Rogers, Harrison Lang (1919- ), Interview, 1965 (C3395)

2 folders, 2 audio tapes

INTRODUCTION

Tapes and transcripts of an interview with the editor of the Joplin Globeand Joplin News Herald.

DONOR INFORMATION

See the information folder to this collection for donor information.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

H. Lang Rogers was born in Carthage, Missouri, in October 1919. His father was president of the Joplin Globe Publishing Company and his mother taught school. Lang graduated from Pembroke Country Day School in 1936 and Franklin and Marshall College in 1940. Starting in high school he served as a part-time reporter in Joplin. After his Marine Corps service, 1940 to 1946, he returned to Joplin to become a reporter for the Joplin Globe Publishing Company. In 1954 he became editor of the Joplin Globe and the Joplin News Herald.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

This interview is one of four interviews with Missouri newspaper editors which constituted a pilot oral history project of the Western Historical Manuscript Collection. Mike Coogan, a graduate student in history, did the interviews.

Topics discussed in the interview include Rogers' background, views on the role of news editors, public opinion, contemporary issues in Missouri and the United States, religion, U.S. political parties and conflicts between Missouri's urban and non-urban areas. Included with the transcripts are Mike Coogan's overall impressions of the pilot oral history project, his general impression of Rogers, and a tentative list of the questions to be used in the interview.

FOLDER LIST

a.t. 1-2Tapes of interview
f. 1Unedited transcript of interview
f. 2Edited transcript of interview

INDEX TERMS

These index terms are the subjects, people, places, etc. under which this collection is listed in all available indexes at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Columbia. If you are interested in a specific index term, please contact the reference staff.

  • Beal, Henry
  • Blacks--Attitudes toward
  • Civil rights--Public opinion
  • Colleges and universities, 1960s
  • Communism--Attitudes toward, 1960s
  • Conservation, Missouri, 1960s
  • Conservatism
  • Copeland, James
  • Dalton, John Montgomery
  • Depressions, Economic, 1930s
  • Farm life--Missouri
  • Joplin Globe, Joplin, MO
  • Joplin News Herald, Joplin, MO
  • Journalism, Missouri
  • Journalism, Objectivity
  • Journalists--Missouri
  • McReynolds, Allen (1877-1960)
  • Missouri, Carthage
  • Missouri, Joplin
  • Missouri, Kansas City
  • Newspapers
  • Oral history
  • Read, Allen Walker
  • Religion, Public opinion
  • Rogers, Will (1879-1935)
  • State rights
  • U.S. Attitudes Toward, 1960s
  • U.S. Marine Corps, Attitudes toward
  • University of Missouri, Attitudes toward
  • World War, 1939-1945, Attitudes Toward