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Louise Degn broadcast journalism audio-visual collection, 1969-2007

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Degn, Louise
Title
Louise Degn broadcast journalism audio-visual collection
Dates
1969-2007 (inclusive)
Quantity
58 DVDs.
Collection Number
A0747
Summary
The Louise Degn broadcast journalism audio-visual collection (1969-2007) consists of news stories and documentaries reported or produced by Degn during her career as a television journalist, producer and documentary flmmaker. The majority of the material was filmed for local television stations in Salt Lake City, Utah. The collection also includes important broadcasts in the history of Utah and Utah broadcasting. Louise Degn is an award winning broadcast journalist and educator and a member of the Univeristy of Utah Communication Department faculty.
Repository
University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860

Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu
Access Restrictions

Materials must be used on-site; no use of original material, access copies will be made available for viewing. Five business days advanced notice required. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law, condition of the material, or by donor.

Languages
English
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Biographical Note

Louise Degn graduated from Utah State University in 1968 with a degree in Political Science. In 1969, at the age of 23, Degn became only the second female broadcast reporter employed Salt Lake City's KSL Television. She graduated from Northwestern University in 1970 with a Master of Science in Journalism (MSJ).

In addition to her years as a reporter and at KSL (1969-1971, 1975-1982), Louise Degn worked as a news writer at Chicago's WBBM Television (1971-1973) and as an instructor at Brigham Young University (BYU) and news director of KBYU Television (1982) before returning to KSL as a producer in 1982.

In 1990 Degn left KSL to teach at the University of Utah, ultimately becoming an associate professor, associate department chair and undergraduate director in the Department of Communications.

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Content Description

The Louise Degn broadcast journalism audio-visual collection (1969-2007) consists of news stories and documentaries reported or produced by Degn during her career as a television journalist, producer and documentary flmmaker. The majority of the material was filmed for local television stations in Salt Lake City, Utah, and the bulk of these were reported for KSL-TV, where degn began her career as a reporter in 1969. Louise Degn is an award winning broadcast journalist and educator and a member of the Univeristy of Utah Communication Department faculty. DVDs contain completed versions and backgrounds of each news story and give an overall history of television news practices throughout the years. Original film and sounds elements exist for some segments.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

This collection is arranged by subject. The initial arrangement of the records was prepared by the donor.

Related Materials

See also the Louise Degn photograph collection (P1160) and papers (Accn 2149).

Processing Note

Processed by Tawnya Mosier in 2005.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • KSL-TV news stories - Louise Degn, reporter, 1969-1970, 2002

    Container: Disc 1

    • Description: About early TV news

      Television news production techniques 1969-1971. 09:27.

      Dates: 2002 June
      Container: Video 1
    • Description: Zoo

      Animals get lonely in winter with fewer human visitors. 01:11.

      Louise Degn's note: This was my first TV news story. I interviewed Hogle Zoo director LaMar Farnsworth on the phone to get the facts, wrote the script, then went to the zoo with photographer Darius Gray to shoot it. I knew nothing about TV journalism as my emphasis in journalism school was newspaper journalism. Darius sat me down at a picnic table at the zoo and explained how TV news stories worked with A and B rolls. My voice sounds very amateurish as I'd had no voice training. Soon KSL hired Rex Campbell, a KSL radio legend, to give me voice lessons. Photographer/Editor: Darius Gray. Script available.

      Dates: 1969 September
      Container: Video 2
    • Description: McKinley School 1-2

      New behavior modification technique to treat children with autism. 02:20.

      Louise Degn's note: This story has natural sound of the classroom, which was a rare thing since there were only two sound cameras for the entire newsroom. Typical of news stories of this era, interviews are long. The parent story (Story 1) is 45 seconds long and the principal story (Story 2) is 37 seconds long. I'm not sure if the second story has been reconstructed correctly for this DVD since there was additional silent film left over. It is included under the "additional film" button. It shows a teacher employing a Behavior Modification technique to teach an autistic child to sit still and pay attention in class. Original scripts available.

      Dates: 1969 November 04
      Container: Video 3
    • Description: McKinley School additional film

      01:51.

      Dates: 1969 November 05
      Container: Video 4
    • Description: Autumn

      A feature story on autumn leaves. 01:11.

      Dates: 1969 November 11
      Container: Video 5
    • Description: Thanksgiving Mass (audio only)

      A Thanksgiving Mass at the Cathedral of the Madeleine. 01:33.

      Dates: 1969 November
      Container: Video 6
    • Description: Christmas lights

      Christmas lights downtown Salt Lake City. 01:08.

      Dates: 1969 December 01
      Container: Video 7
    • Description: Bear Lake 1

      New concerns about development, pollution, zoning around the lake. 01:32.

      Louise Degn's note: The environmental movement was part of the broader social changes that took place in the mid 1960s through the 1970s and was still in its early stages in 1969. Rural counties resisted placing governmnetal control over land yet were overwhelmed by the influx of growth. For these stories, I did research on the phone ahead of time. I shot the stories on a Bell and Howell silent camera over the course of two days. There are no interviews or stand-ups because spending that much time on a news story out of town was unusual and sending a second person with a camera was unthinkable. Photographer/Editor: Louise Degn. Original scripts available.

      Dates: 1969 December 02
      Container: Video 8
    • Description: Bear Lake 2

      01:45.

      Dates: 1969 December 03
      Container: Video 9
    • Description: Old autos

      Antique car collector, M. B. Held, in Farmington, Utah. 02:13.

      Louise Degn's note: In those days, I often travelled the back roads from Salt Lake to Ogden where my mother lived. Driving through Farmington, I'd always see a neat row of antique cars in a field located behind the house at 547 North Main, east of Lagoon. One day I stopped to investigate. The photographer on this story was Darius Gray. He shot the interview with an Airflex sound camera. The beginning uses old archival film of "horseless carriages" from a historic stock footage archive owned by KSL. I wanted to recreate that look for the ending of the story, so Darius used a Bolex silent camera, which has variable speed settings. He shot the scene in a slower speed so that when it was projected back at normal speed, it looks faster than normal. After three months on the job, this was the first story I did at KSL that I thought "worked". Photographer/Editor: Darius Gray. Original script available.

      Dates: 1969 December 04
      Container: Video 10
    • Description: Salt Lake City streets

      Street numbering system is off in Avenues and West Side. 01:18.

      Louise Degn's note: I'd lived in Salt Lake for five months in an apartment on 3rd Avenue. All my life I'd heard about Brigham Young's well-ordered street grid system and thought this anomaly in the numbering system was very odd. I shot the story with a Bell and Howell silent camera. In those days, the sound and picture were not edited together before the newscast but were mixed live on air (see Item 1 on this disc about Early TV News). Since this story has quick cuts, it was out-of-sync on the 6pm news. I was furious! At 10pm, however, they were more careful and got it right. In recreating these stories for DVD, I had the luxury of syncing sound and picture as close as possible. The original voice track was lost and has been rerecorded for this 2002 reconstruction. In 1972, the city of Salt Lake fixed the numbering problem by renaming First West as Second West, etc. The north streets were also renamed since they too were off-numbered. The Avenues numbering, however, was not changed. Photographer/Editor: Louise Degn. Original script available.

