Alaska Film Archives - UAF | Alaska's Don Young running for Congress, 1972 @alaskafilmarchives | Uploaded April 2022 | Updated October 2024, 8 hours ago.
In this 1972 television news clip, Fairbanks reporter Phil Deisher (KTVF-TV) interviews Don Young, then a candidate for U.S. Congress. Young, a Republican, went on to become one of the longest serving members of Congress, holding Alaska's sole representative seat from March 1973 until his death in March 2022. In this interview, he references his six years of experience at the state level, in the Alaska House of Representatives and Alaska Senate in Alaska's capital city, Juneau (Color/Silent/16mm film).
This sequence contains excerpts from AAF-6101 from the KTVF-TV collection held by the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections & Archives Department in the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks. For more information please contact the Alaska Film Archives.
The Alaska Film Archives appreciates your support. Your donation in any amount will help us continue important preservation work. Please visit the “About” section of our YouTube channel to learn how you can help today. Thank you! For more information please contact the Alaska Film Archives.
In this 1972 television news clip, Fairbanks reporter Phil Deisher (KTVF-TV) interviews Don Young, then a candidate for U.S. Congress. Young, a Republican, went on to become one of the longest serving members of Congress, holding Alaska's sole representative seat from March 1973 until his death in March 2022. In this interview, he references his six years of experience at the state level, in the Alaska House of Representatives and Alaska Senate in Alaska's capital city, Juneau (Color/Silent/16mm film).
This sequence contains excerpts from AAF-6101 from the KTVF-TV collection held by the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections & Archives Department in the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks. For more information please contact the Alaska Film Archives.
The Alaska Film Archives appreciates your support. Your donation in any amount will help us continue important preservation work. Please visit the “About” section of our YouTube channel to learn how you can help today. Thank you! For more information please contact the Alaska Film Archives.
