Summary Information
Betty Rollin Papers
1958-2007
Mss 827; Audio 1266A; PH Mss 827; M2011-043; M2017-077
4.4 cubic feet (12 archives boxes), 27 tape recordings, 35 photographs, 1 negative, and 8 transparencies, and 49 video recordings; plus additions of 1.6 cubic feet and 119 video recordings
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Papers of Betty Rollin, an author and news broadcaster best known for her autobiographical books First, You Cry, which concerned her experience with breast cancer, and Last Wish, which concerned her mother's terminal cancer and suicide. Included are clippings, recorded interviews, photographs and other biographical materials; scripts, memoranda, proposals, and film clips for news stories broadcast by NBC Nightly News, Today, Women Like Us, and ABC Nightline; multiple drafts of her books; and correspondence with editors, agents, readers and viewers, and friends. Extensive files of reader mail contain many personal accounts of experiences with cancer and family suicide.
There is a restriction on access to and use of this material; see the Administrative/Restriction Information portion of this finding aid for details.
The video recordings in this collection also are being cataloged individually.
English
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss00827
Biography/History
Author and television journalist Betty Rollin was born on January 3, 1936 to Leon and Ida R. Rollin in New York City. She attended the Fieldston Ethical Culture School, Riverdale, New York, and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, in 1957.
From 1956 to 1964 Rollin worked as a Broadway and television actress in New York City and Hollywood, California. During this time she wrote several books I Thee Wed (1961) and Mothers Are Funnier Than Children (1964) and sold freelance articles to McCall's. In 1964 Rollin became associate feature editor of Vogue and in the following year she became a senior editor of Look, continuing in that position until the magazine's demise in 1971. One article by Rollin published by Look, “The Motherhood Myth,” attracted more reader reaction than any previous story in the magazine's history and was reprinted in several college texts. Also during this period Rollin wrote a third book: The Non-Drinker's Drink Book (1966).
Shortly after Look's demise Rollin began working for NBC News as a reporter on First Tuesday, a monthly news magazine, and as a theatre critic for WNBC-TV. In 1973 she began network reporting for NBC Nightly News and Today. She also worked for several news specials including “The American Family: An Endangered Species?” and developed the program Women Like Us.
In 1975, after reporting on Betty Ford's mastectomy, Rollin was herself diagnosed as having malignant breast cancer. During her recovery from this surgery she divorced her husband, Arthur Herzog III, whom she had married in 1972. In 1976 Rollin's experiences with breast cancer became the subject of the best-selling book First, You Cry. Several years later MTM brought the rights to the book, and in 1987 Mary Tyler Moore appeared as Rollin in a made-for-television movie based on her story. Both the book and film generated much public interest.
Rollin also found inspiration for two subsequent books in the events of her own life. In 1982 Am I Getting Paid for This? A Romance About Work discussed her career and marriage during an era in which women were hampered by stereotypes. Another book, Last Wish, recounted her mother's battle with terminal cancer and her role in her mother's suicide.
From 1982 to 1984 Rollin worked as a network correspondent with Nightline, the ABC evening news program. In the 1980s Rollin returned to print journalism, writing a column entitled “Hers” for the New York Times, and in 1985 she returned to NBC in the capacity of contributing correspondent.
Arrangement of the Materials
This collection was received in multiple parts from the donor(s) and is organized into 3 major parts. These materials have not been physically interfiled and researchers might need to consult more than one part to locate similar materials.
Administrative/Restriction Information
Access to accession M2017-077 requires the written permission of Betty Rollin until January 3, 2030.
Copyright in the Rollin Papers is retained by Betty Rollin until January 3, 2030, at which time it becomes the property of the Wisconsin Historical Society.
Presented by Betty Rollin, New York, New York, 1986-1988. Accession Number: M86-002, M86-400, M88-112, M2017-077
Processed by David Atkins (archives intern), 1993.
