Title: Burton Benjamin Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1957-1988

Creator:

• Benjamin, Burton, 1917-1988

Call Number: U.S. Mss 74AF; MCHC 84-047; M85-485; M86-125; M91-041

Quantity: 8.6 cubic feet (23 archives boxes) and 122 videorecordings; plus additions of 5.0 cubic feet (4 record center cartons and 3 archives boxes)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society Archives / Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
Contact Information

Archival Locations:

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

Abstract:

Papers of Burton Benjamin (1917-1988), a CBS vice-president and producer of news and documentaries, relating to his work on the award-winning CBS documentary series The Twentieth Century (1957-1966), and other news projects. Production files contain research materials; scripts; transcripts and notes from interviews with Lyndon B. Johnson, Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, Robert Dole, Patty Hearst, Eric Sevareid, and others; a transcript of CBS coverage of the assassination and funeral of John F. Kennedy; files on the 1980 presidential election, and other materials. General files contain publicity, distribution figures, press releases, memoranda between Benjamin and production staff, and seven and nine-year reports. Also included are several undated scripts for Robert Montgomery Presents (NBC) and Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (CBS). Videorecordings include CBS news programing, specials such as World War II with Walter Cronkite.

Language: English

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Burton Benjamin, executive producer of CBS's documentary series The Twentieth Century (1957-1966), was born October 9, 1917 in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Sam Benjamin and Ruth Bernstein Benjamin. He worked as a reporter for the Cleveland News while still in high school, and covered sports for the Michigan Daily while attending the University of Michigan. Graduating in 1939, he became a general and sports writer for the United Press International before joining the Newspaper Enterprises Association (NEA), which was part of the Scripps-Howard chain. During World War II, Benjamin served in the United States Coast Guard.

In 1946 he began ten years of employment at RKO-Pathé, for whom he wrote, produced, and directed a series of shorts, This Is America (1946-1951). While still at RKO-Pathé, he produced and directed the documentary footage for a two-hour television special, Light's Diamond Jubilee (1954), for David O. Selznick. The next year “Pepito,” a script written by Benjamin and his brother James, won the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Republic competition; the brothers later adapted the script for live television, and Kraft Theatre aired it as “Welcome to a Stranger.”

In 1956 Benjamin quit RKO-Pathé to freelance. He was associate producer of the film Bermuda Affair (DCA, 1957) and producer of a United States Steel film about ore mining in Venezuela. For television he wrote scripts for Kraft Theatre, Robert Montgomery Presents, and Schlitz Playhouse of Stars, and served as associate producer and story editor for Philip Wylie's series Crunch and Des. He also wrote fiction and non-fiction articles for Look, Colliers, and This Week; Life used his article on the sinking of the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria in 1956.

In January 1957 Benjamin was hired by CBS television to produce The Twentieth Century, a weekly documentary series. Isaac Kleinerman, hired as the associate producer, had worked with Benjamin as a film editor at RKO-Pathé, and on two other documentary series: Victory at Sea and Project XX. Benjamin enlarged the focus of The Twentieth Century from primarily historical documentaries in the first season to more contemporary reports, biographies, and future projections made up of original, newly-filmed material. Among his innovative techniques were use of newsreel footage of actual events combined with interviews of eyewitnesses, use of Walter Cronkite as an on-screen narrator to enunciate the theme of the episode, and use of scripts written by experts on the topic under consideration although the experts may have had little or no previous experience writing for television. Before the series went off the air in 1966, it received numerous awards, among them three from the Overseas Press Club, two Emmys, two Peabodys, two Sylvanias, two from the Edison Foundation, and one Certificate of Appreciation from the Department of the Army.

For more information on The Twentieth Century's accomplishments and reports, see the “Nine Year Report; 1957-1966” in box 14, folder 6. Benjamin was promoted in 1967 to the post of senior executive producer of CBS News. In that capacity, Benjamin produced numerous episodes of CBS Reports including Emmy-winning specials such as “Justice Black and the Bill of Rights” (1971), “The Mexican Connection” (1972), “The Rockefellers” (1973), and “Solzhenitsyn” (1974). In 1971 he also produced “Justice in America,” a series of informal conversations with Lyndon B. Johnson and Dwight D. Eisenhower. From 1975 to 1978, Benjamin was executive producer of CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite. From 1979 to 1981, Benjamin served as CBS director of the news division and vice president. Benjamin was a senior executive producer out of New York at two different times, 1968-1975, and again 1981-1985. Burton Benjamin retired from CBS in 1985.

Benjamin wrote Fair Play: CBS, General Westmoreland, and How a Television Documentary Went Down (1988) about the handling of the documentary “The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception” and the libel lawsuit brought by General Westmoreland against CBS. Walter Cronkite wrote the forward for the book, commenting “[Benjamin] was undoubtedly the finest documentary producer with whom I was ever privileged to work.”

Burton Benjamin was married to Aline L. Wolff, a book editor and critic, in 1942. They had two daughters. Benjamin died September 18, 1988 in Scarborough, New York.

Sharbutt, Jay. “Burton Benjamin; CBS News Producer.” Los Angeles Times, September 20, 1988.

Pace, Eric. “Burton Benjamin, 70, Dies; Former Head of CBS News.” The New York Times, September 19, 1988.

