Burton K. Wheeler videotapes from the UCLA Film and Television Archives [videorecording], 1925-1941.

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Burton K. Wheeler videotapes from the UCLA Film and Television Archives [videorecording], 1925-1941.

As a public figure Wheeler appeared on many newsreel productions of the day, including those done by the Hearst Company. The images on these tapes represent gleanings from those films that were found by the UCLA Film and Television Archives by searching through their subject reference catalog for Wheeler, the America First Committee, and the Supreme Court debate of 1937. The films have been dubbed in random order. Most of the clips on these cassettes are unedited.

4 videocassettes (VHS) (5 hr.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in.

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Hearst Books (Firm)

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Historical note The Los Angeles Examiner was founded in December 1903 by William Randolph Hearst. A morning paper, it printed its last issue on January 7, 1962. The paper closed at the same time as the Times-Mirror afternoon paper the Los Angeles Mirror . These closures left the Los Angeles Times as the only significant morning newspaper in Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Evening Herald & Express, another Hearst paper, as the only signifi...

University of California, Los Angeles. Film and Television Archives.

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America First Committee

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Private organization to promote United States nonintervention in World War II. From the description of America First Committee records, 1940-1942. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754868195 ...

Wheeler, Burton K. (Burton Kendall), 1882-1975

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Burton Kendall Wheeler was born in Hudson, Mass., on 27 Feb. 1882 and moved to Montana shortly after his graduation from law school in 1905. He began his law career in Butte, serving as U.S. Attorney for Montana from 1913 to 1918 prior to his election to the U.S. Senate in 1922. In 1924 he ran unsuccessfully for vice-president on the Progressive Party presidential ticket. Wheeler is remembered as one of the most powerful senators in Washington, D.C., in the 1930s. Chairman of the Interstate Comm...