Inventory of the
Governor and the Students Videotape Series, 1973-1974
Finding aid prepared by Hoover Institution Archives Staff.
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Title:
The Governor and the Students videotape series
Date (inclusive): 1973-1974
Collection Number: 84078
Physical Description:
1 manuscript box and 77 videotapes
(27.4 linear feet)
Contributing Institution:
Hoover Institution Archives
Language of Material:
English
Abstract: Videotape cassettes and selected transcripts of broadcasts of a televised series of question-and-answer sessions with high
school students conducted by Ronald Reagan as governor of California, relating to California state political issues. Produced
by JRH and Associates, Inc.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Access
Collection is open for research.
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copies of audiovisual items. To listen to sound recordings or to view videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives
at least two working days before your arrival. We will then advise you of the accessibility of the material you wish to see
or hear. Please note that not all audiovisual material is immediately accessible.
Publication Rights
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item],
The Governor and the Students videotape series, 1973-1974, [Box number if appropriate], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1984.
Accruals
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
Related Collections
Deaver & Hannaford records, Hoover Institution Archives
Historical Note
Ronald Reagan described
The Governor and the Students this way:
"During my last two years in office we had a program in cooperation with the department of education. Each week a different
high school class would come to the Capitol and I would field their questions (or try to) for one hour. The program was entirely
unrehearsed. I would meet them only a few minutes before we actually started and, of course, had no preview of their questions.
"The hour was taped for television and made available for closed circuit classroom use in all of California's 1100-plus school
districts. It was also played on the educational TV network." [Box 1; original source unidentified]
The program gave Reagan a way to connect with young people. Modeled on the press conference format, the idea for the show
originated with Reagan aides Michael K. Deaver and Joseph R. Holmes. High school students were chosen over college students
on the theory that they lived with their parents, had not been exposed to liberal college professors, and would therefore
be more polite and less radical.
The shows were taped on a weekday after school, and the videotapes were distributed to TV stations in California to air at
no cost. While most were public broadcast stations, it aired on a commercial station in Visalia because there was no public
broadcast station in that area. The series was produced by JRH and Associates in Sacramento. The name Young People's Television
(YPTV) is also associated with this program.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection consists of videotapes and selected transcripts of broadcasts of a televised series of question-and-answer
sessions with high school students conducted by Ronald Reagan as governor of California, relating to California state political
issues.
Transcripts are available for ten programs, and lists of questions asked by the students are available for another ten shows.
Labels on the videotapes provide limited information about their contents. Fully identifying each tape by date and version
is dependent on, and limited by, its label. Some tapes are labeled as opening and closing credits sequences. Based on the
videotape labels, it appears that the programs are about 30 minutes in duration.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
JRH and Associates, Inc.
Reagan, Ronald
California--Politics and government--1951-
Videotapes
Lists and transcripts
1973-1974
Scope and Contents note
Lists of questions asked, and transcripts of entire programs, arranged by physical form.
Box/Folder: 1 : 1
General papers
undated
Scope and Contents note
Account by Reagan and public broadcast schedule for 1973-74 season
Box/Folder: 1 : 2
Lists of questions or topics
1973-1974
Box/Folder: 1 : 2
Loretto High School
14 May 1974
Box/Folder: 1 : 2
Rio Vista High School
18 March 1974
Box/Folder: 1 : 2
Pleasant Hill High School
13 March 1974
Box/Folder: 1 : 2
Stockton Unified School District
26 February 1974
Box/Folder: 1 : 2
Sacramento High School
4 February 1974
Box/Folder: 1 : 2
Oak Grove High School (San Jose) and Encina High School (Sacramento)
7 January 1974
Box/Folder: 1 : 2
Delta High School
14 January 1974
Box/Folder: 1 : 2
San Diego
25 October 1973
Box/Folder: 1 : 2
Orange County Schools
16 October 1973
Box/Folder: 1 : 2
Durham High and Chico Senior High
3 October 1973
Box/Folder: 1 : 3
Eighth graders
7 February 1973
Box/Folder: 1 : 3
Rocklin School
8 March 1973
Box/Folder: 1 : 3
Sutter Junior High
22 March 1973
Box/Folder: 1 : 4
El Camino High School
12 April 1973
Box/Folder: 1 : 4
Rio Americano High School
26 April 1973
Box/Folder: 1 : 4
Luther Burbank High School
5 May 1973
Box/Folder: 1 : 4
Summer school students, Sacramento area
18 June 1973
Box/Folder: 1 : 5
San Jose School District
17 September 1973
Box/Folder: 1 : 5
Rio Americano
24 September 1973
Videorecordings
1973-1974
Scope and Contents note
Videotapes of entire programs and of opening and closing credits sequences. Arranged by videotape format in three groups:
one-inch videoreels, two-inch videoreels, and U-matic videocassette.
