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Descriptive Summary

Biographical Note

Scope and Contents

Arrangement

Restrictions

Index Terms

Administrative Information

Description of Series

Reel-to-reel audio tapes:

Audio cassette tapes:

12" records:

Videocassette tapes:

Personal correspondence:

Joseph Wershba papers:

Shirley Wershba papers:

60 Minutes

Film:

Artifacts:

University of Texas, Center for American History

A Guide to the Joseph and Shirley Wershba Papers, 1936-2004



Descriptive Summary

CreatorWershba, Joseph and Wershba, Shirley
TitleWershba (Joseph and Shirley) Papers,
Dates: 1936-2004
AbstractHusband and wife Joseph and Shirley Wershba were producers for CBS. Audio tapes, videocassettes, correspondence, transcripts, printed material, newspaper clippings, notes, scripts and drafts, photographs, motion picture film, press releases, research material, and ephemera document their careers.
Accession Nos. 96-141; 96-331; 98-276; 2002-019; 2002-189; 2004-066; 2004-117; 2005-066
Extent70 ft., 11 in.
LanguageEnglish.
RepositoryCenter for American History, The University of Texas at Austin

Biographical Note

Husband and wife Joseph and Shirley Wershba were producers for CBS. At CBS Joseph worked as a producer for "CBS Reports," "60 Minutes," and "Hear it Now". During the early 1960s, he was a writer for the New York Post and an occasional contributor to Forward. Shirley was a producer and writer for the 1960s CBS radio program "Dimension of a Woman's World," and later was a producer for the "McNeil/Lehrer Report" and for "60 Minutes".

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Scope and Contents

Audio tapes, videocassettes, correspondence, transcripts, printed material, newspaper clippings, notes, scripts and drafts, photographs, motion picture film, press releases, research material, and ephemera document Joseph and Shirley Wershba's careers in broadcast news. The material reflects events and political and social issues in the United States between 1936 and 1993. Much of the collection consists of the Wershbas' program files relating to stories they were producing. Among the many prominent twentieth-century figures represented are Winston Churchill and John F. Kennedy. Persons who had a significant impact on the development of broadcast news are included, in particular Edward R. Murrow. Other persons associated with the collection include John Henry Faulk, Walter Cronkite, and Lyndon B. Johnson.

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Arrangement

Organized into eight series: I. Reel-to-reel audio II. Audio cassette tapes, III. Videocassette tapes, IV. Personal correspondence, V. Joseph Wershba papers, VI. Shirley Wershba papers, VII. "60 Minutes" transcripts, VIII. Film. IX Artifact Collection.

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Restrictions

Use Restrictions

Copyright restrictions. Contact repository for further information.

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Index Terms

Subjects (Persons)
Churchill, Winston, Sir, 1874-1965
Cronkite, Walter
Faulk, John Henry.
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973.
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
Murrow, Edward R.
Wershba, Joseph--Archives.
Wershba, Shirley--Archives.
Subjects (Organizations)
Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.
Subjects
60 minutes (Television program)
Broadcast journalism--United States--Archival resources.
Broadcast journalists--Archives.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Joseph and Shirley Wershba Papers, 1936-2004, Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

 

Reel-to-reel audio tapes:

