MEMO TO THE PRESIDENT FROM JOE HOLMES

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 19, 2007
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: March 23, 1981
• Content Type: MEMO

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march 23, 1981
?`.MORANDUM TO THE PRESIDENT
From: Joe Holmes
1. There are a nu.-nber of producers who are fed up with the
anti-hero material coming out of Holly-wood and asked my help
in getting cooperation from the administration to do pro-hero
movies and tv series. They believe the right kind of material
would bring young people to being more patriotic and restore
pride in the Armed Forces. The bottom line is a desire to
stimulate enlistments in the services.
Obviously this would be very helpful in maintaining the
volunteer military. I also suspect, after watching the re-
action of young people to you in the campaign, that the time
is now right.... young people are more patriotic.
I will be meeting with a small group of producers (in-
cluding Jack Webb) in the next ten days and will then have
a better understanding of how we can be helpful.
2. After your presentation of the medal of Honor to Sgt.
Benavidez, I contacted two producers with a cassette of the
ceremony which I had filmed, and a sucgested script. My
objective wa.s a movie of the week based on the exploits of
Benavidez in winning the award. There is now a possibility
of either (1) a Movie of the v.eek, A.C. Kyles, Producer
(2) a new TV series narrated by Bob Stack featuring a Medal
of Honor winner each week. The lead story on the series
would be Sgt. Benavidez.
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