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Transcript of interview with Robert D. "Bob" Fisher by Barbara Tabach, January 8, 2015

Date

2015-01-08

Archival Collection

Description

Robert D. "Bob" Fisher is a Las Vegas, Nevada broadcast personality and lobbyist. He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and moved to Las Vegas in 1994 when he was hired to be the founding president and CEO of the Nevada Broadcasters Association (NVBA). During his 22 years as head of the NVBA, he produced and hosted Observations, a public affairs program broadcasted on radio and television throughout the state of Nevada. Soon after, he began producing and hosting the only weekly live television program about diabetes in the United States; in 2015 his weekly live radio program The Diabetes Show was the only one of its kind to be aired over commercial radio in the U.S. Fisher helped bring the AMBER Alert program to Nevada in 2003, and served as its chairman and coordinator for ten years. His other lobbying successes include the classification of certified broadcasters as First Responders and the elimination of Broadcaster Non-Compete contracts in 2013. He served on the Nevada Homeland Security Commission for 13 years, the Nevada Crime Commission, and the Governor's Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission. Fisher is a founding clergy member of Midbar Kodesh Temple in Henderson, Nevada and served as its cantor for over a decade. After his retirement from NVBA at the end of 2014, he established Bob Fisher Weddings to provide his services as a wedding officiant. In this interview, conducted shortly after his retirement from NVBA, Fisher discusses his childhood in Twin Cities, and the large role Judaism played in his upbringing. He speaks at length about his involvement with United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism over the years, including as regional director of the United Synagogue Youth Far West Region, which took him from Minnesota to California. He talks about his time in Los Angeles, and later, about his life in Las Vegas, including his broadcasting career as well as involvement with Midbar Kodesh Temple.

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Newspaper clippings about Hadassah officer installation, 1965

Description

Incoming Slate of Officers, The Nevada Jewish Chronicle, July 2, 1965; Only in Vegas, publication unknown, June 25, 1965; Hadassah installation brunch, The Nevada Jewish Chronicle, June 25, 1965

Video, Holocaust Survivors of Southern Nevada reflections, 2013

Date

2013

Description

Compilation of interviews with survivors of the Holocaust reflecting on loss, liberation, rebuilding, how the Holocaust has impacted their lives, and the American Dream. The interviews are also available through the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) online catalog: http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn608188

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Video, Generations of the Shoah interview with Henry Kronberg, by Esther Finder, 2013

Date

2013

Description

Interview with Henry Kronberg by Esther Finder. Kronberg survived the Holocaust and discusses the fate of his family, and his life in America.

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Video, Generations of the Shoah interview with Alexander Kuechel, by Esther Finder, 2013

Date

2013

Description

Interview with Alexander Kuechel by Esther Finder. Kuechel discusses the fate of his family at the hands of the Nazis and his journey through concentration camps in Europe. He was librated at age 21 and eventually came to the United States.

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Video, Generations of the Shoah interview with Henry Schuster, by Esther Finder, 2013

Date

2013

Description

Interview with Henry Schuster by Esther Finder.

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Video, Generations of the Shoah interview with Sasha Semenoff, by Esther Finder, 2013

Date

2013

Description

Interview with Sasha Semenoff by Esther Finder. Semenoff is a Holocaust survivor, and discusses his life after he was liberated from a concentration camp in Europe in 1945.

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