Interview Bill Dana In his nearly three-hour Archive interview, Bill Dana (1924-2017) talks about growing up during the Depression, his interest in comedy, and his stint as an NBC page. He discusses teaming up for a comedy act with Gene Wood, before joining The Steve Allen Show , where he became head writer. He...
Interview Walter Bernstein In his three-and-a-half-hour interview, Walter Bernstein (1919-2021) discusses being listed in Red Channels in 1950 and talks of his ties to the Communist Party. Despite being blacklisted and pressured by the FBI, Bernstein details how he wrote under pseudonyms and with the help of "fronts" for...
Interview Dick Berg In his two-hour interview, Dick Berg (1922-2009) speaks about his early interest in athletics, dramatics and music (as a member of a three-piece jazz band). He relates his arrival in Hollywood in 1943 and becoming a third assistant director in westerns at Republic Studios. He talks about his return...
Interview Kay Alden In her one-hour-and-forty-five-minute Archive interview, Kay Alden speaks of her early years as a high school English teacher. She talks about writing her doctoral thesis on "daytime serials as a medium for social change" at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She describes how she ended up as a...
Interview Ted Koppel In his two-and-a-half hour Archive interview, Ted Koppel speaks about his family's emigration from England (where he was born) to the United States. Koppel recounts his early career in radio news in New York in the 1960s and his major assignment as a war correspondent in Vietnam. He outlines his...