Grant Laird, Jr. Blog

White House Tapes - transcripts

29 04 2005

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I just discovered this site called WhiteHouseTapes.org website and its very interesting to read real conversation at White House during JFK administration.

Unfortunately, not all of transcripts are available at this moment but there’s some stuff you can read right away. What’s more importantly that I got his attention that some people out there that want to read transcripts and you should do it too

Enjoy!

David,

Yes, your response has been helpful.

I am looking forward more transcripts online in near future. It’s going be benefits for deaf community to understand depth of White House history.

Keep me posted if there are any new transcripts — if possible. Thanks!

gwlj

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 23:37:44 -0400, David Coleman wrote
Dear Mr. Laird,

Thank you for your note. The short answer is, there are some transcripts available and we’re working on the rest. Our primary objective is to produce reliable transcripts with historical context, but it’s a slow process.

We have published some for the Kennedy tapes for the period July-October 1962. Those are available on the website at:
http://www.whitehousetapes.org/pages/trans_jfk1.htm
There are two more volumes of transcripts also there that are accessible by using the “transcripts” link at the menu at left.

Within the next week or so we’re actually publishing book versions of 3 volumes of transcripts from the LBJ tapes for the period November 1963 through January 1964. More info on those volumes is at: http://www.whitehousetapes.org/pages/prp_lbjvols.htm
Those transcripts will only be available in book for 12-18 months or so, after which we will put them online.

We’re working on a number of other volumes, but given the poor sound quality of the tapes and various other distinctive features that make them unsually difficult to transcribe, rendering reliable transcripts is a painstaking process.

There are some very short segments available under the “Transcript+Audio Highlight Clips” and “Virtual Exhibits” sections on the main home page.

And finally, we have some other books that contain transcripts that are only available in book form. More info on those is at:
http://www.whitehousetapes.org/pages/about_prp_pub.htm

I hope this helps.

best regards,
David Coleman
dgcoleman@virginia.edu
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Assistant Professor
Managing Editor, John F. Kennedy Project
Managing Editor, WhiteHouseTapes.org
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Grant W. Laird Jr wrote:

Hello,

Is there any transcripts available for those audios on whitehousetapes.org?

I am Deaf and I would love to know what they are saying too.

Smile.
gwlj