      Dates: 1970 February 05
      Container: Video 11
    • Description: Family planning 1

      Controversy over new publicly funded birth control clinics. 01:34.

      Louise Degn's note: The Birth Control Pill was introduced to the U.S. in 1960 and ushered in a social revolution regarding sexuality. The first publicly funded birth control clinic in Utah opened in 1968, so the social, medical and religious issues surrounding family planning were still new and controversial when this series ran in 1970. The prediction made in Story 1 that one day "houses and buildings will stretch from Ogden to Provo in one continuous super city" seemed far-fetched to many people in 1970, but proved to be true within 20-25 years. The stand-up in Story 1 is outside the Salt Lake County government complex at 21st South and State Street. The buildings, which formerly housed a county hospital, were torn down and replaced by a new government complex in 1986. Original scripts available.

      Dates: 1970 March 04
      Container: Video 12
    • Description: Family planning 2

      01:38.

      Dates: 1970 March 05
      Container: Video 13
    • Description: Family planning 3

      01:43.

      Dates: 1970 March 06
      Container: Video 14
    • Description: Family planning 4

      01:31.

      Dates: 1970 March 09
      Container: Video 15
    • Description: Survival expedition 1

      01:53.

      Dates: 1970 March 12
      Container: Video 16
    • Description: Survival expedition 2

      01:38.

      Dates: 1970 March 17
      Container: Video 17
    • Description: Desert pack promo

      New wilderness survival technique to treat mentally ill patients. 01:11.

      Dates: 1970 June
      Container: Video 18
    • Description: Roller coaster

      Lagoon's roller coaster. 01:37.

      Dates: 1970 March 24
      Container: Video 19
    • Description: Golden Eagle

      New program to simplify national park fees. 01:50.

      Louise Degn's note: This story consists of one long stand-up, in two takes, without cue cards. Although stories in this era contained relatively few visuals, it is unusual that this story contained none. It was, I think, something we saw on the newswire and I ran out to do a quick story simply to have something to go on the air. Script available.

      Dates: 1970 June 12
      Container: Video 20
    • Description: Women's liberation 1

      The newly organized Utah Women's Liberation group in Utah. 01:56.

      Louise Degn's note: The Women's Movement began with the publication of The Feminine Mystique in 1963 by Betty Freidan. At that time, women could generally not open bank accounts or buy homes in their own name; they rarely had jobs other than as teachers, nurses or secretaries and most middle-class women quit their employment at the time of marriage. They rarely participated in vigorous sports nor challenged men in intellectual endeavors. The Women's Liberation Movement questioned assumptions about family, social and economic life and was controversial from the beginning. This series of stories attempted to explain the point of view of this new movement. Viewing these stories with 32 years hind-sight, I think they are very opinionated, advocating a point of view rather than reporting on a topic. Now, as a journalism teacher, I'd make a student of mine be more objective. The interview and stand-up in Story 1 were shot on sound film by Gene Minshall. The scenes of the nurse, secretary and telephone operator were shot on silent film. The sound of the telephone operators was recorded on audio tape and mixed later with the reporter narration. The stand-up was shot outside the Mountain Bell office on the northwest corner of 1st South and State Street.

      Dates: 1970 June 29
      Container: Video 21
    • Description: Women's liberation 2

      02:05.

      Louise Degn's note: Except for the stand-up at the beginning, this story was shot entirely on silent film and the interview was recorded on audio tape.

      Dates: 1970 June 30
      Container: Video 22
    • Description: Women's liberation 3

      01:58.

      Louise Degn's note: I shot the meeting at the Unitarian Church with a silent Bell and Howell camera (using the wrong f-stop, thus the film came out very dark.)

      Dates: 1970 July 01
      Container: Video 23
    • Description: Women's liberation 4

      01:58.

      Louise Degn's note: Stories 4-5 consist mainly of an interview, which was not too uncommon for news stories in 1970. Original scripts available.

      Dates: 1970 July 03
      Container: Video 24
    • Description: Women's liberation 5

      01:57.

      Dates: 1970 July 05
      Container: Video 25
    • Description: Women's liberation 6

      01:51.

      Dates: 1970 July 06
      Container: Video 26
    • Description: Women's Liberation Day

      50th anniversary of women's right to vote. 00:52.

      Louise Degn's note: Only remnants of flm of this story remains. See scripts for entire stories. Different versions for 6pm and 10pm newscasts. Original scripts available.

      Dates: 1970 August 26
      Container: Video 27
    • Description: Phosphates 1

      New environmental hazards of phosphates in laundry detergents. 01:04.

      Louise Degn's note: In 1970, it was still unusual for individuals to challenge a large corporation, like a soap manufacturer, and demand change in its products. The concept of "corporate citizenship" was unheard of. Original scripts available.

      Dates: 1970 July 13
      Container: Video 28
    • Description: Phosphates 2

      01:55.

      Dates: 1970 July 14
      Container: Video 29
    • Description: Brigham Young cemetery

      Brigham Young's grave site on 1st Avenue. 02:00.

      Louise Degn's note: I lived in the Avenues and walked to work at KSL, located at Social Hall Avenue between State Street and 2nd East. At that time, the lot east of the Brigham Young Cemetary was a vacant field and an old wooden staircase connected that field to a parking lot below on South Temple. I'd use the staircase on occassion and was fascinated to see the cemetary because even though I'd lived in Utah my entire life and was raised LDS, I'd never known about this place. I realized most Utahns also didn't know of it either and thought it would be interesting to do a little historical education piece on it. Note how the intersection of South Temple and Main Street looked before Main Street in front of the LDS temple was sold to the LDS church and closed to traffic in 1999. The original voice track for this story was lost and has been rerecorded for this 2002 reconstruction. Original script available.

      Dates: 1970 July 18
      Container: Video 30
    • Description: Unit pricing

      A new way to price items at the grocery store. 01:48.

      Louise Degn's note: Original script available.

      Dates: 1970 August 08
      Container: Video 31
    • Description: Old Lyric Repertory Company

      Acting company in Logan, Utah, performs in historic renovated theatre. 01:11.

      Louise Degn's note: I shot the story with a Bell and Howell silent camera. The original voice track was lost and has been rerecorded for this 2002 reconstruction. Original script available.

      Dates: 1970 August 17
      Container: Video 32
    • Description: Shamrocks

      Women's softball team in Utah. 01:16.