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4X224Seven inch reels:
H. L. Hunt transcript tape, [recorded] 84-5-8
Johnson-Sevareid-Murrow
"The Week that Shook the World," Murrow, Sevareid, Sheiri, Lord Holgraf, 20th century January 10, 1960
President John F. Kennedy recordings:
Reel 409, John F. Kennedy at the United Nations, "Not arms race but peace race" speech, 1961; Don and Randy
Reel 412, John F. Kennedy assassination material, November 23, 1963
Reel 417, John F. Kennedy speech to the United Nations, September 25, 1961
Reel 419, John F. Kennedy on Negro rights, ;Governor Wallace of Alabama June 11, 1963
Reel 420A, John F. Kennedy, two year review
Reel 422, John F. Kennedy, question and answer session, Houston Texas, ; John F. Kennedy in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 12, 1960July 4, 1962
Reel 423, John F. Kennedy in Paris, France, June 2, 1961
Reel 424, John F. Kennedy Press Conference in Paris, June 2, 1961
Reel 425, John F. Kennedy press conferences, March 1961
Reel 426, John F. Kennedy press conference, April 13, 1961
Reel 427, Kennedy on Vietnam
Reel 428, "UAW", ; Kennedy press conferences, May 8, 1962June 28, July 19, August 10, 30, 1961
Reel 429, I.L.G.W.U song, ; Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Adlai Stevenson; Talulah Bankhead June 10, 1969
Reel 430, Liberal Party (from Morris Korik, WNBC), September 14, 1960
Reel 431, Elks Club, Los Angeles, California, ; Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, November 1, 1960September 9, 1960
Reel 432, Canadian Parliament, (bad tape) May 17, 1961
Reel 432, AFL-CIO, ; Protestant Council, ; Canadian Parliament, ; Post-Khruzhchev, ; American Press, November 15, 1963November 8, 1963 May 17, 1961June 6, 1961November 8, 1963
Reel 433, John F. Kennedy United Nations speech, September 20, 1963
Reel 434, Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, ; Astronaut Cooper, September 9, 1969May 21, 1969
Reel 435, Rose Kennedy; AFL-CIO "Goldberg Team," ; Last Half of Medicare, December 7, 1961May 20, 1963
Reel 436, John F. Kennedy, full AFL-CIO speech, December 7, 1961
60 Minutes Claude Pepper transcripts, summer of 1981:
Claude Pepper at "Domino Corner" in Little Havana
Hearings on Boarding House violations
Rules Committee Hearings; Tip O'Neil; Pensions and Mandatory retirement; Committee members on Boarding House Violations Hearing
Five inch reels:
Little Nite Music, reel 1, no slate, 71/2" IPS
CBS 60 Minutes, "Text Books" interview transcripts, with:
Wershba, Morley Safer, James Camery, Greg Cooke, and Reverend Horan, Charleston, West Virginia, sound # 22, wild transfer
Bryan, Tokyo, wild, January 25, 1964
Mike Wallace, housing, wild narration, December 1, 1964
Kalb China, wild narration, October 27, 1964
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4X225Seven inch reels:
Edward R. Murrow in Germany:
Murrow over Berlin, December 3, 1943
Murrow at Buchenwald, April 15, 1945
War Anniversary Program, November 19, 1964:
Buchenwald, April 15, 1945
Conditions in Germany, April 22, 1945
Luna: rural petrol, April 22, 1945
Crossing the Rhine, April 24, 1945
Hear it Now series:
Basic reels: #1, 6, and #8
Album Work Reels: #1, 3, and #8, 15, including material first recorded between 1949 and 1957
Parts I, IV, December 22, 1950
McCarthy, reel #2
Album Draft reels #1 and #2
Five inch reels:
Housing, Peters. wild narration, 12 November 1964.
China, M. Kalbe, wild narration, October 30, 1964
CBS Reports, "Churches" December 10, 1967
Bryan narration, June 12, 1964
Murrow, Muggeridge, B.B.C.
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4X226Seven inch reels:
Randy, Don, and Shirley Wershba, songs, August 1956
Songs for a Better Tomorrow:
"No Irish Need Apply"
"The Millwall Made of Marble"
"Which Side Are You On?"
"We Shall Not Be Moved"
"Sit Down"
"All Together"
"Union Maid"
"Joe Hill"
President F. D. Roosevelt's Fireside Chat, June 24, 1938
This Is Edward R. Murrow, April 29, 1965
60 Minutes , H. L. Hunt interview with Mike Wallace, sound rolls 1 and 2
Don and Randy Wershba, 1961
Time to Remember:
Reel 1:
Mac Costello
Richard Nixon
Reel 2:
Truman on Hiroshima, August 5, 1945
Greasy Thumb Guzik
Edward VIII abdicates, December 10, 1936
Stevenson concedes
Stone of Scone, December 25, 1950
Alben Barkley dies, April 30, 1956
Winston Churchill, March 5, 1946
Joe Di Maggio, December 11, 1951
Four Dark Days, reels 1 and 2
Hear it Now McCarthy, reel 1
John F. Kennedy series:
Draft reels #1 - 6
Reel 452, press conferences
Reel 444, press conferences, October-November, 1963
Reel 442, Robert Frost readings
20 Years of Broadcasting volumes 1-4, dubbed from 16 mm, March 10, 1965
James Baldwin and Ray Boyle, 1963
Wershba family, 1956
Five inch reels:
John Morgan interviewed by Edward R. Murrow, London
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4X227Ten and 1/2 inch reels:
Winston Churchill, show reel number 2
Reel # 126, 1958:
Talulah Bankhead
Richard Nixon on campaign
Coronation of Pope John XXIII
Knowland concedes defeat
Reel # 127:
Rockefeller victory speech, November 1958
Edmund "Pat" Brown, elected Governor of California over Knowland, November 4, 1958
Congressman Brook Hays loses Arkansas
Dr. Alvord(?), Arkansas victor
Eisenhower news conference, November 5, 1958
Truman
Rockefeller acceptance speech
Knute Rockne
Reel # 130, wrap up 1958
Reel # 132:
Jimmy Hoffa, 1959
Nixon-Khrushchev Moscow kitchen meeting, summer 1959
Nixon's farewell speech to the Russians, summer 1959
Reel # 133:
Krushchev farewell, September 27, 1959
Edward 8 farewell, December 11, 1936
Reel # 134, Eisenhower/MacMillan television discussion, London, August 31, 1959
Reel # 136, part 1, events 1959
Reel # 136, part 2
Reel # 137A, events 1959
Reel # 153, Democratic Convention Kennedy acceptance speech 1960,
Reel # 70 A:
Franklin D. Roosevelt excerpts
Movies learn to talk
Reel # 90, Sputnik, October 1957
Reel # 162, Winston Churchill materials
Reel # 118, CBS 1957
Abba Eban, United Nations, October 30, 1956
Rube Goldberg interview
T.V. album, 1963
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4X228Seven inch reels:
Reel #104, 1946
Reel #104:
Stevenson in Boston, October 28, 1956
Eisenhower on the Israel war, October 31, 1956
Reel # 105:
Eisenhower press conference, August 30, 1956
Stevenson, Liberal party candidate, September 1956
Reel #108, United Nations 12 year review, June 25, 1957
Reel #109, Eisenhower, ADL, Abilene, November 23, 1953
Reel #109A, Eisenhower "Book burning" speech, Dartmouth College, June 13, 1953
Reel #110:
Eden defends the invasion of the Suez, November 1956
Ben Gurion, with Edward R. Murrow, November 11, 1956