This collection was received in multiple parts from the donor(s) and is organized into 5 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 (U.S. Mss 74AF, film call numbers): Original Collection, 1957-1966
• Part 2 (MCHC 84-047): Additions, 1983
• Part 3 (M85-485): Additions, 1961-1963 and 1982-1985
• Part 4 (M86-125): Additions, circa 1968-circa 1985
• Part 5 (M91-041): Additions, circa 1974-1988

Related Collections:

• Isaac Kleinerman Papers (Mss 680)
• Richard F. Hanser Papers (U.S. Mss 131AN)
• Donald Hyatt Papers (U.S. Mss 134AN)
• Victory at Sea Films (DC 596-DC 605, DF 868-DF 883)
• Project XX Films (various call numbers)

Acquisition Information

Presented by Burton Benjamin, New York, New York, on December 9, 1964; May 18, 1966; and 1979-1981. Accession Number: MCHC 64-121, MCHC 66-032, MCHC 79-085, MCHC 81-012, MCHC 84-047, M85-485, M86-125, M91-041

Processing Information

Processed by WRC - Eleanor Niermann. Additions processed by Geoff Wexler and Menzi Behrnd-Klodt, 1983.

U.S. Mss 74AF	Part 1 (U.S. Mss 74AF, film call numbers): Original Collection, 1957-1966 Physical Description: 8.6 cubic feet (23 archives boxes), and 122 videorecordings  Scope and Content Note The Burton Benjamin Papers document his career, specifically his work as a producer at CBS. The collection is divided into four series: Correspondence and Memoranda; The Twentieth Century; Other CBS Television Productions and Reference Files; and Video Recordings. The CORRESPONDENCE and MEMORANDA series, primarily between Benjamin and CBS production staff members, pertain to news coverage, breaking stories and their treatment, and upcoming specials. There also are a few personal letters of congratulation and invitations. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY series 1957-1966 forms the major portion of the papers and contains materials from nearly every episode. Materials may include interview transcripts and research material; narrations and transcripts of the programs as broadcast; and publication material; as well as occasional shot lists. This series is arranged chronologically by original air date, followed by more general information on the series. The general information includes publicity, press releases, reviews, distribution, reports, and research. The OTHER CBS TELEVISION PRODUCTIONS and REFERENCE FILES series consists of alphabetically-arranged files concerning CBS television productions, some of which were produced by Benjamin, while others were produced by others or never produced. Includes transcripts and research notes, with correspondence and draft questions, for interviews, done mostly by Walter Cronkite, of prominent politicians and others. Interviewed were Lyndon B. Johnson (including his first interview after leaving office and the last interview before his death), President-Elect Jimmy Carter, Vice President Walter Mondale, Senator Robert Dole, Patty Hearst, and Eric Sevareid. The papers also include a complete transcript of CBS coverage of the assassination and funeral of President John F. Kennedy. Other files illustrate CBS news coverage of civil rights (a symposium held at the university of Texas, 1972), justice in America, the Panama Canal, “the race to the moon,” Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and the Middle East, and education. There are also several folders of press releases, and production information from The 21st Century, a follow up to The Twentieth Century, which was last telecast on January 4, 1970. There is detailed television coverage of the 1980 presidential election, including CBS background reports and plans, correspondence and papers collected for research and preparation, correspondence and transcripts from the Democratic and Republican national conventions, newsletters, and transcripts of broadcasts. There is a smaller file of displays and reports from 1978 election night coverage. A transcript of coverage and internal memoranda are present from the 1981 Presidential Inauguration. The VIDEO series contains video recordings of several CBS programs Benjamin produced, including episodes of The Twentieth Century (See Films in Isaac Kleinerman Papers for more episodes), The 21st Century, WWII with Walter Cronkite, and CBS Reports. There is also coverage of the 1984 Presidential Election, highlights of Walter Cronkite, and coverage from other networks on the Westmoreland v. CBS lawsuit.
