Missing Gerald Blaine transcript/ William Manchester papers+ Behn and Roberts, etc

Missing Gerald Blaine transcript/ William Manchester papers+ Behn and Roberts, etc


"Vince,

I don’t know why there is no transcript of the Blaine interview, but I’m not sure you can make much out of this. Everything that is in the Manchester papers is listed in the finding aid. As you can see from the finding aid, the transcripts are arranged chronologically. It appears that Manchester did the bulk of his interviews in 1964 and then did additional interviews in 1965. The 1964 transcripts seem to have been created much more systematically than those in 1965. As far as I can tell, Manchester appears to have saved everything related to his projects. If there is no transcript for a particular interview, it would seem that it either somehow got lost or misplaced (for example, over the course of his career, Manchester repeatedly consulted his Death of a President papers and it wouldn’t surprise me if a document did not find its way back to the collection) or there was no transcript created in the first place. I read the acknowledgements in One Brief Shining Moment and took a look at the papers listed in the finding aid for this book. It does not appear to me that he contacted (again) all of these people for OBSM, but rather, he was acknowledging people who had previously helped him at one time or another that may have contributed to his thinking about the new book.

The transcripts relating to Gerald Behn and Emory Roberts are restricted until 2067.

Best,

Leith

Leith Johnson

University Archivist

Special Collections & Archives

Olin Library

Wesleyan University"

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FROM

http://www.wesleyan.edu/libr/schome/FAs/ma1000-169.xml

1-2				Interviews and sources, 1964
	3-4				Index of interviews (alphabetical), 1965
	5-6				Index of interviews (chronological), 1965
							Alphabetical and chronological indexes are not comprehensive of all interviews conducted.
					Interview transcripts, numbered set 1
							These files consist primarily of transcripts of interviews. Other files contain document transcriptions or summaries and the personal observations of WM. Restricted materials have been removed. ------------- **Foster, Bob, p. 835-39 [restricted], 1964 Nov 18 ; **Hill, Clinton, p. 840-48 [restricted], 1964 Nov 11; **Jack Warner; **Greer, Bill, p. 850-52 [restricted], 1964 Nov 19 ; **Johns, Lem, p. 853-58 [restricted], 1964 Nov 19; **Behn, Gerald, p. 869-871 [restricted], 1964 Dec 18 ; **Wells, Thomas, p. 872-79 [restricted], 1964 Dec 18 ; **Roberts, Emory, p. 881-84 [restricted], 1964 Dec 4 ; **Kinney, Sam, 1965 Feb 19 ; **George McNally [former Secret Service agent; head of WHCA]; **Wilson, Frank [former Chief of Secret Service]; **Fowler, Henry [Treasury official]; **Dillon, C. Douglas [Sec of Treasury]; **Burrell Peterson [Inspector];  **Forrest Sorrels; **Kelley, Thomas [Inspector]; **Lawson, Winston, from the testimony of, p. 800-01, undated ; **O'Leary, John [Mugssy], p. 811-13 [restricted], 1964 Nov 10 ; **Kellerman, Roy, p. 820-27 [restricted], 1964 Nov 17 ; **Youngblood, Rufus, p. 829-34 [restricted], 1964 Nov 17 ;