Jack Anderson papers, 1930-2004, bulk 1969-2004.

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Jack Anderson papers, 1930-2004, bulk 1969-2004.

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This collection includes articles, correspondence, index cards, book manuscripts, notes, government documents, legal documents, reports, scripts, photographs, drawings, audiovisual recordings, and artifacts that document the professional and, to a lesser extent, personal life of investigative journalist Jack Anderson. Items date from his childhood in the 1930s to 2005, the year of his death. The materials in this collection were used and produced by him during every stage of his writing process, from the reporters notes, correspondence, and research materials he gathered while working on a story, to the draft and final articles he produced, to the extensive article index he and his staff maintained. The collection also documents his work as a television and radio personality, author, frequent speaker, nonprofit leader, and even occasional cartoonist.Cultivating sources who provided him with exclusive access to classified information, he reported on an extraordinary range of topics and individuals in his half-century of investigative work. Topics of particular interest represented in his columns include: the investigation of corruption by Senator Thomas Dodd, organized crime, the Kennedy assassination, the CIA-Mafia plot to kill Fidel Castro, Chappaquiddick, Watergate (he published leaked grand jury testimony), U.S.-Pakistan relations during the Indo-Pakistani War (for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 1972), fugitive Nazis, the activities of the FBI under Herbert Hoover, the white supremacist group the Liberty Lobby and other far-right organizations, the death of Howard Hughes, the ITT Corporation/Nixon Administration scandal, the ABSCAM public corruption investigation, the investigation into fugitive financier Robert Vesco, the Iran-Contra scandal, and the activities of innumerable Washington agencies, elected officials, and bureaucrats. His columns championed the cause of everyday Americans against the intrusions of large, sometimes corrupt institutions.

245.5 linear feet (446 document boxes, 21 flat boxes, 1 record center box and 1 object).

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