Les AuCoin Collection

Brief clip of AuCoin House floor speech on women's rights and a pro-Oregon timber industry promotional video recording

A video recording that includes a brief clip of US Congressman Les AuCoin advocating for women's rights on the House floor and a seperate pro-Oregon timber industry promotional clip. The clips both likely date to the early 1990s. The early 1990s in Oregon was marked by a declining timber industry, including a large-scale debate between environmentalists (including members of the ESA Committee, the "God Squad") concerned about protecting the habitat of the endangered northern spotted owl and the members of the logging industry who argued that the Endangered Species Act and its regulations reduced the number of jobs for timber workers.

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).

PUA_MS147_vid_073

1990-1992

United States. Congress. House.

Legislators--United States

Lumber trade--United States

Women's rights

Oregon

United States

(1 video file: 5 min, 51 s)

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

Pacific University Archives

MP4