      Louise Degn's note: In the 1970s, few women participated in organized sports as highschools and colleges did not often have competitive inter-school leaugues for women. Sports also had separate rules for women; i.e. women could only pay half-court basketball. Overall, it was considered unfeminine for females to develop muscles and be too competitive. In this milieu, The Shamrocks were the only serious women's sports team in Utah. I once played basketball against them in a county recreation league and they trounced us. They were vastly superior to any other local team. In 1972, the federal government passed Title IX, a law requiring equal spending for men's and women's sport teams in the schools. Gradually, women gained greater opportunity and many competitve female athletes developed. Original script available.

      Dates: 1970 August 23
      Container: Video 33
    • Description: Mental health

      New community-based treatment for mental illness. 02:11.

      Louise Degn's note: The patient-rights movement, along with other social movements, was beginning to gain ground in the mid to late 1960s. In response to a federal law, states were closing down large, centralized hospitals which had warehoused mentally ill patients for years and moving them to smaller, community-based facilities. I am struck at the naivete of the statement in my stand-up, quoting Sue Motz, saying that a woman hospitalized for 24 years could soon return home simply because she's now being treated in a community facility. This illustrated the great hope people place in these new treatments. People could not have realized in 1970 that the under-funding of these community treatment centers and the tightening of federal commitment laws would contribute to the vast homeless problem that surfaced in the 1980s. One aspect of the patient-rights movement, though, had not yet materialized in 1970 as we were given free access to film the patients' faces without consent forms. The stand-up is outside the facility at the Salt Lake County government complex on 21st South and State Street. Original script available.

      Dates: 1970 September 03
      Container: Video 34
  • KSL-TV news stories - Louise Degn, reporter, 1970-1971, 2002

    Container: Disc 2

    • Description: About early TV news

      Television news production techniques 1969-1971. 09:27.

      Dates: 2002 June
      Container: Video 1
    • Description: Mansion 1

      The Colonel Enos Wall Mansion, 411 East South Temple. 01:56.

      Louise Degn's not: I asked two actors to dress up in "old-fashioned" formal attire to recreate the look of guests arriving at the mansion, riding the elevator, entering the ballroom, etc. only to see it transformed into the modern day (i.e. ugly) classroom. Several times during my career I tried to recreate scenes with actors; seldom did they work. The opening stand-up, original voice track and music were lost and the latter two have been rerecorded for this 2002 reconstruction. Original script available.

      Dates: 1970 September 21
      Container: Video 2
    • Description: Mansion 2

      The David Keith Mansion, 529 East South Temple. 02:12.

      Louise Degn's note: Terracor, the land-development company which occupied the mansion eventually went out of business. Their big poject, Stansbury Park (near Tooele) never took off and it took Tooele County another 30 years before it began to see large-scale growth. Unlike Devereaux and Wall, the Keith Mansion had been used as a home until the previous year. I talked to the home's last resident on the telephone. She was very helpful in telling me about the mansion but when asked why she sold it, she became disconcerted. Apparently, in polite society, one does not ask such things. The closing production elements are missing in this story. It should turn to black and white, freeze and old-fashioned scroll-work should frame the people to make it look like a photograph from the 1900 time period. Original script available.

      Dates: 1970 September 22
      Container: Video 3
    • Description: Mansion 3

      The Devereaux House, 334 West South Temple. 02:12.

      Louise Degn's note: This mansion fascinated me the most of all three. I could see the elegance underneath the wreck and thought it would never have the chance at revival since it was in an industrial part of the city. Little did I realize that the western part of downtown Salt Lake City would soon become as valuable as the eastern part. The mansion was included on the National Register of Historic Places in March of 1971, six months after this story aired. In 1979, the State of Utah purchased the building. It was renovated and turned into a restuarant as part of the Triad Center development in 1984-1985. Original script available.

      Dates: 1970 September 23
      Container: Video 4
    • Description: Sesame Street (audio only)

      Children's show on public television begins its 2nd year. 01:58.

      Dates: 1970 October 09
      Container: Video 5
    • Description: Sesame Street Roosevelt Franklin song (audio only)

      02:31.

      Dates: 1970 October 09
      Container: Video 6
    • Description: Nutcracker

      Profile of Ballet West wardrobe mistress. 02:28.

      Louise Degn's note: The film from the first part of the story is lost.

      Dates: 1970 December
      Container: Video 7
    • Description: Salvation Army story

      A description of the Salvation Army religion. 02:02.

      Louise Degn's note: Like most people, I did not realize that the Salvation Army was a religion. I learned that fact reading a story in a Chicago newspaper during my graduate days at Northwestern University. The original voice track of this story was lost and has been rerecorded for this 2002 reconstruction. Original handwritten script and typescript are both available.

      Dates: 1970 December
      Container: Video 8
    • Description: Salvation Army additional film

      02:04.

      Dates: 1970 December
      Container: Video 9
    • Description: Student tutor

      Students teach other students in Weber School District. 02:13.

      Louise Degn's note: The original voice track of this story was lost and has been rerecorded for this 2002 reconstruction. Original script available.

      Dates: 1971 January 24
      Container: Video 10
    • Description: Coalville Tabernacle 1 story

      History of LDS pioneer tabernacle to be torn down. 01:30.

      Louise Degn's note: I love old buildings. In fact, I quit KSL in Septmebr of 1980 to study restoration architecture for 18 months, so when I was alerted to the story by a newspaper article, I was eager to do a feature story and get a first-hand look at the Coalville Tabernacle. Five days later, the story erupted with public demonstrations and a legal challenge. It was the first time, I recall, that the LDS church was challenged publicly in this way by its own members. The prevailing ethic of the time was to tear old buildings down and build modern ones. Coalville was not the only tabernacle torn down. Utah restoration architect Alan Roberts made an inventory in 1974 of pioneer Mormon tabernacles and found that of 43 buildings, 22 had been demolished and 21 remained, most of which had been renovated. It seems that this story was an example of the LDS church not knowing how to handle public relations. The Church saw its communication lines as moving through Priesthood channels rather than through the public media. Criticism was thought of as "challenging truth" and leaders had little experience answering questions in a public forum. The next LDS church president, Spencer W. Kimball, tried to extend himself to the media, though he was never comfortable doing so. The LDS church truly mastered public relations under President Gordon B. Hinkley during the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. For further reading, see Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol. V, No. 4/Winter 1970. I wrote the second of the three articles as "Anonymous" as I was still employed at KSL at the time. Original script available.

      Dates: 1971 February 14
      Container: Video 11
    • Description: Coalville Tabernacle 1 additional film

      01:51.

      Dates: 1971 February 14
      Container: Video 12
    • Description: Coalville Tabernacle 2 story

      Court stops demolition. Public demonstrations against LDS Church. 02:08.

      Louise Degn's note: The original voice track of this story was lost and has been rerecorded for this 2002 reconstruction. Original script available.

      Dates: 1971 February 19
      Container: Video 13
    • Description: Coalville Tabernacle 2 additional film

      00:39.

