Summary Information

Title: Erwin Knoll Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1946-1995

Creator:

• Knoll, Erwin

Call Number: M98-177; Audio 1935A; M99-011; M2007-090

Quantity: 9.3 cubic feet, 23 tape recordings, 26 photographs, and 5 negatives

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 Erwin Knoll, an outspoken advocate for free speech and nonviolence, documenting his career as a journalist for Editor & Publisher (1948-1953, while an evening student at New York University) and The Washington Post (1957-1963), White House correspondent for Newhouse News Service (1963-1968), host of two nationally syndicated radio shows, panel member on the MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour, and editor of The Progressive magazine (1973-1994). The Progressive papers include documentation of United States of America v. The Progressive, Inc., his First Amendment battle fought and won against the U.S. government, which in 1979 tried to restrain The Progressive from publishing an article with the hydrogen bomb formula obtained from publicly available sources.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-m98177

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