Reel #111, Little Rock, Arkansas, September 24, 1957
Reel #112, Orval Faubus, September 26, 1957
Reel #119, United Nations, June 26, 1945
Reel #120, General Marshall and the "Marshall Plan"
Secretary of State Dulles, press conference, October 16, 1957
Hear it Now:
Work reels, # 16 - 20
R1
Five inch reels:
Transcript, "Head Out"
Reel #358, Telstar broadcast, wrap-up, July 23, 1962
Social Club, all singing
Trappistine Nuns serenade Cardinal Cushing, April, 1968
Reel #212, Texas England, March 12, 1967
Agronsky wild narration, law, October 3, 1964
"Suffolk Police" transcript, head out
BBC Radio tribute to Edward R. Murrow, January 21, 1965
Cardinal Cushing, 1968
Transcript tapes
Brig transcript
Wild narration, George, April 25, 1964
Transcript
J. S. Bach "Suite #6", Pablo Casals
Dave Lowe Narration, China
Dr. Carl Coppolino and Mrs. Mary Coppolino, for "Trial Lawyers" program
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4X229Five inch reels:
Marvin Kalb, China narration
Eric Sevareid, wild narration, October 18, 1964
Mike Wallace, Housing, wild narration, November 30, 1964
Interview with Jesse Core
Warren Report; "Garrison-Wershba" interview
George, Bill Leonard, wild narration, June 8, 1964
Cardinal Cushing story
Reel #601, Henry L. Stimson on American neutrality, November 5, 1939
Senator John F. Kennedy, Al Smith Dinner, October 19, 1964
Eisenhower "I shall go to Korea...", 1952
60 Minutes "Textbooks", wild narration, Reverend Horan, Morley Safer, and Joseph Wershba, in Charleston, West Virginia, May 24, 1975
Lyndon B. Johnson, speeches, etc.
Bob Hope remarks, May 1961
Peterson, reel 4 side 2, part 2
Hydrozine sulpha as cancer treatment, transcript
Joe [Wershba?]
Transcript
Randy Wershba, 6 1/2 months
Transcript
Sevareid, Kennedy-Keating, wild narration, October 15, 1964
Kalb, China, wild narration
Transcript
John F. Kennedy at American University, June 10, 1963
"He went to China..." transcript
Randi and Don Wershba, ;Randy, January 19561954
Bob Trout, guns, wild narration, April 14, 1964
Law transcript, Fortes-Agronsky
Lyndon B. Johnson on crime in the streets
Harry S. Truman, 1944-1952
Betty Furness, care birthday, 1963
Leonard, wild narration, June 10, 1964
Kalb, China wild narration, through a long lens
Upton Sinclair, April 27, 1962
Edward R. Murrow, broadcast excerpts, 1940-1946
Cardinal Cushing transcript
President John F. Kennedy at the University of North Carolina, "Neither red nor dead"
"Negro History", Bill Peters, wild narration
Law, Gideon, George Bryan, wild narration, September 30, 1964
Agronsky, law, wild narration, October 2, 1964
Agronsky, law wild narration, September 7, 1964
Eyewitness, Murrow and Sevareid
Unlabeled
Kalb, wild narration
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4X230Seven inch reels:
Clare Booth Luce interview
Lyndon B. Johnson, State of the Union address, 1966
West Point
R2
Dwight Eisenhower, 1958
Reel # 105, Time to Remember events 1939
Marvin Barnes, February 20, 1978
Marvin Barnes, phone conversation with Joe Wershba, February 1978
Chuck Medlin interview
Five inch reels:
Panama Canal
Kalb, China narration
George Bryan, China Promo, November 4, 1964
Reuther and Johnson speech
WEVD Ain check 1
Randy and Don Wershba, winter 1961-1962
Wild thing
Floyd Paterson beats Archie Moore, wins heavyweight championship
Commentary: Nat Hentoff, September 18, 1961
Lindsay Campaign
Transcript, labor
Edward R. Murrow, "The Battle of Britain"
Richard Card Cushing, Boston, March 9, 1964
Secretary of War Stimson
Henry L. Stimson on American neutrality, October 5, 1939
Nixon-Sawyer tape #3
Nixon-Sawyer tape #4
Transcript
Dwight Eisenhower, ; Adlai Stevenson, August 31, 1956September 11, 1956
Four inch reel:
, "Lipton Summerama Opening" CBS Reports
Ten and 1/2 inch reels:
Abba Eban, Suez invasion, November 1, 1956
events 1956
Dag Hammangold dies; John F. Kennedy at the United Nations, 1961
"Convention Fever" August 9, 1956
Winston Churchill tribute
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4Aa66Hear It Now:
#4, January 5, 1951
#6, parts 2 and 4 only, January 19, 1951
#7, January 26, 1951
#9, February 9, 1951
#18, April 13, 1951
#20, part one only, April 7, 1951
#21, May 4, 1951
#22, parts 1 and 3 only, May 11, 1951
#23, May 18, 1951
#25, June 1, 1951
#27, June 15, 1951
With Bill Downs, October 21, 1951
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4X231Seven inch reels:
Miriam Rudder transcript
John Henry Faulk and Alger Hiss, panorama program, November 10, 1976
John Henry Faulk and Alger Hiss
Transcript
President Lyndon Johnson, press conference, July 28, 1965
Justice Hugo Black, radio address on his membership in the Ku Klux Klan, October 1, 1937
Sherman Adams, ; Eisenhower, ; General Wainwright surrenders Quezon to Congress June 17-18, 1958May 4, 1956
Fulbright answering L. B. J. on the Tonkin Gulf, ; Katzenbach on asking for a declaration of war, February 6, 1970August 17, 1968
Nixon Inaugural Address, January 20, 1973
Nixon Inaugural Address, January 20, 1969
Dr. Jonas E. Salk, April 12, 1955
Reel #303, events 1961
Reel #303, New York City, events 1961
CBS Reports, Democratic Convention, August 24, 1956
Lyndon B. Johnson Inaugural Address, January 20, 1965
Herman Goering; Nelson Rockefeller
Concentration Camps in the U.S.A., December 19, 1967
Alger Hiss transcript
Track of conversation in screening room during running of Polish film on North Vietnam
John H. Glenn, astronaut, speech to Congress, February 1962
Stevenson, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, September 13, 1956
John F. Kennedy speech to Congress on space and flight to the moon, May 25, 1961
Clarence Earl Gideon transcripts, roll 10 and 11
Rocky Marciano retires, ; Montgomery, Alabama, bus strike, 1956April 1956
LaGuardia, June 26, 1956
D.N.R., German television, February 1966
Reel #307, LaGuardia material
Clarence Earl Gideon letter #2
Stevenson at Madison Square Garden, October 23, 1956
Reel #102, Hear it Now possibilities:
Rocky Marciano April 27, 1956
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Richard Nixon
Dwight Eisenhower
Five inch reels:
Four Dark Days, reel 1, part 2
Reel #603, Harry Bridges
David Lowe, Sr., narrates China; Yiddish comments on Bobby Kennedy vs. Keating
Larry Flynt, press conference
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4X232Seven inch reels:
AD-710710 Abzug; Steinham
Richard Nixon tape
March 3, 1981
Walter Winchell, February 17, 1946
Unlabeled
Five inch reels:
Jo Hoffa (Jimmy Hoffa's wife)
Hoffa-Chuck Ashman, November 8, 1964
Lindbergh, second half, September 11, 1941
Cardinal Cushing on the cost of education, 1968
Unlabeled