      Dates: 1971 February 19
      Container: Video 14
    • Description: Coalville Tabernacle 3 story

      Court lifts stay, allowing demolition. 01:43.

      Louise Degn's note: The original voice track of this story was lost and has been rerecorded for this 2002 reconstruction. Original script available.

      Dates: 1971 March 01
      Container: Video 15
    • Description: Coalville Tabernacle 3 additional film

      Court hearing, stake president interview. 01:50.

      Dates: 1971 March 01
      Container: Video 16
    • Description: Coalville Tabernacle 3 additional film

      Court hearing, attorney interview. 02:00.

      Dates: 1971 March 01
      Container: Video 17
    • Description: Coalville Tabernacle 4 story

      Coalville church members begin demolition of tabernacle. 03:03.

      Louise Degn's note: Viewing the stand-up with 30 years of hind-sight, I think it is biased and one-sided. The stand-up did not run in the 6pm version of the story, however I showed it to my supervisor (Ted Capener) before editing it into the 10pm version. He advised against using it, but said I could if I wanted to. So I did. The story angered Church leaders who thought their own station had betrayed them. By Friday, their displeasure had rumbled down through the hierarchy to my supervisor who sternly reprimanded me. Specifically, he asked why I had neglected to include the statement issued on Wednesday (the day of the demolition) by the First Presidency of the LDS Church. I had seen the statement on the newswire but had dismissed it because it contained no new information. I have since learned in my journalism career that the fact that a statement is issued is news itself, regardless of the content. Historical Note: The building in the background of the Fitzen interview is the three-story Bank of Utah building on the southwest corner of State and South Temple, which was later torn down. Original script available.

      Dates: 1971 March 03
      Container: Video 18
    • Description: Coalville Tabernacle 4 additional film

      Demolition. 03:36.

      Dates: 1971 March 03
      Container: Video 19
    • Description: Coalville Tabernacle 4 additional film

      Demolition, sheriff interview. 01:10.

      Dates: 1971 March 03
      Container: Video 20
    • Description: Coalville Tabernacle 5

      Aftermath. 02:42.

      Louise Degn's note: Original script available.

      Dates: 1971 March 03
      Container: Video 21
    • Description: Wurlitzer Wigwam

      A new piano manufacturing plant in Logan pollutes the air. 01:45.

      Louise Degn's note: I got into trouble with this story too. The Wurlitzer people called my supervisor, Ted Capener, and said that I'd been trespassing on their property. I thought I was just doing what I'd been assigned--covering a controversial issue in Logan. Wurlitzer had declined to be interviewed, so I'd just gotten the story without them. After two controversial stories, Ted was probably glad that I left the newsroom during the spring of that year to finish my Master's Degree at Northwestern University. Technical Note: The video flutter at the beginning of the story was caused by broken sprocket holes on the original film while it was being transferred to video for this 2002 reconstruction. The original voice track of this story was lost and has been rerecorded for this 2002 reconstruction. Original script available.

      Dates: 1971 March 16
      Container: Video 22
    • Description: Weight Watchers

      Founder of the diet business, Jean Nidetch, visits Salt Lake City. 01:32.

      Louise Degn's note: At the time, Weight Watchers was becoming very popular throughout the country. It began a trend in commercial weight-loss businesses. It is interesting to note the Salt Lake City scenes in the background. In the first section of film you can see the Walgreen Drug store, a five or six story building located on the southwest corner of Main and South Temple. As Jean Nidetch walks in front of the Hotel Utah (now the Joseph Smith Memorial Building), in the background you can see cars driving along Main Street between North and South Temple, a block that was permanently closed to traffic in 1999. In the second section of silent film, you can see the old ZCMI department store building with its series of mini shops facing the street. The building was replaced by an indoor mall. Original audio track and script are missing. The A roll only is available.

      Dates: 1971 June
      Container: Video 23
    • Description: Hitchhiking story

      A new fad of young people hitchhiking across America. 02:57.

      Louise Degn's note: The audio on this story is difficult to hear. I think it was OK when the story was originally broadcast but got distorted during the film-to-tape transfer for this reconstruction. To assist clarity, I transcribed the first section of audio onto the screen. This was NOT done for the original story, however. Original handwritten script available.

      Dates: 1971 August
      Container: Video 24
    • Description: Hitchhiking additional film

      00:40.

      Dates: 1971 August
      Container: Video 25
    • Description: Spiral Jetty

      A new Robert Smithson sculpture in the Great Salt Lake off Promontory Point. 02:02.

      Louise Degn's note: The film was shot on a silent film camera. The aerials were shot from the KSL traffic airplane, which means the pilot and photographer was probably Jack Ford. The sounds of the airplane and the lake were recorded on audio tape separately and mixed with the reporter narration. Several years later I did another story on another piece of earth sculpture, Sun Tunnels, installed north of Wendover. Sun Tunnels was created by Smithson's widow, Nacy Holt. She made the tunnels at a plant in Lehi and let me take home one of the concrete cores removed to make the "stars" in each of the constellations. I sealed the "star" with a shiny goop and used it as a doorstop in my home for years. Original script available.

      Dates: 1971 August
      Container: Video 26
    • Description: Renaissance Fair

      Utah Art League sponsors a fair in East Canyon. 01:56.

      Louise Degn's note: Film for the first part of the story is missing. Original script available.

      Dates: 1971 September 06
      Container: Video 27
    • Description: H. L. Hunt interview

      The Texas oil billionaire visits Salt Lake City. 01:36.

      Dates: circa 1970-1971
      Container: Video 28
  • KSL-TV news documentary - Louise Degn, reporter, 1970

    Container: Disc 3

  • WBBM and KSL news stories - Louise Degn, reporter, 1972-1977

    Container: Disc 4

    • Description: Housewares (WBBM)

      Manufacturers' trade show at McCormick Place, Chicago. 01:35.

      Dates: 1972 January 20
      Container: Video 1
    • Description: Chicago blues musicians (WBBM) story

      Sam Chatman and Walter Vincent. 01:43.

      Dates: 1972 February 03
      Container: Video 2
    • Description: Chicago blues musicians (WBBM) additional film

      00:47.

      Dates: 1972 February 03
      Container: Video 3
    • Description: Cowboys in Daniels Canyon

      Bill Ecker and Tom Davis ride horseback from Texas to Alaska. 01:40.

      Dates: 1976 March 12
      Container: Video 4
    • Description: Body painting at May Fest

      2nd annual body painting festival at the University of Utah. 01:18.

      Dates: 1976 May 05
      Container: Video 5
    • Description: Navajo rug weaver

      Rose Keith of Blanding, Utah, traditional rug weaver. 01:40.

      Dates: 1976 May 20
      Container: Video 6
    • Description: Crickets and seagulls

      Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) historian Glen Leonard explores myths about pioneer story. 02:03.

