Public Broadcasting Act of 1967

Administrative History/Information:

• Passed and signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson: November 7, 1967
• Three main parts:
  • extension of Educational Television Facilities Act: authorized $38 million for educational television and radio facilities for next three years
  • established Corporation for Public Broadcasting
  • established Commission of Instructional Technology to study instructional television and radio in US - report To Improve Learning submitted 1970
• Public Broadcasting PolicyBase Documents:
  • Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 (as amended to April 1968)
  • President Johnson's message on public television, 1967

Related Collections:

• Corporation for Public Broadcasting Archives: John W. Macy Files
• Dean W. Coston Papers
• James Day Papers
• C. Scott Fletcher Papers
• Burt Harrison Papers-Interviews:
  • Jack M. Burke
  • William G. Harley
  • Lucinda Kindred
  • Jerrold Sandler
  • John P. Witherspoon
• Raymond D. Hurlbert Papers
• Jim Robertson Papers-Interviews:
  • Raymond Hurlbert
  • James R. Killian, Jr.
  • Leonard Marks
  • Chalmers Marquis
  • Jim Robertson
  • Harry J. Skornia

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Reference Shelf Materials

Reading Room

Avery, Robert K., ed. Public Service Broadcasting in a Multi-Channel Environment. New York: Longman, 1993. NPBA REF HD 8689.4 .P83

Barrett, Marvin, ed. The Politics of Broadcasting. New York: Crowell, 1973. PN 4888 .T4 B28

Blakely, Robert J. The People's Instrument: A Philosophy of Programming for Public Television. Washington, Public Affairs Press, 1971. BCAST PN 1992.8 .P8 B47

Burke, John E. The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967. Washington, DC: National Association of Educational Broadcasters, 1973. KF 2805 .Z9 B87

Cater, Douglass and Michael J. Nyhan, eds. The Future of Public Broadcasting. New York: Praeger, 1976.

• BCAST HE 8700.8 .F87
• 384.574 C (NAB Books)

Coase, R.H. and Edward W. Barrett. Educational TV: Who Should Pay? Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy, 1965. BCAST LB 1044.7 .C54

Kahn, Frank J., ed. Documents of American Broadcasting. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts 1968.

• NPBA Collection: KF 2804 .K3
• LAB Collection: 343.099 K (NAB Books)

Macy, John W. To Irrigate a Wasteland: The Struggle to Shape a Public Television System in the United States. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974.

• NPBA Collection: HE 8700.8 .M33
• LAB Collection:
  • HE 8700.8 .M33
  • 384.575 M (NAB Books)

By Request

Cater, Douglass. "The Politics of Public TV" Columbia Journalism Review, July/August 1972: 8-15. Folder: 046

Corporation for Public Broadcasting. 20th Anniversary of the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967. 1987. Folder: 067

Kirkish, Joseph Brady. "A Descriptive History of America's First National Public Radio Network: National Public Radio, 1970 to 1974." University of Michigan, 1980. Dissertations/Theses

U.S. Congress. Public Law 90-129: Public Broadcasting Act of 1967. November 7, 1967. Folder: 453

• John O. Pastore Papers

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