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BRINKLEY SHOW BRINGS GOVERNOR EGAN’S PROTESTS
Governor William A. Egan sent the following telegram to Robert W. Sarnoff,
Chairman of the Board of the National Broadcasting System, in protest of a
presentation of Alaska carried on the David Brinkley national television shows
"Nationally televised David Brinkley show of January 7> 1963 > presented
I grossly unfair distortion of facts. A great disservice has been perpetrated.
! This negative presentation is not a true representation of the programs, devel
| opment and progress of today's Alaska. Alaska has her problems, as does any
i other -state of our Union, but her human resources are hard at work on construc
tive programs which are already bearing fruit. Concrete evidence of this is borne
out through the fact that gross volume -of business reported under Alaska's busi
ness license tax for calendar year 1958 was $577,000,000, Gross volume of busi
ness reported for calendar year 1962 will exceed $965,000,000. It took Alaska
; 91 years to reach a $577>000,000. gross business volume. It has taken only four
years under Statehood to nearly double that business volume.
Production at Alaska’s two large pulp mills; of Alaska’s rapidly developing
! oil and gas industries; and other important segments of Alaska’s economy is not
! included in these figures. I would say that a better than 65 per cent increase
in Alaska’s volume of business over the four years since Statehood is incontro
■ vertible proof that Alaska is on the march to a great future. Particularly so
when one considers there has been no boom type defense construction for the past
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two years.
In view of the damage which will unquestionably result from Mr. Brinkley’s
presentation and because the over-all picture imprinted on the minds of Americans
does not represent the true story of Alaska, I hereby request that the National
Broadcasting Company grant appropriate State officials and representatives of
Alaska industry a similar period of time to present the true Alaska story to the
people of our United States.
Alaska is growing under Statehood, and because of this, its true story,
i properly told, will be of immense interest .and value to the people of our United
| States, as well-as to the people of emerging nations who are-now choosing their
! way of life”.
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Louise Webb
Copper Center