Subseries: Subject File, 1932-1965

American Society of Newspaper Editors

Book, The Edge of Freedom, 1961

Correspondence with Harper's Inc., including contract matters

Miscellaneous correspondence

Reviews

Book, Masters of Deceit, by J. Edgar Hoover, reviewed by Oakes, 1958
Scope and Content Note: File contains much adverse reaction to Oakes' review by right-wing people and organizations.

Book Reviews by John B. Oakes, 1950-1957
Scope and Content Note: File includes printed reviews, and in most cases, the manuscript copies of these reviews; also includes a number of letters from right-wing people and organizations denouncing Oakes' reviews of right-wing books.

Carnegie Corporation - Travel Grant for , 1959

Carnegie Grant, Letters of Congratulations
Scope and Content Note: File includes one letter from Lyndon B. Johnson, December 12, 1958.

Carnegie Endowment and Corporation, 1960

Carrie Chapman Catt Memorial Fund, 1955-1958 (A Research and Educational Fund created by The League of Women Voters of the United States)
Scope and Content Note: File includes materials relating to the Freedom Agenda committee, proposals for research grants, correspondence, reports, minutes, brochures, and newsletters.

Chattanooga University, 1955 (70th Anniversary Convocation)
Scope and Content Note: File contains material on a New York Times panel, of which Oakes was the moderator.

Collegiate School, 1954-1958

Columbia-Catherwood Award, 1960-1962
Scope and Content Note: File contains speeches, schedules, correspondence, and brochures.

Columbia University School of Journalism, 1957-1964

Congregation Emanuel, 1952-1964
Scope and Content Note: File includes much material on Oakes' ideas regarding religious education of children.

Conservation Column, 1951-1960

Council on Foreign Relations, 1948-1963
Scope and Content Note: File contains correspondence on members, a transcript of the Ad Hoc Meeting for Representatives of the President's Commission on United States Information Activities Abroad, and much material relating to the press and foreign relations.

Educational Alliance, 1951-1964
Scope and Content Note: File includes material, 1955, relating to charges by Boy Scout officials that the Educational Alliance was infiltrated by Communists; papers relating to camping projects and other plans of the Alliance.

Foreign Policy Association, 1963-1964

Fulbright Act, National Selection Committee, 1952-1955
Scope and Content Note: File contains evaluation sheets for individual candidates; gives a clear picture of how Fellows are selected.

Hartford (Connecticut) University, 1960
Scope and Content Note: File contains correspondence, programs, and speeches relating to the awarding of a honorary degree to Oakes and to Oakes' participation in the university's convocation on France.

Lafayette Scholarships, 1954

Magazine articles by John B. Oakes, 1957-1958
Scope and Content Note: File includes notes of a long interview with Nelson Rockefeller, in which Rockefeller gives his reasons for entering politics; a copy of the manuscript of an article on isolationism; a carbon copy of an article on Adlai Stevenson; and a manuscript concerning the new president of Princeton University.

Magazine articles by John B. Oakes, 1938; 1953; 1957
Scope and Content Note: File contains photostats of 1938 “Letters from Russia,” written by Oakes for the Washington Post.

McCarthy File (Grace Roosevelt and Pegler)

Metropolitan Club, 1952-1954

National Conference of Editorial Writers, 1954-1956

Nieman Foundation, 1955-1962

New York Times Bureaus, Correspondence with Times newsmen, 1961-1965
Scope and Content Note: Includes:
Belair, Felix: Subjects covered include: foreign aid; Lyndon Johnson's attitudes toward stories anticipating his actions; and Eisenhower's support of Henry Cabot Lodge.
Bigart, Homer: Gives information on Nigeria.
Braestrup, Peter (Algeria): Gives information on Ben Bella and the turbulent Algerian scene.
Dale, Edwin L.
de Onis, Juan: Subjects covered include: Gainza Paz in Bolivia and Peruvian politics.
Frankel, Max: Gives information on North Vietnamese help to the Viet Cong.
Gruson, Sidney: Gives information on the Profumo scandal.
Kenworthy, E. W.: Gives information on foreign aid.
Krock, Arthur
Lewis, Anthony: Gives information on Britain's race question.
Olson, Arthur
O'Toole, Edward T.: Discusses Russia and the European Common Market.
Reston, James
Salisbury, Harrison
Shabad, Theodore
Shanahan, Eileen: Gives information on tax loopholes.
Sullivan, Walter
Underwood, Paul
Walz, Jay
Welles, Benjamin: Gives information on Patrice Lumumba and the Congo.

