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The Sleepwalker Interviews [sound recording]

Hierarchical level:

Sub-sub-series

Date:

1989-1990.

Reference:

R5274-2-9-E

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

213569

Context of this record:

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June Callwood fonds

Books

The Sleepwalker

The Sleepwalker Interviews
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Record information – Details

Date(s):

1989-1990.

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

18 audio cassettes (21 h, 37 min).

Language of material:

English

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A unique sets of interviews conducted by a senior Canadian journalist and author, June Callwood, as research for the book The Sleepwalker. Interviews conducted are personal in nature and help to piece together the circumstances that led Ken Parks to stab his mother-in-law and father-in-law and, in a bizarre criminal case and precedent-setting trial, successfully use sleepwalking as defence. Interviewees include Ken Parks, his wife Karen Parks, additional family members including Ken Parks mother and grandmother, and Ken Parks legal counsel, criminal lawyers Marlys Edwardh and Delmar Doucette, and Crown prosecutor Cathy Mocha.

The Sleepwalker audiocassette series includes 18 audio cassettes with 13 interviews conducted. Many interviews are with the same person/people, conducted at different periods of time over the course of 1989 and 1990. The interviews vary in length from 22 minutes to 3 hours. On average, interviews are approximately 2 hours per sitting.

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Sound recordings. (Electronic) Refer to MISACS database for item-level descriptions. (90: Open)

Source:

Private

Other accession no.:

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2005-0102 VSA
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