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  • Title: Bibliography: Nuclear Proliferation
    Author: Environment and Natural Resources Policy Division, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress
    Publication Date: 1978
    Format: Print
    Location: Government Documents
    Call No./URL/Item No.: SU DOC Y 4.G 74/9:N 88/3
    Subject: Science & Technology
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: 1970s
    Description: Prepared for the House Subcommittee on Energy, Nuclear Proliferation and Federal Services of the Committee on Governmental Affairs and the Committee on International Relations and Committee on Science and Technology.

  • Title: Czech and Slovak Self-Image and the Czech and Slovak Image of the Americans, Germans, Russians, and Chinese
    Author: Radio Free Europe
    Publication Date: 9/1/
    Format: Print
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: LAB pamphlet - 1969
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Multiple
    TimePeriod: 1970s
    Description: Czech and Slovak Self-Image and the Czech and Slovak Image of the Americans, Germans, Russians, and Chinese

  • Title: Day by Day The Seventies
    Author: Thomas M. Leonard
    Publication Date: 1988
    Format: Print
    Location: McKeldin Reference Stacks
    Call No./URL/Item No.: D848.L4 1988 v. 1-2
    Subject: Multiple Subjects
    GeographicArea: Multiple
    TimePeriod: 1970s
    Description: Daily timeline of the 1970s; international in scope.

  • Title: Famous American Trials: The My Lai Courts- Martial, 1970
    Author: Doug Linder/Famous Trials Project, University of Missouri
    Format: Online
    Location: Network WWW
    Call No./URL/Item No.: http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/mylai/mylai.htm
    Subject: Military & Intelligence
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: 1970s
    Description: "A site dedicated to the explication of the courts-martial of Lt. Calley and Captain Ernest Medina resulting from their roles in the massacre at My Lai village. Records from the court-martial, maps, images, Peers Commission Reoprt, essays, and other materials pertinent to the My Lai cases are included."

  • Title: George Wallace in New York [George Wallace at the Americana Hotel]
    Author: Pacifica Radio
    Publication Date: 1971
    Format: Audio
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA au rl orig 80
    Subject: Politics
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: 1970s
    Description: The governor of Alabama and 1972 presidential candidate talks to a gathering of the American Courage Party in 1971. Wallace takes pot shots at his favorite targets: Castro, Communism, and the Yankee Press. Recorded at the Americana Hotel, New York. This program is part of the Pacifica Radio Archives. This tape is recorded on two sides.

  • Title: Gerald R. Ford Library and Museum
    Author: National Archives and Records Administration
    Format: Online
    Location: Network WWW
    Call No./URL/Item No.: http://www.ford.utexas.edu/
    Subject: Politics
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: 1970s
    Description: Online photographs and documents including declassified National Security Council minutes and Vietnam War documents.

  • Title: Gerald R. Ford Library and Museum
    Format: Online
    Location: Network WWW
    Call No./URL/Item No.: http://www.ford.utexas.edu/
    Subject: Politics
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: 1970s
    Description: Declassified National Security Council minutes; photographs; National Security Study memoranda and decision memoranda; foreign affairs memoranda of conversations (Memcoms); cabinet meeting minutes; Vietnam War documents and photographs; selected speeches and writings.

  • Title: In the Event of Catastrophe
    Author: WGBH
    Publication Date: 1978
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: UA926.I58
    Subject: Military & Intelligence
    GeographicArea: Multiple
    TimePeriod: 1970s
    Description: Compares civil defense preparedness in the U.S. and the Soviet Union in the event of a nuclear war.

  • Title: Interview from Deep Space
    Author: David Randolph Scott/Encyclopedia Americana/CBS News Audio Resource Library
    Publication Date: 1971
    Format: Audio
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: D411.V5 1971 Aug no.3 item 4
    Subject: Science & Technology
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: 1970s
    Description: On their return to earth, the crewmen of Apollo 15 discuss their landing on the moon.

