Summary Information

Title: Edwin H. Newman Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1936-1974 (bulk 1965-1974)

Creator:

• Newman, Edwin H., 1919-2010

Call Number: U.S. Mss 78AF; PH 6890; Audio 536A; Disc 135A

Quantity: 9.2 cubic feet (23 archives boxes), 0.1 cubic feet of photographs (1 folder), 1 tape recording, and 2 disc recordings

Repository:

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

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

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

Abstract:

Papers of Edwin H. Newman, an author and NBC news commentator and drama critic, comprised of fan mail, annotated playbills and programs, television scripts, and transcripts. The fan mail, mainly 1963-1974, pertains to many important events of the period: Spiro Agnew's attack on the media, the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., the Vietnam War, and Watergate. Handwritten notes used in his dramatic criticism are part of a file of playbills and programs, 1968-1971. The reviews themselves are present as scripts for Eleventh Hour News and other WNBC-TV programs. In addition, there are scripts for several specials and transcripts for Speaking Freely, which Newman moderated for WNBC-TV. Guests included Birch Bayh, David Ben Gurion, James Bryant Conant, Marc Connelly, Aaron Copland, Milton Friedman, S.I. Hayakawa, Herbert G. Klein, David Lilienthal, William Manchester, Robert Moses, Wright Patman, George Reedy, Bayard Rustin, Jean Jacques Servan-Schreiber, Susan Sontag, Rod Steiger, James Stewart, Lee Strasberg, John Tower, Stewart Udall, and Roy Wilkins. Also included in the collection are clippings, speech materials, and photographs depicting Edwin Newman's freshman year at the University of Wisconsin (1936-1937).

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-us0078af

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