Summary Information

Title: John MacVane Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1935-1977

Creator:

• MacVane, John

Call Number: U.S. Mss 125AF; Micro 626; Audio 612A; Audio 928A; Disc 145A; PH 3749; CA 524-CA 526; DC 776-DC 777; DC 952-DC 958

Quantity: 5.2 cubic feet (13 archives boxes), 15 reels of microfilm (35 mm), 45 tape recordings, 10 disc recordings, 0.1 cubic feet of photographs (1 folder), and 12 films

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

See the catalog entry for information on possible additional materials and shelf locations.

Abstract:

Papers of John MacVane, a radio-television news broadcaster noted for his coverage of World War II and the United Nations. The bulk of the collection consists of scripts written for NBC, ABC, NET, CBC, and the Voice of America; speeches; and writings. The scripts chiefly concern the North African theater during World War II and the development of the United Nations, 1950-1977, and were written for such programs as ABC Evening News, Issues and Answers (ABC), News Around the World (ABC), United or Not? (ABC), and Army Hour (NBC). This work is supplemented by films and recordings. Among MacVane's most prominent correspondents are Dean G. Acheson, Warren P. Austin, Bernard Baruch, Omar N. Bradley, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Charles de Gaulle, Andrei Gromyko, James C. Hagerty, Louis Johnson, John L. Lewis, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., Elmer W. Lower, Georgi M. Malenkov, Merrill Mueller, Bernard Montgomery, Richard M. Nixon, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Eleanor Roosevelt, William Sheehan, and Niles Trammell.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-us0125af

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