Digital Exhibits

AuCoin 1970s-1980s campaign ads compilation, Chernobelsky footage video recording

A collection of televised advertisements, news stories, and other video clips from the late 1970s through the late 1980s featuring US Congressman Les AuCoin's reelection campaigns for Oregon's 1st Congressional District. Each advertisement is sponsored by the Re-Elect Les AuCoin Committee and ends with the slogans "Les AuCoin. He's there when we need him," "Les AuCoin. He stands up for Oregon," "Keep Les AuCoin in Congress," or "Results for Oregon. Congressman Les AuCoin." The advertisements feature political topics such as the energy crisis, the federal budget and federal spending, the timber industry, trade, the fishing industry, US-China relations, the housing crisis, abortion, and the 1980 Mount Saint Helens eruption, and the environment, among other topics. News stories featured in this collection include one on the 1980 congressional race for Oregon's 1st Congressional District between Democratic incumbent Les AuCoin and Republican challenger Lynn Engdahl; a KOIN Mid-Morning interview featuring Les AuCoin and his wife Sue on the their personal relationship, the Afghan-Soviet War, the CIA, and the Moscow 1980 Summer Olympics Boycott. Brief clip from the 1982 and 1984 debates between AuCoin and his Republican challenger Bill Moshofsky is also shown. The collection includes some repeat of video clips. Notably, footage of Naum Chernobelsky and his family arriving at the Portland airport in October 1988 is featured at the 31:51-35:11 minute mark. Chernobelsky and his family were among thousands of "refuseniks," Soviet Jews of the era who faced discrimination and were denied visas to emigrate by the Soviet government.

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).

Re-elect Les AuCoin Committee

1979-1989

PUA_MS147_vid_006

United States. Congress. House.

Legislators--United States

Political campaigns--United States.

Oregon--Politics and government.

Oregon

United States

(1 video file: 43 min, 49 s)

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

Pacific University Archives

MP4