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Note 1: "Neeger and Long John. April 1964. 2 3/4 tracks. Everything else is crossed out: cont./Greatest story - Miracles by the 70's. 2. News. 3. Family theater - "Black foot Fighter" 4. Start - Westing House Story (to end, but not continue.)"; Note 2: CDI 1. WOR at midnight, Long John Nebel show opening music and guests Sam Vandivert, Sandy Teller, and photographer Weegee 2. Weegee Ouiji story. Dr. Strangelove and Kubrick with Peter Sellers story 3. Mapleton Hotel in London. Work for London Daily Mirror, hotel darkroom and hypo leak story 4. Dr. Strangelove and Esquire story "4 faces of Peter Sellers" 5. Peter Sellers and Weegee, photography and tape recording (Sellers's recent heart attack) 6. cont'd story Queen Magazine photos7 Metropolitan Opera photos and Naked City book. ad for Ornstein's by Long John 8. telegram, Fritz Gruber talk, Philipe Halsman talk 9. crime pohtography and advertising offers for Weegee 10. cont'd 11. "The Elves and the Shoemaker" film and Windjammer film photography. 12. Halsman's photos of Weegee. World's Fair photos 13. debate "Cassius Clay of photographers" , ad for battery recharger from Dynamic Instant Corporation 14. photo talk CDII 1. **Smith* telegram: "Weegee doesn't frighten me..." 2. Weegee on W. Eugene Smith: peerless. 3. Weegee on photographers, psychic ability (his own). 4. Weegee early photography 5. cont'd, motion picture work 6. Guests, LJN ad for Vichy Celestine water 7. photo talk 8. Kaleidoscope lens, Madison Avenue, Naked City book 9. cont'd 10. flash bulbs, photography 11. heated argument with LJN, Ad for Alba milk by Weldon Food company 13. cont'd, Ad for Mandarin East and Mandarin House restaurants. CDIII 1. Weegee cont'd, on visiting Russia 2. cont'd, also on Paris police 3. on Paris storekeepers. Ad for General tires, 1964. 4. telgrams, Worlds Fair talk 5. cont'd 6. flying saucers and telegram 7. cont'd, Russia 8. on Life Magazine and Weegee being the reincarnation of Da Vinci and Grandma Moses 9. end of show, beginning of Sunrise Serenade with guest host Chris Cunningham for McCullough. (ends) CDIV 1. LJN show with Weegee, telegram mentioning Robert Capa from Cartier Bresson's daughter. 2. LJN coffee break, pre-recorded interview about lawn care with Robert Fulton of Heritage House Products. 3-6. cont'd 7. Weegee at circus and guests reintroduced 8. Ziff Davis, Bruce Downes, Pop Photo 9. Weegee early self promotion, rubber stamp 10. Weegee's ambulance darkroom 11. Acme photo story, UPI (lived in office) 12. General Tires ad (jingle) and talk about tape recorders in Peerless store (mention of Lou Bernstein) 13. about tape recorders for research and fun.** CDV 1. con'td, mention of Marty Forscher (after context) Leica and Nikon, Wee on Naked City film 2. Kubrick and photography 3. Weegee's real name Arthur Fellig 4. London Picasso show photos. LJN Alba ad. 5. Telegram, Davinci talk 6. on Wegee 7. criminal photo 8. cont'd, 9. on knowing gangsters through photography 10. 1964 General Tires ad with 1964 Dodge Rambler sweepstakes. Weegee as Hollywood actor 11. Universal "The Sleeping City" photos ;

Note 1: "Nov or Dec 1962. Other side Tabun's first day and getting lost. Side 1: interview - Long John. Von Meter, Jack Crystal. The "1st family" album voice. Some of Album then Long John with some writer and others"; Note 2: CD 1: Discussion of comedy album "First Family"; Bert Lown's death: DATE: 11/2/62 (Maybe 11/3 air date?). CD 2: Discussion of possibly offensive Catholic/ Jew joke on First Family; music. CD 3: In the loft--faint music, cars, cats, doors; man and woman talk briefly; almost all background noise. CD 4: All background noise. CD 5: Identical to 3. CD 6: Smith mic check (tr. 4); Smith and someone else on mics--funny (tr. 5);

Note 1: "#1 The England of Shakespeare redgraue and the house of Vacuole one Kennedy. 3. Long John and …. 4. Also one act Ernani."; Note 2: CD 1: Shakespeare's "Soul of an Age" on NBC. CD 2: Some other TV show--Historical British drama about marriage and nobility. CD 3: LJN show--DATE:"This happens to be the first of December." Guests: Martin J. Scheiman, attny; Roy Schatt, theatrical photographer; Bernard Corash (sp?), VP Levitt Homes Inc. Discussion on children being exposed to "salacious material"--42nd St. billboard. DATE: Idlewild Airport crash: night of 11/30/62. CD 4: LJN Cont'd. Same guests. CD 5: Prob. same show as CD 2. NBC show on Jackie Kennedy. Bulletin on Idlewild crash. CD 6: Idlewild bulletin; Jackie show cont'd; NBC News. CD 7: LJN w/ Scheiman cont'd: legalities of declaring bankruptcy, agnosticism v. atheism. CD 8: Live (?) recording of opera "I Puritani" at the Met w/ commentary by Edward Downs.;

