Lori on TV

LORI CARANGELO
aka Americans For Open Records (AmFOR)

MEDIA CREDITS

Radio, TV, Press Coverage on Adoption Issues, & Published Books

Over the years Lori Carangelo has provided guests and their adoption stories to national media without fee and without credit -- including The Montel Williams Show, Geraldo, etc. She has also contributed to numerous adoption topic books by new authors, provided data to the United Nations "Rights of the Child" project and to researchers at universities nationwide. Following are radio, tv and press coverage in which she participated or provided material for which she and/or her organization, AmFOR, was credited.

10-17-05 PR LAW INC, Lawyers and Business Executives website - "Me Culpa,Mea Maxima Culpa" http://prlawinc.typepad.com
09-02-03 NW INDIANA TIMES: "Doorstep Baby Seeks Mother"
02-14-03 SUNDAY STAR-TIMES (New Zealand) - "CYFs Manager Slammed as Anti-Adoption"
02-14-03 KESQ-TV News (Palm Springs. CA) - Missing Girl Danielle VanDam; "Valentine Search"
10-07-01 NEW BUSINESS NEWS: "Help for Adoptees Suffering from Adopted Child Syndrome" - http://newbusinessnews.com/story.01070101.html
10-04-99 KMIR-TV (Palm Springs, CA) regarding "The Ultimate Search Book"
1998 KDES-Radio (Palm Springs, CA) - regarding "The Ultimate Search Book"
1998 ANCESTORS WEST: "Book Reviews" (Summer issue)
11-22-98 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW (WA): "New Services, Resources Available"
11-6-98 SAINT JOSEPH COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY GENEALOGY ROOM (IN)
10-98 THE NATCHITOCHES GENEALOGIST: "Book Reviews"
10-98 THE DESERT WOMAN Magazine (Palm Springs, CA): Letter to the Editor
10-11-98 THE DESERT SUN (Palm Springs, CA):"Will [Clinton] Affair Affect Adoption?"
10-6-98 THE DESERT SUN (Palm Springs, CA): "Adoptees Seek Roots"
9-24-98 DECATUR REPUBLICAN (MI): "Genealogy Gems"
9-13-98 AMARILLO SUNDAY NEWS-GLOBE (TX): "New Reference Helps Adoptees Trace Roots"
9-13-98 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW (WA): "Publications Make Searching Easier"
9-11-98 CODY TIMES: "Downeast Ancestors"
9-8-98 SHREVEPORT TIMES (AR/LA/TX): "Adoption Privacy Laws Debated"
8-12-98 THE VASSAR PIONEER TIMES (MI): "Rebuttal to Abraham Bill"
8-9-98 THE DESERT WOMAN Magazine (Palm Springs, CA): "Lori Carangelo: The Ultimate Search"
7-9-98 SOUTH KING NEWS (WA) - "Book Reviews: The Ultimate Search Book"
7-5-98 PENSACOLA NEXUS JOURNAL (FL): "Adopted Children Have Useful Book for Tracking Vital Records"
7-98 BUSH BRANCHES (Spokane, WA): "This is a book that is very valuable."
7-5-98 MOBILE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY: "Southern Roots" - "New Book"
7-1-98 DAILY COMMERCIAL (FL): "Book May Help Adopted Children, Birthparents to Find Families"
6-30-98 ALBANY TRIBUNE (NY): "Book Gives Information on How To Search"
6-20-98 THE LAWTON CONSTITUTION: "Book Helps Find One's Heritage".
6-12-98 THE DESERT SUN (Palm Springs, CA): "Book Signing: The Ultimate Search Book"
5-25-98 THE DESERT SUN (Palm Springs, CA): "Halt Baby-Selling Industry"
