Abstract: 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.