News Knowledge

This episode focuses on the 1973 lawsuit filed against Vanderbilt University by CBS, in which it was claimed that the Vanderbilt Television News Archive's recordings of the CBS Evening News violated CBS's property rights. This episode features excerpts of recent conversations with former Vanderbilt Library Director Frank Grisham and University of California-Irvine Associate Professor Lucas Hilderbrand, and excerpts of 1978 interviews with former Archive administrator Jim Pilkington and the Archive's founder Paul Simpson.

This episode of News Knowledge is the result of last month's visit by Robert Sheldon and his son Ryan with us here at the Vanderbilt Television News Archive, where they were able to view news clips of Robert's father Don Sheldon, who was profiled by CBS News reporter Charles Kuralt in 1974 on the CBS Evening News. Don Sheldon was among the early aviation pioneers who developed the piloting skills necessary to land and take off from glaciers in Alaska, and who built a small hut within sight of what was then known as Mt. McKinley. (More...)

Today Sheldon's descendants are fulfilling his dream by constructing a mountain house they've named the Sheldon Chalet, in the same remote, breathtaking location near that same mountain, now known as Denali. To more fully appreciate the truly spectacular natural beauty of this place, use any of these links:

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This episode focuses on the story of the Vanderbilt Television News Archive's inception in 1968 and its early history, as recalled by former Vanderbilt Library Director Frank Grisham, Archive founder Paul Simpson, and the Archive's first administrator Jim Pilkington, and includes audio excerpts of news segments from the Archive's video collection.

At the conclusion of her week of research into the national news networks' coverage of the Charles Manson trial, Cornell University Associate Professor of History Claudia Verhoeven is interviewed for the Vanderbilt Television News Archive's News Knowledge podcast by archivists Russ Mason and Skip Pfieffer.