Wilson, Theo R. (1917-1997), Papers, 1914-1997 (C3972)

9 linear feet, 2 linear feet on 4 rolls of microfilm, 1 video cassette, 1 audio cassette, 1 audio tape

INTRODUCTION

The papers of Theo Wilson, trial reporter for the New York Daily News, consist of Wilson's newspaper articles, trial notes, awards, correspondence, photographs, and miscellaneous items spanning her 60-year career as a reporter and writer.

DONOR INFORMATION

The Theo Wilson Papers were donated to the University of Missouri by her son, Delph R. Wilson, on 5 August 1997 (Accession No. 5734). Additional items were donated by Linda Deutsch during August 1999 (Accession No. 5816). The Wilson papers are part of the National Women and Media Collection.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Theodora Nadelstein, the youngest of 11 children, was born in Brooklyn, New York, on 22 May 1917. She was first published at age eight in a national magazine for her story on the family's pet monkey. Subsequent poems, short stories, plays, and articles of hers were published and produced at Girls High School in Brooklyn, which she attended from 1930 to 1934.

She enrolled at the University of Kentucky where she became a columnist and associate editor of the school newspaper, the Kentucky Kernel, despite never taking any journalism courses. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1937 at age 19 and immediately went to work at the Evansville Press in Indiana.

At the Press she was quickly promoted to tri-state editor, writing and handling copy from Indiana, Kentucky, and Illinois. In 1943 she worked briefly at the Indianapolis Times before moving to the Richmond News Leader in Virginia with her new husband, William Robert (Bob) Wilson. It was there that Wilson became a court reporter, covering the city, state, and federal courts as well as federal agencies such as the FBI and War Manpower Commission.

From Richmond she went on to the Philadelphia bureau of the Associated Press until a position opened at the Philadelphia Bulletin in 1950. In 1951, when Bob was offered a job at NBC Radio, they moved to New York where Wilson spent a brief period at the Post before joining the Daily News in 1952. She remained with the Daily News until 1982.

During that time Wilson covered every major trial for the Daily News from Sam Sheppard to Claus von Bulow and including Candace Mossler, David Berkowitz, the Manson Family, and Carl Coppolino. In addition to trials Wilson covered the Mercury and Apollo space programs, Jackie Kennedy's trip to India and Pakistan in 1962, the wedding of Princess Anne, and the story of Florrie Fischer, a rehabilitated drug addict.

In 1973 the Daily News decided to establish a bureau in Los Angeles with Wilson as the primary correspondent. She moved to Hollywood Heights permanently, and from there covered such major trials as the Pentagon Papers, Angela Davis, and Patty Hearst. She also covered Richard Nixon's health crisis in 1974, the Hillside Strangler, celebrity deaths and arrests, and film and television awards ceremonies. Wilson gained fame in 1976 for hailing a taxi to drive her from Los Angeles to Chowchilla, California, 200 miles away, so she could be the first reporter on the scene of the kidnapping of a busload of school children.

She also moonlighted for such magazines and tabloids as True Life Stories and the National Enquirer. After her retirement she did some freelance work on the John DeLorean and O.J. Simpson trials for various newspapers and cable television shows. In 1996 she completed her memoirs, Headline Justice.

During her career Wilson won numerous awards including the Front Page Award, Page One Award, Society of the Silurians Award, Theta Sigma Phi Award, and the University of Missouri Honor Medal for Journalism.

Wilson had one child, Delph Robert Wilson, born in 1946. The separation caused by both her and her husband's careers put a strain on their marriage and they decided to divorce in 1960. Later Wilson developed a close and long-lasting relationship with H.D. (Doc) Quigg, a UPI senior editor and Boonville, Missouri, native. She died suddenly on 17 January 1997 while preparing to begin her book tour.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The Theodora R. Wilson Papers consist of her newspaper articles, trial notes, awards, correspondence, photographs, and miscellaneous items from her career as a reporter. The papers are arranged into four series:

• Personal
• Professional
• Articles and Supporting Materials
• Miscellaneous Articles

The Personal series contains biographical information, correspondence, a diary from her last year in college, school memorabilia, short stories and other writings, and selected papers and photographs belonging to Wilson's friend H.D. Quigg. This series documents events in Wilson's private life, including her schooling, marriage, and divorce. Much of the correspondence from the 1930s and 1940s relates to the marital problems of one of Wilson's sisters and how she coped with running a family and small business alone. This series is arranged alphabetically by topic.

The Professional series is arranged alphabetically by topic and then chronologically within each topic. It consists of correspondence, award certificates, photographs, publicity clippings, feature notes, and notes on Wilson's book. This series documents Wilson's career as a reporter and writer from 1937 through 1996. Of special interest is the correspondence from the 1970s and 1980s which details the disputes she had with new management at the newspaper over what she considered the "butchery" of the copy she submitted from California. The veteran editors' replies to Wilson describe the turmoil at the Daily News during this period not only because of the internal conflicts but also because the paper was experiencing low circulation and financial difficulties and rumors abounded as to what its fate would be.