      Dates: 1976 July 23
      Container: Video 7
    • Description: Capitol Theatre organ renovation

      Renovation of 1927 Wurlitzer organ played by Mike Ohman. 02:13.

      Dates: 1976 July 31
      Container: Video 8
    • Description: Melvin Dummar - Howard Hughes' will (bad video)

      Year-end summary of story. 02:47.

      Dates: 1976 December 28
      Container: Video 9
    • Description: Ice Capade skater

      Profile of chorus skater Judy Roof. 01:48.

      Dates: 1977 April 23
      Container: Video 10
    • Description: Allred murders

      Polygamist leader Rulon Allred is assassinated 05:53.

      Louise Degn's note: Late afternoon May 10, 1977, the KSL assignment person heard on the police scanner about a murder in Murray City and asked me to go on it. She had no additional information. While driving there, John Hollenhorst, another reporter, called on the two-way to say the victim might be a polygamist, a member of the "Church of the Lamb of God." We arrived in time to get film of the body being wheeled to the ambulance. A group of very distraught people was standing outside the one-story, brick medical clinic where a Dr. Rulon Allred had been shot. In 1977 polygamists were left alone by the authorities, following the bad publicity of the "Short Creek" raids in the 1950s. They lived hidden among the larger society. I approached the group. "I understand he was a member of the Church of the Lamb of God." One man shot back, angrily yelling, "Them's the ones that did it!" That was the first indication to the general public of the feud among the polygamy groups. I talked more with them and returned the next day to interview a friend, William Baird, and Nephi Allred, Dr. Allred's son. The group's initial reaction was right. Ervil LeBaron, leader of the Church of the Lamb of God, eventually was convicted of this murder, as well as others, in his bloody fight for sole control of the polygamy groups.

      Dates: 1977 May 11
      Container: Video 11
    • Description: Piano festival at BYU

      Concert pianist Lili Krause instructs students at Brigham Young University (BYU). 01:48.

      Dates: 1977 July 02
      Container: Video 12
    • Description: Park City Arts Festival

      7th annual festival on Main Street. 01:54.

      Dates: 1977 August 20
      Container: Video 13
  • KSL news stories - Louise Degn, reporter, 1976-1977

    Container: Disc 5

  • KSL news stories: Teton Dam break - Louise Degn, reporter, 1976-1978

    Container: Disc 6

    • Description: Teton Dam break special report

      11:00.

      Louise Degn's note: On Saturday, 05 June 1976, I was working in the newsroom and received a telephone call from a woman saying she had relatives in Idaho and heard the Teton Dam had broken. I had no idea what or where that was so I got out an Idaho map and determined what county that was in and called the sheriff's office. The officer who answered said, yes, there was a small break in the dam but it was not serious. I put that sound bite on KSL Radio news. Shortly -- I can't recall how we knew -- we discovered it was more serious so we decided to go up. Bob Greenwell, the photographer, was also a pilot, so he rented a small plane and we flew to Idaho landing in a cornfield. We thumbed our way around the area, interviewing people and shooting film of the flood. We waded into one street, not knowing where we were, and shouted to a man, "What street is this?" "Main Street," he answered., so that's where I did my stand-up. Taking off in the plane on the cornfield dirt road was harrowing. Bob later told me that we cleared a fence at the end of the field by just feet. We flew around the area and using an aviation map I could pinpoint exact towns that were under water and those that were safe. That type of exact information is crucial to people with loved ones in the area and the very information that is often lacking in the initial news reports of disasters. We got back to the station by 10 p.m., splattered in mud and soaked with floodwater and I went on the air with a report, the only Utah station to have original on-the-ground pictures. The people we interviewed that day were the ones we did follow-up reports with at six months and two years.

      Dates: 1976 June 06
      Container: Video 1
    • Description: Teton Dam break - Blackfoot, Idaho

      03:47.

      Dates: 1976 June 07
      Container: Video 2
    • Description: Teton Dam break - Idaho Falls, Firth, Blackfoot, Rexburg

      04:00.

      Dates: 1976 June 07
      Container: Video 3
    • Description: Teton Dam break 6 month follow-up 1

      Reconstruction of homes in Sugar City. 02:50.

      Dates: 1976 December 05
      Container: Video 4
    • Description: Teton Dam break 6 month follow-up 2

      Reconstruction of buildings in Sugar City. 02:10.

      Dates: 1976 December 06
      Container: Video 5
    • Description: Teton Dam break 6 month follow-up 3

      Reconstruction in Rexburg. 01:34.

      Dates: 1976 December 06
      Container: Video 6
    • Description: Teton Dam break 6 month follow-up 4

      Mr. and Mrs. Glen Walters Family. 02:50.

      Dates: 1976 December 06
      Container: Video 7
    • Description: Teton Dam break 6 month follow-up 5

      Reconstruction of farm land. Brent Barrus. 01:33.

      Dates: 1976 December 07
      Container: Video 8
    • Description: Teton Dam break year end summary

      01:58.

      Dates: 1976 December 31
      Container: Video 9
    • Description: Teton Dam break 2 year follow-up

      03:35.

      Dates: 1978 June 04
      Container: Video 9
  • KSL news stories: Maurice Abravanel and Utah Symphony - Louise Degn, reporter, 1970-1979

    Container: Disc 7

  • KSL news stories and documentary: Ballet West - Louise Degn, reporter, 1978-1982

    Container: Disc 8

  • KSL Dimension Five stories - Louise Degn, reporter, 1977-1978

    Container: Disc 9

    • Description: My brother the magician

      Ralph G. Degn entertains children with magic. 05:38.

      Dates: 1977 October 21
      Container: Video 1
    • Description: Bubble house

      Energy efficient house built below ground in Utah County. 04:37.

      Dates: 1977 November 19
      Container: Video 2
    • Description: International Women's Year

      Controversial national women's rights convention, Houston, Texas. 11:08.

      Louise Degn's note: One of the most contentious social issues of 1970s was the role of women in society. The United Nations declared 1977 as International Women's Year (IWY). President Carter appointed a commission to plan a National Women's Conference in Houston, Texas, November 18 to 21, 1977, and to propose a National Plan of Action, which included controversial issues like abortion, sexual preference, the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), and day care. Leading up to Houston, each state held its own conference. Utah's erupted in controversy when the Mormon Church urged its women to attend in large numbers and resist passage of liberal social ideas. The mainly Mormon women elected their own slate of conservative delegates to the Houston meeting, while the organizers appointed its own slate of liberal members. Thus, two slates of Utah delegates, with opposing points of view, represented Utah: Elected (conservative) and Appointed (liberal).

      Dates: 1977 November 26
      Container: Video 3
    • Description: T-bone on the rocks

      Caterers serve dinner on Snow Basin's ski slopes. 02:24.

      Dates: 1978 February 18
      Container: Video 4
    • Description: Soldier Summit lineman

      Copper lines still carry phone calls to rural Utah. 05:13.

