Conservatism, the Right Wing, and the Far Right: A Guide to Archives. Archie Henderson

97403-1299

      Description: Anti-Catholic literature distributed in Lane County, Ore., during the presidential campaign of 1960. 1 box.

      Reference:

      Catalogue of Manuscripts in the University of Oregon Library, compiled by Martin Schmitt (Eugene, University of Oregon, 1971), http://library.uoregon.edu/ec/e-asia/read/schmitt.pdf.

      [0274] A. E. Bennett collection, 1958-1979, Coll. 79096

      Location: Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-6010

      Description: Letters, clippings, leaflets, pamphlets, serial issues, and ephemeral printed matter, issued by conservative and anti-Communist organizations in the United States, relating to international Communism and Communism in the United States.

      Reference:

      Guide to the Hanna Collection and Related Archival Materials at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace on the Role of Education in 20th-Century Society, by Fakhreddin Moussav (Stanford, Calif., Hoover Institution Press, 1982), p. 15

      Finding aids:

      http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt167nd6nc/entire_text/

      [0275] Charles E. Bennett Papers, 1903-2001 (bulk 1949-1992), MS 5

      Location: Special & Area Studies Collections, PO Box 117005, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, 205 Smathers Library, 1508 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL 32611-7005

      Description: Charles "Charlie" Edward Bennett (1910-2003) was a Democratic Democratic representative from Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives (1949-1993). The collection includes legislative files, correspondence and subject files, campaign materials, bills and Bennett's voting record, press files, writings and speeches, biographical information, family correspondence, trip files, photographs, audiovisual recordings, scrapbooks and memorabilia. The General Files 1950-2000 have files on Christian Crusade, Conservatism, Barry Goldwater, Ku Klux Klan, Liberty Lobby, "Operation Abolition," Operation Water Moccasin (an Army training exercise in counterguerrilla warfare in Georgia, witnessed by foreign military officers, that generated fright mail from the far right), segregation, and Young Americans for Freedom.

      Websites with information:

      http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/browset.htm

      http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/browseu_flm.htm

      http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/political/repsbyname.htm

      Finding aids:

      http://www.library.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/Bennett.htm

      http://www.library.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/Bennettfull.htm

      http://www.library.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/bennett3.htm

      [0276] Marion Tinsley Bennett Papers, 1941-1948, C1043

      Location: The State Historical Society of Missouri, 1020 Lowry Street, Columbia, Missouri 65201

      Description: Bennett (1914-2000) served in the United States Congress as a representative from Missouri from 1943 to 1948. Subjects include America First Committee, Anti-Semitism, Charles A. Beard, George S. Benson, Bretton Woods Conference, Owen Brewster, John William Bricker, Styles Bridges, Edmund Burke, Harry Flood Byrd, James F. Byrnes, Committee for Constitutional Government, Communism, Martin Dies, Everett McKinley Dirksen, Dumbarton Oaks Conference, Fascism, Hamilton Fish, James Vincent Forrestal, Adolf Hitler, Clare E. Hoffman, J. Edgar Hoover, Herbert Hoover, Jeffersonian Democrats, Walter H. Judd, Ku Klux Klan, Alfred Mossman Landon, William Langer, David Lawrence, William Lemke, Lend-Lease, Fulton Lewis, Jr., Charles A. Lindbergh, Huey P. Long, Clare Boothe Luce, Lynching, Raymond Charles Moley, Nazism, Opposition to New Deal, W. Lee O'Daniel, G. Bromley Oxnam, Wright Patman, Attack on Pearl Harbor (Oahu, Hawaii), George Nelson Peek, Samuel B. Pettengill, Edgar Monsanto Queeny, John E. Rankin, B. Carroll Reece, James A. Reed, Richard Russell, Robert A. Taft, Townsend Plan, Francis E. Townsend, Burton K. Wheeler, Hubert Wheeler, Alexander Wiley, and Wendell L. Willkie.