The photographs in this series consist of portraits of Wilson and photographs for some stories at the various papers on which Wilson worked. Other photographs, taken while Wilson worked on the larger stories, are included in the Articles and Supporting Materials series.

The publicity clippings provide anecdotal, and often humorous, details from many of the trials Wilson attended. The sheer number of these types of clippings also shows the high esteem in which she was held by her peers.

Wilson's work as a reporter has been divided into two series: Articles and Supporting Materials and Miscellaneous Articles. These two series not only document Wilson's career as the premier trial reporter of her generation but also describe the changing relationship between mass media and the justice system over the second half of the twentieth century. Just as importantly they give firsthand accounts of many of the major events of this period in America.

The Articles and Supporting Materials series contains her more notable stories and includes supporting materials such as photographs, notes, correspondence, and courtroom sketches done by Daily News artist, Joe Papin. Most of her trial stories are included here, such as Sam Sheppard, Candance Mossler, Carl Coppolino, the Manson Family, the Pentagon Papers, and Patty Hearst. Other articles involve the space program, celebrities, the 1964 and 1968 political conventions, the Jonestown Massacre, Vietnam refugees and POWs, and welfare corruption. This series is arranged alphabetically by topic.

The Miscellaneous Articles series contains those articles which have little or no supporting material and is arranged chronologically. Much of her early work was pasted into scrapbooks so this series has been microfilmed for preservation purposes.

Those articles which she wrote while moonlighting for various magazines and tabloids are included at the end of this series and are arranged alphabetically by the name of the publication.

FOLDER LIST

Personal Series

f. 1-2	Biographical
f. 3	Correspondence, 1914-1930s
f. 4	Correspondence, 1942-1949
f. 5-6	Correspondence, 1940s, n.d.
f. 7	Correspondence, 1950-1958
f. 8	Correspondence, 1950s, n.d.
f. 9	Correspondence, 1960-1964
f. 10	Correspondence, 1965-1969
f. 11	Correspondence, 1960s, n.d.
f. 12	Correspondence, 1970-1973
f. 13	Correspondence, 1975-1977
f. 14	Correspondence, 1978 January
f. 15	Correspondence, 1978 February-March
f. 16	Correspondence, 1978 May-1979
f. 17	Correspondence, 1970s, n.d.
f. 18	Correspondence, 1981-1985
f. 19	Correspondence, 1986-1989; 1980s
f. 20	Correspondence, 1990-1996
f. 21-22	Correspondence, n.d.
f. 23	Diary, 1937
f. 24	K Book, 1936
f. 25	Miscellaneous
f. 26-27	Miscellaneous Writings
f. 28	Quigg, H.D., Correspondence and Publicity, 1963-1988
f. 29	Quigg, H.D., Stories and Photographs, 1943-1983
f. 30	Quigg, H.D., Retirement
f. 31	Quigg, H.D., University of Missouri Honor Medal
f. 32	Quigg, H.D., University of Missouri Honor Medal Speech
f. 33	Yearbook, Girls High School, 1934
f. 34	Yearbook, University of Kentucky, 1937

Professional Series

f. 35	Artwork, n.d.
f. 36	Award Certificates, 1929-1937
f. 37	Awards, 1958-1959
f. 38	Awards, 1961-1963
f. 39	Awards, 1964
f. 40	Awards, 1966
f. 41	Awards, 1967
f. 42	Awards, 1969
f. 43	Awards, 1970-1981
f. 44-45	Awards, University of Missouri Honor Medal, Correspondence, 1984
f. 46	Awards, University of Missouri Honor Medal, Publicity and Photographs, 1984
f. 47	Correspondence, 1943-1951
f. 48	Correspondence, 1952-1955
f. 49	Correspondence, 1956-1964
f. 50	Correspondence, 1965-1966
f. 51	Correspondence, 1967
f. 52-53	Correspondence, 1968
f. 54	Correspondence, 1969-1973
f. 55-56	Correspondence, 1974-1977
f. 57	Correspondence, 1978-1979; 1970s
f. 58	Correspondence, 1980-1986
f. 59	Correspondence, 1987-1991
f. 60	Correspondence, 1992-1997
f. 61	Correspondence, n.d.
f. 62	Daily News Miscellany, 1956-1984
f. 63	Daily News "Speak Out" Commercial, 1977
f. 64-65	Headline Justice Notes
f. 66	Headline Justice Proposals and Publicity
f. 67	Headline Justice
f. 68	Humor and miscellany
f. 69	Los Angeles Conference on Media and the Law, 1978
f. 70	"On Trial" Television Show
f. 71	Photographs, 1930s-1940s
f. 72	Photographs, 1950-1956
f. 73	Photographs, 1957-1958; 1950s
f. 74	Photographs, 1961-1968
f. 75-76	Photographs, 1960s
f. 77	Photographs, 1970s-1990s
f. 78	Press Cards, 1950s-1980s
f. 79	Publicity, 1930s-1950s
f. 80	Publicity, 1961-1963
f. 81	Publicity, 1964-1969
f. 82	Publicity, 1970-1979
f. 83	Publicity, 1980-1982
f. 84	Publicity, 1983-1996
f. 85	Publicity, 1997-1998
f. 86	Various Notes, 1962
f. 87	Various Notes, 1965
f. 88	Various Notes, 1966-1967
f. 89	Various Notes, 1968-1969
f. 90	Various Notes, 1971-1974
f. 91	Various Notes, 1977-1978
f. 92	Various Notes, 1980s
f. 93	Various Notes, n.d.

