urn:taro:utexas.cah.00391 A Guide to the Scheffler (Philip) Papers, 1955-2004 Dolph Briscoe Center for American History Original EAD encoding by Jessica Tucker according to TARO 2 EAD 2002 Editing Instructions. February 2005 Finding aid written in English. Descriptive Summary Scheffler, Philip Scheffler (Philip) Papers 1995-2004 33 ft., 9 in. Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin Materials are in English. The Philip Scheffler Papers span 1955-2004, and contain research and editing records, such as interview transcripts, show scripts, expense itemizations, and professional correspondence for news broadcasts and documentaries Scheffler produced for the CBS Corporation. Biographical Note

Philip Scheffler was born in New York City in 1930, and graduated from the City College of New York in 1950. After that, he attended Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Scheffler began working for the CBS Corporation, first as a copy boy for a news program, and then for "CBS Evening News", as a writer, reporter, and editor, in 1951. In 1964, Scheffler began to produce documentaries and special news broadcasts. He was appointed producer of "60 Minutes" in 1971, and later promoted to senior producer in 1980.

The newscasts Scheffler produced have received several awards, including the Emmy, Peabody, and Columbia-duPont awards. Individually, Scheffler has received the Alumni Award from Columiba University Graduate School of Journalism (1981) and the Townshend Harris Medal, awarded by the City College of New York (1997) for post-graduate achievement. Scheffler retired in 2003, after over fifty years of working with the CBS Corporation. He is married to Dr. Linda Weingarten Scheffler.

Scope and Contents

The Philip Scheffler Papers span 1955-2004, and contain research and editing records, interview transcripts, show scripts, expense itemizations, speeches, and professional correspondence for news broadcasts and documentaries Scheffler produced for the CBS Corporation. The records include Scheffler's work on the popular news program "60 Minutes" from 1971-2003 and are from shows Scheffler personally produced. Other "60 Minutes" related records include legal correspondence and memoranda from 1997-2002 and show logs from 1968-1999. Also included are files relating to unaired programs about the tobacco industry. The files span 1989-1996 and include research materials and interview transcript for a story about Jeffrey Wigand, the former vice president of Brown and Williamson Tobacco Company who exposed the company's practice of not disclosing the health risks of cigarettes. The Scheffler papers also contain a small amount of personal correspondence, some professional memos, and audiovisial materials from selected CBS news pieces.

Index Terms Subjects (Persons) Scheffler, Philip Subjects Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. 60 Minutes (television program) Broadcast journalism -- United States CBS Evening News (television program) Preferred Citation

Scheffler (Philip) Papers, 1955-2004, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin

