James O. Page Papers

• Archives of the Father of Modern EMS
• Online Selections from the James O. Page Papers
  • History of EMS
  • EMS Education
  • Publishing and Publications
  • Speeches and Lectures
  • Media
  • Legal Aspects of EMS

The Professional Archives of the Father of Modern EMS

The James O. Page Collection is an umbrella for what will be a continuously growing archive and library of EMS history based on the work of numerous participants in and contributors to the field.

The James O. Page Papers are a subset of the Collection. The Papers are the individual archives of Page himself—his correspondence, publications, speeches, photographs, recordings, and other files which he generated and used throughout the course of his career.

A guide or “finding aid” to the dozens of cartons of Page’s files, publications, and videos is in preparation. Here are the first two sections of the guide, which may be used to help find individual speeches, manuscripts, and other documents among all the files. Please contact us to make arrangements to visit the Library and use the collection.

• Finding Aid to the James O. Page Papers, Part 1 (Adobe PDF document) 
• Finding Aid to the James O. Page Papers, Part 2 (Adobe PDF document)

A.J. Heightman, current editor-in-chief of JEMS and a member of the collection’s Advisory Committee, described the Papers’ value: “Part of Jim Page’s legacy was his ability to sense and capture important and historic events and projects as they were occurring. His files and records he left us reflect this and will enable us to preserve and pass on this important information to future generations of emergency responders and system administrators.”

Online Selections From The James O. Page Papers

The following is a small sample from the thousands of documents in the James O. Page Papers. We are working with our Advisory Committee to identify important speeches, reports, publications, conference materials and other items from Jim Page’s professional files, to digitize and make available online. Items may be downloaded from this website and used for “fair use” personal reading and research, but please contact us for permission to excerpt or re-publish. When many more documents are mounted online, they will be presented through the UCLA Digital Library and will be fully searchable. Our next goal will be to provide opportunities for readers to interact with documents in a “wiki” manner by providing commentary and sharing insights about the importance and impact of items from the collections.

The list of online documents, below, will continue to grow as we select more manuscripts, publications, and audio and video excerpts from the Page Papers.

In each of the descriptions listed below, “JOP” stands for “James O. Page”.

History of EMS: Landmark documents and historical reviews

• Emergency Medical Services Act of 1973

• • GAO (General Accounting Office), Statement of Gregory J. Ahart (1976) (Adobe PDF document)
  • “Long-term regional organization of EMS” response by JOP (1976) (Adobe PDF document)
  • “Model state emergency medical services (EMS) statute” by JOP (10 January 1977) (Adobe PDF document)

• California Assembly Select Committee on Fire Services

• • Cover letters (1976) (Adobe PDF document)
  • Statement by JOP (14 May 1976) (Adobe PDF document)

• CPR (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation)

• • “The origins and history of CPR” speech by JOP; First Aid and CPR Instructors Conference (Saddle River, NJ: 16 September 1976) (Adobe PDF document)

• Mobile Intensive Care

• • Memorandum Proposal: Mobile Intensive Care Concept (Harbor General Hospital, County of Los Angeles: May 1971) (Adobe PDF document)

EMS Education: Courses, curricula and syllabi

• AUPHA (Association of University Programs in Health Administration) EMS Services Planning Course (1975-77)
  • Syllabus (Adobe PDF document)
• AUPHA (Association of University Programs in Health Administration) EMS Services Manpower and Training Course (1976)
  • “Curriculum” module by JOP, prepared for Florida International University’s EMS Educational Project (Adobe PDF document)
• EMS Today
  • Flyer announcing the first EMS Today conference (Kansas City, MO: 1982) (Adobe PDF document)
• University of Pennsylvania EMS Administration Course (Philadelphia, PA: 1975)
  • Cover letter (Adobe PDF document)
  • “Scenario” and “Implementation” outline by JOP (Adobe PDF document)
  • Lecture (Adobe PDF document)

Publishing and Publications

• JEMS

• • “What makes JEMS different” advertising flyer (ca. 1982) (Adobe PDF document)
  • “Ideas for future articles” handwritten list by JOP (1979 or 1980) (Adobe PDF document)
  • First “Publisher’s Page” column by JOP (1980) (Adobe PDF document)

