Contains correspondence, memorabilia, newspaper clippings, speeches, scrapbooks and files on various organizations to which Dundurs belonged, including those related to the Latvian American community. Some time after 1951, Dundurs worked as a radio talk show host. Check with repository to determine if papers cover his radio career.
Repository/Collector:
Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota
In addition to papers related to Dooley's career and personal life, the collection includes transcripts and tapes of That Free Men May Live, Dooley's weekly program on KMOX St. Louis.
Repository/Collector:
Western Historical Manuscript Collection, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Seventeen volumes of scripts, some written by Roy LaPlante, and aired on KYW, Philadelphia. Show was a weekly fifteen minute program narrated by school children. Collection also includes sound recordings of the same program, mostly 1944-1945 and one from 1948, and recordings of The World of Yesterday, The Crow and the Daylight, The Mouse Merchant and The Legend of the Willow Plate.
Repository/Collector:
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Education Department, University of Pennsylvania
Consists mostly of post-1950 materials related to Williams's personal life and career as a writer, editor and journalist although there are some earlier papers, including correspondence, photographs and some material from 1959 dealing with WOY.
A strong opponent of Father Charles E. Coughlin, the audio visual series of the collection includes Ryan's address, "Roosevelt Safeguards America " in which he urged Catholics to repudiate Coughlin and support the New Deal and Roosevelt. The address was broadcast on national radio on October 8, 1936.
Repository/Collector:
American Catholic History Research Center and University Archives, Catholic University of America
The organization has a set of radio historian John Dunning's interviews of radio personalties (about 50+ interviews), approximately 100 scripts of mixed genre, including Escape, First Nighters, Gunsmoke and The Whistler, a collection of 1,200 16" transcription discs of mixed genre, including big bands, AFRS and World War II bond drives that are being transferred to CDs as of 2005 and a lending library of cassettes.
Consists of newspaper clippings, radio broadcast programs, reproductions of paintings, correspondence, diary entries, pamphlets and miscellaneous items related to Grover's career as a broadcaster and as an artist.
Sound recording produced by Robert C. Bruce in 1991 in which he chronicles his 50 years as an actor, writer, producer and director in radio, television and motion pictures.