Les AuCoin Collection

C-SPAN interview with AuCoin on Star Wars and the ABM Treaty video recording

A video primarily featuring footage of a C-SPAN interview of US Congressman Les AuCoin on the Star Wars program (officially known as the Strategic Defense Initiative) and the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty in 1987. In the interview, AuCoin advocates for arms control and the ABM Treaty, which would help restrain the Star Wars program, stating that "the ABM treaty means stability, and the Star Wars program means vulnerability." Various other video clips are included at the 58 minute mark until the end of the recording, including a speech by US Senator Gary Hart and news coverage of the 1984 election, including an interview with Bill Moshofsky.

This is a digitized version of an analog videorecording from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives. AuCoin served in the Oregon House of Representatives (1971-1975) and in the United States House of Representatives from Oregon's 1st District (1975-1993).

C-SPAN

February 6, 1987

PUA_MS147_vid_093

United States. Congress. House.

Legislators--United States

Strategic Defense Initiative

Arms control

Oregon

United States

(1 video file: 82 min, 42 s)

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

Pacific University Archives

MP4