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4X232Audio cassette tapes:
Walter Cronkite, Daniel Elsberg
Roosevelt speeches
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Winston Churchill, reels 3 & 4
Winston Churchill, reels 5 & 6
Epcot Center
Bach to Bach; Ladies who Lunch
Jacksonville emergency, part 2
Gloria Steinham, cassette 3
Gloria Steinham, cassette 1
Nixon
Esther Williams
Nixon, 2a, 2b, 3a, 3b
Epcot #3, Walt Disney World
First Run Miriam Rudder story
Unlabeled
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4Aa66Vietnam, BFA-CBS News Audio History Series, parts 1-5, with Listener's Guide, 1970
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4K879[Alger] Hiss, #1 and #2, undated

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12" records:
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4Aa66Presidential Inaugural Addresses, with brochure, ca. 1977

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4X232Videocassette tapes:
Diane Sawyer Round Table, November 2, 1983
Buddy Ebsen / "The Dancing Man" from Walt Disney
Epcot Clip #3, Demo copy
MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour, Martha Graham
Live from the MET, Tosca and La Traviata
Robot and sensor technology
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4X233See It Now, vol. III, number 2 and 3, October 6, 1953
Up to the Minute, "The curse of fatness" with Morley Safer and "drastic measures" (with slugs), December 1, 1981
60 Minutes:
"Smile, Darn You, Smile" May 17, 1987
"Houston Trials, part 1"
"Houston Trials" third hour
K-2
Edward R. Murrow, March 18, 1979
Paul Hogan, (three tapes) April 18, 1985
Philip Johnson, architect, on PBS, June 30, 1986
Andrija Artukovic, documents
Heart of Hollywood with Goldie Hawn and Kris Kristofferson
Paul Hogan, presentation for the Australian Tourist Commission
Australian Tourist Commission, 60 second TV spot
Morning News, Nancy Reagan interview, November 1982
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4X234Disney #15 cartoons, materials, Pinocchio and Cinderella
Reed Harris, May 11, 1981
Germ
"Green Hell" part 2, MacArthur
"American Caesar" part 2 (dub from original); "The Green Hell"
Australia, May 31, 1986
Claude Pepper
The Impostor Phenomenon: Overcoming the Fear That Haunts Your Success, Dr. Pauline Rose Chance, Book video
CBS New Fall 1985 Shows Campaign, September 3, 1985
Two on Town, March 14, 1983
Diane Sawyer Round Table, November 2, 1983
Cagney & Lacey selected clips from episodes "Hooked" and "Stress"
W. R. Grace, "the Deficit trials" January 27, 1986
Morning News , "Eye of the Needle" (last 20 minutes)
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, dancing on roller skates
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4X23560 Minutes , "Actors" part 3
"Reaching for the Stars," Lockheed Co. promotional material
C-1 Durs World Fair
Texas Money Mystery
Richard Nixon - Frost, part 2, May 4, 1977
60 Minutes, "Houston Trial" fifth hour of five
Tama Janowitz on byline
Cancun Chi, ; Evening News Joburg bird, October 21, 1981September 1, 1981
Eleanor Roosevelt, Sevareid, World War II
Young / Magruder, narration only
Sandy Freeman interview with Tom Saffer (CNN)
CBS Sunday Morning Record; Morning News, October 22, 1981
Rooster Cogburn
Palmer Williams obituary
60 Minutes, "Hugel"
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4X236John F. Kennedy
Macneil/Lehrer Newshour , "Internment and Co-op care", October 20, 1980
Macneil/Lehrer Newshour , "Co-operative Health Care roll", November 19, 1980
George Burns insert
Sony British Comm
CBS News: Monroe birthday, Benny Goodman, Anthony Quinn, George Burns, Artie Shaw
60 Minutes, "Smile, Darn You Smile" May 17, 1987
See It Now , "The Milo Radulovich Story", October 20, 1953
Morning News , "Ehrlichman Interview" (dub), June 18, 1982
Julio Iglesias, part 2, air copy
"The World of Tomorrow"
Lady-bird Johnson interview, December 1982
MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour , "Warsaw, Indiana", February 18, 1980
AYEM News Bank, "Anthony Quinn/Kurtis"
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4X237CBS Morning News , Round Table Discussion with CBS War Correspondents, May 1985
Up to the Minute:
"Morality and the New Right" (Wallace) and "In the beginning..."(view copy), September 30, 1981
"Morality and the New Right" (Wallace) and "In the beginning..." (on-air record), October 8, 1981
"The Curse of Fatness" (Safer), "No-fault fat" (Dub from 2")
"The New Right" (Wallace), "In the Beginning...", October 6, 1981
CBS Morning News,, "VE Day plus 30 Years... Correspondents Roundtable", May 1985
Studio Discussion, "In the Beginning..."
National AIDS awareness test, September15, 1987
March 6, 1981
Prizewinning commercials
60 Minutes, Korczak and the Crazy Horse Dream
Hope Ryden talking @ Bobcats, November 1981
Morning News., "Cronkite's 1984 revisited" May 26, 1983
Morning News, Pamela Harriman dub, March 1983
Richard Nixon interviews, June 1-4, 1982
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4X238C-2 dub, World Fair
Richard Nixon interviews, first dub, June 1-4, 1982
MacNeil/Lehrer Report , "Atlanta Children", January 8, 1981
Shirley Wershba
Liz Taylor, May 6, 1986
MacNeil/Lehrer Report , "Atlanta Children", February 16, 1981
Leslie Stahl Standup
Pat Harriman; Shirley Maclaine; Rodney Dangerfield; Kitty Carlisle Hart
60 Minutes, vol. IX, #40, July 3, 1977
"Auschwitz and the Allies"
Peter Sellers obituary, July 24, 1980
Morning News, various segments
MacNeil/Lehrer , "Who Remembers Mama?", June 13, 1979
"Journalistic ethics", September 27, 1981