	Series: Correspondence and Memoranda
Box   16 Folder   1-6	1975-1978 June
Box   17 Folder   1-2	1978 July-December, undated
Box   17 Folder   3	Congratulatory letters, 1978 August-October
Box   17 Folder   4	Invitations, 1978
	Series: The Twentieth Century	⇧
	Scripts
Box   1 Folder   5	“Man of the Century - Winston Churchill,” 1957 October 20
Box   1 Folder   6	“Guided Missile,” 1957 October 27
Box   1 Folder   7	“F.B.I.,” 1957 November 3
Box   1 Folder   8	“Toward the Unexplored: The Flight of the X-2,” 1957 November 10
Box   1 Folder   9	“Mach Busters,” 1957 November 17
Box   1 Folder   10	“Brainwashing,” 1957 November 24
Box   1 Folder   11	“Vertijets,” 1957 December 1
Box   1 Folder   12	“Mussolini,” 1957 December 15
Box   1 Folder   13	“The Windsors,” 1957 December 29
Box   1 Folder   14	“War in Spain,” 1958 January 19
Box   1 Folder   15	“The Face of Crime,” 1958 January 26
Box   1 Folder   16	“D-Day I: Buildup,” 1958 February 2
Box   1 Folder   16	“D-Day II: Attack,” 1958 February 9
Box   1 Folder   17	“Crime and the Committee,” 1958 February 16
Box   1 Folder   18	“Enter with Caution: The Atomic Age,” 1958 February 23
Box   1 Folder   19	“Trial at Nuremberg,” 1958 March 2
Box   1 Folder   20	“Hiroshima,” 1958 March 9
Box   1 Folder   21	“Gandhi,” 1958 March 16
Box   1 Folder   22	“Class of '58,” 1958 March 23
Box   1 Folder   23	“Riot in East Berlin,” 1958 March 30
Box   1 Folder   24	“Victory Over Polio,” 1958 April 6
Box   1 Folder   25	“FDR: Third Term to Pearl Harbor,” 1958 April 13
Box   1 Folder   26	“The Crowded Air,” 1958 April 27
Box   1 Folder   27	“War in China,” 1958 May 4
Box   1 Folder   28	“Auto Biography,” 1958 May 11
Box   1 Folder   29	“October Classic,” 1958 September 28
	“The Red Sell”
Box   1 Folder   30	“Part I: The Propaganda Mill,” 1958 October 26
Box   1 Folder   30	“Part II: Report from the Targets,” 1958 November 2
Box   1 Folder   31	“Rockne of Notre Dame,” 1958 November 9
Box   1 Folder   32	“The Russo - Finnish War,” 1958 November 16
Box   1 Folder   33	“Peron and Evita,” 1958 November 23
	“The Addicted”
Box   1 Folder   34	“Part I: Profile of a Young Addict,” 1958 November 30
Box   1 Folder   34	“Part II: Criminal or Patient?” , 1958 December 7
Box   1 Folder   35	“Revolt in Hungary,” 1958 December 14
Box   1 Folder   36	“Mission: Outer Space,” 1958 December 21
Box   1 Folder   37	“Woodrow Wilson: The Fight for Peace,” 1958 December 28
Box   1 Folder   38	“The Remagen Bridge,” 1959 January 4
Box   1 Folder   39	“Jet Carrier,” 1959 January 11
	“The Delinquents”
Box   2 Folder   1	“Part I,” 1959 January 18
Box   2 Folder   1	“Part II,” 1959 January 25
Box   2 Folder   2	“Liberation of Paris,” 1959 February 1
Box   2 Folder   3	“The Frozen War,” 1959 February 8
Box   2 Folder   4	“The Incredible Turk,” 1959 February 15
Box   2 Folder   5	“Freedom for the Philippines,” 1959 February 22
	“Generation Without a Cause”
Box   2 Folder   6	“Part I,” 1959 March 1
Box   2 Folder   6	“Part II,” 1959 March 8
Box   2 Folder   7	“Burma Road and the Hump,” 1959 March 15
Box   2 Folder   8	“The Silent Sentinel,” 1959 March 22
Box   2 Folder   9	“The Times of Teddy Roosevelt,” 1959 March 29
Box   2 Folder   10	“From Kaiser to Fuehrer,” 1959 April 5
Box   2 Folder   11	“Submarine,” 1959 April 12
Box   2 Folder   12	“Stalingrad,” 1959 April 19
Box   2 Folder   13	“Reaching for the Moon,” 1959 September 20
Box   2 Folder   14	“The Movies Learn to Talk,” 1959 October 25
Box   2 Folder   15	“Suicide Run to Murmansk,” 1959 November 1
Box   2 Folder   16	“Age of the Jet,” 1959 November 8
Box   2 Folder   17	“The Fall of China,” 1959 November 15
Box   2 Folder   18	“Goering,” 1959 November 22
	“Poland on a Tightrope”
Box   2 Folder   19	“Part I: Satellite Back in Orbit,” 1959 November 29
Box   2 Folder   19	“Part II: The Commissar and the Cardinal,” 1959 December 6
Box   2 Folder   20	“End of the Battlewagon,” 1959 December 20
Box   2 Folder   21	“The Olympics,” 1959 December 27
Box   2 Folder   22	“Crisis at Munich,” 1960 January 3
Box   2 Folder   23	“The Week That Shook the World,” 1960 January 10
Box   2 Folder   24	“Dirigible,” 1960 January 17
Box   2 Folder   25	“Sabotage,” 1960 January 24
Box   2 Folder   26	“Battle of the Bulge,” 1960 January 31
Box   2 Folder   27	“The Dust Bowl,” 1960 February 7
Box   2 Folder   28	“Tarawa,” 1960 February 14
Box   2 Folder   29	“Downrange,” 1960 February 21
Box   2 Folder   30	“Turn of the Century,” 1960 February 28