Articles and Supporting Material Series

f. 94	Abortion, 1956
f. 95	Adams, Jani, 1980
f. 96-97	Adoption, Correspondence, 1971 April-November
f. 98-99	Adoption, Notes, 1971
f. 100	Adoption, Stories, 1971
f. 101	Ali, Muhammad, 1966-1977
f. 102	Astin, Elizabeth, Correspondence, 1968-1969
f. 103	Astin, Elizabeth, Notes, 1969
f. 104	Astin, Elizabeth, Stories, 1969
f. 105	Batchelor, C.D., 1957
f. 106	Beatles, 1965
f. 107	Begelman, David, 1978
f. 108	Berkowitz, David, Notes and Correspondence, 1978
f. 109	Berkowitz, David, Stories, 1978
f. 110	Bianchi/Buono, Notes, 1977-1978
f. 111	Bianchi/Buono, Stories, 1977-1981
f. 112	Blackwell, Mr., 1975-1980
f. 113	Boyce, Christopher, 1977
f. 114	Burnett, Carol, 1965-1981
f. 115	Cannon, Noel, 1975
f. 116	"Charlie's Angels," 1980
f. 117	Cher, 1975-1976
f. 118-119	Chowchilla, Notes, 1976-1977
f. 120	Chowchilla, Stories, 1976-1978
f. 121	Confidential Magazine, 1957, 1995
f. 122-124	Coppolino, Carl, Notes, 1966-1967
f. 125	Coppolino, Carl, Notes and Correspondence, 1966-1972
f. 126	Coppolino, Carl, Photographs, 1967
f. 127	Coppolino, Carl, Stories, July-December 1966
f. 128	Coppolino, Carl, Stories, March-July 1967
f. 129	Crosby, Bing, 1977
f. 130	Cryonics, 1981
f. 131	"Dallas," 1980
f. 132-133	Davis, Angela, Defense, 1972 March-May
f. 134	Davis, Angela, Notes, 1972
f. 135	Davis, Angela, Correspondence and Sketches, 1972
f. 136-137	Davis, Angela, Stories, 1972 March-June
f. 138	Davis, Ed, 1975-1976
f. 139-142	DeLorean, John, Notes, 1984
f. 143	DeLorean, John, Stories, 1984
f. 144	DeSalvo, Albert, Notes, 1967
f. 145	DeSalvo, Albert, Stories, 1967
f. 146	Douglas, Fred, 1977
f. 147	Drug Abuse, 1976-1981
f. 148	Exorcisms, 1974
f. 149	Farr, Bill, Notes and Correspondence, 1972-1973
f. 150	Farr, Bill, Stories, 1972-1976
f. 151	Fields, Ross, 1981
f. 152	Fischer Quintuplets, Notes, 1963
f. 153	Fischer Quintuplets, Stories, 1963
f. 154-158	Fisher, Florrie, Book, 1968
f. 159-160	Fisher, Florrie, Correspondence, 1967 March-1968 August
f. 161-165	Fisher, Florrie, Interview, 1968
f. 166	Fisher, Florrie, Notes, 1968
f. 167	Fisher, Florrie, Publicity, 1968
f. 168	Fisher, Florrie, Stories, 1968
f. 169	Folsom Prison/Transcendental Meditation, 1978
f. 170	Fonda, Henry, 1978
f. 171	Ford, Betty, 1978
f. 172	Free Press/Fair Trial, 1966-1972
f. 173	Fromme, Lynette (Squeaky), 1975
f. 174	Golden Globe Awards, 1974, 1978
f. 175-177	Harris, Jean, Notes, 1980-1981
f. 178	Harris, Jean, Notes and Correspondence, 1980-1981
f. 179-181	Harris, Jean, Stories, 1980 October 29-1981March 3
f. 182	Hayakawa, S.I., 1978
f. 183	Hayworth, Rita, 1981
f. 184	Henley/Brooks, 1973-1974
f. 185	Hollywood Party, 1977
f. 186	Hughes, Howard, Notes, 1972-1977
f. 187-188	Hughes, Howard, Stories, 1972 January 12-1972 March 10; 1974-1977
f. 189	Hurricane Carla, 1961
f. 190	Jelke, Mickey, Correspondence, 1955
f. 191	Jelke, Mickey, Stories, 1955
f. 192	Johnson-Nugent, Luci, 1967
f. 193	Jones, Jim, Notes, 1978
f. 194	Jones, Jim, Stories, 1978
f. 195	Jorgensen, Christine, 1977
f. 196	Kallos, Frank, 1981
f. 197	Kennedy, Edward, Notes, 1969-1970
f. 198	Kennedy, Edward, Stories, 1969-1970
f. 199-200	Kennedy, Jacqueline, Tour Humor, 1962
f. 201	Kennedy, Jacqueline, Tour Notes, 1962
f. 202	Kennedy, Jacqueline, Tour Photographs and Correspondence, 1962
f. 203	Kennedy, Jacqueline, Tour Stories, 1962
f. 204-205	Kennedy, Jacqueline, Stories, 1962-1976
f. 206	King, Billie Jean, 1981
f. 207-208	Kneivel, Evel, 1974, 1977-1978
f. 209	Lasser, Louise, 1976
f. 210	Longet, Claudine, 1977
f. 211	MacDonald, Jeffrey, 1970-1983
f. 212	McIlvane, Bill, 1977
f. 213	McQueen, Steve, 1980
f. 214-216	Manson Family, Notes, 1970 July 31-1971 April 3
f. 217-220	Manson Family, Notes, n.d.
f. 221	Manson Family, Photographs and Correspondence, 1971
f. 222-226	Manson Family, Stories, 1970 April-1994
f. 227	Manson Family, Stories, Van Houten, 1976-1978
f. 228	Marvin, Lee, 1979-1981
f. 229	Marx, Groucho, 1977
f. 230	Miami Beach Series, 1968
f. 231	Miles, Sarah, 1973
f. 232	Mitchell/Stans, Notes and Photographs, 1974
f. 233	Mitchell/Stans, Stories, 1974
f. 234	Moore, Sara Jane, 1975
f. 235-236	Mossler, Candace, Notes, 1966
