Earl Warren papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 846
Subjects: Correspondence; Criminal procedure; Harry S. Truman Library; Church and state; Civil rights; Race relations; United States. Supreme Court; United States; United States. Warren Commission; Constitutional law; Freedom of the press; Presidents; Freedom of speech; Law; Smithsonian Institution; Apportionment (Election law); Election
Description: Personal, family, and official correspondence; speeches and writings; Supreme Court files consisting of calendars, docket books, conference lists, bench memoranda, notes, opinions, and correspondence with associate justices; records relating to lower courts; and organizational files, scrapbooks, and other papers.  Dating chiefly from Warren's appointment as Chief Justice, the papers relate principally to his activities with the Supreme Court and to the various landmark decisions identified with his tenure (1953-1969) in such areas as civil rights, race relations, criminal procedure, legislative reapportionment, freedom of speech and press, and church-state relations.  Also includes material relating to the election campaigns of 1948 and 1952, Warren's connection with the Smithsonian Institution and the Harry S. Truman Library, and his chairmanship of the commission investigating the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Correspondents include John Biggs, Jr., Hugo LaFayette Black, William J. Brennan, Edmund G. Brown, Warren E. Burger, Harold H. Burton, Edwin L. Carty, Charles Edward Clark, Tom C. Clark, William O. Douglas, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Louis Finkelstein, Abe Fortas, Felix Frankfurter, Paul Abraham Freund, Arthur J. Goldberg, John M. Harlan, Robert Houghwout Jackson, Lyndon B. Johnson, Walter P. Jones, Irving R. Kaufman, John F. Kennedy, Goodwin Knight, Thomas H. Kuchel, Thurgood Marshall, Sherman A. Minton, Richard M. Nixon, Warren Olney III, John Johnston Parker, Orie Leon Phillips, E. Barrett Prettyman, Stanley Forman Reed, Potter Stewart, Thomas M. Storke, Benjamin Harrison Swig, Harry S. Truman, Byron R. White, and Charles Evans Whittaker.
Notes: Microfilm edition available of containers 152-171 (Microfilm 23,480), containers 347-366 (Microfilm 23,481), 570-602 (Microfilm 23,479), and 603-630 (Microfilm 23,588) available; cataloged in record 2007061504.

Open to research.

Classified, in part.

Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.

Bequest, estate of Earl Warren, 1974.

Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and on Internet.