Interview with Marjorie Melville / Danice Bordett and Nanette Rainone

Program Title:
Interview with Marjorie Melville / Danice Bordett and Nanette Rainone
PRA Archive #: 
BC0287
Description: 

Danice Bordett and Nanette Rainone interview former nun and one of the Catsonville 9, Marjorie Melville, in WBAI's studio on February 10, 1971. Melville and her husband wrote a book, "Whose Heavan, Whose Earth" (1971) which describes their experience with the Guatemalan revolutionaries. Mrs. Melville was recently released from jail (she and her husband were jailed for burning draft records in protest of the Vietnam War, husband still in jail). The focus of this interview is on her activism in Guatemala (she arrived there in 1954 when the CIA overthrew the government). Self-contained.

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Date Recorded on: 
10 Feb. 1971.
Date Broadcast on: 
WBAI, 19 Apr. 1971.
Item duration: 
1 reel (ca. 31 min.) : 7 1/2 ips,mono.
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Producer
Distributor: 
Los Angeles : Pacifica Radio Archive, 1971.
Rights Summary: 
RESTRICTED. Permissions, licensing requests, Curriculum Initiative, Campus Campaign and all other inquiries should be directed to: Mark Torres, Archives Director, 800-735-0230, Mark@PacificaRadioArchives.org
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This recording has been digitally preserved as part of Pacifica's American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 grant preservation project, and is available for research and reference . Please contact the archives via telephone: 818-506-1077 or email:  americanwomen at pacificaradioarchives dot org for information on how to obtain a copy of this program. Thank you.



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