Maria Downey

In this edition of The Video Vault, we are focusing on Alaskan memorabilia and historic finds. Maria Downey is joined by Eric Sowl to discuss some Alaska pickers in Palmer.

Iditarod legend Lance Mackey has died, according to an online post from his father and confirmed by a friend of the family, who announced his death on their Facebook page late Wednesday night. Mackey was 52. In this edition of The Video Vault, we pay tribute to the mushing legend.

AMIMA archivist uncovered footage from a Texas man of the day John F. Kennedy was shot. In this edition of The Video Vault, we look back on our 2007 story.

In this edition of The Video Vault, we're sharing one of our archive stories which is actually about archived and preserved moving images of our history. The Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association, better known as AMIPA, is a nonprofit that focuses on preserving, saving and sharing all this Alaska film and video. Here's a look at just some of the treasures the team uncovered in this 2005 Assignment Alaska segment.

Today we venture back into our archives as we covered a historic event on Denali. It was more than a century ago when the first people climbed the summit of the Great One. Since then, thousands more have followed. Some have made it successfully, some have actually lost their lives on the mountain. In this Assignment Alaska from 2013, Steve McDonald shows us where it all started back in 1913, with four determined men in search of adventure.

In this edition of The Video Vault, we look back in time at a historical event in Alaska that happened in the early 1900s. That was when the first automobile arrived in Fairbanks, but it was also about the time when the first automobile was built in Alaska.

In Video Vault, we dig back into our archives for some of the most memorable moments that we've shared with you throughout the years. Today we're sharing a timely historic event — one that captured the attention of the whole world. It happened in August 1935, when much-loved humorist Will Rogers and Wiley Post, who was one of the most celebrated pilots at the time, crashed at Point Barrow. Our former colleague John Carpenter headed that way back in 2007 and even got a witness account.