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John Virtue fonds
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- Sound recording
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Fonds
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[ca. 1990]-[ca. 2000] (Creation)
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- Virtue, John
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ca. 200 audio cassettes, ca. 40 diskettes ; 3.25'
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Biographical history
John Virtue, a journalist and author, was born in Nelson, BC in 1935. He was a correspondent for United Press International (UPI), getting his start reporting on Castro in Havana in 1964. He later managed UPI bureaus in Sao Paolo, Brazil, and Mexico City, and covered wars in Central America and the Guatemala earthquake of 1976. In the 1980s, Virtue was executive editor for El Mundo in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He worked 25 years as director of Florida International University's International Media Centre. Virtue passed away in Miami, Florida in 2016.
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Scope and content
Fonds consists of interviews with artists and other individuals about Leonard and Reva Brooks, as well as interviews with Leonard and Reva. Also includes transcriptions of interviews, and drafts of the biography on Leonard and Reva Brooks.