Detailed Description of the Papers Inventory 2M449 Strategic Petroleum Oil Reserve, 1980 2M449 John B. Connally, 1979 2M449 Palmer Drug Abuse Program (PDAP), 1980 2M450 Lawrence Burton, 1979-1980 2M450 "Petro Pesos" - Mexican Oil, 1979 2M450 "In the Mainstream" (education for handicapped children and the Bady family), 1978-1979 2M450 Backgammon, 1978 2M451 Farm for Sale, 1978 2M451 General Accounting Office (GAO), 1979 2M451 Barbara Jordan #2, 1979 2M451 You Bet - Gambling, 1978 2M451 Charge Debt, 1971 2M452 Laetrile drug update, 1977 2M452 America's Cup, 1977 2M452 "No Kids Allowed" (discrimination against families with children in rental housing), 1978 2M452 Cliff Alexander, volunteer army (unused), 1977 2M453 "Now Hear This" (navy hospitals), 1977 2M453 "Treasure Hunt" (White Sands gold), 1977 2M453 Barbara Jordan, 1976 2M453 Azores, 1976 2M453 CBS reports - Cuba postscript, 1976 2M454 Robert L.F. Sikes, House of Representatives, 1975-1976 2M455 Cancer cure, 1973 2M455 Steel workers, 1976 2M455 "None of Your Damned Business" (Privacy Act), 1977 2M455 "Juvenile Judge" (juvenile delinquency), 1977 2M456 Real "Miss Jane Pittman" (Lulu Sandler Craig), 1974 2M456 Reverend Sun Myung Moon, 1974 2M456 Ford, Environmental Protection Agency, Clean Cars, 1972 2M456 Cubans, 1974 2M457 Social security, 1975 2M457 Backache, 1975 2M457 Heroin in New York City, 1972 2M457 "Vox Pop" (Rockefeller town meeting), 1972 2M457 Food additives, 1972-1973 2M458 Privacy Act - responses ("None of Your Damned Business"), 1976-1977 2M458 "City of the Future" (Mexico City, Mexico), 1982 2M458 Transsexuals (not produced), 1979 2M458 WWMCCS ("Wimex"), World Wide Military Command and Control System, 1979 2M459 Jack Anderson, 1972 2M459 Nixon in China, 1972 2M459 Microwaves, 1971 2M459 Homosexuals, 1971-1973 2M459 Vietnam, 1966-1971 2M459 ARVN, Army of the Republic of Vietnam, 1961, 1965, 1972 2M460 Agriculture, 1971-1972 2M460 Alabama, 1965-1966 2M460 "Who Pays for Politics?" (campaign finance), 1966 2M460 Warren RPT. (total pieces received) show letters, 1967 2M460 Robert F. Kennedy project (biographical report), 1968-1969 2M460 Vietnam, 1967-1974 2M460 Wall Street, 1968 2M460 Welfare, 1971 2M460 William Manchester book (Death of a President), 1966 2M46 Youth (teenagers), 1965 2M460 Zapruder film (Life magazine), 1967 2M460 Album (year-end review of important events in 1968), 1968 2M460 California governor race (Ronald Regan), 1966 2M460 CUSJI (Columbia University School of Journalism) newsletter, 1965 2M460 Czech special (materials for a broadcast on Czechoslovakia), 1968 2M460 Hughes Rudd Moscow, 1966 2M460 Robert F. Kennedy exiles (loyal opposition within the Democratic party during the Johnson administration), 1966 2M460 MJQ (Modern Jazz Quartet), 1971 2M460 Negro GI's (African-American soldiers in Vietnam), 1967 2M460 Nixon transition, 1968 2M460 Olympics, 1972 2M460 Powers, Francis, 1969-1970 2M460 Redistricting, 1971 2M460 Reserves and the National Guard, 1967 2M460 Rock 'n' Roll (Alice Cooper and Three Dog Night), 1971-1972 2M460 Russians in Eastern Europe, 1968 2M460 Russians in the Mediterranean, 1967-1968 2M460 School tax, 1971 2M460 Sukarno, 1965-1966 2M460 Thailand, 1965 2M460 Tonkin Gulf, 1967 2M460 Unions, 1966 2M460 Product liability, 1976-1977 2M460 Product liability: my report, 1976 