Research Catalog
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Leon Bibb.
- Title
- The HistoryMakers video oral history with Leon Bibb.
- Publication
- Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Available Online
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (9 video files (4 hr., 22 min., 48 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Broadcast journalist Leon Douglas Bibb was born on October 5, 1944 in Butler, Alabama. Bibb received his B.S. degree in journalism from Bowling Green State University in 1966, and went on to study radio, TV and film as a graduate student. He was awarded a Bronze Star for his service in the Vietnam War. In the late 1960s, Bibb worked as a news reporter for The Plain Dealer. He was later hired to report for WTOL-TV in 1971, and worked as a news anchor and reporter for WCMH-TV from 1972 to 1979, where he became Ohio's first African American primetime anchor. He moved to Cleveland's WKYC-TV in 1979, and joined the staff of WEWS-TV as a news anchor and reporter in 1995. Bibb received six local Emmy Awards, several Cleveland Press Club citations, the Distinguished Journalist Award of the Society for Professional Journalists, and was inducted into the Broadcaster's Hall of Fame.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Leon Bibb
- Leon Bibb
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- OCLC
- 994208916
- Title
- The HistoryMakers video oral history with Leon Bibb.
- Publisher
- Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
- United States. naf
- Playing Time
- 042248
- Type of Content
- two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
- computer
- Type of Carrier
- online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
- video file
- Performer
- Larry Crowe, interviewer.
- Credits
- Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- Event
- Recorded Cleveland, Ohio 2014 February 13.
- Source of description
- Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
- Broadcast Journalist.
- Added Author
- Bibb, Leon, 1922-2015, interviewee.Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.