Dr. John Leverence on Dean Valentine's idea to create the Archive of American Television and the oral history program (now, The Interviews) at the Television Academy, on the vital importance of archiving history, the value of indexing oral histories, and the academic importance of the oral history archive, and on what he feels would have been a significant failure on the part of the Television Academy had they not taken the steps (in 1996) to create such an archive, and the lasting impact it will have on its contributions to the culture of television
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