Records, 1946-1992 (bulk 1946-1950).

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Records, 1946-1992 (bulk 1946-1950).

The collection contains correspondence, clippings, minutes, press releases, reports, and the indictment and transcript of the trial of Gregorios Stahtopoulos and Anna Stahtopoulos, accused of complicity in the murder. There are also photographs of George Polk and some Price family memorabilia. The bulk of the collection covers the years 1948-1950, although background and follow-up material extends from approximately 1930 to 1990. Correspondents include John Donovan, William Donovan, Ernest Hemingway, Walter Lippman, Herbert Mitgang, Edward Morrow, George Polk, Rhea Polk, William Polk, Constantine Poulos, William Price, Howard Smith, and I.M. Stone. The clippings include articles by George Polk as well as about his murder. This collection not only documents the activities of the Newsmen's Commission, but the reaction of journalists, the news media, and the U.S. government to the Polk murder, and the decisive impact of the deepening Cold War on all concerned. Some 120 images have been transferred to the Library's NonPrint collection.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7583972

Churchill County Museum

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Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961

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Donovan, John.

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United Nations

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Price, William F., 1951-

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Polk, George, 1913-1948

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CBS News.

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Lippman, Walter

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CBS Television Network

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From 1953 to 1956 CBS Television, in cooperation with the American Museum of Natural History, produced a series of television programs. Museum staff was involved with most programs. From the description of "Adventure," 1953-1956. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155485092 ...

Polk, Rhea.

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Polk, William, 1752-1812

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William Polk was a student at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La., and captain of cadet company A in 1879. From the description of William Polk pictures, 1879-1880. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 302361884 ...

Stone, I. F. 1907-1989.

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Murrow, Edward R. (Edward Roscoe), 1908-1965

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Edward Roscoe Murrow (April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965), born Egbert Roscoe Murrow, was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent. He first gained prominence during World War II with a series of live radio broadcasts from Europe for the news division of CBS. During the war he recruited and worked closely with a team of war correspondents who came to be known as the Murrow Boys. After the war, in December 1945 Murrow an offer to become a vice president of the CBS network and head o...

Price, William J. (William James), 1918-

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Donovan, Bill M., 1951-

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Committee of Overseas Writers to Inquire into the Murder of George Polk.

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Poulos, Constantine, 1916-1986.

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John Poulos (1911-1980), student and documenter of Greek and Greek-American radicalism, and a son of Greek immigrants, was born in 1911 in Lynn, Massachusetts. While in his twenties, and a food worker, he organized Food Workers Local 701 of the AFL and led the fledgling union into the emerging CIO, and was a delegate to the CIO founding convention in 1938. A Marxist, Poulos belonged to, and served on the national committee of the Socialist Workers Party, a Trotskyist organization. L...

Mitgang, Herbert

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Herbert Mitgang was an American literary critic, novelist, screenwriter, and playwright. From the description of Herbert Mitgang collection of papers, 1967-1975. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 144652066 Herbert Mitgang (1920- ), author, editor, journalist, and motion-picture producer, was managing editor of the U.S. Army newspaper Stars and Stripes, during World War II. After his war service, he joined the New York Times as a copy editor and reviewer. He serv...

Stahtopoulos, Anna.

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Newspaper Guild of New York

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The Newspaper Guild of New York (Newspaper Guild, Local 3) was chartered in 1933 and led in its early years by Heywood Broun, a successful columnist for the World Telegram. Three major New York daily newspapers were organized by 1941, and in 1937 Time Magazine became the first magazine organized by the local. At first the Guild represented only the newsroom workers, but jurisdiction was expanded to include non-editorial newspaper staff and commercial workers, as well as some employees of news se...

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Stahtopoulos, Gregorios.

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Smith, Howard K. (Howard Kingsbury), 1914-2002

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Journalist. From the description of Reminiscences of Howard Kingsbury Smith : oral history, 1968. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122376596 Dr. Howard "Ted" Smith was a professor of management on the faculty of the University of Georgia's College of Business Administration from 1946 to 1983. In the early 1980's, when many components of the University of Georgia were writing their histories in anticipation of the institution's Bicentennial (...

Newsmen's Commission to Investigate the Murder of George Polk.

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George Polk was a CBS news correspondent covering the Greek civil war who was murdered in Salonika on May 16th, 1948. In the course of his investigations, he had uncovered, and was about to publish, evidence of criminal activity by rightist forces, who had the support of the United States and Great Britain. The Newsmen's Commission to Investigate the Murder of George Polk was founded in 1948 at the initiative of the New York Chapter of the Newspaper Guild. Among its members were Geo...