      Dates: 1978 February 25
      Container: Video 5
    • Description: Mick Boyle series

      Quadriplegic graduates from BYU Law School. 16:00.

      Louise Degn's note: Since these stories Mindy and Mick divorced a few years after his accident. He married Cheryl Chandler Smith in 1982. They had a daughter, Sydney, and adopted twins from El Salvador—son McKay and daughter McKenzie. Mick practiced personal injury and discrimination law in Salt Lake and spent many hours counseling newly injured paraplegic patients. He died suddenly March 3, 1991, of acute pneumonia, his lungs weakened from his injuries.

      Dates: 1978 April 17-22
      Container: Video 6
    • Description: Bloopers

      Out-takes of mistakes by KSL reporters. 01:34.

      Dates: 1978 June 10
      Container: Video 7
    • Description: Opera house in the desert

      Dancer Marta Becket runs a theater in Death Valley. 07:21.

      Dates: 1978 November 11
      Container: Video 8
    • Description: Ice skater story

      Louise Degn skates on Beus Pond in Ogden, UT. 01:48.

      Dates: 1978 December 23
      Container: Video 9
    • Description: Ice skater additional film

      07:23.

      Dates: 1978 December 23
      Container: Video 10
  • KSL Dimension Five stories - Louise Degn, reporter, 1979-1980

    Container: Disc 10

    • Description: Juanita Brooks

      Utah historian of the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre. 12:48.

      Louise Degn's note: Juanita Brooks (1898-1989). The story was filmed ten years before she died in 1989. She was, however, already suffering from dementia. I knew her time was short and wanted to do an interview before it was too late. At times she was lucid, other times not, so we had to shoot more film than usual and edit extensively. She was most alert remembering the past. Outside the high school in Mesquite, Nevada, recalling the beginnings of her book, she came alive. Clearly, this had been one of the most important events of her life.

      Dates: 1979 March 17
      Container: Video 1
    • Description: Death Valley burros

      Burro adoption program in Death Valley, California. 07:01.

      Dates: 1979 October 06
      Container: Video 2
    • Description: Tina Gunn

      BYU women's basketball star sets national scoring records. 10:49.

      Louise Degn's note: This story was one of the first shot on 3/4-inch analog videotape. Video editing made quick cuts, freeze frames, and other effects easier to do than with film.

      Dates: 1980 February 23
      Container: Video 3
    • Description: Untaming the wild

      A way-station for unwanted wild animals. 07:45.

      Dates: 1980 March 22
      Container: Video 4
    • Description: Anthon Transcript

      Forger Mark Hofmann's first historic Mormon document. 12:00.

      Mark Hofmann was a master forger of historic Mormon and other American documents, fooling experts across the country. The Anthon Transcript was his first big "discovery." When I did this story, Hofmann was reluctant to be interviewed on camera. His speech was flat and controlled. I thought he was just a young, shy university student. Later, of course, I understood he worked hard to mask his emotions and the truth. When Hofmann's schemes started to unravel, he resorted to murder. On 15 October 1985 a bomb killed document collector Steven Christensen, and another killed Kathleen Sheets, wife of a Christensen business associate. The next day a third bomb injured Hofmann himself, while he was parked in his car near Church headquarters. I excitedly told the news director we had footage of the "victim," which we ran on the news that night. A viewer at home saw it, called us and said she'd seen that person riding the elevator in Christensen's building shortly before the first bomb. We ran the interview that night. Hofmann's lawyers subpoenaed the news story arguing it tainted the witness's testimony and a potential jury. Both issues became moot when Hofmann pled guilty and was sentenced to life in prison.

      Dates: 1980 May 24
      Container: Video 5
    • Description: Dimension Five prom

      00:30.

      Dates: 1980 August 24
      Container: Video 6
  • KSL news documentary - Louise Degn, reporter, 1979

    Container: Disc 11

    • Description: Original cancellation of "Mormon Women and Depression"

      On-air announcement of cancellation of original documentary. 00:40.

      Louise Degn's note: The documentary "Mormon Women and Depression" was originally scheduled for broadcast on 11 November 1978. Station management, however, pulled the program after receiving objections from leaders of the LDS Church Relief Society. The cancellation of the heavily promoted documentary generated hundreds of protest letters and calls. Station management replied the program had been pulled for revision, not cancellation. The controversy opened many doors for further interviews, and the program was expanded from a half-hour to one-hour and, in my opinion, became a much better program. The final version aired three months later on 17 February 1979. It generated hundreds of requests for copies to show at church functions around the world and won the National Reporting Award from the American Mental Health Association. Original Cancellation is the disclaimer which ran before the show on the original air date and the show open which announces the program content which replaced it.

      Dates: 1978 November 11
      Container: Video 1
    • Description: Iris Award

      Given to Depression Series by the National Association of TV Program Executives. 03:08.

      Dates: 1980 March 22
      Container: Video 2
    • Description: Mormon women and depression

      Also known as: Three faces of Depression, the Woman. 1:00:00.

      Dates: 1980 March 22
      Container: Video 3
  • KSL news documentary - Louise Degn, reporter, 1979

    Container: Disc 12

  • KSL news stories and music videos - Louise Degn, reporter, 1983-1991

    Container: Disc 13

  • KSL news, Maggie Smith essays and cooking - Louise Degn, producer, 1984, 1986

    Container: Disc 14

  • KSL news, Maggie Smith and Elouise Bell essays and cooking - Louise Degn, producer, 1984-1985

    Container: Disc 15

  • KSL news, TalkAbout interview shows - Louise Degn, producer, 1985-1986

    Container: Disc 16

  • KSL news, arol Lynn Pearson and Carlfred Broderick interviews - Louise Degn, producer, 1986

    Container: Disc 17

  • KSL Dimension Five, 1986

    Container: Disc 18

    • Description: Final show

      26:30.

      Dates: 1986 September 13
      Container: Video 1
    • Description: Early show opens and sets

      03:20.

      Dates: 1986 September 13
      Container: Video 2
    • Description: Interview with Ed Yeates, first executive producer

      Includes story excerpts: Roller Coaster Maker, Arrow-Huss Co., Clearfield, UT (Ed Yeates, reporter), Actor Tony Geary of North Summit High School (Holly McCullom, reporter), F-16 jet computers, Hill Air Force Base (Steve Connelly, reporter). 08:27.

      Dates: 1986 September 13
      Container: Video 3
    • Description: Bedroom Gold Miner, Chris Christopherson, Murray, ID

      Holly McCullom, reporter. 04:28.

      Dates: 1986 September 13
      Container: Video 4
    • Description: Bloopers

      01:29.

