Note: Former tape splicing broke and was repaired during this section 3 times. Digital editing was used to create a single track as originally intended.

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Woman/girl playing guitar and singing various folk songs:
1963 French song “Dominique”
“Michael Rowed the Boat Ashore”
Instrumental

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Murray Morgan uses his typewriter while listening to local radio news on KMO (recording likely in December 1965 based on news items and Christmas music being played).
Some topics on the news program

• Eddie Ray Lincoln being shot/killed by police.
• A missing student pilot out of Spokane that was en route to Moses Lake
• Electrical Workers Union strike
• English professor George Bluestone leaving the University of Washington for Hollywood.
• Qantas orders Boeing 747 jetliners.
• Coast Guard searches Chinese ship in Tacoma after caller says there was a bomb aboard. The explosive was never found.

Murray Morgan talks about his work room

Murray Morgan discusses the news business with another radio/newspaper journalist.

• The use of recorders or not when interviewing people.
• Discussion of the news’ coverage of local political races.
• Talk of the building of Boat Haven for fishing boats (now possibly the Hylebos Boat Haven).

Cuts to live broadcast of hydroplane racing.

Interview with Korean War veteran/author about his series on General William F. Dean.

Morgan’s humorous spoof of the national 15-minute radio drama program “Just Plain Bill”.

“The story of a man who fought with a gavel instead of a gun. The first, fearless, fighting frontier judge.” Set in Seattle/Tacoma in the 1890s.

“The Case of Tacoma Assistant Mayor Jim Redcap vs. We Don’t Know Who”

Side 1: Oct. 15, 1968, meeting

Murray Morgan types while listening to a radio broadcast of the Tacoma City Council, headed by mayor A.L. Rasmussen, from Oct. 15, 1968, on KTNT-FM. Topics discussed include a Tacoma Times article, light/electricity companies, a model city program, and minimum wage percentage raises.

At 47 minutes in, Library Board member mentions libraries will not open Jan. 2 due to $20,000 in budget cuts. (Meeting date unknown).

External sources:

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Murray Morgan typing while listening to the radio in 1968.

KNIO Tacoma News: WA Fair Puyallup; 5 road fatalities; railroad trestle fire; City Council meeting; storm kills hikers, Drowning Gray's harbor cabin cruiser sinking, tug explosion La Push, California family missing after light plane crash, Washington State Fair underway with 109,678 attendees.

At 43:40 (digital), cuts to meeting of Tacoma City Council on Hilltop apartments, featuring Tacoma Mayor Harold Moss

Interview about rescue work and mountain camps on Mount Rainier. Mountain rescue worker being interviewed mentions legendary mountaineers, the Whittaker twins (Jim and Lou), being rescued off Mount Rainier after Lou Whitaker became paralyzed in his back and hip and “had to have direct aid by rope coming down this ice wall by Dee Molenaar”.

Jim Whittaker is the co-founder of REI and the first American to scale Mount Everest. Both Whittaker twins worked in mountain rescue work in the Cascades of Washington State, were guides on Mount Rainier and were instructors for the US Army’s renowned 10th Mountain Division.

Dee Molenaar is another famed mountaineer, who was also an author and artist. Molenaar was part of the 1953 K2 expedition with Pete Schoening and has climbed Mount Rainier more than 50 times. He died at the age of 101 in 2020.

Murray Morgan interviews UW professor and fish geneticist Dr. Lauren Donaldson about his career raising and breeding Chinook salmon and trout. (1 of 2)

Murray Morgan interviews UW professor and fish geneticist Dr. Lauren Donaldson about his career raising and breeding Chinook salmon and trout. (2 of 2)

Morgan reading news about Puyallup Indians Fishing Rights; Buffy Sainte-Marie song "Now That the Buffalo's Gone"

Morgan news broadcast about Pacific Coast League/Tacoma Giants; racism in University of Puget Sound fraternities

Interview with Murray Morgan about an explosion on the "Pacific Queen" fishing ship on September 17, 1957.

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KMO News radio broadcast c. 1965 with subjects including Old Tacoma development, building supermarkets, 1965-1966 school year, Never Never Land

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Murray Morgan reading the news c. 1960s including topics of judges and legislature pay raises, Japanese film “Harakiri” (1962) being shown in Proctor and violinist Michael Rabin performing with the University of Puget Sound band at Mount Tahoma High School.

Oral history interview with Tacoma resident Frank Richard Miller, known as Rich, conducted by dindria barrow on October 15, 2022, as part of the Archiving West End Communities event located at the Swasey library branch. In this interview, Rich, shares his story and his uncle’s story, Edward P. Miller. Edward was the primary developer of the area that we now refer to as the West End of Tacoma.

Side A: 5/5/95, Kelly's, Jack, Red, Bill, Gary A., Lance Buller; Side B: 5/5/95, Kelly's, Jack, Red, Billy

Jimmy Dean story, "Indiana", "Dancing on the Ceiling"

Red Kelly talks by phone with Evan Brown on his radio program on KLAY 1180-AM

Red Kelly's submission for the Washington State song.

Side A: Evergreen College 11/81 - Red Kelly Trio; Side B: Evergreen College 11/81 - Red Kelly Trio

Side A: 1. Artistry in Rhythm; 2. Bernie's Tune; 3. Tuxedo Junction; 4. Street Scene; 5. Puck's Blues; 6. This is Always; 7. Don't Get Around Much Anymore; 8. Design for Blue; 9. Home Journey; 10. A String of Pearls; 11. It's All Right With Me; 12. Intermission Riff; Side B: I Concentrate on You; 2. The End of a Love Affair; 3. You and I and George (Red Kelly talks/sings); 4. Senitmental Riff; 5. Random Riff

1 of 3 - Audio

2 of 3 -Audio

Leonard Svedberg (John L.A.) talks about early life in Finland, travel to United States, work in Tacoma, Lodge work in Scandanavian Community, impressions of Tacoma. (Interview No. 1, Tape No. 1)

Seattle painter Dorthy Milne Rising discusses personal background, art work, and art in the Northwest. Milne was born in Tacoma and served as a member of the Northwest Printmakers Society and as President of Women Painters of Washington. (Interview No. 4, Tape No. 1)

Herman Hunt and Al Harris discussion continues with comparisons of engines in the area. (Interview No. 8, Tape No. 2)

Martin Sampson discusses family life, early schooling and later life. (Interview No. 9, Tape No. 1)

Louis Mazzuca talks about life of family, early work on the railroad, life of Italians in Tacoma. (Interview No. 10, Tape No. 1)

Robert Paine describes equipment used, trolley routes, cable cars in Tacoma. (Interview No. 14, Tape No. 1)