Note 1: "Blank."; Note 2: CD 1: LJN on book "Abandoned" about Greely Arctic Expedition. Guests: Lester Del Ray, sci fi and sci fact writer; Robert Nordon, writer and poli-sci student; Alden L. Todd, author of "Abandoned." CD 2: LJN cont'd, Einstein and speed of light. Tr. 4 discussion of global warming--"What's all this business about inundating the land because of melting of the arctic ice cap? Nonsense!" WMCA playing "Lullaby of the Leaves," Barry Grey show. DATE: Chicago beats Detroit in Stanley Cup, 4/16/61; More talk on Global Warming. CD 3: Greely Exp. cont'd. "Eye Opener" w/ Gene Morris on WMCA Newark; Alan Brown morning show; political ad for Walter H. Jones, R for Gov of NJ; Johnny Cash sings "I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You); News. CD 5: News, weather, station changes. WBAI 99.5 Classical program: Bocarini, Haydn, etc. CD 6: WBAI show cont'd. CD 7: WBAI show, recording of 1960 Cutaching (sp??) Conference on Latin America. CD 8: L. A. Conference cont'd; BBC presents ballad opera "Love in a Village" on WBAI. CD 9: BBC opera cont'd, Book review on radio. Reviewer: Emanuel Capoyer (sp?), an editor at MacMillan. Books: Can These Bones Live? by Edward Darburg (New Directions); Growing Up Absurd by Paul Goodman (Randomhouse); Life Against Death by Norman O. Brown (Modern Library). All deal with the question, "What is to become of us?";

Note 1: "Dec 30, 1962. 1. A. continuation of Sunday morning - announcer following Long John. B. View point - who should go to prison. 3. Poison fruity law, defenders. #2 (end side) Science. Millton Cross, music… C. news, released prisners - Stow… 4. - Steichen on Open ... 1963 Interview with Artist (good points) B. Mother courage commentary and Songs. Interview with Calden Wilmingham."; Note 2: NOT AS LABELLED. CD 1: WOR TV Ch. 9 News: Greek Ship Laconia sinks--DATE: 12/23/63. Great Gospel-singing Christmas Show. CD 2: Still WOR TV? Movie on TV w/ ads, poss. "Whirlpool" (1949 Otto Preminger movie). CD 3: LJN Show on Censorship. Catholic Legion of Decency condemns film "Never on Sunday" (10/1/60 release). Guests: Moira Walsh, writer for Nat'l Catholic Review; Hugh Hefner, Playboy; Robert Reisner (sp?), frequent guest, writer; John Simon, film critic for New Leader, drama critic for Hudson Review. Song and Interview with "The One and Only Japanese Cowboy [girl]," Miss Tomi Fujiyama. LJN interview w/ Baby Jane Holzer, "Girl of the Year" (Named so by Tom Wolfe Xmas 1964 (?)); "Seasons Greetings from Ch. 7." CD 4: Classical Radio Program, interrupted tr. 3. Radio ad for "The Electronic Workshop," store w/ sound equipment. 26 W. 8th St. NYC. Ad for Gene Wilder's "Kiss Me Stupid," (12/25/64 release). WOR interview w/ Danny Sloane, "The Greatest Listener in the World." Interviewer: Barry Farber. Sloane Records radio and TV shows and sells them. Also collects recordings: 1st radio commercial ever (from 1922), Amos and Andy, Charles Lindberg, etc. Danny Sloane, TV Time, 7 Orchard Pkwy, White Plains, NY 60303.WOR "The Way the World is Spinning" w/ George Hamilton Combes. "Now...our world hovers on the brink of disaster." CD 5: WOR w/ Combes cont'd. Interview w/ priest about Catholic center to keep kids off streets/drugs; WOR News w/ Lester Smith 12/24 (1962?). CD 6: "Eagle in a Cage," made for TV movie about Napoleon. CD 7: movie cont'd. "Next [week?], Thurs. 11/18, the Bob Hope Show." CD 8: Show on Racism: "The Southern Way of Life" on NET (Nat'l Educational TV). CBS: "The 20th Century: Duke Ellington Swings Through Japan." Courtroom Drama TV movie. CD 9: Court drama cont'd. "Help us celebrate the xmas season on NBC"; Disney's Alice in Wonderland on NBC. CD 10: Alice cont'd. CBS show "Christmas in Appalachia.";

Note 1: "Marh 29, 1961. Continuation of Long John with Roy Schatt and ?? Is this Smith then 3 tracks at least although recorder went haywire during Japanese music."; Note 2: CD 1: poor sound quality. Japanese music off radio. CD 2: Japanese folk music--"Autumn" by Kofu Watanabe on "Int'l Fine Arts Festival." Interview w/ Toshiro Miyazumi, composer of Nirvana Symphony. CD 3: Interview cont'd. Recording of Nirvana Symphony. CD 4: LJN discussion on "psychosomatic faculties." TELEGRAM FROM SMITH. Possibly one of the first, as LJ isn't sure if it's Smith the photographer. Beginning of Tr. 12. Reference to movie "Sons and Lovers" up for Oscar (released 1960, won 1961 Oscar). CD 5: LJN cont'd. Book: "Excellence" by John W. Gardner, director of Carnegie Foundation. Guests: Roy Schatt; Ray R (?), producer/director; Judy Joy,skin diver, actress, columnist; Loca Raly (sp?), poet. Tr. 6--In the loft. Someone (Smith?) singing into mic. Mic check, static. Faint conversation btw Smith and woman.;