Jack Adelbert Killalee papers, 1927-1958

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Summary

Creators:
Killalee, Jack Adelbert, 1899-1957
Abstract:
Correspondence, diaries, memoranda, reports, notes, personal documents, and photographs, relating to American technical assistance to Turkey and to highway construction in Turkey, Lebanon, and elsewhere.
Extent:
4 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize folder (1.6 Linear Feet)
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Jack Adelbert Killalee papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Background

Scope and content:

The career of Jack A. Killalee as a United States government highway engineer was notable for its international dimension. After many years of activity in planning and constructing highways in the United States, he took part in an early Marshall Plan project to build highways in Turkey from 1947 to 1950. This was an instance of the far-flung work of the U.S. Economic Cooperation Administration in aiding in post-World War II reconstruction and development in many countries. After retiring from the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads in 1955, Killalee returned to the Middle East as a consulting engineer with the Tippetts-Abbett-McCarthy-Stratton Company, which was employed under a U.S. Foreign Operations Administration contract to plan and build a highway from Beirut, Lebanon, to Damascus, Syria. He was also involved with proposals for further highway construction in Jordan.

While the collection is small, it provides representative documentation of American international assistance and of the practicalities of life for Americans engaged in such assistance abroad. Many photographs of highway work are incorporated in textual reports in the collection.

Killalee maintained a permanent residence in Burlingame, California, and his papers were deposited with the Burlingame Historical Society after his death. The Hoover Institution received those of his papers focusing on his international work from the Burlingame Historical Society in 2014. Other Killalee papers remain with the society.

Biographical / historical:
Date Event
1899
Born, San Francisco, California
1917-1919
U.S. Army service
1925
B.S., University of California, Berkeley
1925-1955
Highway engineer, U.S. Bureau of Public Roads
1943
Alcan (Alaska-Canada) Highway construction engineer
1947-1950
Assistant division engineer, U.S. Public Roads Administration Group, Turkey
1955-1957
Consulting engineer, Tippetts-Abbett-McCarthy-Stratton Company, Lebanon
1957
Died, Burlingame, California
Acquisition information:
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library Archives in 2014.
Physical location:
Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.

Terms of access:

For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Jack Adelbert Killalee papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Location of this collection:
Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6003, US
Contact:
(650) 723-3563
hooverarchives@stanford.edu
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