Heffner, Richard D.

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Name (Latin)
Heffner, Richard D.
Other forms of name
Hefner, Richard D
Date of birth
1925-08-05
Date of death
2013-12-17
Occupation
College teachers
Historians
television personality
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
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Other Identifiers

VIAF: 8400324
Wikidata: Q7326358
Library of congress: n 89636209
Sources of Information
  • Alumni.rutgers, viewed Feb. 28, 2007:www page, your favorite professor (Richard D. Hefner, Communications ... published author, television host, and president of the Motion Picture Review Board)
  • Biog. resource center (Contemp. authors), Feb. 18, 2010(Richard D(ouglas) Heffner; b. Aug. 5, 1925, New York, N.Y.; Rutgers University, university professor of communications and public policy, 1964- )
  • New York times (online), viewed Dec. 20, 2013(in obituary published Dec. 19: Richard D. Heffner; b. Richard Douglas Heffner, Aug. 5, 1925, Manhattan; d. there Tuesday [Dec. 17, 2013], aged 88; historian, educator, and broadcaster who was the longtime host of The open mind, the venerable current-affairs program on public television, and who also spent two decades as chairman of the motion picture industry's film-ratings board)
  • Rutgers, School of Communication and Information, directory, Feb. 19, 2010(Heffner, Richard D.; university professor of communications and public policy; Dowling professor of communications and public policy; produces and moderates The open mind television series on PBS; served as Chairman of the Board and Administrator of the motion picture industry's voluntary film classification and rating system, 1974-1994; holds honorary doctorates from the State University of New York and from Long Island University; b. Aug. 5, 1925, New York, N.Y.)
  • The open mind. [1959-02-08], Law in American life [SR] 1959:engineer's notes (Richard D. Hefner, keynote speaker)
  • nuc89-63248: His A documentary history of the United States, c1985(hdg. on MdBE rept.: Heffner, Richard D.; usage: Richard D. Heffner)