	“Japan's Changing Face”
Box   2 Folder   31	Part I: , 1960 March 6
Box   2 Folder   31	Part II: , 1960 March 13
Box   2 Folder   32	“Patton and the Third Army,” 1960 March 20
	“The Mysterious Deep”
Box   3 Folder   1	“Part I: The Power of the Sea,” 1960 March 27
Box   3 Folder   1	“Part II: Inner Space,” 1960 April 3
Box   3 Folder   2	“Rommel,” 1960 April 10
Box   3 Folder   3	“Paris in the Twenties,” 1960 April 17
Box   3 Folder   4	“La Guardia,” 1960 April 24
Box   3 Folder   5	“The Violent World of San Huff,” 1960 October 30
Box   3 Folder   6	“The White House Story,” 1960 November 6
Box   3 Folder   7	“Sub Killers,” 1960 November 13
Box   3 Folder   8	“Traffic Jam Upstairs,” 1960 November 20
Box   3 Folder   9	“Over Here,” 1960 November 27
Box   3 Folder   10	“The Doolittle Raid,” 1960 December 4
Box   3 Folder   11	“The Berliners: Life in a Gilded Cage,” 1960 December 18
Box   3 Folder   12	“Admiral Byrd,” 1960 December 25
	“P.O.W.”
Box   3 Folder   13	“Part I: Korea,” 1961 January 1
Box   3 Folder   13	“Part II: The Road to Resistance,” 1961 January 8
Box   3 Folder   14	“Battle of Cassino,” 1961 January 15
Box   3 Folder   15	“City Under the Ice,” 1961 January 22
	“Ireland: The Tear and the Smile”
Box   3 Folder   16	Part I: , 1961 January 29
Box   3 Folder   16	Part II: , 1961 February 5
Box   3 Folder   17	“The College Panic,” 1961 February 12
Box   3 Folder   18	“Minister of Hate,” 1961 February 19
Box   3 Folder   19	“France in Ferment,” 1961 February 26
Box   3 Folder   20	“The Burma Surgeon Today,” 1961 March 5
Box   3 Folder   21	“The New Marine,” 1961 March 12
Box   3 Folder   22	“Minuteman,” 1961 March 19
Box   3 Folder   23	“As Others See Us,” 1961 March 26
Box   4 Folder   1	“New York in the Twenties,” 1961 April 2
	“Sweden: Trouble in Paradise?”
Box   4 Folder   2	Part I: , 1961 April 9
Box   4 Folder   2	Part II: , 1961 April 16
Box   4 Folder   3	“General Marshall,” 1961 April 23
Box   4 Folder   4	“Alert! Defense in the Missile Age,” 1961 April 30
Box   4 Folder   5	“Hungary Today,” 1961 October 29
Box   4 Folder   6	“Al Smith,” 1961 November 5
	“Guerrilla”
Box   4 Folder   7	Part 1: , 1961 November 12
Box   4 Folder   7	Part II: , 1961 November 19
	“Typhoon at Okinawa”
Box   4 Folder   8	“General,” 1961 November 26
Box   15 Folder   1	“Shot list”
Box   4 Folder   9	“The Man Who Spied on Pearl Harbor,” 1961 December 3
Box   4 Folder   10	“Willkie,” 1961 December 17
Box   4 Folder   11	“The Great Weather Mystery,” 1961 December 24
Box   4 Folder   12	“The Jazz of Dave Brubeck,” 1961 December 31
Box   5 Folder   1	“Siege of Malta,” 1962 January 7
Box   5 Folder   2	“Sports Cars: A Rage to Race,” 1962 January 14
Box   5 Folder   3	“The Airport Jam,” 1962 January 21
Box   5 Folder   4	“Crisis at Suez,” 1962 January 28
Box   5 Folder   5	“Puerto Rico: The Peaceful Revolution,” 1962 February 4
Box   5 Folder   6	“Partisan: The Nazi-Soviet War,” 1962 February 11
Box   5 Folder   7	“Frank Lloyd Wright,” 1962 February 18
	“The Age of Anxiety,” Part I: 1962 February 25; Part II: , 1962 March 4
Box   5 Folder   8	Interviews
Box   5 Folder   9	Narrations
Box   5 Folder   10	“The Women Get the Vote,” 1962 March 18
	“Get the Graf Spee”
Box   5 Folder   11	General, 1962 March 25
Box   15 Folder   2	Shot list
	“First Man on the Moon”
Box   6 Folder   1	General, 1962 April 1
Box   15 Folder   3	Shot list
Box   6 Folder   2	“Czechoslovakia: From Munich to Moscow,” 1962 April 8
Box   6 Folder   3	“End of an Empire,” 1962 April 15
Box   6 Folder   4	“Let's Go to the Fair,” 1962 April 22
Box   6 Folder   5	“The Creative Thirties,” 1962 April 29
Box   6 Folder   6	“The Satellite That Talks,” 1962 May 6
Box   6 Folder   7	“Pollsters and Politics,” 1962 October 7
Box   6 Folder   8	“I Remember: Dag Hammarskjold,” 1962 October 28
Box   6 Folder   9	“Germany: Red Spy Target,” 1962 November 4
Box   6 Folder   10	“Norstad of NATO: War or Peace?,” 1962 November 11
Box   6 Folder   11	“The Fighting 'E',” 1962 November 18
Box   6 Folder   12	“So That Men Are Free,” 1962 November 25
Box   6 Folder   13	“Laval: Portrait of a Traitor,” 1962 December 2
Box   6 Folder   14	“Army of the Damned,” 1962 December 16
Box   6 Folder   15	“Zero Hour in Greece,” 1963 January 6
Box   7 Folder   1	“From Jet to Dyna-Soar,” 1963 January 13
Box   7 Folder   2	“Air Drop at Arnheim,” 1963 January 20
Box   7 Folder   3	“Italy's Booming North,” 1963 January 27