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Personal correspondence:

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4X239 1957-1988
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4X240 1954-1991
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4X241 1954-1993
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4X242 1985-1987
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4X243 1954-1987
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4Aa65 1961-1966, 1968
"A", 1960-1963, 1972-1975, 1978-1981
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4J531Beck, John F., postcard, January 21, 1992
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4Aa65"C", 1959-1963, 1965, 1968, 1971, 1974-1981, 1983-1984
"D", 1951-1963, 1965, 1872, 1974, 1976-1978, 1980-1981
"E", 1960, 1965, 1974, 1976-1981, 1984
"F", 1962, 1965, 1978-1981
"G", 1961-1963, 1966, 1977, 1979-1981
"I", February 19, 1974
"J", 1959, 1961-1963, 1973, 1977, 1979
"K", May 29, 1981
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4Ad101"L", 1973-1981
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4J531Loeb, Nackey Scripps, letter, April 15, 1992
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4Aa65Loeb, William, correspondence, newspaper clippings, obituaries, memorial program, 1977-198?
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4Ad101Loeb, William, 1980-1981
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4Aa65"M", 1960-1964, 1975-1976, 1979-1981
Miscellaneous, 1986, 1988, 1994, 1996, 1999
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4Ad101Miscellaneous, 1957, 1959, 1961-1962, 1966, 1972-1974, 1976-1977, 1979-1981, 1983, 2003
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4K879Miscellaneous, 1969-1970, undated

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Joseph Wershba papers:

