http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8rv0tzf No online items John Martin Television Journalism Collection MS-0505 Rose Smith Special Collections & University Archives 03/14/2014 5500 Campanile Dr. MC 8050 San Diego, CA 92182-8050 [email protected] URL: http://library.sdsu.edu/scua John Martin Television Journalism MS-0505 1 Collection MS-0505 Contributing Institution: Special Collections & University Archives Title: John Martin Television Journalism Collection Creator: Martin, John Identifier/Call Number: MS-0505 Physical Description: 30.00 Linear Feet Date (inclusive): 1960-2011 Date (bulk): 1965-2002 Language of Material: English . Scope and Contents The John Martin Television Journalism Collection documents the career of newspaper and television reporter John Martin from his time as an editor of the San Diego State newspaper The Aztec in 1960 to his departure from ABC News in 2002. This collection consists of personal documents and mementos, records from Martin's time as adjunct professor of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, scripts from Sacramento, CA station KCRA-TV News and ABC News broadcasts Martin reported for, original research for these broadcasts, various publications and newspapers collected and contributed to by Martin, and audio and visual recordings of news programs. The collection is divided into six series: Personal Papers (1960-2010), Scripts (1966-2000), Research (1991-2005), Aherne Files (1974-1999), Publications (1963-2011), and Audio/Visual Files (1963-2002). The Personal Papers (1960-2010) of John Martin consist of personal notes and goodbyes from former colleagues, mementos, and copies of The Aztec from Martin's time as editor at San Diego State University. Also available are records from his time as adjunct professor of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, including copies of the labor-oriented journal Fault Lines, written by students of Martin's graduate seminar by the same name. The Scripts (1966-2000) series consists of scripts written for Sacramento station KCRA-TV News and ABC News programs Martin reported for during this time. The scripts are largely from Martin's segment It's Your Money on ABC World News Tonight, but scripts from other ABC broadcasts such as 20/20, This Week with David Brinkley and Nightline are also available. The Research (1991-2005) portion of this collection consists of all the original research done by John Martin and his colleagues for ABC news and the It's Your Money segment on World News Tonight. They are arranged according to subject by John Martin. The Aherne Files (1974-1999) consist of all the research done on Reverend John Aherne, a former principal of St. Augustine High School in San Diego, and the scandal surrounding his departure. Additionally, there are rough drafts and copies of Martin's piece on Aherne, Men in Black, as well as volumes of poems written by Aherne, and photographs of Aherne and the small Massachusetts town where he was installed as Vice President of Merrimack College. The Publications (1963-2011) portion of this collection consists of magazine and newspapers collected by John Martin, some of which Martin contributed to himself. There are issues of The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME Magazine and many others, as well as original news prints from historical events such as the moon landing in 1963, and the aftermath of September 11, 2001. The Audio/Visual Materials (1963-2002) contain audio and visual recordings of news segments and broadcasts such as 20/20, Nightline, This Week with David Brinkley, ABC World News Tonight, and It's Your Money. Some of these recordings document famous stories such as the post-World War II U.S. Army assistance to Nazi fugitive Klaus Barbie (1983), the international search for Nazi fugitive Josef Mengele (1985), a Gulf War incubator atrocity hoax perpetrated by the Kuwaiti government (1991), the Los Angeles riots stemming from the Rodney King beating (1992), the tobacco industry's manipulation of nicotine (1994) and many others. A [url=https://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/nas/streaming/dept/scuastaf/collections/MartinJohnVideo/JohnMartinNetworkTVNewsVideo.pdf]catalogue of the video contents[/url] in this series is available @ https://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/nas/streaming/dept/scuastaf/collections/MartinJohnVideo/JohnMartinNetworkTVNewsVideo.pdf Arrangement Note I. Personal Papers II. Scripts III. Research IV. Aherne Files V. Publications VI. Audio/Visual Files John Martin Television Journalism MS-0505 2 Collection MS-0505 Conditions Governing Access This collection is open for research. NOTE: Series 6: Audio / Visual Materials Most of these items have been digitized but they are currently unavailable online because of copyright restrictions. To view these materials, please visit the Special Collections' Reading Room or contact us at 