New York Times Magazine articles by John B. Oakes
Scope and Content Note: File contains two articles: “The Security Issue,” and “This Is the Real, the Lasting Damage,” along with much reader response.

Princeton University, 1932; 1934; 1953-1964
Scope and Content Note: File includes correspondence, speeches, and printed matter, some of which goes back to 1932 when Oakes was elected to the Tower Club.

Princeton University - Sheldon Fund, 1946-1950
Scope and Content Note: File contains materials relating to the Princeton University Department which coordinates all fund-raising projects on behalf of the University.

Princeton University Alumni Weekly, 1952
Scope and Content Note: File includes background materials on a series on academic freedom.

Radio and Television Programs
Scope and Content Note: File contains materials relating to the Open Mind program of November 16, 1958 and a number of quotes relating to integration.

Rhodes Scholars, 1954-1956 (Selection Committee)

Rhodes Scholars, 1934; 1957-1961 (Association of American Rhodes Scholars)

Rhodes Scholarship Trust, 1957-1964

Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences, 1954

Sigma Delta Chi, 1953-1954

Speeches

“Is Freedom of the Press in Danger?” - panel, October 13, 1953

“Communism and Its Impact on Our Liberties,” March 18, 1953

“Futurama of Communications: The Printed Word,” February 16, 1954

“Women: Power for Freedom,” June 1955

“Issues and Politics,” October 1954

“Reinforcing American Freedoms,” April 20, 1955

“Should the State Department Allow Reporters to Go to Red China?” , April 1957

“The Right of the People to Know,” Spring 1958

“The New Role of Neutralism,” November 16, 1960

“The Jet-Propelled Bulldozer,” July 25/26, 1960

“The Challenge of the '60s,” June 6, 1960

Speeches (continued)

Bryn Mawr, February 25, 1963, “Responsibility of the Press”

Collegiate School

Alumni Award Dinner, April 25, 1963

“Man's Right to Knowledge and The Free Use Thereof,” May 7, 1954

Presentation of Head Boy Medal, June 4, 1953

Dartmouth (Orvil E. Dryfoos Conference on Public Affairs), March 7, 1964, “The Public Image of Congress”

Hartford University, June 6, 1960, “The Challenge of the '60s”

Marquette University, March 7, 1962, “The Editorial: What It Is and What It Aims For”

Montana State University, May 5, 1963, “New York's Newspaper Strike”

Oxford School (Hartford) June 12, 1963, Commencement

Pomona College, June 9, 1963, “Smashing the Cliche”

Princeton, February 14, 1963, The Princetonian annual banquet

Speech

“The Critical Responsibility,” 1967 May 8

Speeches - Columbia University Lectures

“The Editorial Page,” March 13, 1953

Untitled, on the editorial page, March, 1952; another version given at the sectional meeting on the Editorial Page at the 28th annual convention of Columbia's Scholastic Press Association in New York on , March 14, 1952

Letter concerning the Columbia University lecture program

Article relating to “The Editorial Page” in the School Press Review, February 1954

Speech data
Scope and Content Note: File includes material relating to the function of the editorial page.

Speeches - Notes
Scope and Content Note: File contains material on Africa.

State Charities Aid Association, 1951-1958

Travel, Middle East, 1957
Scope and Content Note: File includes notes on a trip to Greece, Istanbul, Beirut, Cairo, Cyprus, and Israel.

USSR Conference, 1962-1963

Woodrow Wilson Foundation and Woodrow Wilson Papers, 1957-1966
Scope and Content Note: File contains materials relating to the Foundation's project to get Wilson's papers published.

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