f. 237	Mossler, Candace, Photographs and Correspondence, 1966
f. 238-239	Mossler, Candace, Stories, 1966 January 16-March 8
f. 240	Mossler, Candace, Interview, 1968
f. 241	My Lai, 1970
f. 242	NASA, Mercury Program, 1961
f. 243	NASA, Mercury Freedom 7, 1961
f. 244	NASA, Mercury Friendship 7, 1962
f. 245	NASA, Mercury Aurora 7, 1962
f. 246-247	NASA, Mercury Aurora 7, Transcript, 1962
f. 248	NASA, Apollo 11, Notes and Photographs, 1969
f. 249	NASA, Apollo 11, Stories, 1969
f. 250	NASA, Apollo 12, Notes and Photographs, 1969
f. 251	NASA, Apollo 12, Stories, 1969
f. 252	NASA, Apollo 15 and 17, 1971-1972
f. 253	Nixon, Julie, 1968
f. 254	Nixon, Patricia, 1970s
f. 255	Nixon, Richard, Notes, 1974
f. 256-258	Nixon, Richard, Stories, 1974 June 27-1979
f. 259	Obscenity Law, n.d.
f. 260	Ohta Family, 1970
f. 261	Oscars, 1975-1981
f. 262	Peel, Joseph, Notes and Photographs, 1961
f. 263	Peel, Joseph, Stories, 1961
f. 264	Pentagon Papers, Notes, Jurors, 1972
f. 265-266	Pentagon Papers, Notes, 1972
f. 267-277	Pentagon Papers, Notes, 1973
f. 278	Pentagon Papers, Notes, Ehrlichman, 1974
f. 279	Pentagon Papers, Photographs and Correspondence, 1973
f. 280-284	Pentagon Papers, Stories, 1972 July-1974 February
f. 285	Plum Island, 1971
f. 286	Polanski, Roman, Notes, 1977
f. 287	Polanski, Roman, Stories, 1977-1978
f. 288	Political Conventions, Democratic, 1964
f. 289	Political Conventions, Republican, 1964
f. 290	Political Conventions, Democratic, 1968
f. 291	Political Conventions, Republican, 1968
f. 292-293	Princess Anne Wedding, Background Information, 1973
f. 294	Princess Anne Wedding, Notes and Stories, 1973
f. 295	Prinze, Freddie, 1977
f. 296	Prisoner Exchange, 1977
f. 297	Queen Elizabeth II, 1957-1965
f. 298	Raiders, 1981
f. 299	Ray, James Earl, 1968-1977
f. 300	Redgrave, Lynn, 1978-1981
f. 301	Reis, Lillian, Notes and Photographs, 1961-1977
f. 302	Reis, Lillian, Stories, 1961-1964
f. 303	Rhodes, Greece, 1966
f. 304-305	Ruby, Jack, Notes, 1964
f. 306	Ruby, Jack, Stories, 1964
f. 307	San Francisco Mayor Assassination, 1978
f. 308	San Francisco Strike, 1975
f. 309	San Quentin Riot, 1977
f. 310	Screen Acto's Guild Strike, 1980
f. 311	Sheppard, Sam, Notes and Photographs, 1954
f. 312-314	Sheppard, Sam, Stories, 1954 October-December
f. 315	Sheppard, Sam, Notes and Photographs, 1966
f. 316	Sheppard, Sam, Stories, 1966
f. 317	Silverton, Ronald, 1975
f. 318	Simpson, O.J., 1994-1995
f. 319-320	Sirhan, Sirhan, Notes, 1969
f. 321	Sirhan, Sirhan, Notes and Correspondence, 1969
f. 322	Sirhan, Sirhan, Psychological Evaluation, 1968
f. 323-324	Sirhan, Sirhan, Stories, 1969-1981
f. 325	Skid Row Slasher, 1975
f. 326	Surrogate Mothers, 1981
f. 327	Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), Artwork, 1976
f. 328	SLA, Communiques, 1974
f. 329	SLA, Correspondence, 1976-1979
f. 330	SLA, Jurors, 1976
f. 331	SLA, Police Report, 1974
f. 332-337	SLA, Notes, 1974 February 4-1976 August 10
f. 338-340	SLA, Notes, n.d.
f. 341-343	SLA, Press Conference Notes, 1974
f. 344-345	SLA, Press Conference Notes, 1975
f. 346	SLA, Press Conference Notes, 1976
f. 347-352	SLA, Stories, 1974 February-1976 December
f. 353	SLA, Stories, 1977-1981
f. 354	Synanon, 1980
f. 355	Television Violence, 1978
f. 356	Thompson, T. Eugene, Notes and Photographs, 1963
f. 357	Thompson, T. Eugene, Stories, 1963
f. 358	Trash Bag Murders, 1977-1978
f. 359-361	Tregoff, Carole, Notes, 1960
f. 362-363	Tregoff, Carole, Stories, 1960 January-March
f. 364	Vietnam POWS, 1973
f. 365	Vietnam Refugees, Notes and Photographs, 1975
f. 366	Vietnam Refugees, Stories, 1975
f. 367-368	von Bulow, Claus, Notes, 1982 January 7-1982 March 5
f. 369	von Bulow, Claus, Notes, n.d.
f. 370-371	von Bulow, Claus, Stories, 1982 January-March 1982
f. 372	Waddill, William, 1978
f. 373	Walker, Cora, 1967-1974
f. 374	Wayne, John 1978-1979
f. 375	Welfare, Correspondence, 1949-1959 May
f. 376-379	Welfare, Correspondence, 1959 June-October
f. 380-381	Welfare, Correspondence, n.d.
f. 382-383	Welfare, Notes, 1958-1959
f. 384	Welfare, Publicity, 1958-1959
f. 385-390	Welfare, Stories, 1958 September-1959 September
f. 391	Wells, Bob, 1974
f. 392	West, Sandra, 1977
f. 393	White House, 1967-1968
f. 394	World's Fair, 1964