Box   7 Folder   4	“Finland's Tug of War,” 1963 February 3
	“Beachhead at Anzio”
Box   7 Folder   5	General, 1963 February 10
Box   15 Folder   4	Shot list
Box   7 Folder   6	“We Fed Our Enemies,” 1963 February 17
Box   7 Folder   7	“Attack on Singapore,” 1963 February 24
	“Franco Spain,” Part I: 1963 March 3; Part II: , 1963 March 10
Box   7 Folder   8	Research reports and interviews
Box   7 Folder   9	Interviews
Box   8 Folder   1	Interviews
Box   8 Folder   2	Narrations and publicity
Box   8 Folder   3	“Rhodes Scholar,” 1963 March 17
Box   8 Folder   4	“Red Ships Off Our Shores,” 1963 March 24
	“Ethiopia: The Lion and the Cross,” Part I: 1963 March 31; Part II: , 1963 April 7
Box   8 Folder   5	Research reports and interviews
Box   8 Folder   6	Transcripts and publicity
Box   8 Folder   7	“The Booming World of Boats,” 1963 April 14
Box   8 Folder   8	“The Western Hero,” 1963 April 21
Box   8 Folder   9	“Frogmen of the Future,” 1963 April 28
Box   8 Folder   10	“Keep It Cool,” 1963 October 27
Box   8 Folder   11	“Montbatten: Man of Action,” 1963 November 3
Box   8 Folder   12	“The Road to Berlin,” 1963 November 10
Box   8 Folder   13	“A Child is to Love,” 1963 November 17
Box   9 Folder   1	“Battle of Norway,” 1963 December 1
Box   9 Folder   2	“Verdun: End of a Nightmare,” 1963 December 8
	“SAC: Aloft and Below”
Box   9 Folder   3	Part I: , 1963 December 15
Box   9 Folder   3	Part II: , 1963 December 22
Box   9 Folder   4	“Too Young to Hate,” 1963 December 29
	“Plots Against Hitler,” Part I: 1964 January 5; Part II: , 1964 January 12
Box   9 Folder   5	Program outline and interviews
Box   9 Folder   6	Interviews
Box   9 Folder   7	Narrations
Box   9 Folder   7	Publicity
Box   9 Folder   8	“Invasion of Sicily,” 1964 January 19
Box   9 Folder   9	“Firebrand on Ice: Stan Mikta,” 1964 February 2
Box   9 Folder   10	“The Songs of Harold Arlen,” 1964 February 9
Box   9 Folder   11	“Deep in the Heart of Houston,” 1964 February 16
Box   9 Folder   12	“Depressed Area, U.S.A.,” 1964 February 23
Box   9 Folder   13	“The Agony of Austria,” 1964 March 1
Box   9 Folder   14	“Traffic Around the World,” 1964 March 8
Box   10 Folder   1	“John L. Lewis,” 1964 March 22
Box   10 Folder   2	“Up-Jet,” 1964 March 29
Box   10 Folder   3	“Yugoslavia: Bridge or Tightrope?,” 1964 April 5
Box   10 Folder   4	“Jimmy Walker,” 1964 April 12
Box   10 Folder   5	“Man with a Mission: Dr. Howard A. Rusk,” 1964 April 19
Box   10 Folder   6	“Cameras Aloft, Secrets Below,” 1964 April 26
Box   10 Folder   7	“Lenin and Trotsky,” 1964 May 3
Box   10 Folder   8	“Duke Ellington Swings through Japan,” 1964 December 20
Box   10 Folder   9	“Anthony Eden,” 1964 December 27
Box   10 Folder   10	“TAC: The Lightning Punch,” 1965 January 3
Box   10 Folder   11	“Target: North Africa,” 1965 January 10
	“Korea: The Line”
Box   10 Folder   12	General, 1965 January 17
Box   15 Folder   5	Shot list
	“The Strange Case of Rudolf Hess,” 1965 January 24
Box   11 Folder   1	Research report and interviews
Box   11 Folder   2	Narrations and transcripts
Box   11 Folder   3	“The Nisei: The Pride and the Shame,” 1965 January 31
Box   11 Folder   4	“The Sailing Oystermen,” 1965 February 7
Box   11 Folder   5	“The Siege of Leningrad,” 1965 February 14
Box   11 Folder   6	“The Navajos and Anne Wauneka,” 1965 March 7
Box   11 Folder   7	“Taming the Mekong,” 1965 March 14
Box   11 Folder   8	“The Warsaw Uprising,” 1965 March 21
Box   11 Folder   9	“The Farmer: Feast or Famine,” 1965 March 28
Box   11 Folder   10	“Profile: Isaac Stern,” 1965 April 4
Box   11 Folder   11	“The Dissenter: Norman Thomas,” 1965 April 11
Box   11 Folder   12	“The Supersonic Jet,” 1965 April 18
Box   12 Folder   1	“Man of the Month: Dean Rusk,” 1965 October 31
Box   12 Folder   2	“Operation Gwamba,” 1965 December 19
Box   12 Folder   3	“Man of the Year: Pope Paul VI,” 1965 December 26
	“Air Rescue”
Box   12 Folder   4	“Part I: The Making of Men,” 1966 January 2
Box   12 Folder   4	“Part II: Vietnam,” 1966 January 9
Box   12 Folder   5	“The Majestic, Polluted Hudson,” 1966 January 23
Box   12 Folder   6	“How to Fight a Guerrilla War,” 1966 February 6
Box   12 Folder   7	“What a Way to Run a Railroad,” 1966 February 13
Box   12 Folder   8	“Moscow U.,” 1966 February 20
Box   12 Folder   9	“Man of the Month: Dr. Michael Ellis De Bakey,” 1966 February 27
Box   12 Folder   10	“Nehru: Man of the Month,” 1966 March 6
Box   13 Folder   1	“Synanon in Prison,” 1966 March 13
