The HistoryMakers video oral history with Warner Saunders.

Format Video (Streaming)
PublicationChicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016].
Description1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 55 min., 18 sec.)) : sound, color.
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2001.067
Subjects

Other author/creatorSaunders, Warner interviewee.
Other author/creatorRichardson, Julieanna L., interviewer.
Other author/creatorStearns, Scott, director of photography.
Other author/creatorHistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Variant title History Makers video oral history with Warner Saunders
Portion of title Warner Saunders
Abstract News anchor Warner Saunders was born on January 30, 1935, in Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from Xavier University and received his M.A. degree from Northeastern University. Radio disc jockey Holmes "Daddy-O'" Daylie asked Saunders, then director of the Better Boys Foundation, to co-host a special public affairs program at a local television station. For Blacks Only was became highly successful, and ran for more than a decade. Producers at WBBM-TV Chicago hired Saunders as host of Common Ground, and director of community affairs in 1972. In 1980, Saunders left the station and joined NBC Channel 5 news as a sports reporter. He also hosted NBC's public affairs talk show, Warner, which received the Illinois Broadcasters Association Public Service Award in 1986. An anchor of evening newscasts, Saunders received fourteen Chicago Emmys and the Chicago Academy of Television Arts and Sciences' Silver Circle Award.
CreditsVideographer, Scott Stearns.
Performer Julieanna L. Richardson, interviewer.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded Chicago, Illinois 2001 March 27.
Source of descriptionVendor-supplied metadata.
Genre/formInternet videos.
Genre/formInterviews.
Genre/formNonfiction films.
Genre/formOral histories.
Genre/formOral histories.
Genre/formInternet videos.
Genre/formNonfiction films.
Stock numberA2001.067 HistoryMakers

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