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Session 1, March 5, 1991
Youth and Education in Ohio 129
Job at The Metropolitan Company 510
Ohio Wesleyan University 625
Graduate School at Ohio State 2629
Radio-Market Research 3046
Invention of instrument to measure radio-listening behavior 3136
First meeting with CBS 3741
"Eye vs. Ear" research 4244
Session 2, March 12, 1991
Research Work 4779
The CBS Research Department 4753
CBS-NBC research rivalry 5464
Research at CBS and Roper 6578
CBS News in the 1930s and 1940s 8083
CBS Upper Management in the 1940s 84101
Promotion to president 8895
Session 3, March 14, 1991
Radio-Market Research Outside CBS with Paul Lazarsfeld (1930s) 102117, 120
Work with Office of War Intelligence (OWI) 11819
CBS Market Research on Programming 12127, 13539
Personal and Professional Relationship with Paul Lazarsfeld 12834
Session 4, April 25, 1991
Early Television 14058
Color development 142, 14752, 15658
UHF and VHF stations 15355
Station Ownership (late 1940s, 1950s) 15966
CBS Television Programming and Advertising (1950s) 16779
Session 5, April 30, 1991
Color Television 18083
Television Programming 18488
News vs. entertainment 184
Stars 185
Advertising and audience demographics 18688
Broadcast News 18998
Use of entertainment techniques in TV news 19194
Broadcast-news standards 19598
Ed Murrow and His News Shows (including See It Now) 199210
McCarthyism and Its Effect on the Media 21121
News Department and CBS Reports 22227, 22932
Conflict with Ed Murrow 228
Session 6, June 4, 1991
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences 23361
RAND Corporation 26272
CBS's "The Selling of the Pentagon" (1971) and legal issues of Freedom of the Press 27389
Session 7, November 20, 1991
Leading CBS; Postwar 290300
Promotion to president 29094
Upper management 295300
Reminiscences of William Paley 30119
American Business Council 32022
Session 8, December 12, 1991
Possible Acquisition by General Electric (1950s) 32327
Career Options (in research and government) Outside CBS 32832
Political Affiliations and Voting Record 33335
1960 Presidential Campaign 33652
Debate broadcast 33644
Polling with Roper 34547
Cabinet-position offer 34852
Changing the Communications Act to Allow Presidential Debates 35362
Including Broadcasting in Freedom of Press 36364
Session 9, November 4, 1992
Elections and Presidents: Memories and News Coverage 36584
1992 elections 36568
President Truman era 36979
1952 Eisenhower-Stevenson race 38084
Changing the Communications Act to Allow Presidential Debates 385402, 40817
Voting Analysis and Procedures 4037
Face the Nation 41819
Session 10, December 15, 1992
Secret Government Work 42032
"Emergency Cabinet" (1950s) 42328
1984 group (1960s) 42932
Conflict of Roles: Government Insider and Media Man 43342
"Biography of a Missile" on See It Now 43335
Space-program meetings 43640
Conflicts with Government About Censorship 44348, 45152
Changing the Communications Act to allow Presidential Debates 44950
Relationship with Lyndon Baines Johnson 45362
LBJ's radio and TV stations 45357, 461
Allocation of VHF and UHF stations 45860
Relationships with Various Presidents 46366
Session 11, May 10, 1993
Relationship with Lyndon Baines Johnson (cont) 46771, 474500
LBJ and Vietnam War 47883
Health-Care Reform Under Carter and Clinton 47273
Session 12, June 15, 1993
Vietnam War News Coverage 5015
CBS News and Fred Friendly's resignation (1966) 50614
Building of Black Rock (early 1960s) 51542
Tensions with Paley 54349
Session 13, October 14, 1993
Cable Television 55075
Birth of Viacom (late 1960s, early 70s) 55056
Ownership of National Cable in Florida 55762
AEA Investors group 56364
Cable's and Technology's Effect on Programming (1990s) 57684
Session 14, February 17, 1994
AEA Investors Group (cont) 58593, 597618
Relationship with Mormon Church 59496
Columbia Records's Development of 33 1/3 rpm LPs (1948) 61927
Session 15, June 15, 1994
Televised Sports and Market Shares 62834
Long-Term Vitality of Various Media 63542
All-News Channels (1960s and 1970s) 64345
Current Broadcast News (1990s) 64649
American Red Cross Chairmanship (1973-79) 65073
"The Selling of the Pentagon" and tensions at CBS in 1970s 67475
Session 16, April 11, 1995
Harvard University (1979-90) 67683
Effect of Technology on Mass Communications and Market Research 68492
Governmental Regulation of Media 69396
Integrity in the Media 697701
Quiz-show scandals of 1950s 697
Eisenhower-era missile-launch broadcast 699700
Reflections on Career 7026
Session 17, April 2, 1996
Memories of Wife, Sarah "Ruth" Stephenson Stanton 70755
Ruth's impact on his career 73141
Friends 74749
Influence on his principles 75052
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