She Recorded EVERYTHING On TV For 30 YEARS #shorts

[bobbyaguilar]

She is the epitome of understanding the assignment. She understood what so many of us are coming to really see for ourselves.

[Jdogrey]

Internet Archive is great. I'm glad they carried on what she started.

[fdn]

She was right. Politicians try to BS us all the time.

[BackVida]

She was NOT A "hoarder" she was a Historical Liberian that was AHEAD of her Time !
Her Goal was #Preservation #MarionStokes #VHS #TV #Footage

[toaolisi]

Today there are communities dedicated to finding and preserving lost media. This woman wasn't just ahead of her time, she had a mission to make sure the truth wasn't rewritten. Incredible.

[lutenic]

She was also an early investor in Tech companies like Apple which made it affordable for her to manage over 70K tapes and storage units

[thevenomoth]

as a man studying history at my university I deeply respect her commitment for preservation, not many people would even think to go to these lengths

[bondjames]

God Bless this special lady! She did it on her own dime! God is Great!

[Twitch_Fox]

"She was afraid people would rewrite history." Yeah, she was damned right too.

[DivineRedwood]

*She was absolutely right. God bless her.*

[colettewest]

She's a true hero. I hope her work remains available to the public.

[tmlh]

She is amazing. Prophetic and misunderstood. So underappreciated. But i appreciate her and what she did. We need her work today. Its very important that we are able to see all of that

[gahyeonlvr]

It makes sense she was a librarian. They do so much more than just work a desk at a library. They are well versed in research and finding information and keeping it accessible. Librarians are extremely undervalued by most people but we need them!!

[phokeydhoo]

As a data hoarder, I understand so well. This woman is broken and heroic.

[ryanmag]

Digitizing it, preserving it. And making it public is the best way to acknowledge her❤

[AkiraCatt]

She was an amazingly insightful woman!&thank goodness she had such foresight!!

[scottlemiere]

For everyone saying that she saw that there would be a need for this in the future: she only had to look to the past to see it would be needed again. By the 70s there were already people trying to alter what happened in WW2.

[nunyabiznez]

My grandmother did this with newspapers. She was born in 1899. When she was seven someone started up a newspaper in her hometown. She insisted on keeping every issue in her bedroom. In 1912 she began composing an index of every article. From 1906 it was a once per week newspaper published on Saturdays. In 1921 they began publishing on Wednesday as well and in 1957 they began a daily paper. She passed away in 1967. My aunt continued archiving and indexing these newspapers. Old newspapers tend to have high acid content and the papers tend to crumble when they get really old so I am not sure why her copies never did this. All I know is she transferred everything into plastic bags in the 1960's before she passed away and then her daughter did the same thing. My aunt passed away in 1999 and then my cousin took over with archiving and indexing. In 2012 that newspaper went out of business and when the librarian for that town's public library enquired about if the newspaper would consider donating their archives to the public library the newspaper's publisher responded with "we never kept an archive. We always disposed of old copies once a year and never had more than a year's worth." So the librarian sent a letter out to all the residents of the town asking them to donate any old copies of said newspaper to the library. My cousin got the letter, went to the library and looked around and disappointed went to the librarian and asked "Where are you going to keep it?" "Keep what?" the librarian asked. "all my back copies of the town's newspapers going back to 1906. I don't see space enough to house my collection." She then explained the size and scope of the collection. The librarian had no idea the newspaper had been published since 1906. The oldest resident of the town was in her 90's and remembered it was published when she was a little girl but that was during the depression. So new problem. They had to raise funds to add a wing to the library. It is named after my grandmother. They have digitally scanned the newspapers and it is in a climate controlled fire proof room. The digital copies are kept in multiple locations and are accessible to the town and most importantly, so are the indexes. Every year they celebrate my grandmother's birthday there by handing out birthday cake. Over 100 years of detailed town history almost no one was aware of fully preserved. Prior to that all the library had was town directories and the annual fifty page town report and they didn't even have copies of that for every year.

[stormdanceroblivion]

Smart lady. Insane, but very wise. She had a point, cause people are doing that right now

[jhaze]

God bless her soul! She knew the importance of true and accurate HISTORY and why it needs to be preserved. 🙌🏾