      Websites with information:

      http://shs.umsystem.edu/manuscripts/descriptions/desc-gov.html

      Finding aid:

      http://shs.umsystem.edu/manuscripts/invent/1043.pdf

      [0277] W.A.C. Bennett fonds, F-55

      Location: Archives & Records Management Department, Maggie Benston Student Services Building (MBC) 0400, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6 Canada

      Description: W.A.C. (William Andrew Cecil) Bennett (1900-1979) was a businessman and politician. He was the Premier of British Columbia from 1952-1972. Series F-55-9. Progressive Conservative Party (1935-1950), consists of records compiled by W.A.C. Bennett as an active member of the federal Progressive Conservative Party. Activities documented are election campaigns and the 1948 Yale by-election for which W.A.C. Bennett was a candidate. Included are lists, statements, notices, newspaper clippings, 1948 poll statements, a map, minutes, memoranda, newsletters, pamphlets, reports, manuals, and correspondence addressed to W.A.C. Bennett as secretary-treasurer of the Yale Conservative Association. Series F-55-10. B.C. Progressive Conservative Association (1936-1953), consists of records relating to Bennett's association with the B.C. Progressive Conservative Association and his first successful election campaign in 1941. Included are correspondence, file notes, lists, statements, receipts, a certificate, ballots, minutes, resolutions, memoranda, proposals, pamphlets and transcripts. Series F-55-13. Social Credit League (1935-1979), consists of records relating to the Social Credit League. Records document early ideology, election campaigns, party developments in the 1970s, the 1973 leadership campaign and the conventions of 1975 and 1976. Included are pamphlets, poems, mimeographed statements, scripts, calendars, programs, a survey, posters, correspondence, invoices, a receipt book, speeches, lists, newspaper clippings, a folders, buttons, a portfolio, press releases, minutes, newsletters, cartoons, statements and resolutions.

      Websites with information:

      http://www.sfu.ca/archives2/onlinefindaids/fa.html

      Finding aids:

      http://www.sfu.ca/archives2/F-55/F-55.html

      http://www.sfu.ca/archives2/F-55/FindingAid.pdf

      [0278] Marvin Bensman Radio Program Archive, 1920s-1983 [sound recordings]

      Location: Special Collections/Mississippi Valley Collections, 126 Ned R. McWherter Library, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152-3250

      Description: The collection features 1500 hours of recorded American radio programs. Contains programs by or about America First, America First Committee, American Legion, Army McCarthy Hearings, Sen. Bilbo, Hugo L. Black [speech on his Ku Klux Klan membership, Oct. 3, 1937], Senator A. Capper, Boake Carter, Senator William R. Castle, Claire Chennault, Father Charles Coughlin ["Twenty Years Ago," April 4, 1937; "Relief That Fails to Relieve," April 11, 1937], Dr. Lee de Forest, T.S. Eliot [a reading of selections from Eliot's "Four Quartets" by John Hall Wheelock and James Johnson Sweeney, March 16, 1946], J. Edgar Hoover ["Fortify Our Freedoms," 1966; on anti-Communism], Senator E.C. Johnson, William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) [last broadcast from Berlin, April 30, 1945], Gov. A.M. Landon, Lend-Lease Bill, Fulton Lewis, Jr., Charles A. Lindbergh ["Neutrality & War," Oct. 12, 1939; an America First speech of May 23, 1941], Douglas MacArthur [talk after Truman fired him during Korean War, April 19, 1951], Colonel Hanford MacNider, Joseph McCarthy, H. L. Mencken [interviewed by Don Kirkley, June 30, 1948], Adolphe Menjou, Edward R. Murrow [attack on McCarthy, 1954], Eddie Rickenbacker, President Franklin Roosevelt [report on Yalta Conference, March 1, 1945], Senator Robert A. Taft, Dorothy Thompson, Cong. James E. Van Zandt, Senator David I. Walsh, J. Webb, Senator Burton K. Wheeler, and Wendell Willkie.

      Websites with information:

      http://www.memphis.edu/specialcollections/resources.php

      https://umdrive.memphis.edu/mbensman/public/_index.html

      Finding aid:

      https://umdrive.memphis.edu/mbensman/public/lib1.pdf

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