Collection is open for research.
Gift of Ted Hallock, July 2001 (Lib. Acc. 24523).
Audio available online in OHS Digital Collections for
Joseph Theodore "Ted" Hallock was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1921. His family came to Portland, Oregon, in 1927. He began working in broadcasting while still in high school when his cousin, Homer Welch, got him a job in sound effects at KGW radio. He studied law at the University of Oregon, but joined the Air Force shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. After he returned from serving in World War II in 1945, he gave up his plans to study law and went into journalism instead. He won several awards for his broadcasting work, including a Peabody. His work in journalism took him to England and Russia during the 1950s. He started a public relations and advertising company bearing his name in 1959. In 1964, he joined with Gene Zarones to form the Hallock-Zarones Co. Between 1967, when Zarones left the company, and the time of Hallock's death, Hallock's public relations business had several other names, including the Hallock-Merrill Co.; Ted Hallock, Inc.; the Hallock Agency; and Hallock Modey Advertising and Public Relations. Hallock's wife Jackie Hallock was also active in the business, becoming president and creative director. In addition to operating his business, Hallock represented Multnomah County in the Oregon State Senate as a Democrat from 1963 to 1982. In 1988, Hallock became a member of the Northwest Power Planning Council and served until 1994.
Hallock was married three times and divorced twice. He married Muriel Myers, before his deployment in World War II. They divorced soon after he returned from the war in 1945. Shortly thereafter, he met his second wife, Phyllis Natwick, at a fundraiser, and they married in 1946. They divorced in 1968, and he and Jackie Hull were married soon after. Hallock died in 2006.
The processed recordings, SR 24523-1 and SR 24523-2, were previously identified as SR 3908 and SR 1806, respectively.
Recordings on open-reel tapes are not available for direct access. Contact library staff for assistance.
Ted Hallock audio recordings, SR 24523, Oregon Historical Society Research Library.
Hallock-Zarones promotional photographs collection, Org. Lot 1232, Oregon Historical Society Research Library.
Oral history interview with Ted Hallock, by Clark Hansen, SR 1140, Oregon Historical Society Research Library.
This collection of audio recordings consists predominantly of political advertising work created or managed by Ted Hallock for his public relations agency. Most of the materials are open-reel tapes and date from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s. All but two recordings in the collection are unprocessed.
The processed recordings consist of interviews conducted in 1968 and circa 1975. The 1968 interviews were conducted by an unidentified woman with staffers for U.S. Senator Wayne Morse's re-election campaign. Also on the reel tape with the staff interviews are variations of political ads, produced by Hallock's company, for the Morse campaign. The interview conducted circa 1975 was with Aaron Brown, who became the first black judge in Oregon in 1969 and later served as a judge on the Multnomah County District Court. The interview was conducted by an unidentified woman for Grassroot News Northwest.
Unprocessed recordings in the collection include political campaign materials for Oregon politicians such as Ted Kulongoski, Jim Weaver, Les AuCoin, Wayne Morse, Bob Straub, Mike Lindberg, Connie McCready, John Kitzhaber, and Bob Duncan. The recordings also include advertisements on political topics including sales taxes, ballot measures regarding zoo funding, and the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality. There are also business advertisements, including ads for Douglas Community Hospital, Bidwell & Co., and John's Landing.
Photographs and video materials were separated to the photograph and moving image collections at the Oregon Historical Society Research Library.
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