John Downing Weaver Collection about the Olympic Games, 1972-1985

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John Downing Weaver Collection about the Olympic Games, 1972-1985

John Downing Weaver Collection about the Olympic Games, 1972-1985

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt5t1nc718

John D. Weaver (b. 1912) worked for various federal agencies, including the National Recovery Administration (1933-35). He was also a reporter, feature writer, book reviewer, and copy editor for the (1935-40) and contributed articles, short stories, and book reviews to magazines, and wrote novels and non-fiction. The collection consists mostly of ephemera, clippings, and memorabilia relating to the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, but also of the city's 1932 games, on efforts to stage an Olympiad in Los Angeles in 1980, on the U.S. boycott of the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, and on the Winter games in Sarajevo. Kansas City star

16 boxes (8 linear ft.); 2 oversize boxes

eng,

University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.