This exhibit showcases selected audio and audiovisual clips from the Richard G. Lugar Senatorial Papers collection.
Use the links to the right to navigate through the pages in this exhibit, starting with Home Movies. As you browse through the exhibit, you will see early home movies, campaign spots, and other audio and video clips, as well as read about a special discovery made by Alicia Hickman at the IU Libraries Moving Image Archive (IULMIA) while she was processing films from this collection.
The clips presented here provide a revealing glimpse into Richard Lugar’s life and career. From his childhood years growing up in Indianapolis, Indiana; to the innovation that he and his brother Tom brought to their family business; to a number of successful campaigns for the United States Senate (and a 1996 campaign in which he ran for President of the United States), as well as the meaningful connections that he continually fostered.
The movies and clips in this exhibit represent only a fraction of the over 3,500 audiovisual records contained in the Richard G. Lugar Senatorial Papers collection. Other items in the collection include recordings of Senator Lugar’s appearances on radio and television shows, as well as recordings of his public appearances and speeches, footage of his visits to nuclear weapons facilities as part of his work on the Nunn-Lugar Act, and many other audio and video documents.
Many of these audiovisual records have been digitized through the Media Digitization Preservation Initiative (MDPI) at Indiana University. Digitized copies of audiovisual materials from the collection will be made available in the Media Collections Online digital repository as they are processed.
Credits
This exhibit was curated by Tyler Davis. Thank you to the Lugar family; Bailey, Deardourff & Associates; Morey and Waddell; Senate Recording Studio; and Stuart Stevens Group. Special thanks to Alicia Hickman for her contribution to this exhibit.