Tapes: 1-26
One-inch videoreels
1973-1974
Tape: 1
Modesto City Schools (Inter-High Student Council),
29 January 1973
Tape: 2
Pleasant Ridge Elementary School,
7 February 1973
Tape: 3
Rocklin Elementary School, time: two 1/2 hour shows,
9 March 1973
Tape: 5
Rio Americano High School, time: 28:30,
24 April 1973
Tape: 6
Hiram Johnson High School, time: 28:15,
14 May 1973
Tape: 7
Hiram Johnson High School, #10,
14 May 1973
Tape: 8
Luther Burbank High School, #11 and 12,
22 May 1973
Tape: 9
College of Marin, #13 and14,
11 June 1973
Tape: 10
San Jose High School,
17 September 1973
Tape: 11
Rio Americano High School,
24 September 1973
Tape: 12
GPS Master,
30 September 1973
Tape: 13
Chico Schools,
3 October 1973
Tape: 14
Encina-Oak Grove, #17 A and B, time: 28:30 and 28:30,
January 1974
Tape: 15
#18 A and B, Delta, time: 28:10 and 28:25,
14 January 1974
Tape: 16
Sacramento High School, #19 A and B, time: 27:30 and 27:30,
13 February 1974
Tape: 17
Pleasant Hill, 1st and 2nd half,
27 March 1974
Tape: 18
Loreto High School, time: 28:30 and 28:25,
14 May 1974
Tape: 19
Face the Students (Joe Holmes), show #6A and 6B, time: 27:10 and 27:30,
13 November 1974
Tape: 24 (#6)
For GPC, Department of Motor Vehicles,
undated
Tape: 25
Senator A. Alquist, Report, time: 11:07,
undated
Tape: 26
#15 and 16, McClatchy,
undated
Tapes: 27-76
Two-inch videoreels
1973-1974
Tape: 27
Joe Holmes (on the cover), time: 3:00,
19 April 1973
Tape: 28 (17)
Press Conference (Show #7), Master, time: 28:00,
26 April 1973
Tape: 30
San Jose, time: 28:36,
7 September 1973
San Jose, time: 28:36, 7 September 1973
Tape: 31 (12)
Chico, time: A-27:05, B-27:40,
3 October 1973
Tape: 32 (11)
Rio Americano, Master, (Glitch throughout both programs), time: 2-A-28:00, 2-B-28:10,
10 October 1973
Tape: 33
Governor Reagan,
29 October 1973
Tape: 34
28 November 1973,
time: 28:20
Tape: 35 (21)
Holmes-Land, College of Marin (A), time: 26:50,
19 December 1973
Tape: 36 (32)
College of Marin, 1 out of 2,
19 December 1973
Tape: 37 (25)
Encina-Oak Grove, #17A, time: 27:24,
9 January 1974
Tape: 38
College of Marin, part 2, time: 29:15,
9 January 1974
Tape: 39
Delta 18B, time: 28:28,
14 January 1974
Tape: 40 (17B)
Encina-Oak Grove, time: 27:30,
16 January 1974
Tape: 41 (4)
Delta High School, 18-A,
23 January 1974
Delta High School, 18-A, 23 January 1974
Tape: 42 (3)
Sacramento High, time: 27:30,
4 February 1974
Tape: 43 (7)
Sacramento High, time: 27:30,
4 February 1974
Tape: 44 (9)
Mark Keppel School, A Master, time: 27:52,
8 February 1974
Mark Keppel School, A Master, time: 27:52, 8 February 1974
Tape: 45 (1)
Stockton, time: 27:22,
26 February 1974
Tape: 46 (8)
Pleasant Hill, time: 27:48,
13 March 1974
Tape: 47 (15)
Pleasant Hill, time: 27:46,
13 March 1974
Tape: 48 (38)
Rio Vista, time: 27:10,
18 March 1974
Tape: 49 (23A and 23B)
Rio Vista, time: 26:45,
18 March 1974
Tape: 50 (2)
Hi Band Color, time: 28:15,
19 April 1974
Tape: 51 (5)
Hi Band Color, time: 28:12,
19 April 1974
Tape: 52 (22)
Holmes-Land #22,
22 April 1974
Tape: 53 (1A)
Car theft, time: 60:00,
13 May 1974
Tape: 54 (2A)
Car theft, time: 30:00,
13 May 1974
Tape: 55 (6)
Loreto High School, time: 28:30,
14 May 1974
Tape: 56
It's No Life For Nobody, Master, time: 30:00,
22 July 1974
Tape: 57 (39)
Holmes-Land, #39, Petaluma, Show #1A, time: 26:43,
4 September 1974
Tape: 58 (40)
Petaluma, time: 27:08,
4 September 1974
Petaluma, time: 27:08, 4 September 1974
Tape: 59 (33)
Show #2B, time: 27:40,
18 September 1974
Tape: 60 (34)
Face the Students, Castro Valley High School, #2A (3), time: 27:50,
18 September 1974
Conditions Governing Access note
Use copy reference number: 84078_v_0001525
Tape: 61
Face the Students, Show #3B-Modoc and Orland, Master, time: 27:30,
9 October 1974
Tape: 62
Face the Students, Show #4A, time: 28:00,
11 November 1974
Tape: 63
Face the Students, Show #4B, time: 1 hour (28:03),
11 November 1974
Tape: 64 (35)
Face the Students, Show #6A, Galt, time: 27:10,
13 November 1974
Tape: 65
Face the Students, Show #6B, time: 27:30,
13 November 1974
Tape: 66
Face the Students, Show #13: Cozens, time: 28:30,
10 January 1975
Tape: 67
Face the Students, Show #17, time: 28:30,
14 February 1975
Tape: 68
Face the Students,
11 April 1975
Tape: 69 (16)
Governor News Conference, Luther Burbank students (part 1), time: 28:41,
24 May 1973
Tape: 70 (18)
Holmes-Land, time: 21:50,
undated
Tape: 71 (19)
Holmes-Land, interviews, time: 30:00,
undated
Tape: 72 (23)
Holmes-Land, #23, time: 25:15,
undated
Tape: 73 (30)
Governor News Conference, Luther Burbank students (part 2), time: 28:30,
undated
Governor News Conference, Luther Burbank students (part 2), time: 28:30, undated
Tape: 77
U-matic videocassette,
undated
Tape: 77
San Diego, time: 28:30,
undated