Miscellaneous Articles Series

The volumes in this series are on MICROFILM

v. 1	Kentucky Kernel, 1936
v. 2	Kentucky Kernel, 1937
v. 3	Evansville Press, 1940-1941
v. 4	Evansville Press, 1942-1943 February
v. 5	Indianapolis Times, 1943 April-December
v. 6	Richmond News Leader, 1946-1949
v. 7	Philadelphia Bulletin, 1950-1951
f. 395-396	Daily News, 1952
f. 397-398	Daily News, 1953
f. 399-400	Daily News, 1954
f. 401	Daily News, 1955 January-May
f. 402	Daily News, 1955 June-1956
f. 403	Daily News, 1957-1959
f. 404	Daily News, 1960-1961
f. 405	Daily News, 1962
f. 406	Daily News, 1963
f. 407	Daily News, 1964
f. 408-409	Daily News, 1965
f. 410	Daily News, 1966
f. 411	Daily News, 1967
f. 412	Daily News, 1968 January-June
f. 413	Daily News, 1968 July-1969
f. 414-415	Daily News, 1960s
f. 416	Daily News, 1970-1973
f. 417	Daily News, 1974
f. 418	Daily News, 1975
f. 419	Daily News, 1976
f. 420	Daily News, 1977
f. 421-422	Daily News, 1978 January-November
f. 423	Daily News, 1979; 1970s
f. 424	Daily News, 1980
f. 425	Daily News, 1981 April-July
f. 426	Daily News, 1981 August-1984
f. 427-428	Daily News, n.d.
f. 429	Byline and Page One, 1953-1978
f. 430	Globe, 1984
f. 431-434	National Enquirer, 1968 April 8-29
f. 435-438	National Enquirer, Unhappiness Series, 1968 April 29-May 20
f. 439-443	National Enquirer, 1968 May 14-June 21
f. 444-450	National Enquirer, n.d.
f. 451	True Life Stories, 1954
v.c. 1	Tribute to Theo Wilson, see also f. 67
a.c. 1	Spoof of SLA communiqué, see also f. 339
a.t. 1	Interview on radio show "Pub Time", WNOG, Naples, Florida, see also f. 125

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.

