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

Reference:

Jeffrey H. Caufield, General Walker and the Murder of President Kennedy: The Extensive New Evidence of a Radical-Right Conspiracy (Moreland Press, 2015).

Websites with information:

http://researchguides.uoregon.edu/scua-politics/conservative

http://library.uoregon.edu/speccoll/nwdalinks.html

http://library.uoregon.edu/tools/blogs/scua/check-out-pedro-del-valle-papers/

https://library.uoregon.edu/speccoll/guides/afram2.htm

https://library.uoregon.edu/speccoll/guides/conservative.html

http://janus.uoregon.edu/record=b1951512

https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/19081869

http://www.worldcat.org/title/pedro-a-del-valle-papers-1949-1978/oclc/19081869

Finding aids:

http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv35240

http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv35240

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv35240/op=pretrieve.aspx

[0768a] Linda DeLeon papers, 1981-2013, 2013100 Aa 2

Location: Michigan Historical Collections, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, 1150 Beal Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2113

Description: Linda DeLeon is an anti-pornography and anti-abortion activist, a member of the Christians for Decency (CFD), and president of CFD Anti-Pornography Information Center in Wayne County, Michigan. The papers consist of correspondence, publications, mailing, petitions, and other material. Files on abortion, American Decency Association of Michigan, American Family Association of Michigan, Americans for Responsible Television, Focus on the Family, Christians for Decency, National Federation for Decency Greater Detroit Chapter, and other Michigan and national organizations.

Websites with information:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160621230535/http://bentley.umich.edu/legacy-support/african_americans/­women.php

https://web.archive.org/web/20160622003158/http://bentley.umich.edu/legacy-support/detroit/detroit_­search.php?heading=6

https://web.archive.org/web/20160622041603/http://bentley.umich.edu/legacy-support/detroit/detroit_­search.php?id=1742

https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/857795988

http://www.worldcat.org/title/linda-deleon-papers-1981-2013/oclc/857795988

Finding aids:

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-2013100?view=text

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=bhlead;id=navbarbrowselink;cginame=findaid-idx;cc=b

hlead;view=reslist;subview=standard;didno=umich-bhl-2013100

[0769] Cecil B. DeMille Archives, 1863-1983, MSS 1400

Location: L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602

Description: DeMille (1881-1959) was an American motion picture producer and director, considered the archetype of the American film mogul. The archives consist of personal and business correspondence, audio and videotape recordings, financial ledgers, and memorabilia. DeMille was expelled from radio for his refusal to pay the one-dollar political campaign assessment by the American Federation of Radio Artists. In response, DeMille organized the DeMille Foundation for Political Freedom in 1945 to campaign in favor of right-to-work laws and against Communist infiltration. A supporter of the Taft-Hartley Act, which prohibited the closed shop and placed labor unions under restrictions, DeMille testified before the House Committee on Education and Labor in 1947 and endorsed President Truman's executive order to establish standards of loyalty for federal employees. Series XV: DeMille Foundation for Political Freedom, contains the records of this organization, which was in force from 1945 to 1959. The subseries Correspondence contains files on E. M. Biggers (Houston, Texas), Upton Close, Committee for Political Freedom, Herb Cornuelle, Cathrine Curtis, Women Investors Research Institute, Daughters of the American Revolution, Reverend James W. Fifield, Jr., Freedoms Foundation (Kenneth D. Wells), Freedoms Foundation/Valley Forge, Fred Hartley, Jr., Herbert Hoover, J. Edgar Hoover, addresses, E. F. Hutton, James C. Ingebretsen, Governor Goodwin J. Knight, right-to-work statement, Fulton Lewis, Jr., "Model" State Right-to-Work Act, New York Times, clipping regarding DeMille's speech against the closed shop, February 1947, Newsreel "Right-to-Work", Samuel B. "Pettengill," broadcast from Indiana, Joseph Newton Pew and J. Howard Pew, The Reader's Digest letters, Ronald Reagan, 1951, Professor O. Glenn Saxon, "Eastern Representative," New York area, Chief W. Cleon Skousen, Subversive organizations, 1950, Senator Robert A. Taft, House Un-American Activities Committee, Thomas H. Werdel. The series General Files, 1945-1959, contains files on Marilyn R. Allen (Salt Lake City), George S. Benson (Searcy, Arkansas), Campaign for the 48 States, J. W. Clise (Seattle), Counterattack, John J. Fleck, Freedom Clubs, Incorporated, General Electric Company, L. R. Boulware, J. H. Gipson (The Caxton Printers), H. L. Hunt (Dallas), Vivien Kellems, William F. Knowland, David Lawrence, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, Colonel Robert R. McCormick, Manion Forum of Opinion (L. F. Reardon), The Minute Women of the U.S.A., National Americanism Commission (Karl H. W. Baarslag), National Association of Manufacturers (Earl Bunting, President), "News From Behind the Iron Curtain", Senator Richard M. Nixon, Patriotic Education, Incorporated, Carroll Reece, Spiritual mobilization, Taft Hartley Act, Jack B. Tenney, and George H. Todt (Valley Times, North Hollywood, Calif.).The subseries Files By State, contains files on American Enterprise Association (William J. Baroody), Citizens Committee for Voluntary Unionism (Ashley E. Holden), J. W. Clise, Foundation for Economic Education, Freedom Club, Senator Barry Goldwater, Fred A. Hartley, Sister M. Margaret Patricia McCarran, National Right-to-Work Committee, National Association of Manufacturers, Reader's Digest, Spiritual Mobilization, Tennessee, Farm and Ranch Magazine (Thomas J. Anderson), and George Todt (Valley Times, North Hollywood Calif.).

Websites with information:

https://findingaid.lib.byu.edu/browse.php

Finding aid:

http://files.lib.byu.edu/ead/XML/MSS1400.xml

[0770] Cecil B. DeMille Photographs, ca. 1900s-1950s, 1881-1959, MSS P 146 [photographs]

Location: Photographic Archives, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602

Description: Cecil B. DeMille (1881-1959) was an American motion picture producer and director. The collection consists of 6000 photographs including oversize, 61 slides in molded case and viewing equipment, 2 glass plates, and 1 panoramic photograph. Includes a photograph of the first page of Articles of Incorporation of the "DeMille Political Freedoms Foundation." Photographs relating to right to work, including Art Wolf of the Centron Corp. of Lawrence, KS, handing DeMille the script for his part of the narration in the Kansas Right to Work film; the text of the proposed "right to work" amendment to the United States Constitution and editorials (one in The Dallas Morning News) in favor of the proposed amendment; DeMille and Fred A. Hartley, Jr., author of the Taft-Hartley Labor Bill, Washington, D.C., 11 May 1948; and DeMille speaking of 'The Right to Work' before The House Committee on Education and Labor, Washington, D.C., 11 May 1948. Photographs relating to Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge, 1949, 1953, 1957, 1958. A photograph taken at the ninth annual awards presentation ceremonies of Freedoms Foundation, 22 February 1958, showing, L-R: Graham Patterson, Dr. Robert L. Johnson, Dr. Kenneth D. Wells, Cecil B. DeMille, Gen. Curtis E. LeMay, Charles Stewart Mott, Lt. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, and Roger Firestone.

Websites with information:

https://findingaid.lib.byu.edu/browse.php

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