Series: Films, Tape and Disc Recordings, and Photographs

Subseries: Tape Recordings

D-Day broadcast from Dresden, 1944 June 12

“The Big Blackout-1965,” reported by John MacVane

“Adlai Stevenson on Vietnam”

“Flair Reports,” with John MacVane, 1963 July 30

On the Death of Charles DeGaulle, 1970 November 10

Collection of classic broadcasts prepared by MacVane for 1959 Overseas Press Club Night

20th Anniversary of U.N.-ABC Special Program

Dieppie Raid

“Dr. Miles Lab,” 1942 January 26; MacVane exclusive, 1943 May 16

MacVane's “Scrapbook of Sound,” Hindenburg through D-Day

MacVane, 1968 May 10-September 7
Note: Housed in a U.N. reel box.

MacVane reaction to FDR speech, 1941 May 15
Note: Housed in a U.N. reel box.

Death of Darlan

ABC Saigon to ABC Radio News New York: Captain Peter Ellen on training and war in South Vietnam, 1964 August 3

[unlabeled]

Two John MacVane promos

Demonstration during Stevenson speech; MacVane ad-libs description of “riot”; , 1961 February 15

MacVane prize awarded by Harvard to Professor Dr. A. Geyl, Professor of History in the Netherlands, Radio Nederland program by Theo de Boer at Professor Geyl's home in Utrecht

News Special

MacVane Paris report, 1944 August 25

[unlabeled]

MacVane's tape of sounds in Brazil congress during De Gaulle speech

MacVane report, August 25

MacVane reports from the beach, June 15

Announcement by Jiro Maida, November 25

MacVane Paris Liberation

D-Day

Paris Liberation special, 1964 August 21

John MacVane and Fred Bates, NBC, 1940 August 25

[illegible label]

Update: “The U.N. Nobody Knows,” conceived, written and executed by John MacVane, 1972 June 11

NBC Stands by Preview of Invasion Preparations, 1944 June 6

“Cockpit of Peace,” U.N. story, 1959 August 18

“Cockpit of Peace”

John MacVane interviews D-Day correspondents, 25 years later

Perspective youth assembly, 1970 August 2

“World of Radio,” standard copy, Monday October 27

Miles Lab, 1942 December 23

John MacVane, Algiers

Miles Lab, 1943 March 29-30

Miles Lab, 1944 March 24, 27, August 25

5R Flash, 1944 August 26

Ken Banghart / World News Roundup / Western Front / London / London on Feedback Channel / World News Panama, circa 1945

Bombing of Buckingham Palace / News Flash London / Anniversary of German Surrender / Special Report from Paris / Athens-Ankara-London,

John MacVane newscasts, 1940 August 16, September 11, 1941 April 2, 17

War broadcasts, MacVane

Subseries: Disc Recordings
Note: User copies of the disc recordings are available on tape at the call number Audio 928A.

[NBC News], Report from Africa by MacVane on the death of Darlan, 1942 December 25

[NBC News], Report by MacVane on FDR speech, recorded by the BBC, 1941 March 28

The Story of Omaha Beachhead (NBC), 1946 June 6
Scope and Content Note: Radio drama on Normandy landings with MacVane as narrator. Script included with MacVane papers. Part V (Disc #5) includes a broadcast from London by Merrill Mueller and Part VI includes a recorded message from Dwight Eisenhower, neither of which is part of the written script.

[NBC News], Report from France by MacVane, 1944 June 13

Part I

Part III

Part II

[NBC News], Report on the liberation of Paris by MacVane, 1944 August 25

Part I

Part III

Part II

[NBC News], Report from France by MacVane, 1944 August 27

Part I

Part II

Subseries: Films

ABC Scope: U.N. + 20, What Peace Does It Keep?, 1965
Note: ABC News. Producer: Lester Cooper. Director: Lloyd Tweedy

Alaska: The New Frontier, 1960
Note: KTCA-TV for The National Educational Television and Radio Center. Producer: Joseph T. McDermott

Modern Alaska, 1960

Old Alaska, 1960

Problems of Statehood, 1960

Native Alaska, 1960

Alaska of the Tourist and the Newcomer, 1960

Strategic Alaska, 1960

United or Not?, 1952
Note: ABC Public Affairs Department in cooperation with the United Nations Correspondents Association. Director: Emory Kelen

[Interview with Trygve Lie], 18 March 1952

[Interview with Dr. Ivan Kerno], 13 October 1952

United Nations Review, 1952
Note: United Nations Television. National Educational Television and Radio Center. [Sponsor].

United Nations Review, [1952?]
Note: United Nations Television. National Educational Television and Radio Center. [Sponsor].

United Nations Review, [1952?]
Note: United Nations Television. National Educational Television and Radio Center. [Sponsor].

Subseries: Photographs, 1935-1968
Scope and Content Note: Images show MacVane as a World War II news correspondent on the USS Missouri, in North Africa, France, and Germany; postwar activities of the United Nations; Berlin Airlift; D-Day anniversaries in 1949 and 1954; portraits in radio and television studios, with colleagues on panels, and with prominent persons such as Harry Truman, U Thant, Dag Hammarskjold, Adlai Stevenson, and Henry Cabot Lodge.