris (poet and novelist) and Aleksandr (architect and memoirist), daughters Josephine and Lydia, and other family members. The collection includes writings, photographs, printed matter, and other audiovisual material pertaining to Russian art and literature, culture in the Soviet Union, and Russian emigre life.
Quigley (Joan) papers, 1908-2017: Joan Quigley (1927-2014) was an astrologer, best known as Nancy Reagan's personal astrological consultant between 1981 and 1988. Quigley published multiple books on astrology, including "Astrology for Adults" (1969), "Astrology for Parents of Children & Teenagers" (1971), and "What Does Joan Say?: My Seven Years as White House Astrologer to Nancy and Ronald Reagan" (1990).
"Vietnam and the Intellectuals" with Noam Chomsky, recorded on April 3, 1969.
A matter-versus-anti-matter meeting between WFB and a man he characterizes as being "listed in anybody's catalogue as among the half-dozen top heroes of the New Left." Mr. Chomsky says nothing to belie his reputation: "I said that there are certain issues-for example-Auschwitz, such that by consenting to discuss them one degrades oneself and to some degree loses one's humanity ... Nevertheless, I can easily imagine circumstances in which I would have been glad to debate Auschwitz-for example, if there were some chance that by debating Auschwitz it might have been possible to eliminate or to at least mitigate the horror that was going on. And, I think, I feel the same way about Vietnam."
"The Equal Rights Amendment" with Phyllis Schlafly, Ann Scott, Judith Areen, Father Edmund G. Ryan, and Brenda Eddy, recorded on March 30, 1973.
The Equal Rights Amendment was on its way to ratification, when a funny thing happened: one of the states (to be followed by others) that had ratified it rescinded its ratification. The rescission had been mobilized, as WFB puts it, not "by sexist males but by women, many of whom on second blush are discovering in the amendment implications they regard as inimical to the best interests of American women." Like what? Like, replies Mrs. Schlafly, the draft. Wait a minute, says Ms. Scott: "if women are to be citizens and citizens are to be subject to the draft, then women should take the responsibilities as well as the rights of citizenship." Swords flash as we move from the draft to employment opportunities to child support. Whether or not our two guests will ever agree on anything, we do learn where the battle lines are drawn.
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