Ashby-Gramer research collection relating to Senator Frank Church, 1850-1993.

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Ashby-Gramer research collection relating to Senator Frank Church, 1850-1993.

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Research files compiled by LeRoy Ashby and Rod Gramer, co-authors of the book Fighting the Odds, the Life of Senator Frank Church (Washington State University Press, 1994); together with tape recorded interviews conducted by Ashby and Gramer with ca. 150 individuals (on ca. 350 tape cassettes), including Frank Church (1924-1984), his wife Bethine Church, family, friends, staffers, and colleagues, about Church's life and Senate career. Research files include photocopies of selected documents from the Church papers at Boise State University, arranged topically, with copies of some family documents dating back to the 1850s. Some of the tape-recorded interviews are transcribed or partially transcribed. The collection also includes an edited typescript of the book and photocopies of cited source documents, arranged by chapter.

ca. 12 ft. and 350 tape cassettes

Boise State University, Albertsons Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8033808

Boise State University, Albertsons Library

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Church, Bethine C.

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Rod Gramer was born in Boise in 1953 and graduated from the University of Idaho with a degree in history in 1975. He was a journalist with the Idaho Statesman when he began research for a biography of Frank Church in 1978 with fellow journalist Marc Johnson. Johnson later left the project and Gramer continued alone, assisted by his wife Julie. Rod and Julie Gramer were the first researchers to use the Frank Church papers at Boise State University in 1984. Gramer left the Idaho State...

Ashby, LeRoy

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Church, Franklin H. (Franklin Higby), 1880-

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United States Senator from Idaho. From the description of Speech, 1960. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122510693 ...

Gramer, Rod, 1953-

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Rod Gramer was born in Boise in 1953 and graduated from the University of Idaho with a degree in history in 1975. He was a journalist with the Idaho Statesman when he began research for a biography of Frank Church in 1978 with fellow journalist Marc Johnson. Johnson later left the project and Gramer continued alone, assisted by his wife Julie. Rod and Julie Gramer were the first researchers to use the Frank Church papers at Boise State University in 1984. Gramer left the Idaho State...