Part 1 (U.S. Mss 43AF): Original Collection, 1944-1965
Physical Description: 5.2 c.f. (13 archives boxes) 
Scope and Content Note: Included in the John Hightower Papers are: correspondence, 1945-1960, including a good series of letters to his wife while he was covering the Council of Foreign Ministers in Moscow, 1947, and Berlin, 1954; background information, the bulk of which is made up of confidential memoranda from press conferences of government officials such as John Foster Dulles, Averill Harriman, and George C. Marshall; notes; State Department and foreign embassy press releases; clippings of Hightower's articles; and bank statements. By far the greatest amount of material is made up of notebooks kept by Hightower on press conferences, diplomatic conferences, interviews, and trips he took to areas where major news stories were breaking. The final items in the collection are ten desk calendars, on which Hightower kept notes.

Correspondence, 1945-1960

Background information, 1944-1960, undated

Notes, 1946-1959, undated

State Department press releases, 1954-1960

Foreign embassy press releases, 1957-1959

Clippings, 1948-1960

Notebooks

1944, January 3-1948, March 26

1948, April 14-1953, January 14

1953, March 10-1955, January 15

1955, January 24-1956, August 28

1956, August 31-1958, January 15

1958, January 17-1959, September

1959, October 6-1960, November 1

1959, November 29-1961

1962-1963

1964-1965

Undated

Desk calendars, 1949-1959