Abraham Ribicoff papers, 1927-1981.

Open to research.

Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.

Correspondence, memoranda, reports, congressional testimony, administrative and legislative material, voting records, printed matter, scrapbooks, and other papers including microfilm of correspondence and scrapbooks relating chiefly to Ribicoff's service as U.S. senator from Connecticut. Also documents his experiences in Connecticut state and local politics, especially his years as governor. Subjects include arms control,civil rights, civil service, consumer legislation, education, energy policy, environmental protection, ethics legislation, health care, highway safety, the Great Society, international trade, the John F. Kennedy presidential campaign, the New Frontier, nuclear nonproliferation, and the Vietnam War. Documents Ribicoff's role in the investigation of the Corvair automobile, especially in relation to the consumer movement, corporate policy, and government regulation.

Microfilm edition of outgoing correspondence, 1963-1980, available, no. 18,138.

Microfilm edition of newsclipping scrapbooks, 1958-1979, available, no. 18,633.

Audio and video recordings and motion picture film transferred to appropriate custodial division of the Library of Congress.

Magnetic sound tapes, spools of wire recordings, and reels of motion picture film transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.

Some photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Jurist, U.S. secretary of health, education and welfare, and U.S representative and senator from and governor of Connecticut.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013077