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Appears that Belo Corp archival material from its TV history, also including A.H. Belo Corp and DMN archival material, will be donated to the DeGolyer Library at SMU. Found the following on History News Network:

Belo to preserve TV history at SMU

Source: Dallas Business Journal (10-1-09)

Belo Corp. said Thursday it will be preserving its television broadcasting history by donating its archives to Southern Methodist University’s DeGolyer Library.

Dallas-based Belo Corp. (NYSE: BLC) said the archives also will receive documents and materials from The Dallas Morning News and its parent company, A.H. Belo Corp., which was spun off from Belo Corp. to establish two separate entities in 2008.

“Since 1985, Belo Corp. has invested in updating its archival collection that traces the history of the company as well as the City of Dallas. We are proud of this collection and believe it is best situated in a permanent curatorial setting such as the DeGolyer Library,” said Robert W. Decherd, chairman of Belo Corp. “The Board of Directors and management of Belo Corp. are very pleased that SMU will be home to the archives and thereby enhance the university’s already significant collections.”

Anent nothing of importance, the DMN considers its "birthday" to be October 1 - same as mine, and Bonnie Parker's and (gag!!) Jimmy Carter's.,...

Ah Clyde. IMO there are worse people to share a birthday with than Jimmy Carter.

I was born on April 20. I am sure you have read about the last birthday of another individual born on that day. It was his 56th and it took place in 1945. A highlight was perhaps his last living appearenace above ground to greet teenage HJ boys who had fought the advancing Soviets. Otherwise the party was in a bunker almost twenty meters below the Chancellery in Berlin. As many of the surviving denizens of the Third Reich as dared attended...

Yeah, I recall seeing something about him. Named Schickelgruber or some such. Palled around with a fat man ("Der Dicke" they called him)...

Of the two, i'm not sure i don't find him less offensive than Jimmy C. At least he didn't attack his own country - just caused it to be destroyed and villified.

Clyde wrote, in part:

Of the two, I'm not sure i don't find him less offensive...

I can't agree on this one even though I am sure it was a throwaway remark. I will not venture to guess what the final tally might be, but at this point the former failed artist and front line soldier is well ahead of the victim of the savage attack bunny in terms of the number of deaths he caused.

There is that, Bill. There is that. But when one starts trying to figure the evils that have come from the former (peacetime) submariner's validation of "elections" that were "won" by various authoritarians, it is kind of hard to chose between them in a number of ways. And then there is his encouragement of the Palestinians in their desired path. And his efforts to place the Ayatollahs in charge of Persia. That may yet result in more Jewish suffering (not to mention people down-wind of Tell Aviv) that Hitler managed.

It takes good intentions to really make trouble - Woodrow Wilson. Jimmy Carter. Balfour (of the famous "Declaration"). People like those.

It is why I mentioned a final tally.

The worst thing is his party was evidently not content with the example he made and look at us now.

Funny thing. JC was a miserable governor of Georgia and even the Atlanta papers said so at times. Then he offered for POTUS and their opinion started to change. By the time he was elected he was an immaculate figure. Reminded me of the change in the COMINTERN line after 23 August 1939 and 22 June 1941.

As an aside, were you in the ROTC in HS? If so, were they still showing the anti-communist indoctrination films the Army had developed in your day? IIRC actors identified as COMINTERN people were depicted as puppets dancing to Communist tune: Anti fascist or Germany, then pro Germany, and finally anti fascist again.

Anybody else recall those films?

Yeah, I was in Jr ROTC while i was at Sunset - didn't have it in Texas City, so didn't take it there. At least I knew how to march from band...

We had a lot of training films of one sort or another, but i don't recall the ones you mention. Meaning just that, don't recall them - may have seen them without any present recall.