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Senator Richard Lugar spoke about the state of the Senate and the 1984 election.
Note: There is some video breakup.

The 1944 documentary D-Day to Germany was shot, edited, and narrated by Jack Lieb, a “News of the Day” correspondent who was assigned to cover the invasion of France. He shot this film for himself while also working for the Hearst Corporation newsreel. After the war, Mr. Lieb created a traveling film and lecture program. The National Archives restored the film together with a recording of his original narration.

State Treasurer Ann Richards was the Democratic candidate for governor in the state of Texas. She made a campaign appearance at the Sacred Heart Church Fall Festival in San Antonio, Texas.

Peter Hamby, who covered the 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns for CNN, talked about his study of the impact of Twitter on media behavior and campaign press strategy, titled “Did Twitter Kill the Boys on the Bus?” He discussed the findings of that study with James Pindell at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics and Political Library at Saint Anselm College. He responded to questions from members of the audience, including former Romney presidential campaign adviser Jim Merrill.

Former Senator Howard Baker, Jr., talked about his career. He also talked about the career of former Senator Robert Dole (R-KS).
This never-before-aired interview with historian Richard Norton Smith is part of an oral history project at the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas. The location of the interview is not known.

Two authors discussed their books on the history of communications industries. Richard John, the author of Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications (2010), focused on the history of regulation. Tim Wu focuses on the history of media consolidation in his book The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Knopf, 2010). The author looks at how film, radio, television, and the telephone began open to experimentation only to be closed due to corporate control throughout each industry’s maturation. Mr. Wu questions if the Internet will follow this same path. The authors also responded to questions from members of the audience. Nicholas Lemann moderated. “Big Media: Pro and Con” was an event of the Columbia University Journalism School in New York City, sponsored in part by the Sevellon Brown Lecture Fund.

A Panel discussion that talked about ten years of televised coverage of congress.

On the day that C-SPAN began transmitting twenty-fours per day, C-SPAN invited three C-SPAN board members and cable executives to sit down and answer viewer questions about C-SPAN and cable television.

Reporters discussed what they expect covering the new Chief Justice William Rehnquist court and what cases may be heard.

Representatives from national and local news agencies discussed the use of pool feeds and what they consider reasonable access to them.