The Harry S. Ashmore Collection, [ca. 1922-1997] (bulk dates 1950s-1980s)

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The Harry S. Ashmore Collection, [ca. 1922-1997] (bulk dates 1950s-1980s)

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The collection includes addresses, speeches, awards, publicity , research files, reviews and interviews with Ashmore on a number of topics, including LBJ, the mass media, and his 1967 trip to North Vietnam. Correspondents include: Mortimer Adler, Julian Bond, Edmund G. [Pat] Brown, Dale Bumpers, McGeroge Bundy, Walter and Lois Capps, Alan Cranston, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Hugh Downs, Joseph Drown, Clifton Fadiman, William Fulbright, Gary K. Hart, Benjamin Hooks, Robert M. Hutchins, John Lewis, Milton Mayer, Ralph McGill, Maurice Mitchell, Fred Warner Neal, Leon Panetta, Carl Stover, Kenneth Thompson, and Sander Vanocur.

20 linear ft. (15 record containers, 2 document boxes, and 19 audiotapes)

University of California, Santa Barbara, UCSB Library

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University of California, Santa Barbara, UCSB Library

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Ashmore, Harry S.

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Harry S. Ashmore (1916-1998) was an American journalist and author. During his tenure as executive editor of the Arkansas Gazette, the paper won a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service (1957) for its coverage of the school integration conflict in Little Rock, Arkansas. In 1959 he relocated to California where he worked with the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara (1959-1974) and served as editor in chief of the Encyclopedia Britannica (1960-1963). He is the author of ele...