2M461 Philip Scheffler 2M461 Business correspondence, 1996-2004 2M461 Phil /Walt/Frank Needles, 2001 2M461 Legal, 2002 2M461 Internet seminar, 2000 2M461 Personal, 2002 2M461 Producers' correspondence, 2001 2M461 Retirement, 2003 2M461 Seattle unemployment, 1972 2M461 "After Attica" (Attica Correctional Facility), 1971 2M461 India-Pakistan, 1971 2M461 POW (prisoners of war, I and II), 1971-1972 2M461 B-52, 1972 2M461 Oakland police department, 1971 2M461 Hanoi, 1972 2M461 Propaganda war, 1973 2M462 Show log volumes 2M462 Volumes 1-15, 1968-1983 2M462 Volumes 16-31, 1968-1999 2M462 "The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy as broadcast over the CBS television network" (3 copies), November 22, 1963 2M462 Earl Lauer Butz, 1971 2M462 California prisons, 1971 2M462 Cambodia 2M462 CBS library, 1970 2M462 Novik film, 1973 2M462 Refugees, 1971 2M462 CBS news survey (graphics), Nixon-Wallace-Humphrey 2M462 Clifford Irving, 1972 2M462 CIA, 1966 2M462 Dallas police, 1970-1971 2M462 East-west Berlin, 1979 2M462 EMK (Edward Moore Kennedy), 1972 2M462 Gems (theft of the Star of India and the Delong ruby), 1964-1965 2M462 Gold and international exchange, 1968 2M462 Guam, 1967 2M462 High schools, 1965 2M462 Japan, 1971 2M462 Jay Rockefeller, 1972 2M462 Jews and negroes (B'nai B'rith Anti-Defammation League) 2M462 John Birch society, 1965 2M462 LSD, 1966 2M462 Mars, 1971 2M462 Metric (proposed adoption of the metric system in the U.S.), 1971 2M462 Mexico voting, 1972 2M462 Tobacco, 1995-1996 2M462 Passing the Torch, 1981 2M462 Setting the Stage, 1981 4Aa56 Jeffrey Wigand story files 4Aa56 Confidential agreement, etc., 1989-1994 4Aa56 Fire safe cigarette, 1994 4Aa56 Nicotine patches delivery services 4Aa56 Merell Williams, 1995 4Aa56 Business cards, n.d. 4Aa56 Brown and Williamson letters to Jeffrey Wigand, 1995 4Aa56 American Council on Science and Health pamphlet, 1992 4Aa56 Kendrick Wells documents, 1978-1995 4Aa56 FOIA request, 1994 4Aa56 Heard, 1995 4Aa56 Chairman of Committee, re: Wigand, 1995 4Aa56 Brown and Williamson interview, Mike notes, n.d. 4Aa56 Brown and Williamson , guinea pig, 1993-1995? 4Aa56 Brown and Williamson and Associated Film Promotions, n.d. 4Aa56 Jeffret Wigand misconduct, 1996 4Aa56 Miscellaneous notes, 1996 4Aa56 Scanlon info notes, n.d. 4Aa56 Pulls, Lecretia, n.d. 4Aa56 CBS Evening News tobacco file, 1992-1996 4Aa56 Death threat, 1996 4Aa56 Sandefur additives, 1996 4Aa56 Leaf blenders handbook, 1991 4Aa56 Transcript of pretrial deposition of Jeffrey Wigand, 1996 4Aa56 Clips before November 1995, 1994-1995 4Aa56 Department of Justice depositon of Jeffrey Wigand, 1996 4Aa56 Performance appraisals, 1989-1991 4Aa56 Clips, 1995-1996 4Aa56 CBS Evening News transcript, 1996 4Aa56 Acrolein, n.d. 4Aa56 Impact boosting, 1994 4Aa56 Wigand resumes to Lowell Bergman, 1994 4Aa56 Brown and Williamson letter (J. Fox DeMoisey), 1995 4Aa56 New Orleans, 1996 4Aa56 Brown and Williamson vs. Jeffrey Wigand, 1995 4Aa56 Brown and Williamson vs. Jeffrey Wigand, 1993 4Aa56 Tobacco Litigation: A Guide to the Players 1996 4Aa56 News articles, 1995-1996 4Aa56 "Reconstituted ('Sheet') Tobaccos: A Review of Processes, Product Properties and Future Potential", February 