VII. Audiovisual Materials, 1960s-1980s

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William Tapley Bennett, Jr. Papers, Series VII: Audiovisual, includes seven 8mm films, one 16mm film, 12 audiocassettes, and one three-quarter-inch Umatic videotape. The series includes moving images of Haiti and the Dominican Republic from the 1960s, as well as other audiovisual resources documenting Bennett's career.

Included among the materials is one silent, black and white 16mm film of the 1966 farewell ceremony conducted upon Bennett's departure for his ambassadorial post in Portugal. Also included are fifteen audiotapes, many containing recordings of speeches and events including a statement by Gunnery Sergeant Jack E. Moonman regarding the U.S. Dominican Republic Intervention of April 1965, a 1977 interview of Bennett conducted by Bernard Gwertzman for The New York Times, the swearing in of Bennett as Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Intergovernmental Affairs in 1983, and an address delivered in 1978 on the Sender Freies-Berlin German radio station. Present among the audiotapes as well are a number of audio recordings of addresses delivered in Georgia during the 1970s and musical recordings made by Bennett of Fado songs of Portugal and of a performance by Pearl Bailey for U.S. President Gerald Ford and President of Egypt Anwar Sadat.

This series also includes two oral history interviews for the Foreign Affairs Oral History Project conducted under the auspices of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training with the Honorable W. Tapley Bennett, Jr. made at DACOR [Diplomatic and Consular Officers, Retired] Bacon House on Thursday the 16th of June, 1988. The interviewer was Horace G. Torbert, Jr.

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