AV Collection\pa2019_068_007_New_Mexicos_Billion_Dollar_Ripoff.mp3
KMYR Public Affair: "New Mexico's Billion Dollar Rip-Off"
Collection
Zane Blaney
(born 1947 Casper, Wyoming)
Date1975
Medium7-inch audio reel
Dimensions7 × 7 × 1/4 in. (17.8 × 17.8 × 0.6 cm)
ClassificationsAudio, Film, & Video
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Zane Blaney
Object numberPA2019.068.007
DescriptionThis radio program is a five-part investigative report by Larry Barker on land fraud in New Mexico. Interviews with Arizona Attorney General Bruce Babbit and New Mexico Attorney General Tony Anaya, along with executives of land development companies in New Mexico. Barker talks about A.M.R.E.P., Rio Rancho Estates, the 1973 Subdivisons Act, and the role of county commissions in the land development process. There is no exact date of when the series aired on KMYR, but it was at least late 1975. Total runtime for the program is 00:31:44.
Transcript available.
On View
Not on view
ca. 1979