Reminiscences of Gordon Gray : oral history, 1967.

ArchivalResource

Reminiscences of Gordon Gray : oral history, 1967.

Education, University of North Carolina, Yale Law School; early legal practice; publishing; North Carolina State Senate, 1938-42, 1946-47; service in World War II; Assistant Secretary and Secretary of the Army, 1947-50; unification of services, civilian control of Department of Defense; Special Assistant to President Harry Truman, 1950; President, University of North Carolina, 1950-55; Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, 1955-57; service intelligence operations; Director, Office of Defense Mobilization, 1957-58; Special Assistant to President. Eisenhower for National Security Affairs, 1958-61; Robert Oppenheimer case and Personnel Security Board for Atomic Energy Commission, 1954; National Trust for Historic Preservation; Commission for Financing Hospital Care; Research Triangle Institute.

Miscellaneous papers relating to oral history.

Related Entities

There are 6 Entities related to this resource.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6d54b72 (corporateBody)

U.S. Atomic Energy Commission

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cv85zh (corporateBody)

This collection of transparencies was used by representatives of the Atomic Energy Commission (A.E.C.) during a presentation before the Alaska House State Affairs Committee, April 4, 1970, in Juneau. At the time of the presentation, the A.E.C. was planning a second underground nuclear test on Amchitka Island in 1971, code-named CANNIKIN. Testimony was heard from several groups against a second test as well as adverse testimony about the first test which took place in October, 1969 and was code n...

Hopper, Paula D.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nc6t2m (person)

United States. Department of the Army

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6t76s2c (corporateBody)

National Military Establishment (U.S.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61s0gfp (corporateBody)

Gray, Gordon, 1909-1982

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rb8wfq (person)

Gordon Gray (1909-1982), government official, publisher, and educator. A graduate of the Yale Law School, Gray began his professional career as an attorney with a New York Law firm. In 1935, however, he returned to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to practice law. At approximately the same time, he acquired financial interests in the publishing and broadcasting fields. As operator of radio station WSJS and publisher of the Winston-Salem Journal and the Twin City Sentinel, Gray eventually abandoned...