Contents List
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Mss 827
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Part 1 (Mss 827, Audio 1266A, PH Mss 827): Original Collection, 1958-19874.4 cubic feet (12 archives boxes), 27 tape recordings, 49 video recordings, 35 photographs, 1 negative, and 8 transparencies : Part 1 of the Rollin Papers is arranged as BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL, CORRESPONDENCE, and PROFESSIONAL PAPERS. The final series is further subdivided into Books, News broadcasting, Print journalism, and Speeches. The BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL consists of newspaper clippings and articles about Rollin, publicity released by NBC about her activities, a mammogram, and photographs. Also listed with the biographical materials are numerous taped and filmed interviews of Rollin. Some of these interviews took place as part of the publicity tours occasioned by the publication of her books. Because these books were so highly autobiographical, however, the publicity about them, like the clippings and print interviews, has been grouped with the general biographical material rather than with the book files described below. CORRESPONDENCE consists of general correspondence, personal letters, and business correspondence (mainly 1974-1992) exchanged with agents, publishers, editors (especially Genevieve Young of J.B. Lippincott), and others. Also included with the business mail is correspondence with attorney Robert Youdelman regarding the sale of movie rights to First, You Cry, particularly Marlo Thomas' unsuccessful interest in acquiring the television rights and Mortimer Zuckerman's concern over the way in which he might be portrayed in the film. The business correspondence also contains numerous contracts detailing salary and payments for lectures. The personal correspondence consists of one folder of letters exchanged with Arthur Herzog III, one folder of correspondence with Mortimer B. Zuckerman, and one folder of miscellaneous letters. The Herzog mail consists mostly of his letters to Rollin, the majority of which are undated, although they appear to date from the period of their separation. The Zuckerman correspondence includes carbons of some of her outgoing letters to him, as well as letters she received. These are also largely undated, although most appear to date from the period after their estrangement. The miscellaneous personal file contains correspondence from family and friends and one letter Rollin wrote in 1958. Among the correspondents in this folder is an exchange with Phil Donahue concerning Rollin's dissatisfaction with her appearance on his program after the publication of First, You Cry, a note from Helen Gurley Brown, and several letters from Grant Tinker and Mary Tyler Moore. The general correspondence includes a letter to the editor of Time regarding an interview in which she had been characterized as a “child-hater” and several letters to Grant Tinker and Mary Tyler Moore (one containing Rollin's original ideas for the made-for-television movie based on First, You Cry). Prominent correspondents here include Marvella Bayh, Joan Didion, and Erich Fromm. Also here is an undated autobiographical, job-seeking form letter from Arthur Herzog. The PROFESSIONAL PAPERS are arranged by genre: books, news broadcasting, print journalism, and speeches. Rollin's three autobiographical books are arranged alphabetically by title. (Rollin's earlier non-fiction works are not represented in the collection.) Each of the three is documented by proposals, variant drafts, publicity, and reader response. The earliest draft material for each book generally consists of multiple revisions of individual chapters and draft fragments rather than complete drafts of the entire books, while subsequent drafts consist of complete revisions. The designations in the contents list, “First draft, Second draft, etc.,” were added in the Archives to indicate the sequence of the revision process, rather than the actual number of the draft. This was necessary because not all drafts were retained. No printed versions of Rollin's books were received with the collection, although First, You Cry and Am I Being Paid for This? are available in the UW Memorial Library. In addition to the manuscripts for the book, the files on First, You Cry include one mimeographed draft of the script for the MTM production as well as a videotape of the finished product. The publicity about this film includes captioned black-and-white stills and color transparencies. The correspondence Rollin received from the readers of her books is of unusual research interest because her honest and direct literary style caused many correspondents to reply with similarly frank accounts of their own experiences. Readers particularly responded to First, You Cry and Last Wish, and these files include more than an entire box of this type of correspondence. Unfortunately, the papers include only a few copies of the letters that Rollin wrote in reply, although handwritten notes generally indicate the nature of her response. Rollin's broadcasting for NBC and ABC is represented by scripts, NBC administrative memoranda and story proposals, some viewer correspondence (including 1972 letters from Nora Ephron and Bess Myerson), and off-the-air videotaped versions of many of the stories she covered. Documentation is most extensive for NBC Nightly News, Today, Tomorrow (which she guest hosted), and Women Like Us, a program that Rollin helped to develop. Rollin's work for ABC Nightline is primarily represented by videotape and by a few printed transcripts. Several prominent individuals appear on the videotaped portion of the collection, notably David Brinkley, Tom Brokaw, John Chancellor, Phyllis Diller, Mike Douglas, Barbara Mikulski, Walter Mondale, Jane Pauley, Marlene Sanders, Phyllis Schlafly, and Ruth Westheimer. Research material for Rollin's broadcasting assignments has been retained very selectively. With the files for “Fame,” which was aired as part of First Tuesday, is a complete film transcript (the film is not present in the collection) in which Rollin interviewed celebrities such as Twiggy, Ronald Reagan, Gloria Swanson, Rona Barrett, Cloris Leachman, Joe Namath, Adam West, Dionne Warwick, Dick Cavett, Groucho Marx, Raquel Welch, and various aspiring actresses. Rollin's career in print journalism is incompletely documented, and only a few copies of printed articles that she wrote for Look, some material relating to the response to “The Motherhood Myth,” correspondence received from readers of Rollin's “Hers” column that appeared in the New York Times, and several unpublished stories are included here. The Speeches section consists largely of typed and handwritten notes, rather than complete drafts of prepared remarks. Only a few of these are identified and dated.
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Series: Biographical Material
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Box
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Folder
1
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Biographical miscellany
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Box
12
Folder
4-10
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Clippings, 1973-1974, 1976-1984, undated
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Interviews
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VBA 779-780
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Donahue film interview, 1977 October 11
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1266A/1-2
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American Cancer Society panel discussion excerpts, 1977 September 7
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VBA 783
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Mike Douglas Show film interview, 1978
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VTA 021
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Cityscope film interview, 1978
