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- Science fiction writer Scott Huggins reads from his new short story "Bovine intervention," as well as "When the fleet comes," then reads a poem titled "Why I sill watch Star Wars." He also answers questions from audience. The event is convened by Michigan State University Librarian Leslie Behm. Part of the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held in the Main Library.
- Date Issued:
- 2003-03-28T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Fiction writer Steve Amick reads from his award winning book, "The lake, the river & the other lake : a novel." The event is convened by Peter Berg, head of Michigan State University Libraries' Special Collections. Part of the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held in the MSU Main Library.
- Date Issued:
- 2006-02-03T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Brooke lost his bid for a third term as a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts to Paul Tsongas.
- Date Issued:
- 1978-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Barack Obama personally thanks members of the intelligence community for their role in the death of Osama bin Laden and their efforts in the fight against Al Qaeda. Obama speaks at CIA Headquarters in Langley, VA.
- Date Issued:
- 2011-05-20T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Reverend Jim Jones speaks to the members of his Peoples' Temple congregation in Jonestown, Guyana immediately preceding and during their mass suicide. Jones persuades his followers that they are in imminent danger from the Guyana Defense Force and need to end their lives and the lives of their children to prevent being tortured and killed by the GDF. Christine Miller debates with Jones, arguing against the suicide and suggesting alternative courses of action. Others speak in support of the decision and try to calm the crowd. Jones tells them, For God's sake let's get on with it. We've had as much of this world as you're going to get... The recording becomes "Tape No. Q-042" in the FBI evidence file.
- Date Issued:
- 1978-11-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Doug Sleep talks about his career in the export department at REO Motor Car Company/Diamond-Reo Trucks, Inc., in Lansing, MI, from 1961 to 1975. Sleep talks about preparing trucks to be shipped for sale overseas, about becoming a UAW steward and the deterioration of worker/management relations when the company changed ownership. Sleep describes the difficulty in running a shop with the chronic shortage of parts in the company's last days and final owner Francis Cappaert's attempts to break the union. He also laments the loss of the worker pension fund and the creation of federal pension guarantee program. The interviewer is Shirley Bradley. The first minute of the interview was not recorded. Recorded as part of the commemoration of the REO Motor Car Company’s 100th Anniversary.
- Date Issued:
- 2004-06-22T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Obama visits Lorain County Community College in Elyria, Ohio to describe how federal job training funds are providing critical services for unemployed workers and helping them get jobs in high-demand, high-growth industries.
- Date Issued:
- 2012-04-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Walter Satterthwait, author of a series of contemporary crime novels, talks about his protagonists Joshua Croft and Rita Mondragon, and his novels set in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Satterthwait describes how he came to writing crime stories and why he chose to use a Latina as a main character. He describes his exposure to different cultures, his childhood of frequent moves, how he came to writing, and how he developed his characters. Satterthwait is interviewed by Diana Rivera at the 2005 Left Coast Crime Conference held in El Paso, Texas.
- Date Issued:
- 2005-02-26T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Clinton's announcement in a press conference that U.S. is renewing China's most-favored-nation status.
- Date Issued:
- 1994-05-26T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Clintons third State of the Union address. Ton is concilatory to a republican Congress, except raising the minimum wage and on protecting the ban on assault weapons.
- Date Issued:
- 1995-01-24T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection