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Archives of Iowa Broadcasting: WHO Radio Files - Radio Marti Controversy

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Administrative Files- Radio Marti Controversy Files

Correspondence and other files related to 1982 Radio Marti controversy. WHO Radio, as well as several other stations across the country, dealt with signal outages as a result of sharing the same frequency as Voice of America's Radio Marti (a station broadcasting news and information to Cuba from the United States).
1982
Extent: 12 folders

Container Listing

Box	Folder	Series	Content	Date
72	1	Marti	"The Voice of the Middle West"	1982
72	2	Marti	Radio Marti Fact Sheet	3/26/1982
72	3	Marti	Correspondence with Elected Officials	4/1982
72	4	Marti	Correspondence with Senator Grassley	4/8/1982
72	5	Marti	Correspondence with President Reagan	3/25-9/1/1982
72	6	Marti	Iowa Cattlemen's Association Correspondence	4/16-4/28/1982
72	7	Marti	Correspondence with Businesses, Organizations, & Other Stations	3/25-4/15/1982
72	8	Marti	Correspondence with Governor Robert Ray	3/31/1982
72	9	Marti	Correspondence with the President's Commission on Broadcasting to Cuba	4/16-4/22/1982
72	10	Marti	Palmer Communications Memorandum	4/5/1982
72	11	Marti	WHO Evidence of Importance for Argument Against Radio Marti	1982
72	12	Marti	Correspondence with the Department of Agriculture	3/29-4/23/1982

WHO Radio Collection

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Kay Grigsby, MSLIS
Grant Price Endowed Archivist
kay.grigsby@wartburg.edu
(319) 352-8457

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