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VBA 791
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Seattle Today film interview, 1979
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VBA 778
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Eyewitness News feature on breast cancer (includes Rollin interview), 1979
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VBA 806
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PM Magazine, 1982 January 21
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1266A/3
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Sheila Rushlo Show, 1982 September 21
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1266A/4-6
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Larry King Show, 1983 January 28
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VBB 321
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Breast Diagnostic Center interview, 1983 November
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VTA 018
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Interviews regarding Am I Getting Paid for This?, 1983
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VTA 013
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Interview and “Only Child” roundtable discussion, 1984
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VTA 020
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Film interviews, 1984
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VTA 019
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Merv Griffin interview, 1984
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VBA 805
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AM Chicago interview, 1985 October 11
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1266A/7-8
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Larry King Show, 1985 October 17
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1266A/9
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Late from London interview, 1986 February 9
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VBB 322
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BBC Interview, 1986 September 4
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1266A/10
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Mike Powell Report, undated
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PH Mss 827
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Miscellaneous photographs
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Mss 827
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Series: Correspondence
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Box
2
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Business correspondence and contracts, 1960-1965, 1970-1971, 1974-1986, undated
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Box
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Folder
2
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Condolences on the death of Ida Rollin, 1983
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Box
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Folder
3
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Miscellaneous correspondence, 1969-1980, undated
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Box
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Folder
4
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“Nut mail,” 1977-1978
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Personal correspondence
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Box
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Folder
1
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Arthur Herzog III, 1972-1978, undated
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Box
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Folder
2
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Mortimer B. Zuckerman, 1975-1977, undated
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Box
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3
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Miscellaneous correspondence, 1958-1971, undated
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Series: Professional Papers
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Subseries: Books
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Am I Getting Paid for This? (1982)
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Box
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1
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Proposal, outline
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Box
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Folder
2
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Title ideas
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Manuscripts
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Box
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Folder
3-5
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Early draft chapters and fragments
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Box
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Folder
6-8
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First draft
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Box
5
Folder
1-3
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Second draft
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Box
12
Folder
1-3
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Third draft, with editorial revisions
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Box
5
Folder
4
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Miscellaneous revisions
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Box
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Folder
5
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Publicity, 1982
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Box
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Folder
5a
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Cover art
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Box
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Folder
6
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Reader correspondence, 1982-1984
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First, You Cry (1976)
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Box
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Folder
7
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Notes
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Manuscripts
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Box
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Folder
8
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Original outline and proposal
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Box
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Folder
9-10
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Early draft chapters and fragments
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Second draft
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Box
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Folder
11
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First segment
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Box
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Folder
1
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Second segment
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Box
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Folder
2
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Third draft
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Box
6
Folder
3
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Publicity
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Reader correspondence
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Box
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Folder
4-8
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Answered, 1976-1982
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Box
