Robert Kastenmeier Papers, 1950-1990 (bulk 1959-1990)

Container Title
Series: Audiovisual Materials, circa 1960s-1990
Photographs, negatives, and transparencies
Box   282
Folder   1
At the office (alone and with staff members)
Events
Box   282
Folder   2
Bill signing, circa early 1960s
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Folder   3
Copyright hearing (Subcommittee 3), 1965
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Folder   4
Committees (Kastenmeier with others), 1969, 1970
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Folder   5
“Kastenmeier's 25th” celebration, circa 1984
Note: Includes negatives.
Box   282
Folder   6
Headshots
Box   282
Folder   7
Kastenmeier with Gaylord Nelson and William Proxmire
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Folder   8
Kastenmeier with constituents
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Folder   9
Fundraiser at a park in Madison, circa 1984
Physical Description: Transparencies 
AE 220
Report from Washington
Note: One of a series of telecasts hosted by Kastenmeier. In this program, Kastenmeier discusses the “Berlin crisis” and the possibility of having a re-unified Germany with guest Dr. Rolf Pauls, a counselor for the German Embassy in Washington, D.C.
M91-048
Videorecordings
Note: Producers of the campaign spots include John Franzen Multimedia; Rothstein and Buckley; and J. Buckley and Associates.
1982 television campaign spots
Video   1
“Town meeting,” “Nuclear freeze,” 2 thirty-second spots
Physical Description: U-Matic tape 
Video   2
“Computer,” 1 sixty-second spot
Physical Description: U-Matic tape 
Video   3
“Tough times,” 1 thirty-second spot
Physical Description: U-Matic tape 
Video   4
“Endorsements”
Physical Description: U-Matic tape 
Video   5
“Roots,” 1 thirty-second spot
Physical Description: U-Matic tape 
Video   6
“Want Ads,” 1 thirty-second spot
Physical Description: U-Matic tape 
1986 television campaign spots
Video   7
“Peace”
Physical Description: VHS tape 
Video   8
“Farms,” “Barneveld,” and “Jobs”
Physical Description: VHS tape 
Video   9
“Farm policy”
Physical Description: VHS tape 
Video   10
“Family farm”
Physical Description: VHS tape 
Video   11
“Integrity”
Physical Description: VHS tape 
1988 television campaign spots
Video   12
“Record,” 1 thirty-second spot
Physical Description: VHS tape 
Video   13
“List,” 1 thirty-second spot
Physical Description: VHS tape 
Video   14
“Veterans,” 1 thirty-second spot
Physical Description: VHS tape 
Video   15
“University”
Physical Description: U-Matic tape 
1990 television campaign spots
Video   16
“Check,” 1 thirty-second spot
Physical Description: VHS tape 
Video   17
“Gulf” and “Fairness”
Physical Description: VHS tape 
Video   18
“Beaver Dam,” 1 thirty-second spot
Physical Description: VHS tape 
Video   19
Wisconsin Week, segment with Scott Klug on limiting Congressional terms; Klug was running for office against Kastenmeier, 1990
Physical Description: VHS tape 
Video   20
If You Love Free Speech / produced by Network Night Off, 1990
Physical Description: VHS tape 
Note: Documentary style film on Congressional Hearings before Judiciary Subcommittee chaired by Kastenmeier investigating the idea of identifying foreign documentary films about the United States as propaganda.
Audio 1644A
Audio Recordings
1644A/1
WHA radio interview with Jim Packard, 1983 November 21
Physical Description: Microcassette 
1644A/2-6
Draft hearings (five sessions) in Madison, Wisconsin, 1969 April-May
Physical Description: 5-inch open reels 
1644A/7
Kastenmeier's monthly radio program, 1972 April
Physical Description: 5-inch open reel 
1644A/8
“Labor's friend, Congressman Bob Kastenmeier”
Physical Description: Cassette tape 
Note: Side one, introduction by United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1444 representative, Kastenmeier talks about the election and workers and corporate monopolies, pro-union.
1644A/9
Radio announcement?, musical benefit for Kastenmeier, Madison, Wisconsin, undated
Physical Description: 7-inch open reel 
1644A/10
Undated campaign radio [spots]
Physical Description: Cassette tape 
Note: Side one, “Right on the Issues,” “Homework,” and “Farms, seniors, and small business.”
1644A/11
“Labor (tape),” #1, undated
Physical Description: 5-inch open reel 
Note: Robert Kastenmeier discusses workers' needs, unemployment, high interest rates, military spending, and tax cuts to the rich; possibly for a program.
1644A/12
“Labor (tape),” #2, undated
Physical Description: 5-inch open reel 
Note: Robert Kastenmeier discusses why this election matters, unions, corporate monopolies, and agribusiness; possibly for a program.
1644A/13
“Editorial Radio,” 1 sixty-second spot, undated
Physical Description: Cassette tape 
1982 campaign radio spots
1644A/14
Republican opponent Jim Johnson spots on side one
Physical Description: Cassette tape 
1644A/15
“Tuesday,” 1982
Physical Description: Cassette tape 
Note: Announcer Paul Soglin encourages people to get out and vote for Tony Earl and Robert Kastenmeier on Election Day; on Monday Soglin reminds people of a rally at the capital with Tony Earl, Robert Kastenmeier, and Walter Mondale.
1984 campaign radio spots
1644A/16
Kastenmeier soundtrack
Physical Description: Cassette tape 
Note: Both sides, different announcers remind people to get out and vote on Tuesday to re-elect Kastenmeier.
Republican opponent, Albert Wiley
1644A/17
“Right for the times,” “Moderation,” “Selfish,” “Biotech,” and “Farm loans”
Physical Description: Cassette tape 
1644A/18
“Right for the Times,” “Moderation,” “Priorities,” and “Farmers”
Physical Description: Cassette tape 
1644A/19
“Right time” and “Careers”
Physical Description: 5-inch open reel 
1986 campaign radio spots
1644A/20
“Newscaster peace,” 2 sixty-second spots
Physical Description: Cassette tape 
Note: Side one, Kastenmeier promotion, he stands up for peace. Also contains “Farmers, students, families” spot.
1644A/21
“Count on” and “Farm,” 2 thirty-second spots
Physical Description: Cassette tape 
1988 campaign radio spots
1644A/22
“Confused,” 1 sixty-second spot
Physical Description: Cassette tape 
1644A/23
“University,” 1 sixty-second spot
Physical Description: Cassette tape 
Note: There is a television spot with the same title on VHS tape.
1990 campaign radio spots
1644A/24
“Gulf,” 1 sixty-second spot
Physical Description: Cassette tape 
Note: There is a television spot with the same title on VHS tape.
1644A/25
“Smear,” 1 sixty-second spot
Physical Description: Cassette tape 
1644A/26
“Biotech,” 1 sixty-second spot
Physical Description: Cassette tape 
1644A/27
“Get it,” 1 sixty-second spot
Physical Description: Cassette tape