The Broadcast Pioneers Library moved in 1994 from the NAB in Washington to College Park, where expansion and development of the Library continues. This War Collection, renamed the Gulf War Video Collection by the Library, occupied new facilities in Hornbake Library building 3 September 2002, the 30th anniversary year of the Library's creation at the NAB. The Diamondback -- independent student newspaper at U-Md. -- reported problems with the news collection's availability and use in the new facilities during November 2002. The student reporter explains that ten years earlier in Huntsville, Alabama, a civilian employee who had been in the War area in 1990-91 presented Foote with the international video collection of original tapes. Most of the tapes had not been edited.

The Library of American Broadcasting (LAB) Foundation celebrated the Library's grand opening 18 September 2003 in New York's Grand Hyatt Hotel. CEO Luongo seated the Chotank.com Collection developer at the Taishoff/West table next to Harry A. Jessell, Editor-in-Chief of Broadcasting and Cable. The vacant chair on the other side of the developer, held for Chuck Howell, Chief Curator of the Library at Maryland, remained empty because DC area airport closures caused by storm Isabel interrupted his plans to attend. And seated across the table was Donald V. West in whose name Broadcasting and Cable had given a substantial photo collection to LAB in 2003. West followed Luongo in 2006 to become President and CEO of the Library of American Broadcasting Foundation, co-located with the Library in College Park, Maryland.

In March 2001, the Collection's developer, preparing the Collection for a permanent national home, taped an interview about the War Coalition's media relations with Rick Kiernan, former head of media relations for the U. S. Army and head of the Joint Information Bureau during the Gulf War. Collection developer Avon Edward Foote interviewed Kiernan, General Norman Schwarzkopf's press assistant during the war, especially for the Collection at the Washington NBC Television primary facility adjacent to the U.S. Capitol. The taping used the Hardball studio where Chris Matthew's programs on CNBC and MSNBC originate. Matthews is a former speech writer for President Carter.

As Thornwood's Persian Gulf War, 1991, TV News Collection, this site became a significant internet reference source after Ask Jeeves ratings from DIRECT HIT, which claimed it tracked 71 per cent of all web users in a month, ranked CHOTANK among the Top One or Two "Persian Gulf War" web locales for several weeks in Summer 2000. Until October 7, 2001, this was the most popular "Gulf War, 1991" site on the Internet earning a DIRECT HIT ranking of #1 with three "people" stars. Warner Bros, promoting a November 2004 DVD release of Three Kings, created a minor "free press" controversy by refusing to add a recent Gulf War I documentary by the movie's director David O. Russell to the new DVD content and then postponing release to after the presidential election. Russell commented on the studio's delaying DVD release to February 2005, "This is censorship and an infringement of the 1st Amendment based on political opinions."

Celebrating the site's popularity, a second series of original still frames from the collection was added to the popular, first NetSlides war image series from the Collection to acknowledge the 10th anniversary of the Gulf War. You may follow the links above to see both NetSlides series.

Streaming Emblaze 2005 audio concerning the controversy over press coverage of the War reveals tight military handling of correspondents in some cases. Click the gray, play button near top of this page or here for the audio sample that establishes there was a policy to limit 1990/91 coverage of soldiers' religious activities, a charge made by one Middle East, ABC Television correspondent. Chris Burry, the ABC correspondent, also reported on the 2003 War in Iraq.

The Davis transcript will help readers determine how well the Sidle Commission plan for U.S. military public relations worked during the Persian Gulf War. The interview with Rick Davis of NBC Television was recorded in the Persian Gulf military theater. The transcript is taken from the original BetaCam NBC tape by Eddie Foote, LAB Collection developer and university professor.

John Lynch, director of the Television News Archives at Vanderbilt University, has considered the significance of this professional BetaCam tape Collection on the Gulf War. He conceded in Nashville interview with the Collection developer that the Gulf War archive is the major international, unedited collection of Persian Gulf War television coverage available for academic study, and he agrees with Vernon Stone -- Radio Television News Directors' Association researcher and scholar and former Director of Journalism Graduate Studies at University of Georgia -- that the Collection is the largest known, academic video archive on the Gulf War after the Vanderbilt collection. The Vanderbilt archive is the most comprehensive for off-air, news packages containing 2,000 hours of Persian Gulf War footage on 3/4 inch, U-MATIC videotape from ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN.

The Gulf War TV News Collection's developer is editor of CBS and Congress: "The Selling of the Pentagon" Papers, a special issue of the Educational Broadcasting Review (EBR). He edited the issue while a faculty member at the University of Mississippi, and The Ohio State University in cooperation with the National Association of Educational Broadcasters, Washington, published the volume. Foote sought clarification of the matters of Freedom of the Press raised by the 1971 attempt to cite CBS President Frank Stanton, who withheld outtakes (footage shot but not used in final edit) from a Congressional Committee, for contempt of Congress. The Committee was looking into the CBS program about Pentagon public relations activities. Stanton is an Ohio State graduate inducted into the "First Fifty Giants of Broadcasting" during the 2003 Grand Opening of the Library of American Broadcasting, and Don West, new Library Foundation President and CEO (elected 15 September 2005), was Stanton's assistant at CBS for four years until 1969. The National Public Broadcasting Archives, also at University of Maryland, has a copy of the special issue in the collected papers of Bill Reed, retired PBS Senior Vice-President. The National Archives II is at College Park, a short bus ride from the Footes' Collection. The Archives makes this statement in a 1990 brochure: "The outtakes or unaired footage may contain more valuable information than the edited footage put on the air." Roger Mudd, anchor for "The Selling of the Pentagon" in 1970, is a guest journalist/book author for March 30th and April 6th on "Q & A" with Brian Lamb on C-Span, 8 p.m. EST.

