NICHOLAS GEORGE (1923-2002), PAPERS (WUNP5993)

82.25 linear feet

INTRODUCTION

Office correspondence, wire copy, and news reports on audio tapes and cassettes of managing editor for ABC Radio News during the 1960s and 1970s. Tapes document most major events of this period including the Kennedy and King assassinations, Vietnam War, and space missions. The papers also contain materials from George's teaching career in the 1980s and 1990s.

BOX LIST

Box 1	1945-1954	Japanese Surrender in WWII, 1952 Election, Local/national news from KWWL, Waterloo, Iowa
Box 2	1960	Hurricane Donna, Election, Congo
Box 3	1960-1961	Eichmann Trial, UN hearings on Laos and Middle East
Box 4	1961-1962	Pope John XXIII, James Meredith
Boxes 5-7	1962	James Meredith, Cuban Missile Crisis, Mercury space missions, Desk Notes and Diaries
Boxes 8-11	1963	JFK administration and assassination, Civil rights, Vietnam, Pope John XXIII, Mercury space missions, International news, Ballistic Missile Early Warning System
Box 12	1963-1964	Desk reports, JFK follow-ups
Boxes 13-16	1964	Election, Cuba, Panama, Warren Report, Kenya, Gulf of Tonkin, MacArthur funeral, DeGualle
Boxes 17-20	1965	LBJ inauguration, DeGaulle, Churchill funeral, Vietnam, Selma, March on Washington, Blackout, Edward R. Murrow, Gemini space missions
Boxes 21-23	1966	Gemini space missions, Vietnam, Civil rights, Blackout, Election
Boxes 24-26	1967	Vietnam, 6 Days War, Adenauer funeral
Box 27	1967-1968	Misc. notes, national, international news
Boxes 28-30	1968	Vietnam, Election, RFK/MLK assassinations, Apollo space program, Czechoslovakia
Box 31	1968-1969	POWs, Misc. national news
Boxes 32-37	1969	Apollo 11, POWs, Vietnam, Moratorium Day, State of the Union, Nixon in Europe and Asia
Boxes 38-41	1970	Middle East, USSR, Apollo space missions
Box 42	1970-1971	Vietnam
Boxes 43-48	1971	Vietnam, Apollo space missions, Attica Prison , Laos invasion, Civil rights
Box 49	1971-1972	Nixon transcripts, Apollo space missions, Kissinger in Saigon
Boxes 50-55	1972	Nixon in China, Election, Vietnam, Apollo space missions
Box 56	1972-1973	Nixon transcripts, Desk notes, etc.
Box 57	1973	Northern Ireland, Nixon inauguration, Apollo space missions, Agnew
Box 58	1973-1974	Vietnam, Watergate
Box 59	1974	Misc. national and international news
Box 60	1975	Misc. national and international news
Boxes 61-62	1976	Apollo space missions, notes, misc. news
Box 63	1977-1979	Misc. news, notes
Boxes 64-72	1980s-1990s	Teaching materials- University of Missouri and Trinity College, San Antonio, Texas
Boxes 73-78	Personal, 1930s-2000s	school notebooks, correspondence, writings, publicity

Audio Tapes (Radio news reports- cover most major events of the period including assassinations, campaigns and elections, space program, Vietnam War, etc.)

Box 79	1940s-1950s
Box 80	1960s, undated
Box 81	1961
Box 82	1962
Box 83	1963
Box 84	1964
Boxes 85-86	1965
Boxes 87-88	1966
Boxes 89-91	1967
Box 92	1968
Box 93	1969
Box 94	1970-1972
Box 95	1973-1977
Box 96	1980s
Boxes 97-101	Undated

Audio Cassettes (Radio news reports)

Box 102	1963-1968
Box 103	1964-1970
Box 104	1970-1972
Box 105	1973-1979
Box 106	1980s-1990s (includes many from KBIA, Columbia, Missouri)
Box 107	Undated

Video Tapes

• Shuttle Story- Lenz, Matthews/Cruz, et al., Master Tape
• The World of ABC Radio
• N. George Newscast, 5/10/90

Films

• William S. Beardsley Memorial Service, 1954 (Governor of Iowa)
• Santo Domingo, 1970
• Sledding- Taylor, 1970
• Long Xuyen Farmer’s Fair, c. 1970
• Pathet Lao Rally to Lao Government, c. 1970
• Robertson Test Roll, c. 1970
• South Vietnam Holds Local Elections, c. 1970
• Unidentified (6)

Records

• What’s Mine is Yours/Bricks, Broken Bottles, and Sticks, n.d.
• Edward R. Murrow, “I Can Hear It Now: 1933-1945”
• This Year Around the World, 1961
• The Basic Issues: The 1964 Presidential Election Campaign
• D-Day Plus 20, 1944-1964
• Rush to Judgment with New Insights on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
• Great Moments from News, 1964
• Bye Bye George: A Tribute to Under Secretary of State George Ball, 1966
• Campaigns and Candidates: Presidents on the Presidency, 1966
• A Year in a New Kind of War, 1966
• The World in Sound, 1966
• The World in Sound, 1967
• The World in Sound, 1968
• 1973 in Review
• NORAD Tracks Santa, 1969

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.

• George, Nicholas (1923-2002)
• Journalism, broadcast
• Mass media
• Radio broadcasting
• Vietnamese War, 1961-1975--Journalists