UCLA Irv and Xiaoyan Drasnin Communication Archive

We are grateful to UCLA alumnus Irv Drasnin--a broadcast journalist and documentarian--and his wife Xiaoyan Zhao Drasnin--a communication researcher and writer--for their gift establishing the UCLA Irv and Xiaoyan Zhao Drasnin Communication Archive. UCLA has been preserving and protecting historic media content for more than a half-century. Our collections include recordings of campus speakers at UCLA and historic news content. Beginning with the Watergate Hearings, our Department has worked to preserve our collective memory of vital events in our history. Through this YouTube channel, we are sharing this work with the public. See https://comm.ucla.edu/drasnin-communication-archive/ for more information about the Drasni...