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Marion Marguerite Stokes (née Butler; November 25, 1929 – December 14, 2012) was an American access television producer, businesswoman, investor, civil rights demonstrator, activist, librarian, and prolific archivist, especially known for her compulsive hoarding and archiving of hundreds of thousands of hours of television news ...
Marion Stokes was secretly recording television twenty-four hours a day for thirty years. It started in 1979 with the Iranian Hostage Crisis at the dawn of the twenty-four hour news cycle. It ended on December 14, 2012 while the Sandy Hook massacre played on television as Marion passed away.
Apr 26, 2024 · For 30 years, Philadelphia civil rights activist Marion Stokes recorded television for 24 hours a day, amassing over 70,000 tapes. From 1979 to 2012, Marion Stokes recorded her television 24/7. In total, she amassed about 71,000 tapes of archival footage.
Apr 26, 2022 · Marion Stokes was an activist who preserved more than three decades' worth of television recordings, resulting in what some say is one of the largest known personal archive of...
Apr 29, 2019 · An activist archivist, she had been a librarian with the Free Library of Philadelphia for nearly 20 years before being fired in the early 1960s, likely for her work as...
May 7, 2019 · Marion Stokes secretly recorded 70,000 VHS tapes' worth of US broadcasts from 1979 until her death in 2012. Her son explains why, as a new documentary about her is...
Nov 21, 2013 · The Incredible Story Of Marion Stokes, Who Single-Handedly Taped 35 Years Of TV News. From 1977 to 2012, she recorded 140,000 VHS tapes worth of history. Now the Internet Archive has a plan to...
