Clinton Grand Jury Videotape (September 21, 1998)

September 21, 1998. The House Judiciary Committee released Bill Clinton’s grand jury testimony and every major network broadcast four hours of it live. Someone recorded it on a Fuji Pro 120 in a sleeve labeled “For Videotape Libraries.”

The testimony itself is a matter of historical record — the content is known, the transcript is public. What this tape preserves is the broadcast: the specific network coverage, the anchors and analysts, the commercial breaks that ran between segments while America watched a president answer questions under oath. That packaging is what doesn’t survive.

Fuji Pro 120, Sunbury Collection, EP mode, good condition. The “For Videotape Libraries” label on the sleeve is its own kind of time capsule — whoever recorded this thought it was worth keeping for reference. They were right. Not yet streamed.