Box   13 Folder   2	“Woman Doctor in Vietnam,” 1966 March 20
Box   13 Folder   3	“Woman of the Month: Indira Gandhi,” 1966 March 27
Box   13 Folder   4	“Integration in the Military,” 1966 April 3
Box   13 Folder   5	“Jackpot in Libya,” 1966 April 10
Box   13 Folder   6	“Man of the Month: The Draftee,” 1966 April 17
	General
Box   13 Folder   7	Publicity, 1961 September 18
	Press releases
Box   13 Folder   8	1957-1960
Box   13 Folder   9	1961-1962
Box   14 Folder   1	1963-1964, undated
Box   14 Folder   2	Reviews, 1962 June 27
	Distribution
Box   14 Folder   3	General, 1961-1964, undated
Box   14 Folder   4	Schedules, 1957-1963
Box   14 Folder   5	“7 Year Report: , 1957-1964”
Box   14 Folder   6	“9 Year Report: , 1957-1966”
	Research
Box   15A Folder   1	Anschluss, 1963 March-June; undated
Box   15a Folder   2	Jimmy Walker, 1963-1964
Box   15a Folder   3	Lenin and Trotsky, circa 1964 January
Box   15a Folder   4	Mountbatten, 1962-1963
Box   15a Folder   5	Sicily, circa 1963 April
Box   15a Folder   6	Yugoslavia, circa 1963 November, undated
	Series: Other CBS Television Productions and Reference Files	⇧
Box   17 Folder   5	Angola reference file, 1975 December
Box   17 Folder   6	Aspen/Berlin Conference on the “Information Society,” correspondence and information from sessions Benjamin attended, 1975, 1977
	“The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy as Broadcast Over the CBS Television Network”
	Transcripts
Box   17 Folder   7-8	1963 November 22
Box   18 Folder   1-6	1963 November 23-25
	Campaign '80
	Background reports and planned news coverage
Box   18 Folder   7	1979 November 5-1980 February 28
Box   19 Folder   1	1980 March 3-June 3
Box   19 Folder   2	Democratic Convention - correspondence, production preparations, interviews
Box   19 Folder   3	GOP Convention - correspondence, transcripts, production preparations
Box   19 Folder   4	Correspondence on CBS coverage, candidate assignments, and miscellaneous
Box   19 Folder   5	Correspondence, research, criticism, and transcript of “Campaign Countdown” Broadcast, 1980 October 15 and rebroadcast 1980 November 4
Box   19 Folder   6	Correspondence regarding surveys and polls, presidential debate, sponsors, and convention pools
Box   19 Folder   7	Newsletters, 1979 October 25, November 15, December 14; 1980 January 29, February 13
Box   19 Folder   8	Primaries - correspondence
Box   19 Folder   9	Radio coverage, 1979 July-1980 February 28
Box   20 Folder   1	Vote analysis handbook for CBS News personnel
Box   20 Folder   2	“The Carter-Brezhnev Summit, Part 1: The SALT II Treaty” broadcast research, by A. LeJuge, “For Internal Use Only,” 1979 May 3
Box   20 Folder   3-4	“Civil Rights - L.B.J.” Civil Rights Symposium held at the University of Texas/Austin, late 1972 Scope and Content Note: Transcripts of talks by Earl Warren, Vernon Jordan, Hubert Humphrey, Roy Wilkins, Julian Bond, Lyndon Johnson, Patricia Harris, Roy Innis, Rev. Kendall Smith, Clarence Mitchell, Barbara Jordan, Richard Hatcher, Frankie Freeman, and Evonne Bainwright Burke.
Box   20 Folder   5	“Doctor Glut” transcript, 1977 September 21
Box   20 Folder   6	Elections CBS News 1978 Election Night displays and reports
Box   20 Folder   7	Georgia State Energy Story, broadcast 1977 December 16 Scope and Content Note: Correspondence and draft scripts of story by Jim McManus.
	Interviews
Box   20 Folder   8	Research preparation, correspondence, draft questions, and partial transcripts of interviews with V.P. Walter Mondale, Sen. Robert Dole, Patty Hearst, A. Schlesinger, Venezuelan President Perez, and Saud-Al-Faisal, 1976-1978
Box   20 Folder   9-10	Interview with President-Elect Jimmy Carter, by Walter Cronkite correspondence, transcripts, research, 1976 October 1 and November 29
	Interview with Lyndon B. Johnson, by Walter Cronkite
Box   20 Folder   11	Transcript, Part I, 1969
Box   21 Folder   1	Transcript, Part II, 1969
Box   21 Folder   2	“LBJ Talks Politics,” transcript, 1971 December 1
Box   21 Folder   3	“LBJ - Civil Rights,” LBJ's last interview, circa 1972 Note: Annotated.
Box   21 Folder   4	Interview with Eric Sevareid transcript, 1973
Box   21 Folder   5	“Justice in America,” transcript and correspondence for a news story, 1977 July-August
Box   21 Folder   6	Panama Canal Story - correspondence on proposed story, 1977 September 5
	“The Presidential Inauguration,” CBS News Special Report, broadcast 1981 January 20
