The Jay Rutherfurd Living History Program produces interviews with prominent American and world leaders who have been major participants in significant international or domestic events, or movements of social change. The Program is administered by the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University.
To date, the Living History Collection includes video recordings of interviews with or lectures by more than 65 prominent figures. Recent recordings are available online at iTunes U. View interviews here on ITunes U.
We are currently in the process of digitizing and transcribing the archived interviews, and will be adding them to this site as they become available.
Any of the recordings can be obtained by contacting Shelley Stonecipher at the DeWitt Wallace Center. Reproduction costs vary according to the length of the recordings and transcripts.
Rutherfurd Living History Interviews: 1973-2009
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Dana Priest |
2009 |
Pulitzer Prize-winning Investigative Reporter and Author |
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2009 |
Pulitzer Prize-winning Investigative Reporter and Author |
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Alex Fergusson |
2009 |
Member and Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament |
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Yvonne Mokgoro |
2009 |
Constitutional Court Justice, South Africa |
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2009 |
Constitutional Court Justice, South Africa |
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2009 |
Mayor, Newark, NJ |
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2008 |
Chair of Democratic Leadership Caucus |
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2008 |
Chair of GOPAC |
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2008 |
CEO and Publisher, Al Ghad, Jordan. Life History; Jordanian Media History; Independent Press |
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2008 |
Professor Emeritus of Duke Divinity School; Former Methodist Bishop of South Africa Life history; Anti-Apartheid struggle in South Africa; Methodist Church Role in Anti-Apartheid Stuggle |
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2007 |
National Security Adviser for Ronald Reagan; Total Information Awareness Program for George W. Bush |
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2007 |
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2007 |
General, US Marine Corps (Ret.); Commander in Chief of the U.S. Central Command (1997-2000); U.S. Special Envoy to Israel and the Palestinian Authority (2002) |
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Mikhail Margelov |
1999 |
Television and Elections in Russia |
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James Carville |
2006 |
U.S. Democratic Party Consultant |
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Dennis Ross |
2005 |
U.S. Envoy to the Middle East |
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Richard Kaplan |
2004 |
Former President of MSNBC |
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Princeton Lyman |
2003 |
Former U.S. Ambassador to South Africa and Nigeria |
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Jamie Shea |
2003 |
NATO Director of Information and Media Relations |
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Robert Jordan |
2002 |
U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia |
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Lloyd Axeworthy |
2001 |
Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1996-2000 |
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Yegor Gaidar |
2000 |
Candidate for Russian Presidency |
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David Gergen |
1999 |
At-Large Editor, U.S. News and World Report; former White House Advisor to presidents Clinton, Reagan, Ford and Nixon |
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Phillip Gourevitch |
1999 |
Human Rights in Africa |
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Judy Woodruff |
1999 |
Senior Anchor, CNN |
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Afredo Cristiani |
1998 |
Former President of El Salvador |
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Samuel DuBois Cook |
1998 |
First African American Professor at Duke |
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Erhard Busek |
1997 |
Central Europe (Austria) |
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Richard Goldstone |
1997 |
South Africa and the UN |
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Jack Matlock |
1997 |
Soviet Union |
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Hanna Suchoka |
1997 |
Poland |
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Miguel de la Madrid |
1996 |
Mexico |
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Les Aspin |
1995 |
Political Experiences |
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William & Wendy Luers |
1995 |
Experiences in Russia; Ambassador to Venezuela and Czechoslovakia; Art and Diplomacy |
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Terry Sanford |
1995 |
NC Governor, US Senator Civil Rights |
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Jesse Jackson |
1992 |
Personal Experiences; Civil Rights |
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Samuel W. Lewis |
1992 |
Ambassador to Israel; Carter Administration |
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Imam W. Deen Mohammed |
1992 |
Muslim/American Spokesman |
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Vernon Walters |
1992 |
Deputy Director, CIA; Representative to UN; Ambassador to Bonn US Cold War Diplomacy |
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Oscar Arias |
1991 |
Central American Politics, The Peace Plan |
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Walter Davis |
1991 |
Education; Oil and the Middle East |
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George McGhee |
1991 |
Diplomatic Career in Turkey, West Germany |
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King Mihai of Romania |
1991 |
Rumania Before and After Communist Rule |
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Turgut Ozal |
1991 |
Turkish Politics, Middle East Relations |
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Angier & Robin Duke |
1990 |
Career in Foreign Service, Memories of JFK and LBJ |
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Yasuhiro Nakasone |
1990 |
Japanese Politics, U.S. – Japanese Affairs |
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Paul Nitze |
1990 |
Defense Issues |
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Jack F. Matlock |
1989 |
U.S.- Soviet Relations |
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Abdus Salam |
1989 |
Nuclear Physics |
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Victor Urquiti |
1989 |
International Economics |
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Soedjatmoko |
1989 |
U.S. – Indonesian Relations |
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Elie Wiesel |
1988 |
Memories of the Holocaust |
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Robert Bork |
1988 |
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Ronald Reagan |
1988 |
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James Schlesinger |
1987 |
Crisis Management |
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Robert McNamara |
1986 |
Cuban Missile Crisis Arms Control |
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Charles Percy |
1986 |
Foreign Relations |
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J. William Fulbright |
1984 |
Foreign Relations, Vietnam |
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Dean Rusk |
1981 |
Diplomacy, Foreign Policy, Vietnam |
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Ellsworth Bunker |
1979 |
Diplomatic Career in India, the Far East, and Vietnam |
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Ryoichi Sasakawa |
1979 |
Sasakawa’s Career |
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W. Averell Harriman |
1977 |
U.S. – Soviet Relations |
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Lucius Clay |
1975 |
Post WWII Career in Europe |
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W. Stanton Griffis |
1974 |
Diplomatic Career |
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Earl T. Smith |
1974 |
Cuba |
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John Sherman Cooper |
1973 |
Political Recollections |
For further information regarding the purchase or use of the material, please contact:
Rare Book, Manuscript, & Special Collections Library
Duke University
Box 90185
Durham, NC 27708
Tel. 919-660-5822
For information regarding the program, contact:
Shelley Stonecipher, Tel: 919-613-7306
