A Woman Archived Over 300,000 Hours of TV on 71,000 VHS Tapes Across 35 Years. She Was Afraid People Would Rewrite History
What motivated Marion Stokes to create the Marion Stokes Archive starting in 1979? Imagine a home stacked with thousands of VHS tapes, each one capturing hours of television broadcasts. This was the world of Marion Stokes, a woman who spent over 30 years recording TV news to preserve history. From 1979 until her death in … Continued