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Title	Joseph Benti
Alternative Title	Benti, Joseph
Genre	Legend -- People -- Local
Description	Nancy Mooneyham's transcribed interview of Janes Myers Long about Joseph Benti. Jane Myers Long said that her parents witnessed Benti knock out former Mayor Tucker because the mayor was drunk and kept touching Benti's wife.
Informant	Long, Jane Myers
Collector	Mooneyham, Nancy
Date of Original	1970-03-08
Contextual Information	Joseph Benti was a newscaster on a local station in Terre Haute, Indiana. After leaving Terre Haute, Indiana, he went on to work at a station in Los Angeles, California. He became quite famous.
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Indiana -- Vigo County -- Terre Haute -- 1970
Subject	Celebrities Journalism Television news anchors
WV3 Subject	Folklore
Type	text
Material Type	Interviews
Date Digital	2011-05-16
Technical Metadata	image/tiff 300 dpi; Epson GT-20000; Epson Scan
Copyright	Digital image copyright c 2011 Indiana Folklore Collection.
Item ID	isuf-JosephBenti002

Joseph Benti

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