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Jean Walkinshaw

{{short description|American television producer}}

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Jean Walkinshaw is an American television producer. She has produced content for The History Channel, KING-TV, and KCTS. In 2019 Walkinshaw was inducted into the Northwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Gold Circle for 50 years of significant contribution to the television industry and community.{{cite web |title=Silver and Gold Circle Honors 2019 |url=https://www.natasnw.org/silver-gold |website=National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Northwest Chapter}}

A graduate of Stanford University, she taught school for three years and in 1963 started her TV career. At KING-TV she produced a weekly series, Face to Face, hosted by Roberta Byrd Barr,{{cite web |title=Roberta Byrd Barr (1919-1993) |url=https://www.blackpast.org/aaw/vignette_aahw/barr-roberta-byrd-1919-1993/ |website=BlackPast|date=22 January 2007 }} which in 1968 was the only local program series in the U.S. to consistently report on attitudes of minority peoples.The Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Survey of Broadcast Journalism 1968-1969, Grosset & Dunlap, Inc., New York, 1969, page 20

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In 1970 Walkinshaw moved to KCTS where she produced documentaries for both national and local audiences. Much of her work features people and places in the Northwest, but she also produced documentaries in Russia, Ghana and four in Japan.

Walkinshaw's production team was the first from the Northwest allowed to film in the USSR. Many of her programs have been aired nationally by PBS and such varied groups as NHK in Japan, Super Channel in Europe, British Airways, and Armed Forces Television Services. Her production of Rainier: The Mountain helped inaugurate high definition television in the Northwest.

Walkinshaw contributed production content to the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) . In May 2021, the AAPB launched the Jean Walkinshaw Collection featuring national and international documentaries and raw interviews produced by Walkinshaw for the Seattle public television station KCTS and SCCtv (Seattle Colleges Cable Television).{{Cite web|title=The Jean Walkinshaw Collection|url=https://americanarchive.org/special_collections/jean-walkinshaw|access-date=2021-05-10|website=americanarchive.org}}

Awards and reviews

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Her awards include eight Northwest Regional Emmys, Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, Ohio State Award, National Press Women Award; New York Festival International TV Program Award, Chicago International Film Festival Award, two American Film and Video Festival Awards, six Best of the West Awards, Religious Broadcasting Award, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Award. Walkinshaw received the first Spirit of Nell Award given by Women in Film/Seattle. She was the first woman producer inducted into the Northwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Silver Circle.

Conservationism and activism

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She married Walter Walkinshaw, a conservationist and outdoorsman. The Olympic Mountains have two peaks that reflect her deep heritage. Mount Walkinshaw{{cite web|title=Climbers Guide to the Olympic Mountains: Mount Walkinshaw|url=http://www.climbersguideolympics.com/peaks/gray-wolf-hurricane-ridge-group/mount-walkinshaw}} was named after her father-in-law Robert Walkinshaw, an early member of the Mountaineers. Mount Henderson{{cite web |title=Mount Henderson, Washington |url=https://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=1042 |website=Peakbagger.com}} was named after her grandfather Louis F. Henderson,{{cite web|title=Louis F. Henderson biography|url=http://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/henderson_louis_f_1853_1942_/#.VJ8KKABDA|website=The Oregon Encyclopedia}} the first botanist to name flowers in the Olympic Mountains.

In addition to being a documentary producer, Walkinshaw has been an activist. She built houses of good will in Hiroshima in 1951 after the atomic bomb.{{cite web|title=Houses for Hiroshima|url=http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/virtual/VirtualMuseum_e/exhibit_e/exh0708_e/exh070807_e.html}} Walkinshaw was chairman of the School Affiliation Committee of the American Friends. This committee enabled the first American high school students in the nation to live and study in Japan. She and her husband helped found the Seattle chapter of Amigos de las Americas, a program which at that time sent young people to give vaccinations and basic first aid in remote villages.{{cite web|title=Amigos de las Americas|url=https://amigosinternational.org}} For four years she chaired the Washington State Selection Committee to choose Rhodes Scholars.{{cite web|title=Rhodes Scholarships|url=http://www.rhodesscholar.org}} She served on a number of cultural and community boards in Seattle.