• Abbott, William (1895-1974
• Abortion
• Actors and actresses-Biography
• Adams, Jani
• Adoption
• Adoption-Corrupt practices
• Adultery
• Aeronautics--Accidents
• Age discrimination
• Aging
• Air-Pollution
• Alcoholism
• Aldrin, Edwin E. (1930- )
• Alexander, Shana
• Ali, Muhammad (1942- )
• American Motors Corporation
• Anderson, Ross
• Animal abuse
• Animal experimentation
• Armstrong, Neil A. (1930- )
• Artificial satellites in telecommunication
• Astronauts
• Atomic bomb
• Atwater, James D.
• Automobiles
• Autry, Gene (1907-1998)
• Baby sitters
• Bailey, F. Lee (1933- )
• Banks and banking
• Batchelor, C.D.
• Bathing suits, 1950s
• Beatles
• Beauty operators
• Begelman, David
• Belli, Melvin M. (1907-1996)
• Belmont Park, New York, N.Y.
• Bendix Aerospace Electronics Company
• Benny, Jack (1894-1974)
• Bergen, Edgar
• Berkowitz, David (1953- )
• Bianchi, Kenneth
• Birth, Multiple
• Bishop, Jim
• Black politicians
• Blind
• Blood donors
• Boats and boating
• Bogart, Humphrey (1899-1957)
• Bolles, Dan
• Bombing
• Boy Scouts
• Bradley, Thomas (1917-1998)
• Brady, James (1940- )
• Breast feeding
• Brennan, Ray
• Breslin, James (1930- )
• Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team)
• Buchanan, Edna
• Buckley, William F., Jr. (1925- )
• Budgets, Household
• Buono, Angelo
• Burns, George
• Bush, Barbara
• California, Chowchilla
• California, Los Angeles-Bicentennial celebrations, 1980
• California, Los Angeles-Description and travel, 1981
• Calley, William A. (1945- )
• Campaign songs
• Cartoons and caricatures
• Censorship
• Centenarians
• Child custody
• Children in pornography
• Chrysler Automobile Corporation
• Circus
• Civil rights
• Clinton, Bill (1946- )
• Coffee
• Cohan, George M. (1978-1942)
• Colleges and universities-Kentucky
• Collins, Michael (1930- )
• Columbia Pictures Corporation
• Confidential Magazine
• Conspiracy theories
• Cooperative societies-New York
• Coppolino, Carl
• Coppolino, Mary
• Copyright-Motion pictures
• Corporal punishment
• Costello, Louis F. (1906-1959)
• Crime prevention
• Cryonics
• Cults
• Daley, Richard (1902-1976)
• Dating
• Davis, Angela (1944- )
• Dean, John (1938- )
• DeFreeze, Donald D. (1944-1974)
• DeLorean, John (1925- )
• Democratic National Convention, 1964
• Democratic National Convention, 1968
• DePolignec, Pierre
• DeSalvo, Albert (1931-1973)
• Desertion and non-support
• Deutsch, Linda
• Diaries--Women's, 1937
• Dietary supplements
• Divine Light Mission
• Divorce
• Doonesbury
• Droughts-California, 1977
• Drug abuse
• DuBeau, Normand
• Earthquakes-California, 1971
• Ehrlichman, John D.
• Eisenhower, Dwight David (1890-1969)
• Eisenhower, Mamie Geneva Doud (1896-1979)
• Election, 1964-New York
• Election, 1968-Presidential
• Election, 1978-California
• Election, 1980-Presidential
• Election, 1984-Presidential
• Ellsburg, Daniel (1931- )
• Equal rights amendment
• Espionage
• Evansville Press, Indiana
• Exorcism
• Farber, Marge
• Farr, William
• Female impersonators
• Finch, Raymond B.
• Firearms-Law and legislation
• Fires-California
• Fisher, Florrie
• Florida, Miami Beach
• Florida, Palm Beach
• Flynn, Errol (1909-1959)
• Folsom Prison, California
• Ford, Gerald (1913- )-Assassination attempt
• Forgery
• Freedom of the press and fair trial
• Funeral rites and ceremonies, 1977
• Fur
• Furness, Betty
• Garrison, James (1922-1992)
• Gay liberation movement, 1972
• Gay men
• Ghosts
• Glomar Explorer (Ship)
• Godfrey, Arthur (1903-1983)
• Gracie Mansion, New York, New York
• Haley, Alex (1921-1992)0
• Handicapped
• Harris, Emily M.
• Harris, Jean
• Harris, William T.
• Hayakawa, Samuel I. (1906-1992)
• Hayward, Susan (1919-1975)
• Hayworth, Rita (1918-1987)
• Headline Justice
• Health resorts, spas, etc
• Hearst family
• Hearst, Patricia C. (1954- )
• Heat waves (Meteorology)-New York, 1953
• Hill, David D
