The Leo Fitzpatrick scrapbook of the American Radio Archives conststs of 1 scrapbook ranging from the 1930s-1940s pertaining to his career as a jouranlist for the Wichita Eagle and radio program/general manager for WDAF and WJR.

Leo J. Fitzpatrick (1894-1971) was a newspaper writter from Wichita, Kansas who became a figure in radio broadcasting. He attended the University of Kansas and in 1916 began his early career as a reporter for the Wichita newspaper. He has been credited on writting some of the earliest articles on the "new phenomenon of radio" fot The Kansas City Star in 1921 and then was put in charge of the WDAF radio station when founded in 1923. In 1925 he became the general manager and part owner of WJR in Detroit until 1946. During World War II he was a consultant to the Office of War Information and after the war he was the director of radio facilities in Japan and Korea under Douglas MacArtur. He died in Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan in 1971.

.5 Linear Feet; (1 box: 1 scrapbook)

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