Len O'Connor papers, 1950-1969, 1983.

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Len O'Connor papers, 1950-1969, 1983.

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Radio and television newscast scripts (1950-1969), correspondence (1964-1969), personal documents, and sound recordings of Len O'Connor, a Chicago (Ill.) commentator on political, social, criminal, and human interest matters and personalities in Chicago and elsewhere. Includes letters from audience members and materials relating to O'Connor's brother, Bishop William A. O'Connor of Springfield (Ill.). Sound recordings are of interviews, on-the-spot events, news, and feature broadcasts, including O'Connor's conversations with young men in trouble with the law in "They Talked to a Stranger," programs which were the basis for O'Connor's book (1959) of the same title; and interviews with Mayor Richard J. Daley, Senator Everett M. Dirksen, Arthur M. Fitzgerald, who was a lawyer for Orville Hodge, Ben Hecht, Nathan F. Leopold, and Carl Sandburg.

57 sound discs.

Chicago History Museum

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