Jack Bell Collection
Scope and Contents
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Journalist. Manuscripts and galley proofs of books by Bell, including "The Johnson Treatment" "Mr. Conservative: Barry Goldwater" and "The Splendid Misery." Typescripts of interviews with Hubert H. Humphrey, Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy. Also, Bell's correspondence with various political figures, including Dwight D. Eisenhower, Everett Dirkson, Barry Goldwater, J. Edgar Hoover, Hubert H. Humphrey, Lyndon B. Johnson, Edward M. Kennedy, Richard M. Nixon, William Proxmire, Douglas MacArthur, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Harry S. Truman, and Adlai E. Stevenson. Includes newspaper articles written by Bell on various subjects. Jack Bell Photograph Collection also in repository.
Dates
- 1937-1940
Creator
- Bell, Jack, 1904-1975 (Person)
Extent
2.66 ft. (2.66 ft.)
Language of Materials
English
Ownership and Custodial History
Gift of Jack Bell.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Papers: Source of acquisition--Bell, Jack. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1963.
- Authors -- Correspondence Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Bell, Jack, 1904-1975
- Correspondence Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Dirksen, Everett McKinley
- Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969
- Galley proofs Subject Source: Ftamc
- Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris), 1909-1998
- Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972
- Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978
- Interviews Subject Source: Ftamc
- Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973
- Journalists Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
- Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
- Manuscripts Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994
- Proxmire, William
- Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979
- Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965
- Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
- Yalta Conference -- (1945) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Description rules
- Appm
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Western History Collections Repository
630 Parrington Oval
Room 300
Norman Oklahoma 73019 United States
westernhistorycollections@ou.edu