1993 4Aa56 Index, n.d. 4Aa56 Philip Morris Companies, Inc. vs. American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., 1994-1995 4Aa56 Kendrick Wells documents, 1996 4Aa56 Coumain documents, 1984-1996 4Aa56 CD-ROM, 1995 4Aa56 Interview transcripts, n.d. 4Aa56 "Reconstituted ('Sheet') Tobacco: A Review of Process, Product, Properties and Future Potential", February 1993 4Aa56 JeffreyWigand Brown and Williamson evaluation highlights, 1991 4Aa56 Kearney vs. Philip Morris, Inc. Affidavit of Jeffrey Wigand, 1989-1994 4Aa56 Brown and Williamson, Wigand notes, n.d. 4Aa56 Wigand transcript, documents regarding transdermal nicotine patches, laboratory notes, n.d. 4Aa56 Philip Morris, Inc. vs. ABC, Inc., Brown and Williamson memoranda, 1991-1996 4Aa56 Transcript of Hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Subcommittee on Health and the Enviroment, Subject: Nicotine and Cigarettes, 1994 4Aa56 CBS memoranda, 1995 4Aa56 "The Nation", January 1996 4Aa56 Correspondence, 1995 4Aa56 "60 Minutes" bluesheet, documents regarding Jeffrey Wigand, 1991-1996 4Aa56 Research documents regarding cigarettes and fires, 1992-1994 4Aa56 Newsclippings, 1995-1996 4Aa56 "Hillstreet News", 1989 4Aa56 Brown and Williamson Annual Review, 1992 4Aa57 Personal address and note books, n.d. 4Aa57 Calendars, 1957-1997 4Aa57 Expense Reports 4Aa57 August 21, 1959-February 1960 4Aa57 June 22, 1960 - July 20, 1961 4Aa57 September 6, 1961 - March 22, 1963 4Aa57 March 22, 1963 - January 9, 1964 4Aa57 January 10, 1964 - February 1, 1965 4Aa57 February 2, 1965 - October 26, 1965 4Aa57 November 3, 1965 - November 19, 1969 4Aa57 December 4, 1969 - June 21, 1971 4Aa57 September 14, 1971 - December 1, 1972 4Aa57 To February 14, 1974 4Aa57 February 5, 1974 - October 31, 1974 4Aa57 November 1, 1974 - February 14, 1975 4Aa57 February 18, 1975 - June 30, 1975 4Aa57 September 10, 1975 - January 28, 1976 4Aa57 To May 6, 1976 4Aa57 1977 4Aa57 1978 4Aa57 1979 4Aa57 1980 4Aa57 1981 4Aa57 1982 4Aa57 1983 4Aa57 1984 4Aa57 1985 4Aa57 1988 4Aa57 1998 4Aa57 1999 4Aa58 Philip Scheffler 4Aa58 1960-1962 4Aa58 1963-1964 4Aa58 1965-1966 4Aa58 Philip Scheffler story notebooks, 1969-1987, n.d. 4Aa59 CBS memoranda and correspondence, 1968, 1987 4Aa59 Personal correspondence, 1999-2001 4Aa59 CBS memoranda and correspondence, 1986-1987 4Aa59 CBS legal department internal correspondence, 1999-2001 4Aa59 CBS correspondence, 1999 4Aa59 CBS internatl correspondence, 2000 4Aa59 Outside legal correspondence, 1999-2000 4Aa59 Scheffler work files 4Aa59 1993 4Aa59 1994 4Aa59 1995 4Aa60 Philip Scheffler broadcast transcripts, 1967 4Aa60 Pond, 1994 4Aa60 Sirhan, 1994 4Aa60 SIDS, 1995 4Aa60 Scheffler work files 4Aa60 1995 4Aa60 1996 4Aa60 1997 4Aa60 1998 4Aa61 Scheffler correspondence, 1969-1970 4Aa61 Scheffler memos from Leiser, 1969 4Aa61 Scheffler memos-in (general), 1969 4Aa61 Scheffler memos-out (from Scheffler), 1969 4Aa61 Scheffler miscellaneous 4Aa61 1970 4Aa61 Boat charters, 1969 4Aa61 Scheffler personal, 4Aa61 CBS benefits, 1970 4Aa61 Scheffler memos-in, 1971 4Aa61 Scheffler personal, 4Aa61 Contacts, n.d. 4Aa61 Elections, 1972 4Aa61 Scheffler correspondence, 1971 4Aa61 Scheffler expense reports, 1969-1970 4Aa61 Scheffler petty