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4X243CBS News directory; 60 Minutes directory
Miscellaneous story material
Receipts and notes, 1986
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4X244Miscellaneous printed material
Time, February 25, 1980
People, "Television's 50th anniversary issue," summer 1989
The Rebel , January 30, 1984
Confederate Veteran, ; Time cover, January/February 1986;December 1, 1980
"Hydrazine Sulfate: Unorthodox Chemotherapy", The Cancer Syndrome
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4X245Desk calendars, 1983, 1985
Transworld Airlines tickets
Newspaper articles about Max C. Hugel
The Village Times, various articles by John Horn, 1986
American Bar Association Journal, various articles 1966
Stone, David M., "A Poetic Symmetry: Nixon's War on Public Television", 1980
Collins, Larry and Dominique Lapierre, "The Remarkable Life of Andre Malraux" , Saturday Review , ; Bondy, Francois, "Paris Letter: the New Metamorphosis of the Gods", The Hudson Review, April 27, 1968spring 1968
Travel brochures and foreign currency
Brooklyn College Magazine, May 1987
Wershba family coat of arms
Artisrael in the 1980's; American Express
"The Fort Monmouth Scandal"
Polisar, Eric, "The Histrionics of Henry Adams," typed manuscript
Lomza, Poland
John P. Atgeld centenary publications
Miscellaneous printed material
[6 folders]
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4X246New York Review of Books, review of Friendship and Fratricide: An Analysis of Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss, February 23, 1967
American Jewish Congress First Amendment Awards program, 1978
Tributes to Edward R. Murrow, 1979
Prison inmate fraud schemes, newspaper clippings
Horn, John, "One Small Bugle: Columns from the Rockland Independent"
Miscellaneous printed material
[11 folders]
Miscellaneous notes
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4X247Kollek, Teddy, "Journal of a Visit to Europe and the Levant" For Jerusalem: A Life
Television Academy Hall of Fame brochure, January 1, 1984
St. Joseph Gazette, front page, November 4, 1917
Paul Sann obituaries
Electrocardiographic report for Joseph Wershba, 1976
Press passes and travel papers, 1951-1953
Interview with Morley Safer, ; proposal by Sam Wershba, 19631981
KLRN-TV, Austin, Texas, newspaper articles, 1979
Sheila M. Parker, resume
Kraus, Barbara, Carbohydrate Guide to Brand Name and Basic Foods, 1981
Cancer, Dr. Gold, printed material
Mitgang, Herbert, "Policing Americas Writers", The New Yorker, October 5, 1987
Miscellaneous printed material, 1976
Miscellaneous printed material, 1990-1993
Gulf war printed material, 1991
Miscellaneous printed material
[3 folders]
Clipboard
Photographs:
Filmstrips, undated
Edward R. Murrow
Unidentified, undated
Guy Gabaldon, Jeffery Hunter, Vic Damone, and David Janssen, 1960
Warships
Photographs from New Hampshire Sunday News
Roy Cohn
Slides, unidentified
Project files, research notes and background material:
Notebook, miscellaneous notes
Forward reviews, December 1989
Harry Golden preface, draft and notes, 1987
Newspaper and magazine articles and book reviews
"Greyhound" script, undated; Churchill, Shelley article, 1980
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4X248Editorial research reports, 1983-1987
60 Minutes, Roy Cohn story materials:
Newspaper clippings and notes
Library clips
Richard Dupont, 1979
Roy Cohn, Richard Dupont
Script drafts and notes
Interview transcripts
GIT Industries annual report
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4X24960 Minutes, "Les Miserables." (TWA/Liz Rich story), interviews, notes, correspondence, script drafts, 1988
Simon Weber materials
Lt. General F. E. Peterson, biographical sketch and photographs
Jerrold Petrofsky
60 Minutes, I. M. Pei story, script and notes
CBS Reports, "Rescue with Yul Brenner", ; See it Now, ; script, December 10, 1960March 13, 1956August 6, 1957
60 Minutes, Corporal Lindsey Scott story, , newspaper clippings and notes August 16, 1987
Herbert L. Block
60 Minutes, Madalyn Murray O'Hair
60 Minutes, Crazy Horse Memorial
Embalming, notes
CBS Reports, "The Policeman's Lot", , transcripts, press releases, and fan mail March 29, 1966
CBS Reports, "The Press and the Law," script draft
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4X250"Daddy-0 at 16+" (CBS News Alaska survey), 1948
CBS records, earning summary
Note cards
Donald E. Robinson, Jr.
Scripts, 60 Minutes transcript, April 10, 1988
Ed Bliss, correspondence and notes, 1983
Thomas H. Tattersall, story information and notes, 1983
CBS News bulletins and memos, 1964-1986
CBS Radio stationary
"A Retrospective of CBS News broadcasts", panel discussion, November 29, 1971
"Remarks by Walter Cronkite", ; "A Hour with Ed Murrow", ; Congressional Record, ; Congressional Record, May 18, 1971April 30, 1965December 15, 1971August 18, 1971
CBS News:
Memo on "The New Twisters", October 1, 1971
Perry Wolff's retrospective, May 6, 1971
Television feature news, 1950-1960
Transcripts, September 27, 1964, April 26, 1966
Newspaper articles, 1987
Reference library of recorded Winstin Churchill speeches, source, list and excerpts
Hear it Now:
Winston Churchill album:
Transcript
Second draft script, 1955
Corrected script
Proposal for Winston Churchill album, work draft of Churchill script
Transcript of Churchill recording
Reference library of Winston Churchill speeches; transcript of Churchill album
Album correspondence, 1954-1964