      Dates: 1986 September 13
      Container: Video 5
  • KSL news, Prime Time Access, Southern Exposure series - Louise Degn, producer, 1987

    Container: Disc 19

    • Description: Arches National Park

      Moab Jeep safari (Karl Peterson, photographer), Moab Dump (Bruce Lindsay, reporter), Ancient Pack Rats in Canyonlands (Ed Yeates, reporter), How Arches Were Formed. Interview with Ranger Steve Swanke (1:52), Delicate Arch Marriage of Alec Wilkins and Cheryl Sue Christensen (Sam Prigg, photographer). 21:00.

      Dates: 1987 May 18
      Container: Video 1
  • KSL news, Prime Time Access, Southern Exposure series - Louise Degn, producer, 1987

    Container: Disc 20

  • KSL news, Prime Time Access, Southern Exposure series - Louise Degn, producer, 1987

    Container: Disc 21

  • KSL news, Prime Time Access, Southern Exposure series - Louise Degn, producer, 1987

    Container: Disc 22

  • KSL news, Prime Time Access, Southern Exposure series - Louise Degn, producer, 1987

    Container: Disc 23

    • Description: Great Basin National Park

      Lehman Cave (Ed Yeates, reporter), Baker, Nevada (Alexis Fernandez, reporter), Callao, Utah, one-room schoolhouse (Allison Barlow, reporter), Small Museums and Shops (Keith McCord, reporter).Tooele County Museum, PreHistoric Museum, College of Eastern Utah, Price, Beaver County Courthouse, Millard County Chronicle Office, Delta (two-headed sheep), Edge of the Cedars Museum, Blanding (Anasazi artifacts), Joseph Smith Profile Rock, Millard County, Territorial Statehouse, Fillmore, Old Rock Church, Parowan, Hole in the Rock, Moab. 21:00.

      Dates: 1987 May 22
      Container: Video 1
  • KSL news, Prime Time Access, Autumn Leave series - Louise Degn, producer, 1987

    Container: Disc 24

    • Description: Rural Idaho

      Airborne mail carrier, Ray Arnold, Cascade, ID (Keith McCord, reporter), Town's only nurse, Marie Osborn, Stanley, ID (Allison Barlow, reporter), Montage of western locales visited on Prime Time Access, Custom fishing rod maker, Alton Wilde, Rexburg, ID (Don Olsen, reporter). 23:20.

      Dates: 1987 September 21
      Container: Video 1
  • KSL news, Prime Time Access, Autumn Leave series - Louise Degn, producer, 1987

    Container: Disc 25

  • KSL news, Prime Time Access, Autumn Leave series - Louise Degn, producer, 1987

    Container: Disc 26

    • Description: Bear Lake

      Raspberries, Hilt and Price Family Farms (Shelley Thomas, reporter), Post Office moving to new building, St. Charles, ID (Duane Cardall, reporter), Economic development around lake (Dave Thomas, reporter), Rural Life, video essay (Greg Sumner, photographer). 20:30.

      Dates: 1987 September 23
      Container: Video 1
  • KSL news, Prime Time Access, Autumn Leave series - Louise Degn, producer, 1987

    Container: Disc 27

  • KSL news, Prime Time Access, Autumn Leave series - Louise Degn, producer, 1987

    Container: Disc 28

    • Description: Flaming Gorge

      Sonar trout fishing with Steve Wolstenhulm (Don Judd, reporter), Ute Mountain Lookout Tower, Ashley National Forest: the last remaining fire look-out tower in Utah (Alexis Fernandez, reporter), Fontenelle Dam on Green River in Wyoming is leaking (John Hollenhorst, reporter), Bloopers. 20:40.

      Dates: 1987 September 25
      Container: Video 1
  • KSL news, Prime Time Access documentary - Louise Degn, producer, 1987

    Container: Disc 29

    • Description: No Home for the Holidays

      Who are the homeless? (Bruce Lindsay, reporter), Police and the homeless (Sam Prigg, photographer/producer), One woman's path to homelessness (Alexis Fernandez, reporter), Community activist, Steve Holbrook, on building a homeless shelter in Salt Lake City (Duane Cardall, reporter). 21:40.

      Dates: 1987 December 14
      Container: Video 1
  • KSL news, Prime Time Access, Sunspots series - Louise Degn, producer, 1988

    Container: Disc 30

  • KSL news, Prime Time Access, Sunspots series - Louise Degn, producer, 1988

    Container: Disc 31

  • KSL news, Prime Time Access, Sunspots series - Louise Degn, producer, 1988

    Container: Disc 32

    • Description: Hawaii part 3

      Mrs. Fields's Cookies has kahoona bless new store location, Movies filmed in Polynesia (Chris Hicks, reporter), Observatory on Mauna Kea Peak (Ed Yeates, reporter), Utahns who work in pineapple groves (Dave Block, field producer). 21:00.

      Dates: 1988 February 17
      Container: Video 1
  • KSL news, Prime Time Access documentary - Louise Degn, producer, 1988

    Container: Disc 33

    • Description: Lost Love

      Divorce: Lee and Jared Willis, father and son (Shelley Thomas, reporter), "I Cried" music video (Sam Prigg, photographer), Child's death: Dale and Marsha Stroup, parents (Alexis Fernandez, reporter). 21:30.

      Louise Degn's note: This program won an Emmy Award. Shelley Thomas, anchor. Marybeth Raynes, LCSW.

      Dates: 1988 February 23
      Container: Video 1
  • KSL news, Prime Time Access, Highway 91 series - Louise Degn, producer, 1988

    Container: Disc 34

    • Description: Idaho border through Ogden

      Smithfield Implement Co (Don Olsen, reporter), Bluebird Café (Alexis Fernandez, reporter), Dr. Pierce's sign, Wellsville, Mantua, Utah ( Dave Thompson, reporter), Ogden Cops, Lt. Richard Peterson (Larry Lewis, reporter). 21:30.

      Dates: 1988 May 16
      Container: Video 1
  • KSL news, Prime Time Access, Highway 91 series - Louise Degn, producer, 1988

    Container: Disc 35

    • Description: Davis County through Utah County

      Deseret Mill, Kaysville, Slim Olsen's gas station, Bountiful (Bruce Lindsay, reporter), Teenagers Drag State Street, Salt Lake City (Keith McCord, reporter), Lehi Roller Mills, Lehi, Timpanogos Cave, Ranger Arlo Shelley (Duane Cardall, reporter), Pioneer Drive In Movie Theater, Provo (Ed Yeates, reporter). 20:30.

      Dates: 1988 May 17
      Container: Video 1
  • KSL news, Prime Time Access, Highway 91 series - Louise Degn, producer, 1988

    Container: Disc 36

    • Description: Juab County through Millard County

      Mona Beekeeper, Greg Newton (Allison Barlow, reporter), Kay's Market in Mona, Utah, Dan Valentine Cafe Books, Death Strip, Highway 91 near Levan (Bob Walz, reporter), Scipio Bus Driver, Carolyn Memmot (Alexis Fernandez, reporter), Pioneer Statehouse, Filmore, Kanosh Baseball (Keith McCord, reporter). 21:00.