  • Title: Iran: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1977-1980 (Digital National Security Archive)
    Author: ProQuest UMI
    Format: Online
    Location: Network WWW
    Call No./URL/Item No.: http://nsarchive.chadwyck.com/irintro.htm
    Subject: Politics
    GeographicArea: Africa & the Middle East
    TimePeriod: 1970s
    Description: "More than 14,00 pages of documents are offered on the fall of Shah and the rise of the Ayatollah Khomeini, including some that the government would not have made available until the middle of the 21st century had the Archive not forced their release through the Freedom of Information Act."
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  • Title: Jimmy Carter Library
    Author: National Archives and Records Administration
    Format: Online
    Location: Network WWW
    Call No./URL/Item No.: http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.org/
    Subject: Politics
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: 1970s
    Description: Digitized documents and photographs and selected oral history transcripts.

  • Title: National Press Club Luncheon: South Vietnam President Thieu
    Author: WAMU Radio
    Publication Date: 4/5/
    Format: Audio
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA au rl orig 2292
    Subject: Multiple Subjects
    GeographicArea: Asia & Oceania
    TimePeriod: 1970s
    Description: President Thieu speaks on the Long Range Peace prospects for Vietnam Does not contain all questions and answers

  • Title: Nixon 1970 State of the Union Address
    Author: WAMU Radio
    Publication Date: 1/22
    Format: Audio
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA au rl orig 2275
    Subject: Multiple Subjects
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: 1970s
    Description: Foreign policy goal to end war in Vietnam, discussions with China, reform the welfare system, government spending cut, clean environment, development of a national growth policy (transcript in box)

  • Title: Nixon 1970 State of the Union Address
    Author: WAMU
    Publication Date: 1/22
    Format: Audio
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA au rl orig 2275
    Subject: Multiple Subjects
    GeographicArea: Multiple
    TimePeriod: 1970s
    Description: Foreign policy goal to end war in Vietnam, discussions with China, reform the welfare system, government spending cut, clean environment, development of a national growth policy (transcript in box)

  • Title: Nixon's Trip to China: Chou En Lai
    Author: WAMU / NPR
    Publication Date: 7/28
    Format: Audio
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA au rl orig 2277
    Subject: Multiple Subjects
    GeographicArea: Asia & Oceania
    TimePeriod: 1970s
    Description: NPR's feed of Nixon's visit to China

  • Title: Pacifica Radio La Salud Del Pueblo
    Author: Pacifica Radio
    Publication Date: 1979
    Format: Audio
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA au rl orig 1124
    Subject: Multiple Subjects
    GeographicArea: Latin America
    TimePeriod: 1970s
    Description: The first tour of occupational health and safety workers to Cuba included two KPFA producers, Lynn Adler and Scott McAllister. While on the trip they collected material from workers, plant administrators, trade unionists, medical people and bureaucrats with responsibility in occupational safety and health. This program shows how the Cubans are dealing with the problems of job safety and health. It also includes information on the blockade and is mixed with music recorded in Cuba. This program is part of the Pacifica Radio Archives. This tape is recorded on two sides.

  • Title: President Carter Press Conference
    Publication Date: 8/23
    Format: Audio
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: LAB au rl orig 2160
    Subject: Multiple Subjects
    GeographicArea: Multiple
    TimePeriod: 1970s
    Description: This tape: Presidential press conference includes issues; Panama Canal Treaty, Cyrus Vance in China, and Burt Lance appointment. Part of the Daniel Brechner Collection.

  • Title: President Carter's 1977 Inaugural Address
    Author: WAMU Radio
    Publication Date: 1/20
    Format: Audio
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA au rl orig 2335
    Subject: Multiple Subjects
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: 1970s
    Description: New beginning of government, basic human rights, elimination of nuclear weapons.

  • Title: Seabed Nuclear Agreement
    Author: Richard M. Nixon/Encyclopedia Americana/CBS News Audio Resource Library
    Publication Date: 1971
    Format: Audio
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: D411.V5 1971 Feb no.2 item 1
    Subject: Environmental Issues
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: 1970s
    Description: With: Johnson, Nicholas. The new consumerism.

