Summary Information
Lawrence B. Laurent Papers
1962-1964
- Laurent, Lawrence B., 1925-
U.S. Mss 105AF
0.4 c.f. (1 archives box)
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Papers of a journalism educator and radio-television editor for the Washington Post. Drafts, notes, and resource materials for Equal Time: The Private Broadcaster and the Public Interest (1964), a collection of speeches by Newton N. Minow, comprise the bulk of this small collection. Also present are folders of correspondence including letters from Minow and Morris S. Novik, a few articles and addresses, and biographical material.
English
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Biography/History
Lawrence Laurent has been the television-radio editor and columnist for the Washington Post since 1953 and is also chairman of the editorial board of Television Quarterly. He holds the rank of Professorial Lecturer at the American University in Washington, D.C., teaching programming in both radio and television. For more than a decade he has covered virtually every investigation or hearing on communications in Congress and at the Federal Communications Commission. The Washington Newspaper Guide awarded him its Front Page Award for his interpretative coverage of the 1963 hearings on audience ratings held before the House Special Subcommittee on Investigations. Besides his daily columns, Mr. Laurent has published contributions to Television's Impact on American Culture and to The Eighth Art, published in 1956 and 1962 respectively, and has edited Equal Time, a collection of speeches by former Federal Communications Commission chairman Newton Minow, published in 1964.
(The above information is from the jacket of Equal Time.)
Scope and Content Note
The Papers of Lawrence Laurent consist almost entirely of drafts and resource material for the book Equal Time. The drafts are fragmentary and often unlabeled. The resource material includes handwritten notes and ideas, clippings, and several speeches concerning radio and television broadcasting. Included are speeches delivered by Fairfax M. Cone, Louis M. Lyons, Jack Guthman, Oren Harris, Paul Ylvisaker, and M. S. Novik.
The papers also comprise: correspondence, 1962-1963, concerning Laurent's articles and activities; and articles and speeches by Laurent and clippings about him, 1963. In the correspondence, one letter concerns his participation in a 1963 conference of the Institute for Education by Radio-Television, Ohio State University; one encloses a speech by LeRoy Collins, July 5, 1963, for the Ditchley Foundation; and one invites Laurent to participate in a conference at Reed College on the role of television in the democratic process.
The articles and speeches folder includes a talk, April 1, 1963, at the National Association of Broadcasters convention and a talk, April 20, 1963, at the Sigma Delta Chi convention. Other items in the folder are clipped columns and references to Laurent from trade magazines.
Administrative/Restriction Information
Presented by Lawrence Laurent, Washington, D.C., October 8, 1965. Accession Number: MCHC65-121
Processed by Karen Baumann, April 1, 1970.
Contents List
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Correspondence, 1962, June - 1963, Aug.
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Folder
2
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Articles and speeches by Laurent and clippings about him, 1963
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Equal Time
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Drafts
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Folder
3
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Book outlines
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Folder
4
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Laurent's remarks on Minow's speeches
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Folder
5
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Minow's introduction
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1
Folder
6
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“From Crisis to Crisis”
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1
Folder
7
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“Politics and Electronics”
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1
Folder
8
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Miscellaneous and unlabeled drafts
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Folder
9-10
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Resource material
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