2-17-98 THE DESERT SUN (Palm Springs, CA): "(Clinton) Adoption Plan Misfires"
11-21-97 THE DESERT SUN (Palm Springs, CA): "Secrecy in Adoptions Must Cease"
10-17-97 THE DESERT SUN (Palm Springs, CA): "Adoptees: Secrecy Can Contribute to Tragedy"
10-9-97 SAN BERNADINO SUN (CA): "Adoption Searches"
1-15-97 LOS ANGELES TIMES (CA): "Wilson Wants Babies of Poor Adopted"
7-5-96 THE DESERT SUN (Palm Springs, CA): "Custody Case Court Battles"
5-26-96 THE DESERT SUN (Palm Springs, CA): "Bad Adoption Policy".
9-5-95 THE SAGINAW NEWS (MI): "The Adoption Industry"
8-26-95 THE DESERT SUN (Palm Springs, CA): "Access Denial Puzzling"
6-21-95 LOS ANGELES TIMES (CA): "Bonding or Heritage?"
12-18-93 THE DESERT SUN (Palm Springs, CA): "Adoption: Is Child a Piece of Property?"
8-9-93 THE DESERT SUN (Palm Springs, CA); "Adoption: Columnist Omits Some of the Facts"
4-29-93 THE DESERT SUN (Palm Springs, CA): "Captives: Babies Kept From Birth Mothers"
4-2-93 LOS ANGELES TIMES (CA): "Woody Allen"
2-14-93 SANTA BARBARA NEWS-PRESS (CA): "Mother Seeks Child of Valentine Memory"
10-4-92 CONNECTICUT POST (Bridgeport, CT): "Adoption's Other Side"
10-3-92 LOS ANGELES TIMES (CA): "Boy Granted ‘Divorce' From Parents"
9-18-92 THE DESERT SUN (Palm Springs, CA): "Adoption: Secrecy Laws Detrimental to Adoptees"
7-25-92 LANSING STATE JOURNAL (MI): "Family's Right to Unity"
7-19-92 THE DESERT SUN (Palm Springs, CA): "Adoption: Quayle's Remarks Beg the Question"
2-6-92 LOS ANGELES TIMES (CA): "Surrogacy"
1-3-92 OMAHA WORLD-HERALD (NE): "Cross-Purposes Hurt Adoptees"
8-17-91 THE PRESS-ENTERPRISE (Riverside, CA): "Trip Destined To Be Link to Woman's Past, Future"
8-17-91 THE DESERT SUN (Palm Springs, CA): "After Year-long Search, Adoptee Will Meet Sister She Never Knew"
5-31-91 THE DESERT SUN (Palm Springs, CA): "Mothers Without Children' Forgotten On Mother's Day"
4-26-91 LOS ANGELES TIMES (CA): "Secrecy"
4-18-91 OMAHA WORLD-HERALD (NE): "Parental Rights Removed"
3-11-91 THE SAGINAW NEWS (MI): "Adoption Uncertainty
1-2-91 THE DESERT SUN (Palm Springs, CA): "What If Jesus Christ Had Been Born Today?"
12-90 QUEST (Newsletter of Kinquest): "Lloyds of London Now Underwriting Adoption Insurance"
11-3-90 THE DESERT SUN (Palm Springs, CA): "Government Hopefuls Won't Address Adoption Rights"
10-5-90 LOS ANGELES TIMES (CA): "Surrogate Mom's Custody Claim"
10-3-90 THE DESERT SUN (Palm Springs, CA): "Once Again, It's Time to Beware of Lawyers"
9-90 QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF BRITISH AGENCIES FOR ADOPTION &FOSTER CARE (London): "The Secret Is Out".
9-15-90 OMAHA WORLD-HERALD (NE): "Adoptee, Origins, Separated"
9-6-90 PARENT FINDERS (Ontario, Canada): "Carangelo v. CT"
7-14-90 LOS ANGELES TIMES (CA): "Pros and Cons Over Legislation to Open Records"
7-13-90 THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER (CA): "Mother's Search For Son Ends on Emotional Note"
7-13-90 LOS ANGELES TIMES (CA): "After 38 Years, A Mother is Reunited With Her Son"
7-12-90 KCBS-TV News (Palm Springs, CA)- Live reunion- Virgie Byrns-mom; James Cottam-adoptee
