Title: Robert Rogers Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1961-1988

Creator:

• Rogers, Robert, 1931-1989

Call Number: M95-241; M97-029; AE 678; AE 693-697; CD 099-108; CD 112-113; CD 115-118; CD 136-152; DG 254-258; DG 260; DG 262; FH 369-370; FH 373-387

Quantity: 6.6 cubic feet (6 records center cartons and 2 archives boxes), 63 film reels, and 310 transparencies (1 binder)

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 NBC producer and writer Robert "Bob" Rogers documenting his career and the television documentary projects on which he worked. The collection provides information on the process of making television documentaries, and the interaction between producer and network in decision making. The topics covered by Rogers include CIA activities in developing countries, the political situation in Israel and South Africa, presidential candidates, marijuana use, and Latin America, particularly El Salvador. Later additions to the collection include copies of some of Rogers’ films and color transparencies related to film projects in the Middle East, Pakistan, and Laos.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-m95241

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This collection was received in multiple parts from the donor(s) and is organized into 2 major parts. These materials have not been physically interfiled and researchers might need to consult more than one part to locate similar materials.

• Part 1 (M95-241): Original Collection, 1961-1988
• Part 2 (M97-029 and films): Additions, 1961-1988

Acquisition Information

Presented by Elizabeth B. Rogers, Bethesda, Maryland. Accession Number: M95-241, M97-029

