Oral history interview with Frederick Wayne Ford, 1978
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- Name
- Ford, Frederick W., 1909-1986 (Interviewee)
- Baughman, James L., 1952-2016 (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Frederick Wayne Ford, 1978
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Frederick Wayne Ford, 1978
- Abstract
- Early jobs in Washington; Farm Security Administration; counsel, Federal Communications Commission, 1947-53; Richards case, Paramount case; Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice, 1953-57; commission member, Federa; Communications Commission, 1957-65: pay television, de-intermixture; reminiscences of various Federal Communications Commission members
- Collection Name
- Federal Communications Commission project
- Subjects
- Government executives--United States; Lawyers; Television--Law and legislation; United States Politics and government 1945-1989; Ford, Frederick W., 1909-1986; United States. Farm Security Administration; United States. Federal Communications Commission; United States. Dept. of Justice
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1978
- Physical Description
- sound file : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit); 73 pages
- Note (Biographical)
- Lawyer
- Note (Funding)
- Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Note
- Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010
- Service copy (44 kHz, 16 bit) and rendered version (96 kHz, 24 bit) of sound file derived from a digital preservation master digitized at 96 kHz, 24 bit
- Interviewed by Jame L. Baughman on June 19, 1978
- Note (Provenance)
- Frederick Wayne Ford, Gift 1978
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
- Catalog Record
- 7091847
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-fj03-q565
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.