[philman_36]

When a television station is bought all of the old company's stuff, including old tapes, belongs to the new owner.
Think about that and how long this stuff may have languished unnoticed on a shelf somewhere.

Then some old guy says in passing...I remember we did a story on him once at the station I used to work at...

[2ndamendmentpa]

Frontline explanation

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/government-elections-politics/the-story-behind-the-obama-law-school-speech-video/

In 2008, as a part of our quadrennial election special The Choice 2008, FRONTLINE ran the same footage of the speech as a part of an exploration of Obama’s time at Harvard Law School, where he graduated in 1991. It’s been online at our site and on YouTube since then. You can see that part of the film below.

FRONTLINE producers obtained the footage from the same source as BuzzFeed did this week: the archives of WGBH, Boston’s PBS station. The footage was shot in 1990 by a team of local news producers for the WGBH Ten O’Clock News. FRONTLINE is produced at WGBH and our producers were alerted to the footage in the station archives in 2008