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10851. Jane Arnold interviews poet and essayist Marc Sheehan

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Poet and essayist Marc Sheehan talks about his interest in language, his preferences between poetry and essay, human relationship as a theme in his poems, his experience as an editor of the journal "Fourth Genre", poets and poetic history in Michigan, his in-progress works, and his reading interests. Ends abruptly. Sheehan is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian Jane Arnold for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held in the MSU Main Library.
Date Issued:
2000-11-10T00:00:00Z
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Michigan State University. Libraries
Collection:
G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection

10852. Henry Jackson discusses President Ford's economic message

Description:
Jackson says Ford's economic message takes away from the people more than it gives.
Date Issued:
1975-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Michigan State University. Libraries
Collection:
G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection

10853. Garry Bernath discusses his career as a production worker, union activist, member of the bargaining committee, and UAW Local 602 President at the Fisher Body plant in Lansing, MI

Description:
Garry shares his experiences and perceptions about work in the factory, labor and management, General Motors, the community, and his motivation for becoming active in the UAW. Garry shares stories about managers, conflicts, and speaks frankly about unionism, the economy, and politics.
Date Issued:
2006-03-07T00:00:00Z
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Michigan State University. Libraries
Collection:
G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection

10854. Steve Pettinger discusses his career as a skilled trades electrician and member of the UAW/GM Safety Lockout Team at the Fisher Body plant in Lansing, MI

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Steve talks about his career with the IBEW before hiring into GM in November 1983. He describes working at several plants in Lansing before coming to Fisher in July 1992. Steve talks about the Body Shop's transition from hand welders to leaky hydraulic robots to electric FANUC robots. He comments on relations between production and skilled trades, his move to the Safety Lockout project, placarding, women and minorities in skilled trades, and the closing of Fisher.
Date Issued:
2005-10-14T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:
Michigan State University. Libraries
Collection:
G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection

10855. Michigan State University Professor Emeritus Donald A. Yates talks about Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges and his relationship with MSU

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In a lecture entitled "Borges and MSU", Michigan State University Professor Emeritus Donald A. Yates discusses his long personal and professional relationship with acclaimed Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. Yates describes Borges' childhood, reads from his work and tells of helping bring the author to MSU as an artist in residence in 1976. Yates says that knowing Borges "is probably the most important thing in my life". Yates is introduced by MSU Assistant Director of Libraries Peter Berg and MSU Professor Michael Koppisch.
Date Issued:
2009-10-15T00:00:00Z
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Michigan State University. Libraries
Collection:
G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection

10856. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt speaks on the neutrality of the United States

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The same day France and England declare war on Germany, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt addresses the nation with a fireside chat emphasizing the neutrality of the United States. He asks the press to discern between fact and rumor before reporting it as news and asks citizens to critically examine everything that is reported.
Date Issued:
1939-09-03T00:00:00Z
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Michigan State University. Libraries
Collection:
G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection

10857. Uncle Harry, what is love

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Will F. Denny sings "Uncle Harry, what is love?"
Date Issued:
1902-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Michigan State University. Libraries
Collection:
G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection

10858. Excerpts from Jimmy Carter's hour-long press conference on his brother Billy and the Libyans

Date Issued:
1980-08-05T00:00:00Z
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Michigan State University. Libraries
Collection:
G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection

10859. Filmmaker Shinpei Takeda interviews Junko Inoue, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945

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Junko Inoue describes being with her mother in the hospital receiving treatment at the time of the Hiroshima bombing and then surviving the destruction. She vividly remembers the aftermath and people walking like ghosts and asking for water. She also says that she found her younger brother dead in the street.
Date Issued:
2009-04-01T00:00:00Z
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Michigan State University. Libraries
Collection:
G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection

10860. President Obama delivers the 2013 commencement address at the U

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President Obama delivers the 2013 commencement address at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD. Obama talks about maintaining a 300 ship fleet, fighting the sequester, responding to disasters, and preserving peace around the globe.
Date Issued:
2013-05-24T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:
Michigan State University. Libraries
Collection:
G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection