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KDEF: "UPINMBA Awards Contest: Confrontation, Reel 2"

Collection (born 1947 Casper, Wyoming)
Date1970
Medium7-inch audio reel; quarter-inch tape
Dimensions7 × 7 × 1/4 in. (17.8 × 17.8 × 0.6 cm)
ClassificationsAudio, Film, & Video
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Zane Blaney
Object numberPA2019.068.017
DescriptionThis radio program is the second half of a documentary report of the events of May 1970 at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The program follows the protests at UNM and shuttering of campus after the Kent State shootings.

Keywords and topics: protests, anti-war protests, University of New Mexico, Student Union Building, New Mexico National Guard, New Mexico State Police, students, peace movement, college campus, Board of Regents, Governor David Cargo, Ferrell Heady, Martin Vigil, General John P. Jolly, arrests, bayonets, riot

The program aired on KDEF and was submitted to the United Press International - New Mexico Broadcasters Association for consideration for an award. The total runtime is 00:33:50.
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LBJ for the USA
Lyndon Baines Johnson
1964
I Back Jack Daniels
unidentified
1970