cash, 1969-1970 4Aa61 Personal CBS benefits, 1972 4Aa61 Scheffler camera equipment, 1972 4Aa61 Philip Scheffler Saigon expenses, 1970 4Aa61 Passport, 1971 4Aa61 Scheffler memos-in, 1971 4Aa61 Scheffler expense reports, 1971 4Aa61 Correspondence, 1972-1975 4Aa61 Petty cash, 1972-1973 4Aa61 Expense reports, 1972-1973 4Aa61 Memos-out, 1972-1973 4Aa61 Memos-in, 1972-1973 4Aa61 Telegrams, 1972-1973 4Aa61 Scheffler work files, 4Aa61 1984 4Aa61 1985 4Aa61 1985-1986 4Aa62 Scheffler Correspondence 4Aa62 1973 4Aa62 1980 4Aa62 1981 4Aa62 Council of Bishops Speech, 1981 4Aa62 1982 4Aa62 1983 4Aa62 Scheffler work files 4Aa62 1991 4Aa62 1992 4Aa62 1993 4Aa63 Scheffler legal file, 1985-1995 4Aa63 Scheffler broadcast transcripts, 1968 4Aa63 Scheffler work files, 1995 4Aa64 Scheffler, "60 Minutes" legal files, 1980-1988 2.325/F89a KGB, CIA, Warrne Commission, Garrison Report, 1967-2000 2.325/F89a Expense account 2.325/F89a Reports, 1987-1996 2.325/F89a Paris, November 1990 2.325/F89a London, 1990 2.325/F89a Sindoma, 1978-1982 2.325/F89a Subotink article, 1990 2.325/F89a Hamas project, 1994-1995 2.325/F89a Speech, 1991 2.325/F89a Photographic material, 1979? 2.325/F89a Emmy, 2003 2.325/F89a Dan Rather remarks, Radio and Television News Director Association, 1993 1993 2.325/F89a Essex Yacht Club speech, October 1, 1993 2.325/F89a Sundsvall speech, 1992 2.325/F89a Norway, 1992-1993 2.325/F89a Foundation for American Communication speech, 1982-1983 2.325/F89a Nayirah, 1992 2.325/F89a Essex Library, 1985 2.325/F89a CBS News Standards, 1999 2.325/F89a House Report No. 94-1364. In the matter of a complain against Representative Robert L.F.. Sikes, Report by the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct together with Minority Views, 1976 2.325/F89b Observation Post, April 18, 1950 2.325/F89b Awards, 1972-1980 2.325/F89b Mule, 1998 2.325/F89b Alzheimer's Disease, Steve Sheppard, 1996 2.325/F89b Saddam, 19963 2.325/F89b AVIS, 2.325/F89b Martin Luther King, 1994-1995 2.325/F89b Nutrasweet, 1996 2.325/F89b CBS-Viacom merger information, 2000 2.325/F89b Biographies, 2000-2003 2.325/F89b Freelanders and $, 2001 2.325/F89b Les Midgley, n.d. 2.325/F89b Howard Stringer tribute, n.d. 2.325/F89b Grand Valley College, 1974 2.325/F89b Scheffler, bio, lectures, 1981 2.325/F89b "60 Minutes", 1971 2.325/F89b Future pgm ideas, 1969-1970 2.325/F89b Mexico City fiasco, 1960 2.325/F89b Personal stuff, 1955-1960 2.325/F89b Matusow, 1955-1960 2.325/F89b The Far East American, June 8, 1962 2.325/F89b World News Roundup general, 1956 2.325/F89b "60 Minutes", 1968-1998 2.325/F89b "60 Minutes" blue sheets, 1996-1997 2.325/F89b "Death in Peshawar" by Leslie Cockburn, "60 Minutes" (death of Carlos Mavroleon), 1998 2.325/F89b "CBS News Coverage of Election Night: 2000: Investigaion, Analysis, Recommendations", January 2001 2.325/F89b Lisa Marantos, 1998 2.325/F89b Fred W. Friendly Professor of Media and Society [application correspondence], 1998 2.325/F89b Mississippi, NAACP report on military mistreatment in the Army, 1999 2.325/F89b Council on Foreign Relations, 1997-2000 2.325/F89b Ralph Edward Grizzle, 1997-1999 2.325/F89b Westinghouse, 1995-1997 2.325/F89b London, Botero Project, 1999 2.325/F89b Charles