Daniel Schorr papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
Subjects: Politics and government; Cold War; World War, 1939-1945; Political corruption; Marshall Plan; Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies; Journalism; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; Intelligence service; World politics; Freedom of speech; Urban policy; Columbia Broadcasting System, inc; Summit meetings; History; Correspondence; United States; North Atlantic Treaty Organization; Watergate Affair, 1972-1974; Civil rights; Aspen Institute; Reconstruction (1939-1951); Environmental policy; Cable News Network; Military intelligence; Foreign relations; National Public Radio (U.S.)
Description: Correspondence, speeches, broadcast scripts, articles and book production material,  family papers, printed matter, and other papers relating primarily to Schorr's career in journalism.  Documents his work for Cable News Network, Columbia Broadcasting System, inc., and National Public Radio.  Also documents his service as a U.S. Army intelligence officer stationed at Camp Polk, La., and Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Tex., during World War II, and his participation in the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies (later the Aspen Institute).  Subjects include civil rights, environment, freedom of speech, urban problems, scandals involving the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Watergate Affair.  Subjects also include postwar reconstruction, the Marshall Plan, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the Berlin Crisis, the Cold War, superpower summit meetings, and political affairs in the Soviet Union.  Individuals represented include Konrad Adenauer, Fidel Castro, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, and Isaac Stern.  Correspondents include Harry A. Blackmun, Charles W. Colson, Captain Alfred Friendly, Richard M. Nixon, William S. Paley, Richard S. Salant, Ted Turner, Herman Wouk, and Schorr's mother, Tillie Godiner Schorr.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Daniel Schorr, 2008.

transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Journalist.

Collection material in English.

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