Second draft, "The Four Months War: A Fable for Our Time"
History in detail, 1949-1956
Income tax return, 1957
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4X251Story proposals, dope sheets for Fred Friendly, notes, 1986
60 Minutes, miscellaneous
Clippings and story ideas, 1981-1984
Miscellaneous clippings and notes
60 Minutes, bluesheets
CBS News possible stories, 1973-1974, 1978
CBS operating standards, miscellaneous printed materia, story possibilities
60 Minutes, transcripts, bluesheets and press releases
CBS News, stories
CBS News, 1986
Photographs
Paris expenses, 1986
60 Minutes, Jerry Rawlins story, transcript and newspaper clippings
United States Supreme Court, journal articles, 1984-1986
The Autobiography of William O. Douglas, , obituaries, National Archives Motion Picture, Sound and Video Branch, procedures and order records 1980
Kemner v. Monsanto trial, newspaper articles and notes, 1987
Joseph and Shirley Wershba, 38th anniversary notice, New York Times, April 10, 1986
Bliss, Ed, "If You're White and a Male, O.K.", Alger Hiss story materials
60 Minutes, Louis Kerber story, background material, 1986
60 Minutes,story possibilities and updates, 1983-1987
Rosenberg case, story material
Frances E. Kemner v. Monsanto company, exhibits and correspondence, February 22, 1984
60 Minutes, transcript of Houston trial, reels 51 to 94
60 Minutes, gun control story, background material, notes, story outline, scripts, interview transcripts, 1977
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4X252Campbell, Richard, 60 Minutes, "Mythology for Middle America," typescript
Republican National Convention directories and ballot tally sheets, 1952
Democratic National Convention directory, 1952
Notes on Democratic National Convention, 1952
Election campaign, printed material, 1952
News review, typescript, 1949-1956
"Special Convention Wrap-Up" program script, 1948
Directory of the Radio-Television Correspondent's Gallery, 1952
Graf, William, Platforms of the Two Great Political Parties, 1932-1948, 1950
Wershba, Joseph, "I Hold Here in My Hand...", See It Now, edited by Edward R. Murrow, 1955
Wershba, Joseph, John F. Kennedy series for the New York Post,outlines, letters, and interview transcripts, 1964
Sandburg film #2, proposal for IBM
CBS News standards
Notebooks
60 Minutes, notebooks
60 Minutes, "Japanese Germ Warfare During World War II", background material and notes
Blues of Depositor's Trust photographs; Gerald Clemente photograph
New York Post columns, 1958-1964
Air crash:
"1st Pure Jet in Mid-Air Crash Toll May Top Record, December 16, 1960
"Death Roared Down on Gleaming Rails," August 28, 1958
"All 60 Safe in Airliner Crash," August 28, 1958
Air travel:
"Rise in Traffic Increases Peril in Air Lanes, December 16, 1960
Abrams, Morris B., Peace Corps Official, "Not Every Southern Egghead Meets Humpty Dumpty's Fate", Closeup, April 25, 1961
Adulet, Phumiphon, "King of Thailand," Closeup, December 23, 1960
Adzhubei, Alexei I., Closeup, June 29, 1961
Aid, Rita F., Closeup, April 9, 1962
Alexander, William V. Jr., "Cleanup Man," Closeup, December 9, 1963
Alroy, Gil Carl, Closeup, June 24, 1959
Alt, Herschel, "Child Guidence Expert," Daily Closeup, undated
Ammann, Othmar H., "Bridge Designer," Closeup, August 29, 1962
Amram, David, "Composer," Closeup, August 7, 1961
Archer, Glenn L., "Watchdog of Church-State Separation," Closeup, undated
Arlen, Harold, Closeup, undated
Auerbach-Levy, William, "Artist and Teacher," Closeup, May 8, 1963
Baal-Teshuva, Jacob, "Israeli Journalist," Closeup, November 14, 1963
Banda, Hastings, Daily Closeup, April 13, 1960
Barr, Donald, Daily Closeup, October 14, 1959
Barzun, Jacques, Closeup, June 3, 1959
Battle, Samuel J., "First Negro Cop," Closeup, March 28, 1963
Baughman, U. E., "Cheif of the Secret Service," Closeup, February 23, 1960
Baxley, Barbara, Closeup, December 23, 1960
Beck, Dave, Daily Closeup, February 27, 1959
Benjamin, Robert S., Closeup, April 20, 1961
Benline, Arthur J., Closeup, January 9, 1961
Bennett, John C., "Dean of Faculty, Union Theological Seminary," Daily Closeup, February 18, 1960
Bergerman, Milton M., "Citizens Union Head," Daily Closeup, July 16, 1959
Bethe, Hans A., "Atomic Physicist," Closeup, July 12, 1961
Bilgrey, Felix J., "Censorship Foe," Closeup, March 20, 1961
Black, Hugo L., Closeup, June 27, 1962
Blackwell, James Madison, "Civic Worker," Closeup, January 12, 1961
Blough, Roger M., Daily Closeup, June 29, 1959
Blumenson, Eric, Closeup, May 2, 1962
Borowick, Ann, "Novelist," Closeup, May 1, 1963
Brothers, Dr. Joyce, Closeup, June 1, 1962
Brown, Florence G., Closeup, December 22, 1963
Brown, Harrison, "Nuclear Chemist," Closeup, November 25, 1958
Brown, Helen Gurley, Closeup, November 3, 1963
Brown, Dr. William J, "Specialist on Venereal Disease," Daily Closeup, January 12, 1960
Bryan, Judge, "Lady Chatterley's Liberator," Daily Closeup, summer 1959
Burns, James McGregor:
"Senator Kennedy - Postscripts from a Biographer," May 16, 1960
"Biographer of John F. Kennedy," March 18, 1960
Burns, John McNeil, "President, NY Young Republicans," Daily Closeup, October 6, 1959
Burstein, Judge, Closeup, September 27, 1963
Buttenwieser, Helen L., Closeup, May 28, 1962
"CBS-TV Dropping All Quiz Shows: House Probers Want to Call Nadler," 1959
Calmer, Ned, "News Broadcaster, Author," Closeup, undated
Camp, Louie T., "Teacher of the Gifted," Daily Closeup, November 1960
Canfield, Cass, "President, Planned Parenthood," Daily Closeup, January 5, 1960
