Word: batscha
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...museum is a vital repository not just of artistic highlights like old Kovacs shows but of the broadcast record of major historical events. "Can you imagine having had television cameras on Columbus' ships landing in the New World?" asks Robert Batscha, the museum's enthusiastic president. "It boggles the mind. But 400 years from now people will be able to say, 'Here we are living on Jupiter, and we have this wonderful historic footage of men landing on the moon.' " TV's early programming was preserved only haphazardly, and much of the museum's job has been to locate "lost...
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