Detroit Free Press - Detroit Special Edition (1980 Republican Convention)

The collection contains newspaper clippings, correspondence, transcripts of interviews, press releases and presidential convention media packets, covering people and events, and their influence on Alabama. As stated in an advertisement for the Mignon Smith Alabama Radio Report from Washington, "Not only do Washington politics affect Alabama, and Alabamians affect Washington politics, but there is the same interplay in other areas such as civic organizations, trade associations, agriculture, the arts, etc. Alabama radio listeners should be kept abreast of this Washington news and how it affects them."

The collection is arranged in three primary series: Subjects, Presidential Conventions, and Alabama People. Another smaller group of materials includes some information about Mignon Smith, the Alabama Radio Network, and the Washington/Alabama News Report.

The collection also included several video tapes (Beta and VHS), books, and periodicals listed below. The books and periodicals have been added to Hoole's Alabama Collection, and the audio video materials have been added to the Manuscript's photographic unit.

AV materials * Beta - Heflin on the Bork vote * VHS - George Wallace movie, 1998 * VHS - Anita Hill Hearings * VHS - Thomas [Clarence] 10/91 * CD - Washington/Alabama News Reports, 1988-2000 (42 CDs in a binder) * Audio Cassette - Howell Heflin's last speech in the Senate, 1996 * Audio Cassettes(2) - House eulogies for Bill Nichols, 1988 * Audio Cassettes(3) - Montgomery Bus Boycott reunion, 1996 * Audio Cassette - Interview with Pat Blaylock, retired director of the Selma Library, 1990

Books Lister Hill: Statesman from the South, by Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton. That's the Way I Saw It, Bob Ingram. Poor But Proud: Alabama's Poor Whites, Wayne Flynt. Voices Rising: Alabama's Women at the Millennium, curated by Ruth Stevens Appelhof, Jennifer Orpha Kelly. William Christenberry: The Early Years, 1954-1968, J. Richard Gruber. Practical Guide to the Law of Political Broadcasting, M. Scott Johnson

Periodicals Alabama News Media Directory, 1989-1990 Alabama Broadcasters Association - 1982 Radio & Television Membership Directory - 1984-1985 Radio & Television Membership Directory - 1986 Radio & Television Membership Directory - 1986 Directory - 1989-1990 Directory - 1986 Advertising Agency Directory Alabama Broadcaster - nos. 190-252, May 1986-December 1992 (missing nos., 200, 203-204, 208-209, 224, 227, 231-239.)