Lewis, 1996-1999 2.325/F89b Marecek, 1999 2.325/F89b Duke, 1999 2.325/F89b Washington, D.C., 2000 2.325/F89b Sig Mickelson, 1999-2001 2.325/F89b Barcelona, 1993 2.325/F89b LA- Mexico, 2003 2.325/F89b London - Rome, 2000 2.325/F89b London, 2002 2.325/F89b Ethics, 1980-1981 2.325/F89b Essex, April 16, 1985 2.325/F89b Italy Articles, 1994 2.325/F89b Duke conference, 1992 2.325/F89b Times, op-ed, Teddy White, 1986 2.325/F89b Victorio Peak, 1990 2.325/F89b Davies project, 1988 2.325/F89b Yamashita's Gold, 1991 2.325/F89b Speeches, 1983-1991 3W104 VHS 3W104 "60 Minutes" 3W104 America's Cup, n.d. 3W104 Heroin, 1972 3W104 Car Talk, n.d. 3W104 Prisons, n.d. 3W104 "Tobaccos I & II", 1996 3W104 "None of Your Damned Business", n.d. 3W104 "Women in the Army", n.d. 3W104 "A Matter of Ethics", March 28, 1976 3W104 End Piece, November 12, 1995 3W104 "Eyewitness" 3W104 1962-1963 3W104 "Crisis in Korea", n.d. 3W104 "Eyewitness to History, Bossa Nova", December 28, 1962 3W104 "The New Beat, Bossa Nova", December 28, 1962 3W104 News and Documentary Emmy Night, "60 Minutes" Lifetime Achievement, September 3, 2003 3W104 "Cronkite Remembers", n.d. 3W104 Randolph, Texas, 1957 3W104 CBS Reports," Robert F. Kennedy", n.d. 3W104 ABC: Kennedy, n.d. 3W104 CBS News, 3 pieces, Phil Scheffler interviewing, 1955 3W104 Adam Scheffler resume tape, n.d. 3W104 "CBS News 50th Anniversary Special", n.d. 3W104 "Sig Michelson Memorial", n.d. 3W104 "CBS Sunday Morning: A Tribute to Charles Juralt", July 6, 1997 3W104 "Algeria On Its Own", n.d. 3W104 [Unidentified VHS tape], n.d. 3W104 Betamax 3W104 "Eyewitness to History, Bassa Nova", December 28, 1962 3W104 "Veteran's Day Plus 20 Years", May 8, 1965 3W104 "Straight Talk", June 21, 1984 3W104 U-matic 3W104 "60 Mintues" 3W104 "Behind the Scenes with 60 Minutes", n.d. 3W104 "The Establishment vs. Dr. Burns", May 1m 1985 3W104 "Big John", December 30, 1979 3U41 Photographs 3U41 Vietnam 3U41 1967-1971 3U41 1967-1971 3U41 n.d. 3U41 Philip Scheffler, Dan Ratehr and Elmer Staats, Government Accountability Office, 1979 3U41 Jerusalem, 1984 3U41 Various proof sheets and loose negs, n.d. 3U41 1972 or 1976 convention 3U41 America's Cup, Newport, Rhode Island, 1977 3U41 "Uncle Sam Wants You", 1975 3U41 Lifetime Achievement Emmy, [2003] 3U41 Inaugural Ball, 1961 3U41 National School Bell Award to Scheffler, 1965 3U41 "Cubans in Miami", "60 Minutes", n.d. 3U41 John F. Kennedy, color prints, n.d. 3U41 Dan Rather/Philip Scheffler, Mexico, 1975-1980 3U41 Barbara Jordan in Congress, 1976 3U41 Nixon resigns, Ford sworn in, 1974 3U41 Party, undated 3U41 Korea, 1963 3U41 Toyko, Youth International, ca. 1962 3U41 Korea and Japan, ca. 1962-1963 3U41 Assorted photographs, 1976, undated 3U41 Photos, undated [2 folders] 3S310 Photographic Materials/Photoslides 3S310 Japan, GG[?] Youth International, ca. 1962 3S310 Fred Harris, [1973], n.d. 3S310 Memorial Hospital, 1973 3S310 Ruckelshaus, 1973 3So100 Photographic prints, n.d. 3So100 Award certificate, 1964 2.325/M98-100 Manuscript material, books, film, videotape (unprocessed) [2006-008] 3P285 Manuscript material (unprocessed) [2006-190] 3P287 Manuscript material (unprocessed) [2006-190] 3P288 Manuscript material (unprocessed) [2006-190]