M95-241	Part 1 (M95-241): Original Collection, 1961-1988 Physical Description: 6.6 cubic feet (6 records center cartons and 2 archives boxes)  Scope and Content Note: Papers of NBC producer and writer Bob Rogers documenting his career and the television documentary projects on which he worked beginning in 1961 when a free-lance writer for NBC's “David Brinkley's Journal.” The collection also provides information on the making of television documentaries from selecting a topic to getting the final version to the studio, and shows the interaction between producer and network in deciding the perspective and depths of a documentary. The topics covered by Rogers include CIA activities in developing countries, the political situation in Israel and South Africa, presidential candidates, marijuana use, and Latin America, particularly El Salvador. Included in the project files (which are arranged chronologically) are scripts, notes, background material, budgets, interview transcripts, correspondence, memoranda, and schedules. Some of those interviewed by Rogers include Yasser Arafat, Chief M. Buthelezi, Senator Daniel P. Moynihan, Ruben Zamora, Roberto D'Abuisson, the Shah of Iran, Vladimir Sakharov, Jose Napoleon Duarte, Father Cortina, Secretary of State George Schultz, and Senator Walter F. Mondale.
	Project Files, 1961-1974
Box   1 Folder   1-6	Brinkley's Journal, 1961-1963
Box   1 Folder   7	Vietnam, 1964
Box   1 Folder   8-9	Middle East, 1970 Note: Includes interviews with Yasser Arafat and Abo Daud.
Box   1 Folder   10-12	C.I.A., 1970
Box   1 Folder   13-4	Laos, 197?
Box   1 Folder   15	East Pakistan, 1971
Box   1 Folder   16	Chile, 1971
Box   1 Folder   17-8	Children of God, 1972
Box   1 Folder   19	Social science research, 1972
Box   1 Folder   20	Diploma mills, 1973
Box   1 Folder   21	Black September, 1973
Box   1 Folder   22	C.I.A research, 1973-1974
Box   1 Folder   23-4	Iran, 1974 Note: Includes interview with the Shah.
	Project Files, 1974-1978
Box   2 Folder   1	Panama, 1974
Box   2 Folder   2	Africa, 1974
Box   2 Folder   3	Mozambique, 1974
Box   2 Folder   4	C.I.A., 1975
Box   2 Folder   5-6	Foreign policy, 1975
Box   2 Folder   7	Trip to Oman, 1975
Box   2 Folder   8-9	Laos, 1975
Box   2 Folder   10-16	South Africa, 1977 Note: Includes interview with M. Buthelezi.
Box   2 Folder   17	Peace Corps project, 1977
Box   2 Folder   18	Intelligence, 1977
Box   2 Folder   19	Nicaragua, 1978
Box   2 Folder   20	Latin America Today, 1978
Box   2 Folder   21	Spying for Uncle Sam, 1978
Box   2 Folder   22	Reading, Writing and Reefer, 1978
	Project Files, 1978-1981
Box   3 Folder   1-2	Reading, Writing and Reefer, 1978
Box   3 Folder   3	American Presidency, 1979
Box   3 Folder   4	Politics, 1979-1980
Box   3 Folder   5	Latin America, 1980
Box   3 Folder   6	Cuba, 1980
Box   3 Folder   7-8	For the Child's Own Good, 1980
Box   3 Folder   9	Drugs in America, 1981
Box   3 Folder   10	El Salvador, 1981
Box   3 Folder   11-3	K.G.B., 1981
Box   3 Folder   14-5	Poland, 1981
Box   3 Folder   16-23	Spies Among Us, 1981 Note: Includes interview with Daniel P. Moynihan and Vladimir Sakharov.
	Project Files, 1981-1982
Box   4 Folder   1-2	Spies, 1981
Box   4 Folder   3-7	Drugs, 1982
Box   4 Folder   8-18	El Salvador, 1982 Note: Includes interviews with Roberto D'Abuisson, Ruben Zamora, Jose Napoleon Duarte, and Father Cortina.
Box   4 Folder   19	Israel Exodus, 1982
Box   4 Folder   20-1	Poland, 1983
	Project Files, 1982-1983
Box   5 Folder   1-3	Central America, 1982
Box   5 Folder   4-10	Psychiatry and the Law, 1983
Box   5 Folder   11-14	Crime and the Insanity Defense, 1983
Box   5 Folder   15-20	Covert Operations, 1983
	Project Files, 1984-1987
Box   6 Folder   1-16	Singles, 1984
Box   6 Folder   17	Fear of Flying, 1987
Box   6 Folder   18-20	Defense, 1987
	Project Files, 1988, undated
Box   7 Folder   1-6	American Male, 1988
Box   7 Folder   7	Middle East
Box   7 Folder   8	C.I.A., Private Lives
Box   7 Folder   9-10	Volunteer Army
Box   8 Folder   1-2	Volunteer Army (continued)
Box   8 Folder   3-4	C.I.A.
	Part 2 (M97-029 and films): Additions, 1961-1988 Physical Description: 63 film reels and 310 transparencies (1 binder)  Scope and Content Note: Films and transparencies relating to Rogers' documentary projects in Pakistan, Iran, Vietnam, Laos, and Africa; his investigations of the U.S. government in films such as American Presidency and C.I.A.; the early national drug awareness of the 1970s; U.S. involvement in South America during the 1980s; and sociological studies and reports such “Witches of Squaresville” about youth and the occult.	⇧
	Series: Films
FH 374	American Profile: Home Country, USA, 1968 April 5
FH 383	Congress Needs Help, 1965 November 24
CD 138	David Brinkley's Journal, 1962 October 8
CD 143	David Brinkley's Journal, 1962 November 26
CD 146	David Brinkley's Journal: Brasília, 1963 January 14
AE 678	David Brinkley's Journal: Munitions: segment, undated
CD 149	David Brinkley's Journal: Peace Corps, undated
CD 142	David Brinkley's Journal: Tin Mining in Bolivia, 1963 February 11
DG 257	First Tuesday: Children of God, 1962 January 5?
CD 145	First Tuesday: Destroyers, circa 1971 Note: Under the title "Chronolog."
CD 147	First Tuesday: Have Troops Will Travel, undated
CD 140	First Tuesday: Irish Schools, undated
CD 141	First Tuesday: London's Dilemma, undated
CD 117	First Tuesday: Methaqualone: The Deadly Downer, undated
CD 115	First Tuesday: Miami Si, Havana No! (Cuban exiles), undated
CD 136	First Tuesday: Military Recruiting, undated
DG 258	First Tuesday: Pakistan, circa 1971 Note: Under the title "Chronolog."
CD 137	First Tuesday: Red Star, undated
CD 118	First Tuesday: The Ultimate Trip, undated
AE 696	First Tuesday: Urban Terrorism, undated
CD 148	First Tuesday: What Ails the U.S. Army, undated
CD 101	First Tuesday: Witches of Squaresville, undated
DG 262	First Tuesday: World Arms Trade, undated
FH 379	Free Press
FH 386	Indonesia: The Troubled Victory, 1967 February 19
CD 104	Iran, circa 1973
CD 107	Iran, circa 1975
FH 380	Justice for All?
DG 254	Laos, 1972
CD 099	Laos II
CD 103	Liberia
CD 108	Mozambique
CD 116	NBC News Presents A Special Edition: Recruiting: Uncle Sam Wants Who
CD 139	NBC News Special Report: War Within the War on Cancer, 1974 March 31
FH 369	NBC Reports: Africa's Defiant White Tribe, 1977 July 27
FH 375	NBC Reports: For the Child's Own Good, 1979
FH 387	NBC Reports: Is There A Better Way?
FH 384	NBC Reports: The Sometimes Soldiers, 1976 December 3
FH 378	NBC Reports: Who Will Fight For America?, 1981 February 6
CD 105-CD 106	NBC Special Treat: Reading, Writing, and Reefer, 1979 April 17
CD 144	NBC Weekend: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about American Samoa but Were Afraid to Ask
CD 102	NBC Weekend: Rhodesia
AE 697	NBC Weekend: Society for Creative Anachronism
DG 255-DG 256	NBC White Paper: The Castro Connection
CD 100	Panama
CD 150-CD 151	Professional demo reel of Robert F. Rogers
FH 382	Santo Domingo: War Among Friends, 1965 May 28
CD 112-CD 113	Spying for Uncle Sam, circa 1978
CD 152	Spying for Uncle Sam: raw footage, circa 1978
AE 693-AE 695	Ted Yates obituary, 1967
FH 370	The American Wilderness
FH 381	The Congo: Victim of Independence, circa 1966
FH 385	The Documentaries of Ted Yates
FH 376	The Science of Spying
FH 377	The Ultimate Experimental Animal: Man, 1973 May
DG 260	The Undeclared War
FH 373	Vietnam: It's a Mad War, 1964 December 1
M97-029	Series: Slides	⇧
No.   1-12	Middle East
No.   13-51	Pakistan #1
No.   52-211	Pakistan #2
No.   212-310	Laos