This is Marion Marguerite Butler Stokes. Beginning in 1979, former librarian Marion Stokes recorded broadcasts from multiple televisions at once, 24 hours a day, eventually accumulating 71,000 tapes of television history. She believed that the news held crucial historical details at risk of disappearing forever. It started in 1979 with the Iranian Hostage Crisis at the dawn of the twenty-four hour news cycle. It ended on December 14, 2012 while the Sandy Hook massacre played on television as Marion passed away. Having been surveilled by the government for her early political activism––she and her first husband had attempted to defect to Cuba together –– Stokes was exceedingly cautious about her recordings while she was alive. Networks were disposing their archives for decades into the trashcan of history. Remarkably Marion saved it, and now the Internet Archive will digitize her tapes and will be made publicly available, offering everyone the opportunity to examine history. Rest in peace.