“Freedom and the American Catholic.” Transcriptions of three half-hour programs featuring interview with Ong by John Cogley on The Catholic Hour–TV, broadcast nationally from the NBC–TV Studios, Radio City, New York, NY, 4, 11, and 18 Jan. 1959.
“The Eye of the Soul: Readings in the Role of Education.” Half-hour program featuring interview with Ong by Dallas Townsend concerning readings from Socrates, Quintillian, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Anthony Trollope, and R.W. Livingston, starring Zachary Scott as reader, On Lamp Unto My Feet, a Public Affairs Presentation of CBS News, broadcast nationally from the CBS–TV Studios, New York, NY, 25 Oct. 1959.
“The Christian and Technological Society.” Lecture no. CL-717 in the Sounds of Learning Series, published by Opinion Institute, Omaha, NE, Dec. 1960. 30 min. 3 3/4 ips tape and 33 1/3 rpm record.
“Catholic Education and Man’s Future on Earth.” Lecture no. CL-718 in the Sounds of Learning Series, published by Opinion Institute, Omaha, NE, Dec. 1960. 30 min. 3 3/4 ips tape and 33 1/3 rpm record. Abridgment of material from “Academic Excellence and Cosmic Vision.”
“The End of the Age of Literacy.” Lecture no. CL-719 in the Sounds of Learning Series, published by Opinion Institute, Omaha, NE, Dec. 1960. 30 min. 3 3/4 ips tape and 33 1/3 rpm record.
“Tangents of Technology.” Discussion led by Aldous Huxley, with Ritchie Calder of the University of Edinburgn, Robert M. Hutchins, President of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and Ong. Tape no. 7 issued by the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Santa Barbara, CA, Mar. 1962. Approx. 1 hour. 3 3/4 ips half-track tape. Made from the discussion during the Encyclopedia Britannica Conference on the Technological Order, 11-16 Mar. 1962, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions.
“A View From Tomorrow.” Statements from the Conference on the Technological Order Sponsored by the Encyclopedia Britannica in cooperation with the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Santa Barbara, CA, 11-16 Mar. 1962. Prepared and broadcast 6 May 1962 by KNX Radio News, Los Angeles, CA.
“The Critic and the Arts.” Transcription of an interview with Ong and William K. Wimsatt, of Yale University, conducted by Shelia Hough for the radio program Yale Reports, no. 327, originally broadcast on Radio Station WTIC (Hartford, CT), 24 May 1964.
“Interpreting Interpretation: An Oral Response for Taping, Transcription, and Print.” Enlivening Literature. NCTE 1972 Convention Seminars. Chicago: Comtron, 1973. A cassette tape made at 62nd Annual Meeting of the NCTE, 20-25 Nov. 1972, Minneapolis, MN.
“The Past and Future of Media.” A videotape by Nebraska Educational Television Council for Higher Education, Lincoln, NE, made for use by the 16 member stations of NETCHE, by other affiliate stations, etc. One of four half-hour programs, forming a series entitled “The Renaissance,” each featuring one of the four invited principal speakers at the 1973 Central Renaissance Conference, meeting at the U of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, 12-14 Apr. 1973. Taped in the NETCHE Studios, Lincoln, NE, 12 Apr. 1973.
“God’s Word and Worship in the Age of Secondary Orality.” St. Paul, MN: American Lutheran Church Media Services, Dec. 1976. A cassette tape of Ong’s address at the Plenary Session of the North American Broadcast Section of the World Association for Christian Communication, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 29 Nov. 1976.
“Word and Worship in the Electronic Age.” Taped recording of a lecture given 17 Nov. 1977 at Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, VA.
“The Transformation of Orality.” Lecture delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Central States Speech Association, St. Louis, Apr. 1987.