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per KU:
A University of Kansas researcher has uncovered what is believed to be the only known audio recording of Dr. James Naismith, inventor of the game of basketball. The recording is located in the archives of the Library of Congress, and the university has received permission to include the recording in KU's archives at the Kenneth Spencer Research Library and to make it available to the public via a website link.
Michael Zogry, associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies, found references to a brief radio interview with Naismith while researching his book in progress, "Religion and Basketball: Naismith's Game." The interview of Naismith was on the radio program "We the People," hosted by Gabriel Heatter in New York, on Jan. 31, 1939. In the roughly three-minute clip, Naismith discusses setting up the first basketball game with two peach baskets in a gymnasium at the International YMCA Training School (now Springfield College) in Springfield, Massachusetts, in December 1891.
http://news.ku.edu/2015/12/15/professor-discovers-only-known-audio-recording-james-naismith
Here is a link to the interview, which has amazing clarity for how old it is:
http://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/exhibits/show/naismith150/collections/radio-interview
Go Gophers!!
A University of Kansas researcher has uncovered what is believed to be the only known audio recording of Dr. James Naismith, inventor of the game of basketball. The recording is located in the archives of the Library of Congress, and the university has received permission to include the recording in KU's archives at the Kenneth Spencer Research Library and to make it available to the public via a website link.
Michael Zogry, associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies, found references to a brief radio interview with Naismith while researching his book in progress, "Religion and Basketball: Naismith's Game." The interview of Naismith was on the radio program "We the People," hosted by Gabriel Heatter in New York, on Jan. 31, 1939. In the roughly three-minute clip, Naismith discusses setting up the first basketball game with two peach baskets in a gymnasium at the International YMCA Training School (now Springfield College) in Springfield, Massachusetts, in December 1891.
http://news.ku.edu/2015/12/15/professor-discovers-only-known-audio-recording-james-naismith
Here is a link to the interview, which has amazing clarity for how old it is:
http://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/exhibits/show/naismith150/collections/radio-interview
Go Gophers!!
