ماریون استوکس | |
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نام هنگام تولد | ماریون مارگریت باتلر |
زادهٔ | ۲۵ نوامبر ۱۹۲۹ فیلادلفیا، پنسیلوانیا، آمریکا |
درگذشت | ۱۴ دسامبر ۲۰۱۲ (۸۳ سال) فیلادلفیا، پنسیلوانیا، آمریکا |
پیشه(ها) | فعال، تولیدکننده تلویزیونی |
همسر | جان استوکس جونیور |
ماریون مارگریت استوکس (به انگلیسی: Marion Marguerite Stokes) (۲۵ نوامبر ۱۹۲۹–۱۴ دسامبر ۲۰۱۲)[۱] یک تسهیلگر دسترسی به برنامههای تلویزیون، مدافع حقوق مدنی، فعال، کتابدار، و آرشیویست پرکار بود که به ویژه به خاطر احتکار وسواسی[۲][۳] و بایگانی صدها هزار ساعت برنامه تلویزیونی مشهور است. او از سال ۱۹۷۷ تا زمان مرگش در سال ۲۰۱۲، به مدت ۳۵ سال مشغول ضبط کردن اخبار تلویزیونی بود.[۳][۴]
Marion Marguerite Stokes, 83, a librarian and social justice advocate who was a coproducer of a 1960s Sunday morning TV talk show entitled Input, died of lung disease Friday, Dec. 14, at her home in Rittenhouse Square.
Marion Stokes was a hoarder. When she died last year, her family had to figure out what to do with 9 separate residences and 3 storage locations full of stuff – everything from tens of thousands of books to decades-old Apple computers. This is the story of how they found a home for the strangest artifact in her collection — 140,000 videocassettes filled with 35 years of round-the-clock cable TV news.
Some might characterize Stokes's activities as hoarding, a compulsive act performed by eccentrics and neurotics unable to let go of things. But others might consider her practice one of radical historiography, Stokes's fundamental project being one of liberation: of truth, of knowledge, and, ultimately, of people.
Marion Stokes, a child of the Great Depression, spent her life saving everything – literally. The Philadelphia resident kept everything from newspapers and electronics to empty cigarette packets and sticky-notes. Among the cardboard boxes and magazine stacks in her home were 140,000 cassette tapes containing recordings of all local and national TV news programs from every channel.