The National Public Broadcasting Archives in the new Centre for Broadcasting Archives at the University of Maryland include EBR as reference shelf materials for the NPBA subject collections on "Public Radio", "Public Television", "NPR", "Allerton House Conferences" (added in 2002) and the "Carnegie Commission on Educational Television".

The Collection's developer is editor of EBR issues in the NBPA Collection; a former assistant to Professor Stone in Georgia's graduate journalism program; and both a member and sometimes chairman of Peabody Radio/TV Awards faculty screening committees at the UGA in the 70s. The developer's screening committee recommended a Peabody Award to Jim Laurie for NBC News radio reports on the fall of Saigon in 1975. Laurie's Peabody Award citation reads: "For more than nineteen hours, Laurie and his colleagues provided a series of twenty special reports on the disintegration of Saigon. Then Laurie elected to remain behind to provide Americans with additional reports after the last Marine was lifted off the roof of the U.S. Embassy." Remembering comments of Grady College Dean Emeritus John Drewry, who assisted WSB's Lambdin Kay in founding the Peabody Awards, Foote told his students at the University of North Alabama in March 2005 that "Drewry seemed more pleased with a Peabody for Laurie" than any of the other Peabody recommendations that Foote discussed with him. Foote and Drewry shared an office complex with Professors Becky Quarles and Vernon Stone at the time. The Broadcast Pioneers, who started the Library of American Broadcasting at the NAB, co-sponsored for many years the Peabody Awards Dinner in New York, that established the Peabody as one of the earliest, most-valued radio awards and later television awards at major production organizations and the national networks.

Foote's Vector Theory of Perception & Persuasion****

The Collection developer is also author of "A Model of Communication Effectiveness", originally published in the Journal of Communication about the time of the Stanton controversy. In 2000, the American Psychological Association abstracted the article for its literature database (PsycINFO_1887), and the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), Columbus, Ohio, with 55,000 library affiliations in 110 countries distributes the abstract. OCLC

Norman Schwarzkopf

reported in 2004 that 1400 libraries worldwide have copies of the complete article. The Foote model takes its inspiration from the work of Claude Shannon (1917 -- 2001), whose mathematics of information theory is still clarifying the limits of encoding/decoding. The American Institutes for Research, Washington, D. C., later selected the Foote model when compiling the U. S. Army's psyop practice book for the Viet Nam era. Psyop Casebook became the working title during permissions clearances and editing approvals gathered in 1972. Sarah A. Skillings, on behalf of Ronald D. McLaurin, signed the permission request sent to Eddie Foote at Ohio State, and the United States Army Publishing Agency published the 1173 page collection four years later. The two book set is: Daniel C. Pollock, Project Director, The Art and Science of Psychological Operations: Case Studies of Military Application. In two volumes (DA PAM 525-7-1; 525-7-2). Editors: Ronald D. McLaurin, Carl F. Rosenthal, Sarah A. Skillings, and others. (Washington: Headquarters, Department of the Army, April 1976). Click to search OCLC for libraries with copies of both volumes in US and overseas. Dr. Foote's vector model is on pages 636 to 642 of Volume Two.  [In 2007, major internet search engines still use vector space theory techniques to write search programming functions. These functions compute site relevancy rankings for search term listings at MSN, GOOGLE, and YAHOO.]  Zbigniew Brzezinski, who became advisor to the National Security Council in the Carter administration, has an article "Propaganda and the Monopoly of Mass Communications" on pages 1028 to 1042. Vernon Stone's article is pages 796 to 805.

Blackwell Synergy published Foote's model online 7 February 2006. You may go to www.blackwell-synergy.com to get more information. Online access to content requires that you be a registered user or choose to pay the single article fee. Blackwell Synergy has offices in the US, UK, Australia, China, Denmark, Germany and Japan and is the world's leading society publisher.

Channel 4, London, recommends this Gulf War Collection page to viewers looking for the history behind "The Road to 9/11: A chronology". DVDs of the program are available on the PBS website but the US co-production has been retitled, "The Road to 9/11: A Brief History of Conflict in the Middle East".  WETA, Washington, in announcing the national telecast and its own role in the PBS production, states in its 2006 press release: [The program] looks at the deep historical roots of Al-Qaeda, and the theological and political background of bin Laden and his goals. The result is an engrossing, fast-paced history lesson that looks forward as well as back, lending perspective to today's events and policy choices.

Since this CHOTANK site started in 1995 under the auspices of the BBC Networking Club on the Pipex WorldServer, Cambridge, England, please note that an American -- BBC partnership site from the same era, still maintained by PBS, provides ready-now, similar pages, including interviews with Margaret Thatcher, Colin Powell, Norman Schwarzkopf and others. Click FRONTLINE.