Summary Information

Title: Frederick W. Ford Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1940-1982

Creator:

• Ford, Frederick W., 1909-1986

Call Number: Mss 402; Disc 196A

Quantity: 8.0 c.f. (21 archives boxes) and 1 disc recording

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 1958-1968, of Frederick W. Ford, an attorney, career government employee, and former Federal Communications Commission member and chairman. Included are speeches and writings; correspondence; biographical clippings; and subject files relating to equal time and political broadcasting, the fairness doctrine, UHF/VHF allocations, the Legislative Oversight Subcommittee's investigations of the FCC during the 1950's, and many other topics. Files dating both from his early legal career with the FCC and the Federal Security Agency include material on two of the most famous cases to come before the FCC: the Paramount anti-trust case and the George Richards news-slanting case.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss00402

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