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Folder
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Answered-Men, 1976-1980
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Box
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Folder
2
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Unanswered, 1976-1978
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Box
7
Folder
3
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Response to Donahue interview, 1977
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Box
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Folder
4
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Unsorted letters, 1978-1984
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Television version
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Box
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Folder
4a
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Mimeo script by Carmen Culver, 1978 January 19
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Publicity for TV movie
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Box
7
Folder
5
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General publicity
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PH Mss 827
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Black-and-white stills and color transparencies
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Mss 827
Box
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Folder
6
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Rollin articles for TV publicity, undated
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VBA 781-782
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Videotape, 1978
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Mss 827
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Last Wish (1985)
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Box
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Folder
7
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Notes
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Manuscripts
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Early chapter drafts and fragments
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Box
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Folder
8-9
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Segment 1
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Box
8
Folder
1
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Segment 2
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Box
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Folder
2-4
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First complete draft
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Box
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Folder
5
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Editor's notes
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Box
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Folder
6-7
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Final draft
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Box
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Folder
8
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Dust jacket design
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Reader correspondence
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Box
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Folder
9-10
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Answered
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Box
9
Folder
1-3
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Answered (continued)
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Subseries: News broadcasting
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ABC
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Nightline
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Videotapes
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VTA 009
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1-3: Neonatal care; 4: Sexual harassment, 1982
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VBA 775
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Rollin spots, 1982 January-1984 June
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VTA 008
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1: Child abuse; 2: Nuclear war; 3: Teen pregnancy; 4: Divorce, 1982-1983
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VTA 010
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1: Organ transplants; 2: AIDS; 3: ERA; 4: Violent crime, 1982-1983
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VBA 009
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Rollin spots, 1982-1983
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VBA 777
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Baltimore teen contraception, 1982 November 4
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VBA 774
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AIDS, 1982 December 17
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VTA 013
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Death and dying, depression, cancer survivors, genetic engineering, surrogate mothers, holiday depression, cholesterol, only child, 1983-1984
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VBA 776
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Depression, Superbabies, 1983 June 30, 1984 June 7
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Mss 827
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9
Folder
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Transcripts, 1983 April 1
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Box
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Folder
5
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Publicity
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NBC
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First Tuesday
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Box
9
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Script, 1971
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Box
9
Folder
7-9
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“Fame” transcripts, 1971
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Box
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10
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Mail from viewers, 1970-1978
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Memoranda and story proposals
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Box
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Folder
11
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General, 1971-1978, undated
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Box
10
Folder
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“Women Like Us,” 1979-1980
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NBC Nightly News
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Box
10
Folder
2-6
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General scripts, 1970-1980, undated
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Box
10
Folder
7
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Rape story, 1974
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Videotapes
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VBA 785
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Juvenile murder, 1975 July 22
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VBA 786
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Pregnant teens, 1977 March
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VBA 789
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Segment 3: New Working Woman, 1978 November 9
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VTA 015
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Uncatalogued, 1978
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VTA 012
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Rollin spots, 1978