7-9-90 KMUD-Talk Radio (Redway, CA )- Host-Sherry Champagne; Guest: Richard Justice-adoptee
5-21-90 BIRTHFATHERS' ADVOCATE (NOBAR): "A California Bill to ‘Sell' Adoption in the Schools"
4-29-90 THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER (CA): "Bill, Suit Seek to Open Up All Adoption Files"
2-17-90 THE DESERT SUN (Palm Springs, CA): "The Paper Chase For Birth Parents"
1-4-90 FREEDOM RIDER (ALARM National Network): Letter to the Editor
12-89 LOUISIANA ALARM: "AmFOR Issues Search List" ; "California Adoptees Plan to Sue"
12-14-89 GEBORENER DEUTSCHER: Letter to the Editor
10-89 THE DAILY BRUIN (UCLA, Los Angeles, CA): "AmFOR to Appeal for Access to Adoption Records In Lawsuit"
9-5-89 THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER (CA): "Search Service Works Delicately Amid Confused Emotions"
8-26-89 WELI-Radio, (New Haven, CT) Kate Burke-American Adoption Congress, Lori Carangelo-Americans For Open Records, Tom Schafrick-adoptee
8-5-89 THE DESERT SUN (Palm Springs, CA): "AIDS Project Calls Attention to Disease"
7-89 FIRST FOR WOMEN Magazine: "My Daughter's Other Mother"
7-3-89 SACRAMENTO (CA) meeting: Marilee Monagan, Lori Carangelo.
6-89 BIRTH CONNECTION (BIRCO Pub.): "Demonstration Planned"
6-21-89 KNWZ-TV (Palm Desert,CA) -Host-Seth Austin; Lori Carangelo, activist mom; Tom Schafrick-adoptee
4-89 SPEAK OUT FOR CHILDREN (National Council for Children's Rights): "Americans For Open Records"
2-27-89 KESQ-TV News (Palm Springs, CA) -Lori Carangelo,mom; Melanie Sandoval,adoptee; Sheila Grove-adopter
1-7-89 THE DESERT SUN (Palm Springs, CA): "Legislature Should Keep Public Informed"
1-4-89 IDAHO STATESMAN (ID): "Searching For Families"
1988 PEOPLE SEARCHING NEWS: "Americans For Open Records"
12-15-88 THE DESERT SUN (Palm Springs, CA): "Mother Fights Secrecy in Nation's Adoption Laws"
11-12-88 THE ADVOCATE (ALARM National Network): "Working Hard in California"
1-27-88 KFI-Radio, (Los Angeles, CA) - Geoff Edwards Show; Host-Dan Avey, adopter; Lori Carangelo, mom/searcher; Alberta Sorenson,adoptee &searcher; Tom Schafrick, adoptee
10-13-87 THE DESERT SUN (Palm Springs, CA): "Natural Parent Crusades for Human Right"
7-16-89 CHAIN OF LIFE: Open Letter to National Right to Life Committee
6-20-87 NEW HAVEN REGISTER (CT): "Tears, Happiness, Frustration Mark Reunion"
5-18-87 THE PRESS-ENTERPRISE (Riverside, CA): "Mother's 18-Year Search Ends"
4-12-87 NEW HAVEN REGISTER (CT): "Mom Hunts for Son She Gave Up"
12-26-86 NEW HAVEN REGISTER (CT): "Mother's Search For Son At Dead End"
12-15-86 NEW HAVEN REGISTER (CT) Front page story: "Mom Hopes Ad Will End Adoption Mystery"
9-15-77 NEW HAVEN REGISTER (CT): "Adoption Info"
9-4-77 SANTA BARBARA NEWS-PRESS (CT): "Disclosure On Adoptions

BOOKS THAT REFERENCE LORI CARANGELO / AMERICANS FOR OPEN RECORDS:

BOOKS BY LORI CARANGELO:

NEWSLETTER EDITED BY LORI CARANGELO:

TV Photos
Feb. 14, 2002, ABC Affilliate KESQ-TV, Palm Springs



AmFOR Disclaimer

Date Last Updated: April 21, 2008
© 2001, 2002 and forward by Lori Carangelo.
All Rights Reserved
PO Box 401, Palm Desert, CA 92261 USA