In 2010 Joel Connelly, national correspondent for the Seattle P-I, wrote that Walkinshaw and her husband were "one of Seattle’s most achieving couples."{{cite web|last1=Connelly|first1=Joel|title=Walt Walkinshaw: An apprceciation|url=http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2010/04/19/walt-walkinshaw-an-appreciation/|publisher=Seattle P-I|accessdate=27 December 2014}}

Her children are Charlie Walkinshaw, Rob Walkinshaw and Meg Walkinshaw Fuell.{{Citation needed|date=June 2019}}

Select documentaries

  • Three Artists in the Northwest – Portrait of three prominent Northwest artists: painters George Tsutakawa and Guy Anderson, and poet Theodore Roethke.
  • Young Storytellers in Russia – One of the first American cultural documentaries taped in the former USSR.{{cite web |title=Young Storytellers in Russia |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3Es1QxsiVY |website=YouTube| date=16 July 2010 }}
  • In the Shadow of the Mountains – Profile of Northwest mountain-climber Jim Wickwire.
  • Kitaro – Japanese composer and keyboard musician Kitaro in his first tour of the U.S.{{cite web |title=Chicago Tribune: Look into the new age with "Kitaro" |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1989-03-30-8903310051-story.html |website=Chicago Tribune |date=March 29, 1989}}
  • In the Spirit of Cooperation – Japanese Overseas Cooperation Volunteers (JOCV) and American Peace Corps volunteers in Ghana, West Africa.{{cite web |title=In the Spirit of Cooperation |url=https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_283-25k98z8r |website=American Archive of Public Broadcasting|date=31 August 1994 }}

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  • Children of the Homeless – Children’s experiences from their perspective.
  • To Write and Keep Kind – Profile of writer Raymond Carver.
  • Remarkable People: Making a Difference in the Northwest – Series of half-hour profiles featuring extraordinary people.{{cite web |title=Remarkable People |url=https://www.seattlecolleges.tv/programming/scctv-originals/140-remarkable-people?highlight=WyJyZW1hcmthYmxlIiwicGVvcGxlIiwicGVvcGxlJyIsInJlbWFya2FibGUgcGVvcGxlIl0= |website=SCCtv}}
  • WestWords – Vibrant portraits of six Western writer and the region that inspires their work. Featured are: Ivan Doig, Maxine Hong Kingston, Tony Hillerman, Terry Tempest Williams, William Kittredge, and Rudolfo Anaya.{{cite web |title=Westwords: Six Western Writers |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1kkmOTWJoc |website=YouTube| date=4 November 2011 }}
  • The River – Follows the Columbia River and some of its inhabitants from the headwaters in Canada to the Pacific Ocean.
  • Tom Robbins: A Writer in the Rain – About the life and writing of this popular author.
  • Rainier: The Mountain{{cite web|title=Rainier: The Mountain|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyTfxq1Sew0|website=YouTube| date=13 April 2009 |accessdate=28 December 2014}} – Celebrating the mountain, its legends, and the founding of Mount Rainier National Park 100 years before.

References

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External links

  • [https://historylink.org/File/20803 HistoryLink profile: Jean Walkinshaw, Documentary Filmmaker]
  • [https://americanarchive.org/special_collections/jean-walkinshaw American Archive of Public Broadcasting: Jean Walkinshaw Collection]
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVerPFe4ePE Remarkable Person: Jean Walkinshaw]
  • [http://www.seattlepi.com/ae/music/article/Documentary-producer-Jean-Walkinshaw-to-be-1290111.php Documentary producer Jean Walkinshaw to be subject of TV series]
  • [http://www.seattlepi.com/default/article/In-The-Northwest-Walkinshaw-master-at-portraying-1136926.php In the Northwest: Walkinshaw master at portraying regional identity]
  • [https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/journey-into-the-interior-of-poet-theodore-roethke/ Seattle Times: Journey into the interior of poet Theodore Roethke]
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyTfxq1Sew0 Rainier: The Mountain, on YouTube]
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfVoXE5oAiI Peggy Strong – Remembered by her sister Jean Walkinshaw]
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  • [https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_283-62s4n59n 90 Years of Tomorrows: Portrait of Floyd Schmoe]
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-gQrQ0IJA8 King5: Jean Walkinshaw interviewed about Seattle activist Floyd Schmoe]
  • [https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/backstories/222/ NHK Backstories: Building Houses of Peace After the Atomic Bombs]
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edfly5jPb80 Remarkable People: Theodore Roethke]
  • [https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_283-86b2rq2z Tarheels of the Northwest]
  • [https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_283-86b2rq2z Trident: Super Sub or Dinosaur?]
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMEvx4Ew1us Remarkable People – Stefani Smith]
  • [http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv60021 Archives West: Orbis Casade Alliance – Jean Walkinshaw papers, 1937-2008]
  • [https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/personal-papers/walter-and-jean-walkinshaw-papers Harry S. Truman Presidential Library & Museum: Walter and Jean Walkinshaw Papers]
  • [https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/10-essential-questions-jean-walkinshaw The Mountaineers: 10 Essential Questions for Jean Walkinshaw]
  • [https://www.linkedin.com/pub/jean-walkinshaw/80/890/79 LinkedIn: Jean Walkinshaw]
  • [http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2010/04/19/walt-walkinshaw-an-appreciation/ Walt Walkinshaw: An appreciation]
  • Remarkable People: https://www.seattlecolleges.tv/programming/originals/140-remarkable-people

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