Title: Daniel Cohen Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1972-1994

Creator:

• Cohen, Daniel

Call Number: M98-164

Quantity: 1.2 c.f. (3 archives boxes) and 3 videorecordings

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 Daniel Cohen, a former student radical from the University of Chicago who later became a photographer and journalist. His activities with Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and with the Weather Underground led to his arrest, after which he lived underground from 1970 to 1976. Included are diaries, his FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) files, collected subject files, and videotapes representative of his work. The earlier diaries mainly document his everyday life as a young gay man on the West Coast with few mentions of his life in hiding, while the 1988-1989 volume details the illness and death from AIDS of his companion.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-m98164

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The collection includes Cohen's diaries, his FOIA files, collected subject files, and videotapes representative of his work. Videotapes include programs about illegal immigrants and agent orange which Cohen produced, and footage from a Seattle talk show in which Cohen appears with a photographic exhibition. Subject files contain clippings about issues such as the Vietnam War, Watergate, Nixon’s resignation, the FBI and CIA, and other issues.

M98-164	Diaries
Box   1 Folder   1	Volume 1, 1972
Box   1 Folder   2	Volume 2, 1973
Box   1 Folder   3	Volume 3, 1984
Box   1 Folder   4	Volume 4, undated
Box   1 Folder   5	Volume 5, undated
Box   2 Folder   1	Volume 6, 1988
Box   2 Folder   2	Freedom of Information Act, File #1
Box   2 Folder   3	Freedom of Information Act, File #2
Box   2 Folder   4	Freedom of Information Act Requests, 1980-1982
Box   2 Folder   5	Identity Papers
	Subject Files
Box   2 Folder   6	American Scene, the 1970s, 1976-1979
Box   2 Folder   7	Annals of Law: Decisions, 1976-1994
Box   2 Folder   8	Beatles, '60s Culture, 1981-1984
Box   2 Folder   9	Brinks Episode, 1981-1982
Box   2 Folder   10	CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), 1987
Box   2 Folder   11	Civil Liberties, Domestic Spying, 1981-1985
Box   3 Folder   1	Grand Juries, 1976-1977
Box   3 Folder   2	Indochina War of 1979, 1979-1985
Box   3 Folder   3	Indochina: War Years, 1972-1994
Box   3 Folder   4	Indian Act Repatriation
Box   3 Folder   5	The 1960s, 1972-1988
Box   3 Folder   6	People of Conscience in America, 1974-1980
Box   3 Folder   7	Post-War Vietnam, 1990
Box   3 Folder   8	The Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), 1974
Box   3 Folder   9	Viet Cong Flags/Stickers
Box   3 Folder   10	Vietnam: The Dikes, 1972-1974
Box   3 Folder   11	Vietnam Reunification, 1974-1982
Box   3 Folder   12	Watergate, 1973-1994
Film Archive	Videotapes
	“Agent Orange”, 1980
	“America's Open Back Door”, 1981
	“Seattle: 10:00 am”, 1977