Dale, E.L. (1890-1969), Interview, 1965 (C3396)

3 folders, 1 audio tape

INTRODUCTION

Tape and transcripts of an interview with the editor of the Carthage Evening Press.

DONOR INFORMATION

See the information folder to this collection for accession information.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

E.L. Dale was born 14 August 1890 in Kendall, Wisconsin. His father was a smelterman and his family moved around the Midwest, especially in Kansas and Missouri. When his family settled in the Carthage, Missouri, area, Dale began his newspaper apprenticeship with the Iola Register and the Carthage Democrat, eventually becoming editor for the Carthage Evening Press.

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, conducted the interview.

Topics discussed include Dale's background, the role of news editor, the government's role in the news media, religious views, reactions to socialism and individualism in the United States, contemporary issues, and the conflict between urban and non-urban areas of Missouri. Included with the transcripts of the interview are Coogan's overall impressions of the pilot oral history project, his general impression of Dale, and a list of questions to be tentatively used in the interview.

FOLDER LIST

a.t. 1Tape of interview
f. 1-2Unedited transcripts with some differences in text
f. 3Edited transcript

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.

  • Apprentices
  • Blacks, Attitudes Toward, 1960s
  • Carthage Democrat, Carthage, Missouri
  • Carthage Evening Press, Carthage, Missouri
  • Civil rights--Public opinion
  • Coal--Wisconsin, 1890s
  • Cuba
  • Dale, E.L.
  • English, William Francis
  • Germany, Berlin, 1912
  • Industrial development--Missouri, Carthage
  • Johnson, Lyndon Baines (1908-1973)
  • Journalists--Missouri
  • Kansas City Star
  • Kansas, Iola
  • Kansas, Pittsburg
  • Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)
  • King, Martin Luther, Jr. (1929-1968)
  • Missouri, Carthage
  • Newspapers
  • Newspapers, Missouri
  • Oral history
  • Printing
  • Sala, Jose Maria
  • St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  • Stribling, Roy B.
  • Taylor, Carl C.
  • Temperance
  • Truman, Harry S. (1884-1972)
  • U.S. Work Projects Administration
  • University of Missouri, Attitudes toward
  • University of Missouri, School of Journalism
  • Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975
  • Zinc, Kansas