Part 1 (U.S. Mss 85AF; Tape 433A): Original Collection, 1953-1975
Physical Description: 5.6 c.f. (14 archives boxes) and 1 tape recording 
Scope and Content Note

The Goralski Papers, which relate solely to his broadcasting career, divide into correspondence, writings, scripts, and miscellaneous material. Radio and television scripts written for NBC between 1961 and 1975 comprise the major portion of the collection.

The small section of CORRESPONDENCE spans the period 1953 to 1970. It is divided into NBC, Committee for Free Asia, and general sections. The NBC correspondence is comprised of letters and memoranda concerning internal network policy and several off-the-record interviews. The letters and memoranda relating to the Committee for Free Asia document the implementation of Goralski's proposal for a cultural exchange via radio. The slim general correspondence file includes exchanges with the University of Nebraska and Journalism Quarterly regarding the publication of two articles. Also to be found here is a reply to several students who criticized Goralski's coverage of Madame Nhu's lecture at Fordham University in October, 1963.

The WRITINGS, 1953-1968, include speeches, articles, and an unpublished book manuscript and generally reflect Goralski's expertise in Asian affairs. Thematically, the materials written between 1953 and 1961 concern Far Eastern radio broadcasting. Also included with the writings are graduate school papers written at Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies in 1960 and 1961. One of these papers is a lengthy manuscript which examines relations between Asia and Israel. Goralski's writings while at NBC include an unpublished manuscript detailing the logistics of weekend news coverage for President Kennedy, an article published by TV Guide concerning President Johnson's poise before television cameras, three articles on Viet Nam written for the 1966-1968 Encyclopedia Brittanica Yearbooks, and an outline and two chapters for an incomplete book on Viet Nam.

The SCRIPTS, 1959-1975, were written for NBC, the Voice of America, and the U.S. Navy and are subdivided into radio and television productions; individual series are arranged alphabetically by title. Within each series the scripts are arranged chronologically.

Profiles of various American universities, news analyses, and a series based on a world tensions conference can be found in the two folders of VOA radio scripts. There is also one script written by Goralski as a Navy combat correspondent which was aired over Time for Defense, a commercially broadcast Defense Department program.

The NBC radio scripts, 1961-1975, are the heart of the collection. News on the Hour, the five minute program broadcast many times each day, was Goralski's most frequent assignment, and his scripts for this program are the most extensive group of reports in the collection. Most of Goralski's accounts of the Viet Nam war which were written during his trips in 1965 and 1968 are filed in this section. News scripts for Monitor, NBC's weekend programming, document another important Goralski responsibility. There are also scripts pertaining to his stints as host of Today in Washington and World News Roundup, NBC's early morning report. The single Brinkley report folder contains the text of radio programs in which Goralski substituted for David Brinkley between 1968 and 1975.

Programs such as Weekend Report, News in Depth, World of Washington, The War Today, and News of the World, the program for which Morgan Beatty was editor and principal commentator, represented infrequent assignments; consequently only a few scripts from these programs are to be found in the collection. Three short scripts concerning Green Beret war crimes, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird's first news conference, and the 1968 Tet offensive comprise the Radio Hotline material. Goralski's personal observations are recorded in the scripts from Emphasis, a program designed to dispense with some strictures of conventional reporting. Also represented is his participation in two segments of Second Sunday, the award-winning documentary series. A diversity of topics ranging from Algeria to Viet Nam is contained in the folder of special reports. The miscellaneous radio scripts file contains items for which the program format could not be identified.

Many of the events touched on in the radio scripts may also be found with television scripts. The majority of these pertain to the Huntley-Brinkley Report, its successor Nightly News, and Today. There are also scripts from the Day Report and Afternoon Report, which Goralski occasionally anchored between 1962 and 1965, and Morning Report. Also available are the five-minute news updates broadcast at various times during the day. The material from Saturday Report, Sunday Report, Congressional Report, Washington Report, Eleventh Hour News, Frank McGee's Saturday and Sunday Reports, and Situation Reports represents only sporadic contributions, as do the infrequent syndicated reports. The collection contains two transcripts from Meet the Press programs on which Goralski was a panel member. Within the Huntley-Brinkley material, are some scripts entitled “Viet Nam, 1968,” which are of interest because of the notations on production, background, and editorial concerns. In correspondence with the Society, Goralski commented that although they were primarily prepared for Huntley-Brinkley, some were also broadcast on Today.

