Assignment Washington Part 1

Description

This film profiles an Italian newspaper journalist, Marino de Medici, as he details his day-to-day duties in Washington, D.C. and travels to cover several presidential campaign events in 1976. President Ford is seen campaigning in the South and on a Mississippi riverboat, and de Medici rides an Amtrak train on challenger Jimmy Carter's whistle-stop tour in the Northeast. De Medici describes, in his own words, the circumstances in which a foreign correspondent works in the U.S.; his freedom of movement; and his freedom to report back to his paper without hindrance. The film is a Vision Associates production, executive produced by Meyer Odze and directed by Lee R. Bobker.

Collection

Records of the U.S. Information Agency

Series

Moving Images Relating to U.S. Domestic and International Activities