• Hippies
• Home accidents-Prevention
• Home economics
• Homosexuality
• Honeymoon
• Hoover (Steamship)
• Horse racing
• Horses
• Hospitals
• Hospitals-Military
• Hospitals-Non-profit
• Hostages, American-Iran
• Housing, 1940s
• Housing, 1960s
• Houston Chronicle, Texas
• Hughes, Howard (1905-1976)
• Hurricanes, 1961
• Hutton, Barbara (1912-1979)
• Indiana, Evansville, 1930s
• Indiana, Evansville, 1940s
• Indiana, Indianapolis, 1940s
• Indianapolis Times, Indiana
• Infants-Care and hygiene
• Insurance, Automobile
• Insurance, Unemployment
• Integration-Attitudes toward
• Internal Revenue Service
• Irving, Clifford
• Israel-Arab War, 1967
• Jelke, Mickey
• Jews-Attitudes toward, 1937
• Johnson, Claudia A. (1912- )
• Johnson, Lynda Bird (1944- )
• Johnson, Lyndon Baines (1908-1973)
• Johnson-Nugent, Luci
• Jonestown Mass Suicide, Jonestown, Guyana, 1978
• Jorgensen, Christine (1926-1989)
• Journalism-Objectivity
• Judicial corruption
• Jury
• Juvenile delinquency
• Kearney, Patrick W.
• Kennedy, Caroline
• Kennedy, Edward (1932- )0
• Kennedy, Joan
• Kennedy, John F. (1917-1963)
• Kennedy, Patricia (1924- )
• Kennedy, Robert F. (1925-1968)
• Kidnapping
• Kilgallen, Dorothy
• King, Martin Luther, Jr. (1929-1968)-Assassination
• Korean War, 1950-1953
• Ku Klux Klan
• Labor unions
• Ladies Home Journal
• Libel and slander
• Libya-Foreign relations-United States, 1981
• Lie detectors and detection
• Lotteries
• Lovern, Henry
• Luce, Clare Boothe (1903-1987)
• Luce, Henry (1898-1967)
• MacDonald, Jeffrey
• Manson Family
• Manson, Charles (1934- )
• Marriage
• Marx Brothers
• Maternity nursing
• McCarthy, Charlie
• McGovern, George (1922- )
• Medicare
• Men's clothing, 1960s
• Mental illness
• Migration, Internal
• Military assistance--American
• Military service, Compulsory
• Mitchell, John(1913-1988)
• Moon
• Moon--Exploration
• Moore, Clement C. (1779-1863)
• Moore, Sara Jane (1930- )
• Morin, Relman "Pat" (1907-1973)
• Moscone, George R. (1929-1978)--Assassination
• Mossler, Candace
• Motion pictures
• Murder
• Nadelstein family
• National Enquirer
• National Football League
• National Organization of Women (NOW)
• National Urban League
• National Women and Media Collection
• New York Daily News
• New York Mirror
• New York Post
• New York Times
• New York, N.Y.--Description and travel
• Niemoeller, Martin (1892-1984)
• Nixon, Patricia (1912-1993)
• Nixon, Richard M. (1913-1994)
• Nugent, Patrick Lyndon
• Oakland Raiders (Football team)
• Obscenity (law)
• Ohta family
• Olsen, James
• O'Malley, Dan
• Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy
• Oral intercourse
• Organ donors
• Orphans
• Oswald, Lee Harvey (1939-1963)
• Outer space exploration--Voyager II
• Papin, Joseph
• Paul VI (1897-1978)
• Peel, Joseph
• Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1950s
• Pentagon Papers
• Pesticides
• Pets
• Philadelphia Bulletin, Pennsylvania
• Philadelphia Phillies (Baseball team), 1950
• Pinkerton Agency, New York, N.Y.
• Plum Island Animal Disease Laboratory
• Police
• Police--California, Los Angeles
• Police--Complaints against
• Police--Corrupt practices
• Poliomyelitis vaccine
• Popes
• Pornography
• Post-traumatic stress disorder
• Press cards
• Price regulation, 1952
• Prisoners
• Prisoners--Rehabilitation
• Prisons--Mexico
• Prisons--Riots, 1977
• Privacy, Right of
• Private investigators
• Prostitution
• Protests, demonstrations, etc., 1970
• Protests, demonstrations, etc., 1981
• Public welfare
• Punishment
• Quebec Liberation Front
• Queen Elizabeth II (1926- )
• Quigg, H[orace] D[asher] (1911-1998)
• Quintuplets
• Race discrimination
• Racism
• Rankin, Jeanette (1880-1873)
• Rationing--Gasoline, 1970s
• Rationing--Sugar, 1950s
• Ray, James Earl (1928-1998)
• Reagan family
• Reagan, Nancy (1923- )
• Reagan, Ronald W. (1911- )
