George Fielding Eliot papers, 1939-1971 (bulk 1950-1971).

Open to research.

Correspondence, diary, speeches, drafts of radio broadcasts, writings, articles, notes, newspaper clippings, and printed matter relating primarily to Eliot's career as a newspaper columnist, contributor to periodicals, and military editor of Collier's Encyclopedia. Pertains to his syndicated newspaper column, The Military Scene, and his contributions to periodicals including The American Legion Magazine, Family Weekly, The National Guardsman, National Review, and Suburbia Today. Subjects include the military and naval history of the American Revolution, Civil War, and World War II; the Vietnam War; prisoners of war in Vietnam; nuclear weapons; arms development in the Soviet Union, China, and the United States; arms limitation; national defense in the Cold War; military intelligence; the National Guard; and American suburban life. Correspondents include Arleigh A. Burke, Wallace Martin Greene, W. Barton Leach, Sir John Cotesworth Slessor, and Charles A. Weil.

Taped interview with Lewis W. Walt, for the "Today Show" of June 8, 1967 transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.

Photographs relating mainly to the families of prisoners of war in Vietnam transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Author, journalist, and military analyst.

Collection material in English.

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

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012143