Box   21 Folder   7	Transcript of coverage
Box   21 Folder   8	Memoranda, 1980 November-December
Box   21 Folder   9	“The Race to the Moon,” reference book, clippings, compiled(?) by Burton Benjamin and Isaac Kleinerman, 1968 April 3
	Robert Montgomery Presents
Box   1 Folder   1	“Last Trip of the Hindenburg,” circa 1957
Box   1 Folder   2	“Tragedy in the Sand Cave,” between 1950 and 1957
Box   1 Folder   3	“The Week That Shook the World,” between 1950 and 1957
Box   21 Folder   10	Anwar Sadat's Trip to Israel correspondence, memos, script fragments regarding Sadat, Cronkite's and Benjamin's Trip to Cairo, 1977
Box   1 Folder   4	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars, “The Rising Moon,” undated
Box   21 Folder   11	“Trouble in the Classroom,” a five-part series broadcast 1977 June 6-10, CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite Scope and Content Note: Correspondence, research, interviews, transcripts.
	The 21st Century
Box   22 Folder   1-5	Press releases, 1967 January-1969 August 15
Box   15a Folder   6	Production information, 1969 February 6
Box   15a Folder   7	Promotions for a proposed series, by Walter Sullivan and Denis Flanagan
Box   15a Folder   8	“The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception,” CBS Reports, 1982, aired , 1982 January 23
	Series: Videos	⇧
VBC 439	ABC News “Westmoreland vs. CBS” segment
VBC 436	ABC World News Tonight “Westmoreland vs. CBS” segment
VBC 438	MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour “Westmoreland vs. CBS”
VHB 786	CBS News “Westmoreland vs. CBS” segment
VBC 370	ABC Nightline News/CBS Evening News with Dan Rather
	CBS Morning News
VBC 437	“Remembering Vietnam”
VBC 379	“Vietnam Remembered” Note: 4 segments with dubbing.
VBC 406	CBS News at Work
VBC 369	[CBS News Conference]
VBC 380	CBS News [Hungary Piece]
VBC 381	CBS News with Dan Rather
	CBS Evening News
VBC 440	[Poland segment]
VBC 384	[unidentified]
	CBS News Special Reports
VBC 373	“Justice Black and the Bill of Rights”
VBC 374	“Two Voice of Poland”
VBC 377	“Vietnam Remembered”
VBC 407	Eye on the Media, “Private Lives: Public Press”
	CBS Reports
VBC 375	“Mr. Justice Douglas”
VBC 378	“D-Day and Eisenhower”
VBC 386	“Viet Cong”
VBC 387	“Hiroshima Plus 40 Years and Counting”
VBC 416	“Terrorism: War in the Shadows”
VBC 435	“The Mysterious Alert”
VHB 790	“The Rockefellers”
	CBS Today
VBC 397	“Bill Leonard”
	Media & Society: The Constitution, That Delicate Balance
VBC 422-423	#1 [Benno C.] Schmidt Case
VBC 424	Arthur [R.] Miller Session
VBC 425-426	Case 2: [Charles] Nesson/criminal justice
	The Twentieth Century
VBC 340	Press trailer
VBC 315	“Reaching for the Moon”
VBC 316	“The Violent World of Sam Huff”
VBC 317	“Brainwashing”
VBC 319	“Italy's Booming North”
VBC 320	“We Fed Our Enemies”
VBC 321	“Beachhead at Anzio”
VBC 322	“Norstad of NATO: War or Peace?”
VBC 323	“Freedom for the Philippines”
VBC 324	“Songs of Harold Arlen”
VBC 329	“Laval: Portrait of a Traitor”
VBC 337	“The Airport Jam”
	The 21st Century
VBC 318	“The Air Jam”
VBC 330	“Autos, Autos Everywhere”
VBC 331	“New Weapons Against Crime”
VBC 332	“Food Revolution” Alternate Format: Digital access copy available.
VBC 333	“The Remarkable Schoolhouse”
VBC 334	“The Four-Day Week”
VBC 335	“Can We Control the Weather?”
VBC 336	“Industries of the Future”
VBC 325	“How do they look?”
VBC 326	“Mars and Beyond”
VBC 327	“At Home, 2001”
VBC 328	“The Futurists”
VBC 341	“The Wild Cell”
VBC 342	“Anatomy of the Shoot”
VBC 343	“Tomorrow…Today”
VBC 344	“Atomic Medicine”
VBC 345	“A Trip from Chicago”
VBC 346	“Games Futurists Play”
VBC 347	“Autos and All That Traffic”
VBC 348	“The Human Heart”
VBC 349	“Eye in the Sky”
	WWII with Walter Cronkite
VHB 723	“The Seeds of War”
VHB 724	“The War Against Japan”
VHB 725	“Europe: Wars Within a War”
VHB 726	“Air War Over Europe”
VHB 727	“The Pacific Campaign”
VHB 728	“Europe: The Allies Close In”
VHB 729	“Invasion: The Allies Attack”
VHB 730	“The Pacific: War Begins”
VHB 731	“The Home Front and Victory”
VBC 429-430	“Home Front and Victory” Note: Same as VHB 731, films have not been compared to see if there are any differences.
VHB 732	“Scandinavian and Soviet Fronts”
VBC 431-432	“Scandinavian and Soviet Fronts” Note: Same as VHB 732; films have not been compared to see if there are any differences.
VHB 733	“The Eastern Front”
VHB 734	“The Pacific Perimeter”
VHB 735	“The German High Command”