619-594-6791 or [email protected] Conditions Governing Use The copyright interests in some of these materials have not been transferred to San Diego State University. The nature of historical archival and manuscript collections means that copyright status may be difficult or even impossible to determine. Copyright resides with the creators of materials contained in the collection or their heirs. Requests for permission to publish must be submitted to the Head of Special Collections, San Diego State University, Library and Information Access. When granted, permission is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical item and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder(s), which must also be obtained in order to publish. Materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Source of Acquisition John Martin Accruals and Additions 2012-005, 2012-011, 2012-016, 2012-032 Preferred Citation Identification of item, folder title, box number, John Martin Television Journalism Collection, Special Collections and University Archives, San Diego State University Library. Biographical Note John Martin was born on December 3, 1938 in New York City. He worked as a newspaper and television reporter for 46 years and reported and wrote dozens of newspaper stories. He reported more than 1,400 television stories between 1966 and 2002. Among the stories Martin covered were the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas (1963), the rise of Idi Amin in Uganda (1971), the trial of Daniel Ellsberg (1972), Patricia Hearst's kidnapping (1974), Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's visit to Jerusalem (1977), the Israeli invasion of Southern Lebanon (1978), post-World War II U.S. Army assistance to Nazi fugitive Klaus Barbie (1983), U.S. President Ronald Reagan's visit to China (1984), the international search for Nazi fugitive Josef Mengele (1985), a Gulf War incubator atrocity hoax perpetrated by the Kuwaiti government (1991), the Los Angeles riots stemming from the Rodney King beating(1992), and the tobacco industry's manipulation of nicotine (1994). Martin began work as a professional journalist in 1956 as a freshman at San Diego State College. He accepted a job as a stringer (freelance reporter paid by the inch of published stories) for the San Diego Evening Tribune. He later worked as a copy boy, then copy editor, assistant photo editor, and reporter for The San Diego Union. In 1962, Martin was drafted into the U.S. Army and sent to Georgia, where he worked at night as a copy editor for the Augusta Chronicle. Assigned to Germany, he worked as a reporter for the weekly 4th Armored Division newspaper, Rolling Review. In late 1963, Martin was recruited to be editor of the weekly VII Corps newspaper, The Jayhawk. Accepting an overseas U.S. Army discharge in 1964, Martin joined the copy editing staff of The New York Times International Edition in Paris, where he wrote occasional features and edited stories for a 16-page daily newspaper distributed in Europe and Asia. In 1965, Martin moved to Spain, where he wrote a draft manuscript for a low-cost travel guide to Europe by Temple Fielding ("Fielding's Super-Economy Guide to Europe"). In 1966 Martin returned to the United States and joined the staff of KCRA-TV News in Sacramento, California, where he worked as an education reporter, as the producer, writer, and anchor of a weekly news review program, Newsbeat Sunday Magazine, and as a general assignment reporter. In 1971, Martin arranged to spend six weeks in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania compiling more than 25 reports on politics, economics, tourism, archeology and assorted topics. In 1974, he spent a month traveling as a reporter in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Israel, gathering reports for a series on the Middle East. Martin incorporated some of the stories in an hour-long program involving Arabs and Jews living in the Sacramento area, KCRA Reports the Middle East. In December 1975, Martin joined ABC News in New York, where he was hired to cover stories throughout the northeastern United States. In eight years based in New York, he also covered events in the Middle East and John Martin Television Journalism MS-0505 3 Collection MS-0505 Europe. In 1979, Martin was assigned to report for America Held Hostage, a nightly program created to analyze and report events surrounding the capture of American Embassy employees in Iran. In 1980, Martin was assigned, with Charles Gibson and Ron Miller, as one of the three original correspondents for a new program, called Nightline with Ted Koppel. In 1982, he located evidence that caused the U.S. Attorney General to order an investigation of post-war American support for Klaus Barbie, the Nazi Butcher of Lyons. The investigation led to a formal apology to the Government of France for harboring and helping a war criminal escape capture by relocating to South America.