Israel Shenker

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

This episode is from the WNYC archives. It may contain language which is no longer politically or socially appropriate.

From the Municipal Catalog:
Israel Shenker, Moscow reporter for Time, talks about why his magazine bureau was forced to leave the U.S.S.R. He also discusses the difficulties that plague foreign correspondents living and working in the Soviet Union.


Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection


WNYC archives id: 70411
Municipal archives id: T215

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