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VTA 014
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Uncatalogued, 1978
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VTA 011
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Ghostwriters, health self care, 1979
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VTA 012
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Promo for Betty Ford, 1979
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VBA 788
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Segment 3: Death and Dying, 1980 June 27
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VTA 015
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Confrontation therapy and American Wing of Met, 1980
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VBA 784
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Abortion, 1981 April 7
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VBA 787, VBA 807
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Segment 3 spots, 1981
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VTA 016
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1: Snowstorm; 2: Dial-a-teacher; 3: Liz Smith; 4: Difficult adoptions; 5: Sesame Street; 6: Homosexuality study; 7: Sexual pressure; 8: Mastectomy treatment, undated
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Specials
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VTA 011
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“Conversation with Betty Ford,” 1979
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Mss 827
Box
10
Folder
8
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“Medicine in America,” 1978
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“American Family: An Endangered Species?,” 1979
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Box
10
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Publicity
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VTA 012
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Videotape
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Mss 827
Box
10
Folder
10
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“Failing to Learn,” 1979
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VTA 015
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“The Pope in America,” 1979
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Today
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Mss 827
Box
10
Folder
11-12
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Scripts, 1970-1980
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Videotapes
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VTA 012
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Fort Dix women soldiers, 1979
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VTA 012
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Promo for American Family, 1979
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VHA 156
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Lesbian students, 1980 June 4
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VBA 793-796
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Unmarried men and women, 1980 June 27
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VTA 015
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Denver single women, 1980
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VTA 017
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Denver single men, 1980
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VBA 792
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Radical nun, 1987 April 22
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VBA 797, VTA 022
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Tomorrow videotapes, Rollin as host, 1979
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VTA 015
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Updates, Rollin as anchor, circa 1979
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Mss 827
Box
11
Folder
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WNBC-TV theatre reviews, 1972
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Women Like Us
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Box
11
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Scripts, 1979-1980
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Box
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Publicity, 1979-1980
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Videotapes
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VBA 799
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1979 October 23
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VBA 801-VBA 802
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Getting married, 1981 April 19
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VBA 800
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Babies after 35, 1980 January 23
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Mss 827
Box
11
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4
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Unidentified scripts
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Box
11
Folder
5
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Scripts used for Am I Getting Paid for This?
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Subseries: Print journalism
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Box
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Sarah Lawrence College Alumnae Magazine, 1963
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Look
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Box
11
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Miscellaneous articles, 1966-1971
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Box
11
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Marriage article and drafts, 1979
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Box
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9-10
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“The Motherhood Myth,” scripts for Comment and book proposal, 1971, undated
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Box
11
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11
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Review of The Look Book, 1975
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New York Times
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Box
11
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12
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Articles, 1973, 1980
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Box
11
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13
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“Best Years of My Life,” reader correspondence, 1980
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Box
11
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14
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“Hers,” correspondence, 1982-1984
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Box
11
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15
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TV Guide, “Women Like Us,” 1979
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Box
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Unpublished manuscripts
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Box
11
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Subseries: Speeches and notes, 1976-1985
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M2011-043
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Part 2 (M2011-043): Additions, 1979-2007
0.8 cubic feet and 58 video recordings
: Additions, 1979-2007, consisting of manuscripts and drafts for Rollin's books First, You Cry and Here's the Bright Side, scripts for the Teleplay and movie Last Wish, video recordings of Rollin reporting or being interviewed on TV news and talk shows such as Larry King and CNN principally on issues related to breast cancer and assisted suicide.
