Are there audio or video recordings available for Katie Johnson’s testimony and where are they archived?
Executive summary
A searchable transcript of a "taped interview" with Katie L. Johnson Wilson is archived in the Indianapolis Public Library Digital Collections, indicating an audiovisual source underpins that record [1]; court filings and compilations referencing Katie Johnson’s claims appear on Archive.org and SlideShare but do not themselves host verifiable audio/video files [2] [3]. Some web-hosted video results claim to contain Johnson’s “full testimony” (for example a Bing video query returning a 2/11/16 clip), but the provided search-result entry does not identify a stable archive or publisher for the footage, so independent verification of the original audiovisual file is required [4].
1. What the public archives formally contain
The clearest, citable archival item from the supplied reporting is a record titled “Taped interview with Katie L. Johnson Wilson (transcript)” in the Indianapolis Public Library Digital Collections, which presents a transcript derived from an interview that was recorded, implying the existence of an original tape or recording housed by that institution or its partners [1]. By contrast, the civil complaint and related legal documents mentioning Katie Johnson and corroborating witnesses such as “Tiffany Doe” are available as text documents on Archive.org, but those files are legal filings rather than audio/video archives and do not themselves include recordings [2]. A SlideShare upload compiles documents about the civil case but again appears to be a document aggregation rather than a repository for raw audio or video files [3].
2. Claims of video “full testimony” online and the verification gap
Commercial search and video platforms surface clips purporting to show Katie Johnson’s testimony — the supplied Bing video hit is labeled “Katie Johnson's full testimony of 2/11/16” — but that entry functions as a discovery result rather than a scholarly or curated archive, and the source listing provided here does not link to a persistent institutional repository or identify the uploader/publisher for chain-of-custody verification [4]. Given the way third-party video aggregators operate, such results can point to ephemeral uploads, edited clips, or re-uploads that lack contextual metadata; therefore they should be treated as leads rather than proof of an authoritative archival recording unless the hosting page names a trusted repository or original producer.
3. How to interpret a “taped interview” record
The Indianapolis Public Library entry is explicitly described as a transcript of a taped interview, which legitimately suggests the library (or its program partners) either created or acquired an audiovisual recording at the time of interview and later prepared a text transcript for public access [1]. However, the supplied citation is to the digital collection landing page text and does not, in the provided snippet, show an embedded audio player or a direct download link to the original tape; therefore one can reasonably infer the recording exists in the institution’s holdings while acknowledging the present evidence is a transcript rather than a confirmed publicly-streamable audio/video file [1].
4. Practical next steps for verification and provenance
To conclusively locate any audio or video of Katie Johnson’s testimony, researchers should consult the Indianapolis Public Library Digital Collections entry directly and, if necessary, contact the library’s archivists to request whether the underlying tape or digital audio/video file is preserved, available for streaming, or subject to access restrictions [1]. Simultaneously, any video results surfaced by general web searches (for example the Bing query) should be treated as secondary: investigators must check uploader credentials, upload dates, and original source attribution to determine whether a clip is complete or edited, and whether it stems from the library’s holdings or an independent news or archival body [4].
5. Caveats, alternative viewpoints, and reporting limits
The supplied reporting establishes the presence of a transcript in a named public collection [1] and the availability of legal documents referencing Katie Johnson [2], but it does not definitively establish that a publicly-accessible audio or video file of the testimony is hosted at a persistent, authoritative archive; the Bing video result suggests such footage circulates online but does not on its own confirm provenance or permanence [4]. Therefore, the balanced conclusion is that a taped interview transcript is archived institutionally and online clips claiming to show “full testimony” appear on search platforms, yet confirmation of an official, archival audio/video master requires checking the Indianapolis Public Library’s holdings or the original uploader’s documentation [1] [4] [2].