VBC 402	“The German High Command” Note: Same as VHB 735; films have not been compared to see if there are any differences.
VHB 736	“Battleground: Italy”
VHB 737	“Walter Cronkite Remembers and the Battle of the Bulge”
VBC 371	Inside CBS News
VBC 372	Inside Story: “The News on the Nets”
VBC 376	“Tapes of Wrath”
VBC 385	“The Great Nuclear Debate,” Part 1
VBC 388	“The Great Nuclear Debate,” Part 2
VBC 382	“Pablo Picasso: A Retrospective”
VBC 389	“Moyers in Poland”
VBC 390	CBS Coverage of 1984 Democratic National Convention
VHB 787	[1984 GOP Convention Coverage, 1984 Election Coverage]
VBC 391	Inside Story: Dateline: Moscow
VBC 392	[News inserts]
VBC 393	[Cronkite narration]
VBC 394	[Singing telegram for Burton Benjamin and John Lane]
VBC 396	[Dub of European Broadcast]
VBC 398	Sunday Morning: “David Smith”
VBC 399	[Ann Benjamin in Detroit]
VBC 383	[Media coverage of terrorism: panel discussion]
VBC 395	[20th century, 1984]
VBC 400	Cameras in the Courtroom [reel 2]
VBC 401	[Sawyer/Cronkite interview (dub)]
VBC 403	[Cronkite Career highlights and Beyond Retirement]
VBC 404	Eyeball to Eyeball: Dilemma in the Newsroom
VBC 405	[Charles Collingwood air cut]
VBC 408	Vietnam: A Television History
VBC 409	[Decade in the news]
VBC 410	[Cronkite Career highlights] Note: Master.
VHB 788	[Cronkite Career highlights]
VBC 415	[John Lane Presentation to Affiliate board: Lebanon News Coverage]
VBC 417	Medical Ethics: Matter of Life or Death
VBC 418	[Cronkite gag reel]
VBC 419	[Supplemental footage for Vietnam Series]
VBC 420	[Cronkite narration “Beyond Retirement”]
VBC 421	Morning News [Cronkite Reporting on D-day ceremonies]
VBC 427-428	History of Television
VBC 433	20/20 “Computers”
VBC 434	1984 Revisited (dub)
VHB 791	Team Excellence with Walter Cronkite
VHB 792	[News highlights]
MCHC 84-047	Part 2 (MCHC 84-047): Additions, 1983 Physical Description: 1.6 cubic feet (1 records center carton and 2 archives boxes)  Scope and Content Note: Additions, 1983, include scripts, research files, and staff correspondence.	⇧
Box   1	“1984 Revisited,” scripts, research, budgets, correspondence, memos, research, and transcripts, 1983
Box   1	Andropov research, debate, and sources Note: Includes annotated copy of Andropov by Zhores Medvedev, 1983.
Box   2	Andropov research articles
Box   3	“The Great Nuclear Arms Debate,” transcripts, budget, and research, 1983
M85-485	Part 3 (M85-485): Additions, 1961-1963 and 1982-1985 Physical Description: 2.0 cubic feet (2 records center cartons)  Scope and Content Note: Additions, 1961-1963 and 1982-1985, include memos, notes, scripts, and transcripts for CBS Reports for which Benjamin is the executive producer.	⇧
Box   1	Harry Truman notes, 1984
Box   1	“State Terror,” original script
Box   1	“Kidnap and Ransom,” original script
	Reader file
Box   1	1984
Box   1	1985
Box   1	“Hiroshima Plus 40 years ... And Still Counting,” research, memos, scripts, photographs, and reviews, 1985
Box   1	Eisenhower transcripts, 1961-1963
	Perspectives and overviews
Box   1	Central America reporting
Box   1	Regarding war and reporting in general
Box   1	Historical incidents and current “wisdom”
Box   1	Falklands research, 1982
Box   1	Additional Lebanon research, 1982-1983
Box   1	Slides and negatives, Normandy, 1984 June
Box   2	“High Tech: Dream or Nightmare?,” notes, transcripts and subject file, 1984
M86-125	Part 4 (M86-125): Additions, circa 1968-circa 1985 Physical Description: 1.0 cubic foot (1 records center carton)  Scope and Content Note: Additions, circa 1968-circa 1985, including biographies, research files, scripts, staff correspondence, clippings, and a speech.	⇧
Box   1	“Honor, Duty, and a War Called Vietnam,” research and transcripts, 1985
Box   1	“Terrorism: War in the Shadows,” research, transcripts, and notes, 1985
Box   1	“Hiroshima Plus 40 Years... and Still Counting,” research, transcripts, “Hiroshima Bites,” and interview transcripts, 1985
Box   1	Speech, University of Michigan, 1972 February
Box   1	“Justice Black and the Bill of Rights,” transcripts, 1968
Box   1	Convention coverage memo, 1980 April 16
M91-041	Part 5 (M91-041): Additions, circa 1974-1988 Physical Description: 0.4 cubic feet (1 archives box)  Scope and Content Note: Additions, circa 1974-1988, consisting of two notebooks of collected quotations of Benjamin's on television and politics; and a copy of his book, Fair Play, 1988.	⇧
Box   1	Collected quotations on television and politics
Box   1	Fair Play : book, 1988