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Series: Papers
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First, You Cry
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Box
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Early draft
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Box
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Folder
2
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Proofs, cover, and letter from Fran Meyers, 2001
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Last Wish
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Box
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Folder
3
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Screenplay by Mark Medoff, first draft, 1986 July 10
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Box
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4
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Notes, 1986 August 15
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Box
1
Folder
5
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Teleplay by Jerome Kass, first draft, 1990 September 18
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Box
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6
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Teleplay by Jerome Kass, final draft, 1991 March 22
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Box
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Folder
7-8
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Movie
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Box
2
Folder
1
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Introduction and Epilogue
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Here's the Bright Side
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Box
2
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Drafts, 2006-2007
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Box
2
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6
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Artwork
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Series: Video Recordings
: All of the video recordings are on VHS unless otherwise noted.
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Video
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Today Show, 1979 October 8-10, 23; 1980 April 23
Beta
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Video
2
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Humana Inc. Breast Diagnostic Center, Rollin interview, 1983 November
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Last Wish
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Video
3
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20/20, Today, Live at 5, Donahue, and Hour Magazine, 1985 September
Beta
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Video
4
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Nightly, 1985 October
Beta
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Video
4 (continued)
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“Today Show,” 1985 December 30
Beta
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Video
4 (continued)
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BBC, 1986 January
Beta
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Video
5
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Lifetime; CBS Nightwatch; Lecture, Freehold, New Jersey
Beta
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Video
6
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Lily Tomlin, 1986 March 13
Beta
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Video
6 (continued)
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Danuer #2, etc.
Beta
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Video
7
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Sally Jessy Raphael Show, 1986 December 4
Beta
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Video
8
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Nightline, euthanasia, 1987 February 3
Beta
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Video
9
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CNN, 1987 October 16
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Video
9 (continued)
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Larry King, 1988
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Video
9 (continued)
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Diet show, 1989
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Sweet Alice, 1989
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Russian Psychology, 1989 June 26
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Betty Edwards, 1990 February 9
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Norville with Betty Rollin, Barbara Boggs Sigmund, 1990 May 29
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Med Ethics, CNN, 1993 October 26
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Betty Rollin, Rel. Dating Space, CNN Interview, 2005 March 22
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NBC News Dub #465052, 1993 March 3
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“Own Words” / Betty Rollin, NBC Nightly News, 1996
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Mind and Body - Parts 1 and 2, Alternative Medicine, Betty Rollin Dub, 1997 October 23
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Wann-Rollin-Dad's Role, 1998 April 12
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Betty Rollin, “Race for the Cure” 1998 September 26
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Part 3 (M2017-077): Additions, 1971-2006
0.8 cubic feet (2 archives boxes) and 61 video recordings (6 video boxes and 1 half archives box)
: Additions, 1971-2006, consisting of manuscripts, unpublished writings, correspondence, reviews, answered and unanswered mail, magazine articles, for Am I Getting… contracts, earnings, publicity, book tours, etc. Also included are videotapes of programs hosted or in which Rollins appeared, or on topics related to her writings.
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Betty Rollin/Genetics: Off Limits, 1996
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Assisted Suicide: Is It Time For Legislation?; Right To Die-Talk Back Live, 1994, 1996
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Living With Aids, 1997
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Today: Betty Rollin and Dr. Guthrie, 1992
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Dateline NBC, "Enduring Love" Rollin/Adams, 1996
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Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Awards, 1992
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A.M. Chicago, Me, Ed, etc. Oprah, 1985
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The View, Betty Rollin, 1998
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Last Wish, ABC
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Betty Rollin WKTDY Personal Chef, 2001
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Death with Dignity Briefing Rollin (host), 1999
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Religion and Suicide, 2005
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Assisted Dying: The Death of Terror, Ruth P. Smith, Introduction Betty Rollin
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Women Like Us #4, 1979
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Women Like Us #5, 1980
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Women Like Us #6, 1980
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Goodman N.Y. (sex and Br. Ca.), 1993
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Child Custody, 1995
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Court TV, 1997
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Review of Movie: Last Wish, 1992
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Doctor - Assisted Suicide, MacNeil /Lehrer, 1991
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"Words," 1996
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Mercy Killing, Donahue Show
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