Alfred R. Schneider ABC speeches
Collection
0192-MMC
Alfred "Al" R. Schneider oversaw ABC's Broadcast Standards and Practices Department between 1960 and 1991 and set widely-adopted guidelines for television network drama and news. This collection documents Schneider's public speeches before Congressional subcommittees, professional conferences, and legal associations regarding advertising, popular culture, social responsibility, children's television, and other topics between 1968 and 1989.
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.75 Linear Feet (1 Hollinger box 1 half-Hollinger box)
This collection consists of printed copies of Alfred "Al" Schneider's public speeches as Vice President of Policy and Standards at Capital Cities/ABC from 1968 to 1989.
This collection was donated to the University of Maryland Libraries by Susan Futterman, who collected Schneider's speeches at ABC, on May 6, 2019. Futterman reported to Schneider and ran a project utilizing many of his public speeches before donating the collection to the University of Maryland Libraries.
Aside from some rough groupings of similar material, the collection came to the Libraries in no particular order. The processing archivist arranged files by date and rehoused all materials in acid-free folders. The entire collection was re-boxed.
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