John W. "Bill" Roberts Papers. 1973 - 1977. Presidential Subject Files

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John W. "Bill" Roberts Papers. 1973 - 1977. Presidential Subject Files

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Gerald R. Ford Library

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Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006

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Gerald Rudolph Ford, the 38th President of the United States, was born Leslie Lynch King, Jr., the son of Leslie Lynch King and Dorothy Ayer Gardner King, on July 14, 1913, in Omaha, Nebraska. His parents separated two weeks after his birth, and his mother took him to Grand Rapids, Michigan, to live with her parents. On February 1, 1916, approximately two years after her divorce was final, Dorothy King married Gerald R. Ford, a Grand Rapids paint salesman. The Fords began calling her son Gerald ...

Roberts, John William, 1919-2000

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John William "Bill" Roberts was born on March 21, 1919 in Ft. Atkinson, Wisconsin. He received a B.A. from Ripon College in 1941, and served in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1946. He worked as a radio news reporter for WOC in Davenport, Iowa, 1946 to 1948, and he was a radio news reporter and television anchorman at station WMT in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1948 to 1958. From 1958 to 1972 he was the Washington Bureau Chief at Time, Inc., and from 1972 to 1973 he was the Washington Bureau Chief for McGraw-...