Daniel Schorr papers, 1922-2006 (bulk 1943-2006).
- 64,000 items. 183 3 containers plus oversize. 74 linear feet.
- Arranged in 8 series. Series 1: Family and Personal File, 1922-2004; Series 2: Correspondence, 1932-2006; Series 3: Broadcasts and Film, 1948-2006; Series 4: Speeches and Public Appearances, 1956-2006; Series 5: Writings File, 1934-2005; Series 6: Subject File, 1933-2004; Series 7: Miscellany, 1960-1994; and Series 8: Oversize, 1926-2001.
Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.
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.
Audio and video recordings Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. transferred to Some photographs and slides Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. transferred to
Journalist.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010305
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Adenauer, Konrad, 1876-1967. Blackmun, Harry A. 1908-1999 --Correspondence. Castro, Fidel, 1926- Colson, Charles W.--Correspondence. Eisenhower, Dwight D. 1890-1969. Friendly, Alfred, Captain --Correspondence. Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, 1894-1971. Nixon, Richard M. 1913-1994 --Correspondence. Paley, William S. 1901-1990 --Correspondence. Salant, Richard S., -1993 --Correspondence. Schorr, Tillie Godiner--Correspondence. Stern, Isaac, 1920-2001. Turner, Ted--Correspondence. Wouk, Herman, 1915- --Correspondence.
United States. Central Intelligence Agency. United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Aspen Institute. Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. Cable News Network. Columbia Broadcasting System, inc. Marshall Plan. National Public Radio (U.S.) North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Civil rights. Cold War. Environmental policy. Freedom of speech. Intelligence service--United States. Journalism. Political corruption--United States. Reconstruction (1939-1951) Summit meetings. Urban policy. Watergate Affair, 1972-1974. World politics. World War, 1939-1945--Military intelligence--United States.
Berlin (Germany)--History--Blockade, 1948-1949. Camp Polk (La.) Fort Sam Houston (Tex.) Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States. Soviet Union--Politics and government--20th century. United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union. United States--Foreign relations--20th century. United States--Politics and government--20th century.