      Dates: 1988 May 18
      Container: Video 1
  • KSL news, Prime Time Access, Highway 91 series - Louise Degn, producer, 1988

    Container: Disc 37

    • Description: Beaver County through Iron County

      Cove Fort, Utah, Volcanos on Central Utah (Ed Yeates, reporter), High School Radio Station in Beaver, Utah, The Beaver Weekly Press (Bruce Lindsay, reporter), Beaver Bakery. Annie Stapley and Jenny Gale, sisters, LaSpina Arts Group. Cary and Stevi LaSpina (Carole Mikita, reporter), Paragonah General Store, Parowan, Utah Cafe (Shelley Osterloh, reporter). 21:00.

      Dates: 1988 May 19
      Container: Video 1
  • KSL news, Prime Time Access, Highway 91 series - Louise Degn, producer, 1988

    Container: Disc 38

    • Description: Washington County to Arizona border

      Cedar City, Utah, Kolob Canyon, Leeds Cookbook by Cecelia Ludwig (Allison Barlow, reporter), Silver Reef Monument, artist Jerry Andersen, Quail Creek Reservoir, Cotton Festival in Washington, Utah, Fitness Institute in Snow Canyon (Shelley Osterloh, reporter), Tortoise Man, Russell Bezette, of LaVerkin, Utah (Duane Cardall, reporter), Archie Bell, owner of 1957 Chevrolet. 21:25.

      Dates: 1988 May 20
      Container: Video 1
  • KSL news, Prime Time Access final show - Louise Degn, producer, 1988

    Container: Disc 39

    • Description: Final show

      Clips from first show 20 Sept 1982, Bruce Lindsay anchor, Candy Dish 5 given to viewer Ruth Hawkins, Reporter Memories from Ed Yeates, Alexis Fernandez, Keith McCord, Shelley Thomas, Chris Hicks, Osmond kids singing "Bye, Bye, Bruce," Bloopers including: Keith McCord with Jay Leno, early Carole Mikita, John Hollenhorst at the beauty parlor, Art Linkletter telling McCord to shave his moustache, Bruce Lindsay shaving his beard, Gina Stucki, "Don't Worry, Be Happy" music video. Brad Pearson, editor. 22:00.

      Dates: 1988 August 26
      Container: Video 1
  • KSL documentary, Lowell Bennion - Louise Degn, producer, 1992

    Container: Disc 40

  • KUED docuemtnary - Louise Degn and Marie Cornwall, producers, 1995

    Container: Disc 41

    • Description: Utah women considered

      How lives of women have changed in 20th Century. 57:00.

      Louise Degn's note: This program won Best of Show and a Commendation Award (Gracie) from the American Women in Radio and Television in 1996.

      Dates: 1995 March 28
      Container: Video 1
  • KUED docuemtnary - Louise Degn and Nancy Green, producers, 1997

    Container: Disc 42

    • Description: Let the women vote!

      Woman suffrage in Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Idaho. 56:40.

      Louise Degn's note: This program won the following awards: National distribution, PBS stations - The program was aired in over 50 cities including New York City, Philadelphia, Washington, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Austin, Nashville, Milwaukee, Phoenix, Orlando, and others (1999), Selected for Showing at Museum of Broadcasting, Chicago - "Significant Documentaries Exploring the 20th Century" and inclusion in permanent archive (1998), Gracie - American Women in Radio and Television, TV Documentary (1998), 1st Place - Broadcast Education Association, Juried Faculty Production Competition, TV Documentary (1998).

      Dates: 1997 July 06
      Container: Video 1
  • Volunteer summit brodcast on all Utah stations - Louise Degn, producer, 1997

    Container: Disc 43

  • KUER radio news stories - Louise Degn, reporter, 2000-2002

    Container: Disc 44

  • KSL news, Jackie Nokes interviews - Ricki Rafner, producer, 1982-1986

    Container: Disc 45

  • KSL station history, 1984-2006

    Container: Disc 46

  • KSL-TV turns 40, 1989

    Container: Disc 47

    • Description: KSL turns 40

      47:10.

      Dates: 1989 June 04
      Container: Video 1
  • KSL-TV turns 50, 1999

    Container: Disc 48

    • Description: KSL turns 50 part 1

      Includes complete 10 p.m. newscast with commercials. 37:43.

      Dates: 1999 May 26
      Container: Video 1
  • KSL-TV turns 50, 1999

    Container: Disc 49

    • Description: KSL turns 50 part 2

      59:43.

      Dates: 1999 June 01
      Container: Video 1
  • Dick Norse, news anchor, retires, 2007

    Container: Disc 50

  • KSL Studios attacked by gunwoman part 1, 1999

    Container: Disc 51

    • Description: 5 p.m. newscast, includes commercials

      An armed woman, De Keiu Duy, attacks KSL station and kills AT&T employee, Anne Sleater. 31:22.

      Dates: 1999 January 14
      Container: Video 1
  • KSL Studios attacked by gunwoman part 2, 1999

    Container: Disc 52

    • Description: 6:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. newscasts, includes commercials

      An armed woman, De Keiu Duy, attacks KSL station and kills AT&T employee, Anne Sleater. 57:05.

      Dates: 1999 January 14
      Container: Video 1
  • Utah historic events, 1983-1997

    Container: Disc 53

  • Perre Dale Selby execution, 1987

    Container: Disc 54

  • Olympics coverage, 1994-1995

    Container: Disc 55

    • Description: Utah athletes compete at Winter Games in Norway

      Reporters Bruce Lindsay, Shelley Osterloh, weathercaster Len Randolph. 20:00.

      Dates: 1994 February 14
      Container: Video 1
    • Description: Salt Lake City awarded 2002 Winter Olympics

      Reporters Bruce Lindsay, John Hollenhorst, Shelley Osterloh, Ruth Todd, Keith McCord, Deborah Lindner, Carole Mikita, Steve Eager, Craig Bollerjack. 53:33.

      Dates: 1995 June 16
      Container: Video 2
  • Mormon Church national coverage, 1979-1987

    Container: Disc 56

    • Description: Garm Baum versus Mormon Church (CBS News 60 Minutes)

      Utah County cherry processor accuses LDS Church of bankrupting him. 13:40.

      Dates: 1979 December 09
      Container: Video 1
    • Description: Unaired rebuttal to Garn Baum Story (Bonneville International)

      25:49.

      Dates: 1979 December 09
      Container: Video 2
    • Description: AIDS and Mormon Church (CBS News Sunday Morning)

      Mormon men who died of AIDS and effect on their families. 14:00.

      Dates: 1987 January 11
      Container: Video 3
  • Mormon Church and Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), 1980

    Container: Disc 57

  • WBBM news story - Louise Degn, reporter, 1973

    Container: Disc 58