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A segment of a CBS evening news program with host Walter Cronkite, who introduces McMahon's artist report of the 1972 Democratic Convention.

A Franklin McMahon artist report about the political scene of 1968, including the death of Martin Luther King Jr., the presidential campaign and th...

An artist report by Franklin McMahon of the 1968 Republican, or GOP, National Convention, which took place in Miami, Florida that year, and the 196...

Artist-reporter Franklin McMahon discusses his work and the inspirations and interests that lead him to cover particular people and events. This pa...

The first of three parts of Franklin McMahon's artist report on the political scene of 1968, or "one artists look at America in this polit...

Uses dramatized live action photography as well as old photographs to trace the 20-year career of Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, Ill. (WorldCat)

Various outtakes documenting the energetic 1987 mayoral campaign. The footage captures the highly publicized candidature of Harold Washington, Jane...

Covers events surrounding the Democratic Convention in Chicago in 1968. It begins with scenes before the convention, including footage of Mayor Dal...

The New Left sprang from an affluent America torn by racial conflict and dissent over the Vietnam war. Its target, however, was not right-wing cons...

A Castle Films Quiz show about history, accompanied by footage of world events including the Hindenburg, FDR’s funeral, Pearl Harbor, Mussolini’s d...

A political ad for Peter Bensinger who ran for Cook County sheriff in 1974.

Loosely-constructed footage from the campaign trail during the 1983 Chicago mayoral election, featuring candidates Harold Washington, Bernard Epton...

Footage of Chicago political figures leading up to the 1985, 1986 and 1987 elections.

Loosely-constructed footage of various political figures during the 1987 campaign for Chicago mayor.

Loosely-constructed footage of Harold Washington's campaign for mayor of Chicago in 1983.