Post Script
January 2005 Volume 15, Number 1
Issued quarterly by the
Friends of the New York State
Newspaper Project
Project Update
The Newspaper Project microfilmed its four millionth page in December 2004. Microfilming began in July 1991 and the Project filmed its first million pages in June 1997. Two million pages were filmed by May 2000 and three millionth pages by June 2002.
In October, the Project completed its inventory of the New York metropolitan region, which began in August 2000. Of the 10,375 New York State published newspapers identified by the Project, 2,842 originate in metropolitan region. This concludes the statewide inventory started in the Capital District in March 1987.
Metropolitan Publishing Statistics through 12/30/04
Publishing by County |
Titles Surveyed |
Bronx |
58 |
Richmond |
89 |
Queens |
237 |
| Kings | 298 |
| Westchester | 396 |
| New York | 1,764 |
The New York State Library submitted a grant application to the National Endowment for the Humanities for participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) in October. NDNP will create a national, digital resource of significant United States newspapers published between 1836 and 1922. The searchable database, to be developed over a 20 year period, will be freely accessible via the Internet.
Friends Group
Meetings of the Friends of the NYSNP were held on October 12, November 9, and December 7.
At the annual October meeting, the following officers were elected: Vicki Weiss, president, Bill DeAlleaume, vice president, Mary Redmond, secretary, and Coreen Hallenbeck, treasurer.
Vicki Weiss will talk about using newspapers in research and the NYS Newspaper Project at a meeting of the Town of Colonie Historical Society on Sunday, January 23 at 2:00 p.m. at the William K. Sanford Town Library in Colonie.
Psychiatrist of Katonah Sees Ruby
Katonah - Dr. Walter Bromberg, nationally known psychiatrist who was called to Dallas to examine Jack Ruby, said Dec. 23 that results of the examination should be determined within two weeks.
Television viewers over the nation saw Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner, shoot Lee Harvey Oswald in the basement of the Dallas city hall Nov. 24, two days after Oswald was arrested on charges of assassinating President John F. Kennedy.
Dr. Bromberg, clinical director of the Pinewood Psychiatric Hospital here said he returned from Dallas Dec. 22 after examining Ruby over the weekend.
He was called by Melvin M. Belli, Ruby's top defense counsel and other attorneys for the defense. Mr. Belli promised to engage "some of the greatest psychiatrists in the world" to examine his client.
Dr. Bromberg said he was doing psychological tests and should come to a decision on whether Ruby was sane at the time of Oswald's assassination, in about two weeks.
He went to examine Ruby with Dr. Manfred Guttmacher, chief medical officer of the Supreme Bench (trial courts) of Baltimore.
Dr. Bromberg is the author of two basic books in the psychiatric field, "Mind of Man, a History of Psychotherapy" and "Crime and the Mind," which he is now revising. He moved to Bedford Hills when he joined the Katonah clinic last summer. Previously he lived in California.
Taken from The North Westchester Times, New Castle Tribune (Mount Kisco, NY) December 31, 1963