TUTV Community Forum is a collection of student-produced interviews from the MSP Department Television Production Practicum course.
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TUTV Community Forum is a collection of student-produced interviews from the MSP Department Television Production Practicum course.
Copyright © 2024 TUTV – Temple University Television. All rights reserved.
Rare Footage of Dr. Robert L. Johnson
This 1955 radio interview of Time & Life magazine co-founder and Temple University’s third President, Dr. Robert Livingston Johnson was uncovered from the School of Media and Communication film archive and is currently featured in the latest episode of TUTV Community Forum: Professor James Hilty.
Temple University’s third President Dr. Robert L. Johnson during a radio interview in Wilkes-Barre, PA.
Johnson was a journalist and Yale-educated businessman. Along with three of his Yale classmates, Johnson founded Time Inc. During his presidency at Temple University from 1941 to 1959 seven buildings were added to the growing campus, including Curtis and Peabody halls, a Law School facility, and several hundred new faculty members were hired. Johnson also stipulated that Temple’s trustees should create a new job, provost, to supervise the university’s educational programs. .
Click here to see the full interview.