Siple, Linda

Script for an episode of the Gross-Krasne Productions television show Big Town entitled Justice is Mute, release #80, season 4. Big Town was a television series that aired from 1950-1956. This episode has the interpreter for a deaf-mute character not acting in the best interest of the character and conspiring to victimize him.

Materials related to Linda Siple's research study of deaf characters and interpreters. Linda Siple is a professor in the ASL-English Interpretation Program at RIT/NTID. The collection includes VHS tapes of television programs and movies featuring deaf character and interpreters that she used for research.

Collection is a 21" x 21" fabric square used by a local interpreting organization at a workshop to explain the history of waving a handkerchief to signal applause from a deaf audience.