American Broadcasting Company

7 WEST 66TH STREET · NEW YORK 23, N.Y.
SUSQUEHANNA 7-5000

WABC - TV CHANNEL 7
NEW YORK

October 13, 1960

Mr. Langston Hughes
20 East 120 Street
New York 35, New York

Dear Mr. Hughes:

We are doing a program at WABC-TV called, EXPEDITION: NEW YORK, which, each third Tuesday at 7 PM, attempts to explore in depth some area of New York life. Although we are aiming the program towards a general audience, we are specifically interested in attracting young people, and are working in cooperation with the Board of Education. We are now considering a program which would feature three of New York's great neighborhoods and it is in this regard that we write to you. We have all admired your "Mr. Simple" books and we were thinking that you would be the best person in New York to host the segment we would like to do on Harlem. We are thinking of this program as our third in the series, which means that we would have to begin work on it at once.

Our first program covered the New York Harbor and our next program will cover the school system.

Please let us know as soon as possible your reaction to this idea, so that we may discuss the matter more fully with you.

Hoping to hear from you soon,

BF:ew
ext. 561

A DIVISION OF AMERICAN BROADCASTING - PARAMOUNT THEATRES, INC.

October 22, 1960

Miss Betty Freedman,
American Broadcasting Co.,
7 West 66th Street,
New York 23, N. Y.

Dear Miss Freedman:

I will try to reach you by phone on Monday or Tuesday, in the afternoon, to find out a bit more about the proposed Harlem program for EXPEDITION: NEW YORK, and just what you'd like me to do concerning it. I suppose we could make a December 6th date, if no more time is needed on my part in November than that indicated in your letter. Certainly the program interests me and I've already been talking about it to Ed Lewis of the Urban League and others who might give us helpful ideas.

With cordial regards,