• Reagan, Ronald W. (1911-- )--Assassination attempt
• Reis, Lillian
• Republican National Convention, 1964
• Republican National Convention, 1968
• Rhodes (Greece : Island)--Description and travel
• Richmond News Leader, Virginia
• Rockefeller, Nelson (1908-1979)
• Rosenberg family
• Rozelle, Alvin Ray (1926-1996)
• Rubirosa, Porfirio (1909-1965)
• Ruby, Jack Leon (1911-1967)
• Russell, Rosalind (1913-1976)
• Russo, Anthony
• Ryan, Leo J. (1925-1978)
• Salk, Jonas E. (1914-1995)
• San Quentin Prison, California
• Schools, 1950s
• Screen Actor's Guild
• Sex education
• Sexual harassment
• Sheppard, Sam (1923-1970)
• Sheppard, Stephen
• Sheriffs--Florida
• Simpson, O[renthal] J[ames] (1947- )
• Sirhan, Sirhan B. (1944- )
• Skid Row Slasher
• Smallpox
• Smoking
• Social security
• Space flight--Apollo project
• Space flight--Mercury project
• Space vehicles
• Space vehicles
• Speck, Richard
• Spock, Benjamin (1903-1998)
• Stans, Maurice
• Strikes and lockouts--Actors
• Strikes and lockouts--Hospitals
• Strikes and lockouts--Newspapers
• Strikes and lockouts--Police and fire
• Stunt men and women
• Suicide
• Supermarkets, Cooperative
• Surrogate mothers
• Swindlers and swindling
• Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
• Synanon
• Tabloid newspapers
• Talun, Iron Man
• Tarnower, Herman
• Tarzan in mass media
• Taxation--California
• Television
• Terrorism--United States, 1964
• The Globe, Los Angeles, California
• Theft
• Thompson, T. Eugene
• Titanic (Steamer)
• Transcendental meditation
• Tregoff, Carole
• Trials (Murder)
• True Life Stories
• U.S. Congress. House, Un-American Activities Committee
• Unemployment
• United Nations--Security measures
• United States. Army--Attitudes toward
• United States. Navy--Sexual harassment
• University of Kentucky, 1930s
• Unmarried mothers
• Vaccination
• Vanderbilt family
• Vanderpelt, Wyatt J.
• Vietnamese War, 1961-1975
• Vietnamese War, 1961-1975--Atrocities
• Vietnamese War, 1961-1975--Attitude toward
• Vietnamese War, 1961-1975--Entertainment
• Vietnamese War, 1961-1975--My Lai Massacre
• Vietnamese War, 1961-1975--Prisons and prisoners
• Vietnamese War, 1961-1975--Refugees
• Vietnamese War, 1961-1975--Veterans
• Vietnamese War, 1961-9175--Orphans
• Violence in motion pictures
• Violence in television
• Virginia, Richmond, 1940s
• Von Bulow, Claus (1926- )
• Waitresses
• Wanderone, Rudolf W., Jr. (1900-1996)
• War brides
• Water conservation
• Water pollution
• Watergate Affair, 1972-1974
• Weather Underground
• Wigs
• Wilson, Delph R. (1946- )
• Wilson, Theodora R. (1917-1997)
• Wilson, William Robert
• Women and Media Collection
• Women artists
• Women authors
• Women in business, 1940s
• Women journalists
• Women judges
• Women physicians
• Women politicians
• Women prisoners
• Women shoemakers
• Women students
• Women--Autobiography
• Women--Biography
• Women--Employment
• Women--Mass media
• Women--Periodicals
• Women's clothing, 1940s
• Women's clothing, 1950s
• Women's clothing, 1950s
• Women's clothing, 1960s
• Women's clothing, 1970s
• Women's clothing, 1980s
• Women's movement
• Women's National Republican Club
• Work Projects Administration--Indiana
• Workers' compensation
• World War, 1939-1945-Attitudes toward
• World War, 1939-1945--Bond drives
• World War, 1939-1945--China
• World War, 1939-1945--Clothing drives
• World War, 1939-1945--England
• World War, 1939-1945--Home front
• World War, 1939-1945--Jews
• World War, 1939-1945--Mail
• World War, 1939-1945--Metal drives
• World War, 1939-1945--Paper drives
• World War, 1939-1945--Propaganda
• World War, 1939-1945--Ration books
• World War, 1939-1945--Rationing
• World War, 1939-1945--Recreation
• World War, 1939-1945--Recruitment
• World War, 1939-1945--Refugees, German
• World War, 1939-1945--V-E Day
• World's Fair-New York, 1964
• Wrestling
• Youth as artists