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A conservative activist's quest to preserve all network news broadcasts

  • Written by Thomas Alan Schwartz, Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
A conservative activist's quest to preserve all network news broadcastsRepublican presidential candidate Richard Nixon smiles for the cameras during a 1968 news conference.AP Photo

Fifty years ago, in the middle of a typically hot and humid Nashville summer, a Metropolitan Life insurance manager named Paul Simpson sat with Frank Grisham, the director of the Vanderbilt University Library, in the rare books room of the...

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