• Paramedics International

• • “Protect the spirit!” manuscript by JOP (1978) (Adobe PDF document)

Speeches and Lectures

• “Jim’s sure-fire, universal, fill-in-the blanks, after-dinner EMS speech, pep talk and harangue” annotated typescript by JOP (no date) (Adobe PDF document)
• “Advanced life support” by JOP; keynote address to the Texas Medical Services Symposium (Austin, TX: 18 March 1977) (Adobe PDF document)
• “The Life!mobile: An innovative approach to the design of a mobile intensive care unit vehicle” by JOP; report to the National EMS Communications and Transportation Symposium (Atlanta, GA: 29 March 1977) (Adobe PDF document)
• “Medical control” by JOP; remarks prepared for Workshop on Medical Control, National EMS Communications and Transportation Symposium (Atlanta, GA: 30 March 1977) (Adobe PDF document)
• “Medical control” by JOP; for presentation to the ACT Foundation Seminar for Fire Department EMS Supervisors (San Francisco, CA: 3 May 1977) (Adobe PDF document)
• “Fireman of the Year award dinner” by JOP, presented in Aurora, IL (8 November 1977) (Adobe PDF document)
• “EMS problems and proximate solutions” by JOP; for EMS Systems Development and Management conference (East Lansing, MI: 1 May 1978) (Adobe PDF document)
• Untitled text about “the world of EMS” and “citizen CPR” by JOP; EMS Symposium (Erie, PA: 20 October 1978) (Adobe PDF document)
• “CPR: the present” by JOP; keynote address presented to the Conference on citizen CPR (Houston, TX: 19 April 1980) (Adobe PDF document)
• “Economic survival in the eighties” by JOP; National EMS Symposium (Greenville, SC: 18-20 August 1983) (Adobe PDF document)
• “The impact of violence on prehospital EMS systems” by JOP; Emergency Care Conference (Salt Lake City, UT: 5-6 April 1983) (Adobe PDF document)
• “A speech” by JOP; Annual Fire Technology Dinner, Los Angeles Valley College, Los Angeles Police Academy (Los Angeles, CA: 23 May 1985) (Adobe PDF document)
• “The second generation of paramedics” (video) by JOP (his final speech, about the history of EMS); Emergency Medical Services Academy 2004 Graduation, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center (Albuquerque, NM: 2004)

Media

• The Towering Inferno

• • “Hollywood meets the fire service” manuscript of article by JOP (no date) (Adobe PDF document)

• Harwood County Rescue Squad
  A teleplay by JOP, “based on real people and real events. The characterizations are largely derived from the writer’s personal experiences with the volunteers of Haywood County rescue Squad in Canton and Waynesville, North Carolina.”

• • “Harwood County Rescue Squad” article by JOP (no date) (Adobe PDF document)
  • Harwood County Rescue Squad script by JOP (ca. 1977) (Adobe PDF document)

Legal Aspects of EMS

• Articles and Editorials

• • “EMS legislation” by JOP (1977) (Adobe PDF document)

• Workshops

• • “Mock trial” transcript by JOP; EMS Today 1983, An Educational Conference (San Diego, CA: 19-21 October 1983) (Adobe PDF document)
  • “The law and EMT” by JOP (1983 or 1984) (Adobe PDF document)
  • “Lesson outline: Legal issues in EMS” by JOP (1983 or 1984) (Adobe PDF document)

• Speeches and Lectures

• • “Emergency medical services and the law” by JOP, presentation to the Governor’s Conference on Medical Care System for the Emergency Patient (Bloomington, MN: 25 February 1977) (Adobe PDF document)
  • “Legal issues involved with basic and advanced life support” by JOP; presentation at the Seminar on Clinical Public relations (North Brunswick, NJ: 13 November 1977) (Adobe PDF document)
  • “Are efforts at state EMS legislation worth the time, trouble and energy?” by JOP; presentation at the Louisiana EMS Conference (New Orleans, LA: 1-2 February 1979) (Adobe PDF document)