Hurricanes -- Louisiana -- New Orleans
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Hurricane Katrina Oral History Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Collection 35
Scope and Contents
The Hurricane Katrina Oral History Collection contains interviews with 40 individuals. Interviews were videotaped to mini-DV and audio recorded to tape and mini-tape. For access purposes, the videos and audio recordings were digitized and are available on DVD and CD. Transcripts are available for nine of the interviews. There are also nine produced “final project” DVDs. All materials were produced in the spring of 2006, and all interviews were conducted in New Orleans.
Dates:
Created: 2006; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/2004
Nash Roberts Hurricane Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Collection 26
Abstract
Mention Nash Roberts, and generations of New Orleanians, who have never met him in person, will remember a treasured friend. For more than 40 years, anxious residents of the "city in a bowl" listened and watched attentively as this meteorologist-turned-reluctant TV celebrity calmly and thoughtfully explained and predicted the paths of hurricanes. He gathered all the technical information available and distilled it for presentation to the TV audience with the simplest of tools - a magic...
Dates:
Created: 1948-1995; Other: Date acquired: 01/07/2010