Summary Information

Title: A. Merriman Smith Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1937-1973 (bulk 1940-1970)

Creator:

• Smith, A. Merriman, 1913-1970

Call Number: U.S. Mss 72AF; PH 4910; Audio 1474A; AD 404-406; EA 067

Quantity: 9.0 c.f. (8 record center cartons, 1 flat box, and 1 oversize folder), 911 photographs (2 archives boxes and 1 flat box), 309 transparencies (1 archives box), 3 negatives and 401 negatives on 36 strips in 1 negative box, 3 reels of 16 mm film and 1 reel of 8 mm film, and 88 tape recordings

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, mainly 1940-1970, of A. Merriman Smith, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author sometimes referred to as “the dean of the White House correspondents” for his news coverage of six presidents, 1941-1970, and for his Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The papers, which include correspondence, subject files, speeches and writings, working files, presidential memorabilia, and photographs, document both reporting for United Press International (UPI) and his personal life. Coverage of both an informational and evidential nature is strong for those periods when the President was away from the White House. Smith's journalism is represented by draft and printed news stories, articles, speeches, fiction stories, interviews, reporter's notebooks, and drafts of four books: A President Is Many Men (1948), Meet Mr. Eisenhower (1956), A President's Odyssey (1961), and The Good New Days (1962).

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-us0072af

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