Cardona, Jose Miro, "Anti-Castro Leader: A Teacher Can Fight Tyrrany with More than Free Ideas," Closeup, March 24, 1961
Carey, Phillip A. (Father), Closeup, undated
Carroll, Diahann, Closeup, December 4, 1961
Cassese, John J., "PBA President," Closeup, October 28, 1960
Cassinni, Oleg, "Fashion Designer," Closeup, May 18, 1961
Castro, Fidel, Closeup, January 2, 1959
Catherwood, Martin P., "Rockefeller's Industrial Commissioner," Daily Closeup, August 1959
Catton, Bruce, "Reporter of the Civil War," Closeup, November 5, 1961
Cavanagh, Edward F., "Fire Commissioner," Closeup, November 16, 1960
Chalk, O. Roy, Daily Closeup, April 15, 1959
Chalmers, Dr. Allan Knight, Closeup, May 22, 1960
Chevalier, Maurice, "A Song at Twilight," Closeup, February 4, 1962
Christiansen, Arthur, Closeup, February 13, 1962
Christy, Arhtur H., "Governor's Crime Counsel," Daily Closeup, undated
Chuong, Tran Van, "Mme. Nhu's Father," Closeup, October 18, 1963
Clark, Kenneth B., "CCNY Psychologist," Closeup, August 1, 1961
Cogen, Charles, "Teacher Unionist," Closeup, November 7, 1960
Cohen, Larry, "A TV Drama in Three Acts: Page Boy to Playwritght to--?", August 24, 1958
Cole, David L., Closeup, December 28, 1961
Collingwood, Charles, "Television's Critic of the Press," Closeup, October 22, 1961
Comden, Betty and Adolph Green, Daily Closeup, April 29, 1959
Connelly, Marc, Daily Closeup, March 5, 1959
"Cops Ground the `Angel' of Idlewild," August 4, 19??
Costello, William, "Author of 'Facts About Nixon'," Closeup, February 26, 1960
Costikyan, Edward N., Closeup, March 4, 1962
Cronyn, Hume, "Actor," Closeup, undated
Crum, Bartley C., "Stage Center Again," Daily Closeup, July 17, 1959
Dabbs, James M., "Southern Integrationist," Closeup, November 9, 1960
Dash, Samuel, "Author of the 'Eavesdroppers'," Daily Closeup, undated
Davidowicz, Mrs. Lucy S., "The Jewish Vote," Closeup, December 2, 1963
Davis, Ossie, Closeup, October 11, 1961
de Acosta, Mercedes, "A Lifetime Among the Stars," Daily Closeup, undated
de Havilland, Olivia, Closeup, May 19, 1963
Delacorte, Mrs. Valerie, "Peace Worker," Closeup, May 6, 1963
Dempsey, Reverend O. D., "Mayor of Harlem," Daily Closeup, January 26, 1960
Denker, Henry, Closeup, April 16, 1961
Dillman, "Harness Racing Driver," Closeup, June, October 5, 1960
DiSalle, Mike, Closeup, November 6, 1958
Dobrynin, Anatoly F., Closeup, December 29, 1961
Dock, Dr. William, Closeup, December 5, 1961
Donovan, James B., Closeup, February 12, 1962
Dooley, Dr. Tom, Closeup, May 26, 1960
Douglas, Melvyn, "People's Choice," Closeup, April 10, 1960
Dowling, Robert W., Closeup, November 4, 1958
Doyle, Frank, "The Mayor's Executive Secretary," Daily Closeup, June 5, 1959
Dryfoos, Mariam Sulzberger, "Born to the Press," Closeup, October 3, 1963
Dulles, Allen, May 10, 1960
Dumpson, James R., "Our New Welfare Commissioner," Daily Closeup, July 30, 1959
Dunne, Finley Peter, "Finley Dunne and Son," Closeup, November 13, 1963
Eichmann, Adolf, "Prisoner at the Bar," Closeup, April 9, 1961
Edelman, Mausrice, "Novelist and MP," Closeup, June 17, 1963
Eisendrath, Maurice N., "Clergyman of the Year," Daily Closeup, undated
Elath, Eliahu, Closeup, June 8, 1961
Elias, Rosalind, Closeup, October 24, 1961
Elman, Mischa, Closeup, December 5, 1958
Epermanis, Dace, Closeup, March 21, 1962
Evans, Herbert B., Closeup, August 31, 1961
Ewing, William Maurice, Closeup, March 24, 1960 [?]
Fagan, John H., Closeup, June 6, 1962
Fahey, James J., "War Diary Author," Closeup, August 12, 1963
Farrell, John H., Closeup, May 31, 1960
Faulkner, William, "The Enigma Lives On," Closeup, July 8, 1962
Felknor, Bruce L., "Clean Campaigner," Closeup, October 25, 1960
Fernald, John, "Stage Director," Closeup, September 21, 1962
Fielder, John, "The White Man in 'A Raisin in the Sun'," Daily Closeup, May 20, 1959
Forman, Carl, "Return to Hollywood," New York Post Magazine, page 2, March 11, 1962
Franklin, Esther C., "Adviser to Overseas Wives," Daily Closeup, December 23, 1959
Freund, Miriam, "Hadassah President," Daily Closeup, October 6, 1959
Friedan, Betty, "Housewife Puls," Closeup, March 14, 1963
Fromm, Erich, "A Psychoanalyst Looks at Peace," Closeup, April 22, 1962
Frondizi, Arturo, "President of Argentina," January 19, 1958
Frost, Robert, "Robert Frost's 58th Birthday Wish: 'Let U.S. Win at Every Turn'," undated
Funston, G. Keith, "President, N.Y. Stick Exchange," Daily Closeup, April 21, 1959
Gabel, Martin, Daily Closeup, February 20, 1959
Gadsby, Edward N., "SEC Chariman," Daily Closeup, September 9, 1959
Garner, Erroll, Closeup, October 1959
Garroway, Dave, "Man of 'Today'," Closeup, undated
Gaud, William S., Jr., Closeup, October 25, 1961
Gershwin, Ira, Daily Closeup, October 19, 1959
Gilpatrick, Roswell L., Closeup, January 10, 1961
Gish, Lillian, "Veteran Actress," Closeup, March 21, 1961
Gitlin, Irving, "Director of Public Affairs, CBS News," Closeup, January 23, 1959
Goldberg, Joseph, "The New Justice," Closeup, August 30, 1962
Golden, Harry, "Only in America," Daily Closeup, November 22, 1958
Golding, William, "Novelist Jeremiah," Closeup, December 17, 1963
Gordon, Albert I., "Author of 'Jews in Suburbia'," Daily Closeup, November 16, 1959
Gordon, Max, "Ace Producer," Closeup, November 11, 1963
Gosden, Freeman F., "Amos," December 2, 1958
Graff, Robert D., Closeup, June 14, 1962
Granahan, Kethryn, "Foe of Obscenity," Daily Closeup, December 8, 1959
Graves, Robert, "British Poet, Author," Closeup, June 8, 1960
Greeley, Father A. M., Closeup, March 8, 1962