Part 1 (U.S. Mss 154AN, Audio 1031A): Original Collection, 1963-1992, 2004
Physical Description: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes), 27 tape recordings, and 1 compact disc 
Scope and Content Note: In 1971 Sanders was appointed writer-producer for ABC's News-Documentary section, for which she wrote and produced the controversial Population: Boom or Doom? (January 6, 1973). Its explicit commentary on abortion and sex education was offensive to members of the Nixon administration, Catholic and other religious groups, and several other pressure groups. Materials relating to Population: Boom or Doom? include correspondence, budget material, and production records, including scripts, transcripts, research materials, and reviews. Arrangement is chronological within these files, which offer a complete picture of how this documentary was researched and filmed, how pressure groups and television critics reacted to it both before and after its showing, and how Sanders and her staff worked to present information on a very emotional issue. Particularly interesting are the statements in the correspondence about the controversy surrounding the production, and in the transcripts are interviews with persons such as John D. Rockefeller III, Oregon's Senator Bob Packwood, and staff and patients at an abortion clinic. The collection also includes audiotapes of interviews related to her book Waiting for Prime Time, discussions on religion and intellectual freedom, and Sanders' lecture on reporting that she gave to her New York University class in 1968. Other subjects documented include Sanders' coverage of John F. Kennedy's funeral and Robert F. Kennedy's assassination.

Population: Boom or Doom?

Correspondence, 1971 March 1 - 1973 January 11

Budget Materials

Production Materials

Script Notes and Drafts

Transcripts

Research Materials: magazines, pamphlets, clippings

Reviews, 1972 November 28 - 1973 June 14

Audio Recordings

Folcroft Story: A New Chapter in the Philadelphia Story - Interviews with neighbors of a black family who were planted in a white neighborhood by the NAACP. Interviews with NAACP representatives and a Fair Housing Organization, 1963 September 8

Intellectual Freedom Committee of the American Library Association (ALA), “Your Right to Know: How Far Does it Go?,” ALA annual conference, 1992

Interview with Marlene Sanders regarding her coverage of the Vietnam War in 1966, 2004
Physical Description: 1 compact disc 

Japanese women interviews, 1989-1991

Joan Cook and Betsy Wade, “Our Shot at History,” 1986

John F. Kennedy's funeral telecast, 1963 November 25

Lecture on reporting at New York University (NYU), 1968

Newsmark

“One Nation Under God: Religion in the Public Square,” undated

“Prisons: Beyond the Bars,” 1986 March 28

Robert F. Kennedy assassination, 1968 June 5

Sunday Evening Close-up, “The Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto,” 1963

University of Kansas, “The February Sisters” - Sanders commentary, 1972 February 10

Waiting for Prime Time

Interviews used in her book

Andrea Mitchell, Rebecca Sobel

Carole Simpson, Susan Peterson, part 1

Diane Sawyer, 1987 January 15

Hilary Brown, 1986 March

Joan Richman, 1986 December 3

Leslie Stahl, undated

Lori Hillman, 1986 December 14; Walter Cronkite, , 1986 December 18

Steve Martorano, 1989 March 1

Susan Peterson, part 2, undated

Promotional radio interviews

Diane Rehm Show, 1988 September 14

Hal Bruno's Washington, undated

Larry King Show, 1988 October 4

New Voices, program 133, 1988 October 3

Phil Toman, WNRK, The Arts, 1988 September 28