Clete Roberts Papers 1938-1986

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Clete Roberts Papers 1938-1986

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Clete Roberts (1912-1984) was a broadcast journalist and documentary filmmaker. The collection consists of broadcast scripts, reporter's notes, research materials, contracts, correspondence, articles and publicity material, awards, printed matter and ephemera, financial and legal documents, photographs, and audio reels and cassettes.

33 boxes (16.5 linear ft.); 2 oversize boxes.

eng,

University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.

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Roberts, Clete, 1912-1984

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Clete Roberts (1912-1984) was born Bernard Cletus Van Hauss in Portland, Ore. He began his broadcasting career in Seattle, Wash. in 1928 delivering daily radio stock market reports for the brokerage firm for which he worked. After abandoning aspirations of becoming a professional opera singer, Roberts worked at various Seattle radio stations, including KJR, as a journalist. In 1937 was offered a position as a reporter in Los Angeles by Transradio Press. Within the next several years, Mr. Roberts...