The Marvin Zindler Papers

The archives of the legendary local TV personality have a new home at the University of Houston library:

University of Houston Libraries Special Collections is pleased to announce the acquisition of the Marvin Zindler Papers.

The collection preserves and celebrates the legacy of the distinguished KTRK-TV investigative reporter through photos, correspondence, news clippings, publicity and press release materials, personal notes, sketches, awards, complaint letters, story scripts, reporter notebooks, research files, AV materials, two eye-opening biographies, artifacts (including his baton), and ephemera.

The idea to collect the iconic reporter's archives and house them at the UH library was both his producer's and his family's:

“I have been treasuring many varied items in my possession and all the special memories associated with them, but ultimately decided to share Marvin Zindler‘s life-changing impact upon everyone he touched,” said Lori Reingold, Zindler’s long-time producer. “I want Houstonians to remember that Marvin was one of the people who shaped this city, and that he fought for what was right and what he believed in, gave voice to the voiceless, and was fearless in his pursuit of truth and justice.”

Zindler’s son Dan Zindler and partner Lori Freese were inspired by Reingold to bring the reporter’s archives to UH Special Collections. “Ms. Reingold produced Marvin’s stories and now she’s producing his archives and legacy to be properly preserved and shared,” said Dan Zindler. “It was an honor to be his son and an incredible honor to share his memory with everyone.”

I imagine that, one day in the future, a grad student in the Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management will use these archives to write a thesis about the prevalence of slime in Houston restaurant ice machines in the 1980s and 1990s.