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Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Gladwin Hill papers
Creator:
Hill, Gladwin
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1706
Physical Description:
56.5 Linear Feet
(113 boxes, 1 oversize box)
Date (inclusive): circa 1935
Abstract: Gladwin Hill (b.1914) was a reporter,
wire editor, feature writer, columnist (1932- ), and war correspondent in Europe (1944-46).
He later served as chief of the Los Angeles bureau of the
New York Times
(1946-68), was a member of the board of directors for the Los Angeles Press Club, and a
national environmental correspondent (1969- ). The collection consists of manuscript
articles, book manuscripts, manuscripts of speeches and lectures, correspondence, essays,
unpublished materials, interview notes, personal diaries (1935-73),
New York
Times
Los Angeles Bureau records and correspondence, photographs, and
ephemera.
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access
special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on
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Language of Material:
English .
Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in
advance using the request button located on this page.
Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library, Department of Special
Collections. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their
heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and
pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents
do not hold the copyright.
[Identification of item], Gladwin Hill papers (Collection 1706). UCLA Library Special
Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
4233146
Hill was born on June 16, 1914 in Boston, Massachusetts; BSc, Harvard University, 1936;
became reporter and feature writer for the
Boston transcript, 1932-36; worked
variously as a reporter, wire editor, feature writer, columnist, and war correspondent; war
correspondent in Europe, 1944-46; was first reporter to fly into Germany on a U.S. bombing
raid and filed the first eyewitness story on the Normandy invasion; served as chief of the
Los Angeles bureau of the
New York Times, 1946-68; member of the board of
directors, Los Angeles Press Club; became national environmental correspondent in 1969;
publications include
Dancing bear: an inside look at California politics
(1968) and
Madman in a lifeboat: issues of the environmental crisis
(1973).
Collection consists of manuscript articles, book manuscripts, manuscripts of speeches and
lectures, correspondence, essays, unpublished materials, interview notes, personal diaries
(1935-73),
New York Times Los Angeles Bureau records and correspondence,
photographs, and ephemera.
Oral history interview with Gladwin Hill [oral history transcript] / Gladwin
Hill, interviewee. UCLA Oral History Department interview, (1988?). Available at the
Department of Special Collections, UCLA.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Diaries.
Journalists -- United States -- Archives.
New York Times Company -- Officials and employees -- Archives
Hill, Gladwin--Archives.
New York Times Company -- Archives