The Goralski papers include scripts from many special television news programs that he worked on during his years with NBC. Of primary interest is an NBC White Paper program, “United States Foreign Policy,” a report on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee inquiry into Communist China. A folder of assorted special reports includes scripts on such significant events as James Meredith's enrollment at the University of Mississippi in 1962, various national elections, Robert Kennedy's assassination, and Watergate. Only two television interrupts, one concerning President Nixon's final report on Cambodia and the other announcing Senate ratification of the Cooper-Church amendment, are available in the collection. The last folder of the television news reports contains unidentified television scripts. There is also one folder of scripts for which the media could not be identified.

The MISCELLANEOUS MATERIAL, 1971-1973, consists chiefly of reference material collected by Goralski during the course of his association with NBC. This material consists of such things as cables, press releases, network instructions, and various kinds of printed matter pertaining to subjects such as the 1967 Middle East war, the Pentagon Peace March, Lynda Johnson's White House wedding, the Eisenhower funeral, and the Pueblo affair. The majority of this section, however, consists of Radio-TV Defense Dialogs, which are summaries of media reports on military subjects prepared by the Department of Defense. Although many newscasters are covered, the collection only contains those dates on which Goralski was mentioned.

The collection is supplemented by one TAPE, a Polish Voice of America broadcast, which includes biographical information and a discussion of the profession of journalism and freedom of the press in the United States.

Series: Correspondence

NBC Memoranda and Interdepartmental Correspondence, 1960-1970

Committee for Free Asia Correspondence

1953, February-August

1953, September-1954, March

General, 1959, December-1960, September

Series: Writings

1953-1960

1961, February

1961-1968

Series: Scripts

U.S. Navy, Time for Defense, 1952

Voice of America

1959, March-December

1960, January-June

NBC Radio

David Brinkley's Comment on the News, 1968-1975

Emphasis , 1961-1975

Miscellaneous Radio Scripts, 1964-1975

Monitor, 1961-1972

News in Depth, 1962

News of the World, 1962-1969

News on the Hour

1962, May-1965, November

1966-1969, April

1969, May-1970, July

1970, August-1972, March

1972, April-September; 1974, April 16

Radio Hotline,1968-1969

Second Sunday, undated

Special Reports, 1961-1971

Today in Washington, 1961-1969

The War Today, 1968

Weekend Report, 1961-1968

World News Roundup

1961-1963

1964-1972

World of Washington, 1970

NBC Television

Afternoon Report, 1962-1969

Congressional Report, 1969

Day Report, 1963; 1967

Eleventh Hour News, (WNBC), 1962-1972

Frank McGee's Saturday/Sunday Reports, 1967-1968

Huntley-Brinkley Report, 1963-1970

Interrupts, 1970

Meet the Press, 1967; 1969

Miscellaneous TV Scripts, 1963-1975

Morning Report, 1968; 1970

Nightly News, 1970-1975

Saturday Report, 1962-1970

Situation Reports, 1962-1970

Special Reports

1962-1965

1966-1975

NBC White Paper, “United States Foreign Policy,” 1965, September 7

Projection '70, 1969

Sunday Report

“The Personal Story of David Fellin,” 1963, September 1

1965

Syndication, 1963-1974

Today, 1962-1975

Washington Report, 1967-1969

Miscellaneous Scripts, 1952-1968

Series: Miscellaneous Material

Background Information

Middle East War, 1967

Pentagon Peace March, 1967

Miscellany, 1961-1973

Radio-TV Defense Dialogs

1966, March-1968, July

1968, November-1969, April

1969, May-1970, March

Series: Audio Recording

Polish Voice of America Interview, undated