Gordon Greenleaf Mcnab papers 1841-1974

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Gordon Greenleaf Mcnab papers 1841-1974

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Papers of a newspaper reporter and employee of the Associated Press in Portland, Oregon. Contains materials regarding John F. Kennedy's presidential campaign, 1959-1960; wire service printouts regarding the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941; Margaret Raz Graf's reminiscences of her childhood in Hillsdale, Oregon; and typed transcriptions of the diary and letters of Oregon pioneer Clark W. Thompson, 1841-1853.

.45 cubic feet (1 document case)

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Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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Associated press

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Mcnab, Gordon Greenleaf.

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Born in 1906, Gordon Greenleaf Mcnab started in the newspaper business as an apprentice printer in 1919. He graduated from the University of Iowa in 1927, and after stints in Iowa, Minnesota and Alaska, he came to Oregon, where he joined the Oregon Journal staff in Portland in 1937. In 1941 he moved to the Portland office of the Associated Press, and after service in the U.S. Army Air Corps in Aleutian Islands, he continued with the AP until his retirement in 1971. His wife was Moll...

Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917, to Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy of Brookline, Massachusetts. John Kennedy, the second of nine children, attended Choate Academy (1932-1935), Princeton University (1935-36), Harvard College (1936-40), and Stanford Business School (1941). In 1940, he published a book based on his senior thesis entitled "Why England Slept." The book criticized British policy of Appeasement. In 1941, Kennedy enlisted in the Navy. In August 1943, Kenn...

Thompson, Clark Wallace, 1825-1885

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Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Northern Superintendency. From the description of Papers of Clark Wallace Thompson, 1841-1906 (bulk 1841-1853) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 74985581 Indian agent and presidential elector. From the description of Autograph letter signed : St. Paul, Minn., to Abraham Lincoln, 1860 Nov. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270572098 ...

Graf, Margaret Raz.

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