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  <titleInfo>
    <title>James Free papers, 1929-1996 (bulk 1951-1979)</title>
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    <namePart>Free, James.</namePart>
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  <abstract>Story files and scrapbooks of clippings (1937-1982) of Free's articles for various newspapers, particularly as Washington, D.C., correspondent for the Birmingham News covering the civil rights movement and the Cold War; articles for "National Whirligig," a newspaper column he coauthored with his wife, Ann Cottrell Free; notebooks (1965-1979) in which he recorded interviews and other information; and correspondence, notes, logbook, reports, and photographs documenting an expedition to the Caribbean in 1932 with L. Ron Hubbard to film exotic locales for motion pictures.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Journalist.  Full name: James Stillman Free.  Born 1908; died 1996.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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      <namePart>Free, Ann Cottrell</namePart>
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      <namePart>Hubbard, L. Ron (La Fayette Ron)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1911-1986</namePart>
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      <title>Birmingham news</title>
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    <topic>African Americans</topic>
    <topic>Civil rights</topic>
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    <topic>American newspapers</topic>
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    <geographic>Birmingham</geographic>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <topic>Cold War</topic>
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    <topic>Journalism</topic>
    <geographic>Washington (D.C.)</geographic>
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    <topic>Motion pictures</topic>
    <geographic>Caribbean Area</geographic>
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    <occupation>Journalists</occupation>
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