  • Title: Sensational Seventies
    Author: Cinema Guild
    Publication Date: 1993
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: E839.S2246 1993 pt. 1-10
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Multiple
    TimePeriod: 1970s
    Description: Examines major world events for each year, 1970 through 1979

  • Title: Sensational Seventies
    Author: Cinema Guild
    Publication Date: 1993
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: E839.S2246 1993 pt. 1-10
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Multiple
    TimePeriod: 1970s
    Description: Examines major world events for each year, 1970 through 1979

  • Title: Soviet Combat Troops in Cuba
    Author: Encyclopedia Americana/CBS News Audio Resource Library
    Publication Date: 1979
    Format: Audio
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: D411.V5 1979 Sep no.3
    Subject: Military & Intelligence
    GeographicArea: Latin America
    TimePeriod: 1970s
    Description: Includes: Information highlights/study guide. In an interview with Bob Schieffer and Phil Jones recorded on Sept. 6, 1979 in Washington, D.C., Senator Barry Goldwater states his criticisms of the SALT II treaty. Jimmy Carter comments on the presence of Soviet combat troops in Cuba to reporters at the White House on Sept. 7, 1979. In an interview with Mike Wallace and Dan Rather of CBS News, recorded on Sept. 30, 1979 in Havana, Fidel Castro declares that the crisis over Soviet troops in Cuba has been artificially created by Carter to win votes. On Oct. 1, 1979, President Carter addresses the nation on the presence of Soviet troops in Cuba. Contents Side A. The Russians are testing us again / B. Goldwater (7:24) --The status quo is not acceptable / J. Carter (3:59) -- Carter is dishonest, pt.1 / F. Castro (13:47). Side B. Carter is dishonest, pt.2 / F. Castro (6:01) -- We must not play politics with the security of the U. S./ J. Carter (18:57)

  • Title: Viet Troop Withdrawal
    Author: Nixon, Richard M./Encyclopedia Americana/CBS News Audio Resource Library
    Publication Date: 1971
    Format: Audio
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: D411.V5 1971 Apr no.3 item 1
    Subject: Politics
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: 1970s
    Description: In a broadcast to the nation, President Nixon announces the next stage in his troop withdrawal program and explains the background and goals of his current foreign policy. With: Nixon, R.M. Welfare reform.--Tower, J.G. Vietnam. Recorded Apr. 7, 1971 at the White House.

  • Title: Viet Vets Against War
    Author: John Kerry/Encyclopedia Americana/CBS News Audio Resource Library
    Publication Date: 1971
    Format: Audio
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: D411.V5 1971 Apr no.2 item 3
    Subject: Politics
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: 1970s
    Description: John Kerry, on behalf of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

  • Title: Vietnam
    Author: W. Averell Harriman/Encyclopedia Americana/CBS News Audio Resource Library
    Publication Date: 1972
    Format: Audio
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: D411.V5 1971 Jul no.1 item 3
    Subject: Politics
    GeographicArea: Asia & Oceania
    TimePeriod: 1970s
    Description: In an interview with CBS News, Mr. Harriman discusses a Vietcong proposal to release prisoners if the U. S. withdraws by the end of the year. He also discusses the forthcoming elections in South Vietnam and the Pentagon papers.

  • Title: Vietnam War Declassification Project
    Author: Gerald R. Ford Library
    Publication Date: Apri
    Format: Online
    Location: Network WWW
    Call No./URL/Item No.: http://www.ford.utexas.edu/library/exhibits/vietnam/vietnam.htm
    Subject: Military & Intelligence
    GeographicArea: Asia & Oceania
    TimePeriod: 1970s
    Description: "Description of the Library's core holdings on Vietnam, list of subjects covered, and online sample documents."

  • Title: What Did You Learn in School Today?
    Author: Pacifica Radio
    Publication Date: 1971
    Format: Audio
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA au rl orig 551
    Subject: Multiple Subjects
    GeographicArea: Multiple
    TimePeriod: 1970s
    Description: Do basic ideas about race, history, politics and social questions enter children's minds at an early age? To find out, 5th and 6th graders in New York were asked questions about hippies, George Washington, China, etc., and this program presents the amusing and revealing results. Bill Schechner, Daniel Bordett and Wally Roberts conduct the interviews


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