Summary Information

Title: Ronald A. McCrea Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1963-1989

Creator:

• McCrea, Ronald A., 1943-

Call Number: Mss 869

Quantity: 4.6 c.f. (12 archives boxes and 1 flat box)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

Abstract:

Papers, mainly 1974-1986, of McCrea, a journalist known for his editorial work with the Madison Capital Times and the Madison Press Connection, a strike newspaper. He also worked as communications director/speechwriter for Governor Anthony S. Earl from 1983 to 1986. A complete run of annotated reading copies of Earl speeches comprise a large portion of the collection. Also included are press materials for the governor's trade mission to China including a typed diary by McCrea and a 1981 China diary by Tom Loftus; draft and printed articles and editorials by McCrea; minutes of the board of the Madison Press Connection; records pertaining to the strike against Madison Newspapers, Inc. which led to the creation of the Press Connection; records of National Labor Relations Board proceedings; miscellaneous files relating to the editorial management of the Press Connection; and clippings and correspondence documenting the public response to the Press Connection's controversial publication of hydrogen bomb information in 1979. An interview with reporter Cedric Parker is also present.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss00869

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