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The Sidney Pike papers document the television broadcasting career of Pike at WBZ-TV, WHDH-TV, ABC, WQXI-TV, Channel 17, WTBS,
and CNN. The collection includes scripts, correspondence, photographs, film public domain research files, clippings, and marketing
material.
The WBZ-TV files include scripts from the Bosco Roundup program, B. A. Rolfe's Storytime, 2000 A.D., and the Mental Health
and Let Freedom Ring campaigns. The WDHD-TV series primarily documents "The American Way of Life" Brazil exchange project.
The Brazil Project was a series of five programs about an average American family, which were shown on Channel 9, Sao Paulo,
Brazil. The series was also translated and shown in Japan by the United States Information Agency. The majority of the collection
documents Pike's career working with Ted Turner, first at Channel 17 (WTCG), then WTBS international sales, and finally retiring
as President of CNN Special Projects.
The personal papers primarily document Pike's activities as chairman of the board for NETO (National Education Telecommunications
Organization) and the International Foundation for Global Studies.
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