Summary Information

Title: John H. Colburn Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1949-1975

Creator:

• Colburn, John H., 1912-1983

Call Number: U.S. Mss 133AF

Quantity: 3.6 c.f. (9 archives boxes)

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 1960-1975, of John Colburn, a journalist who was managing editor of the Richmond (Virginia) Times-Dispatch, 1949-1964; editor and publisher of the Wichita (Kansas) Eagle and Beacon, 1963-1972; and after 1972, vice-president of Landmark Communications Inc., a Virginia-based mass media corporation. Material relating to the Eagle and Beacon consists of correspondence, statistics, reports to the board of directors, and material on employee disputes and union negotiations. Relating to the Times-Dispatch are copies of an in-house organ. The remainder of the collection consists of speeches by Colburn and reference files gathered as a result of his involvement with the American Newspaper Publishers Association and the American Society of Newspaper Editors. This section includes clippings; speeches (not by Colburn); correspondence; and reports on freedom of information, the conflict between a free press and the right of fair trial, the Pentagon Papers, and miscellaneous journalistic trends

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-us0133af

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