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Title: Jack Kramer papers
Date (bulk): 1968-1969
Collection Number: 68016
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1 manuscript box
(0.4 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, memoranda, writings, printed matter, photographs, and one sound recording relating to the Eritrean Liberation
Front and the movement for Eritrean independence. Also available on microfilm (1 reel).
Creator:
Kramer, Jack
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1968.
[Identification of item], Jack Kramer papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Alternative Forms of Material Available
Also available on microfilm (1 reel).
Jack Kramer is an American journalist and author. He graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in English in 1965 and
completed graduate work in journalism at Columbia University in 1970. Kramer worked as a staff reporter for
The Wall Street Journal, contributing editor for
Time magazine, and Middle East Bureau chief for
Bloomberg Businessweek. He covered a variety of subjects as a journalist in the 1960s, including Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam,
Laos, Egypt, Eritrea, Somalia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tunisia, Algeria, Sudan, the Western Sahara, Greece, and Turkey. Kramer's publications
include:
Travels with the Celestial Dog, a memoir of the 1960s;
Rwanda Means the Universe,with Louise Mushikiwabo, the current foreign minister of Rwanda; and business-related books.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Jack Kramer papers include correspondence, memoranda, writings, printed matter, photographs, and one unique sound recording
recorded in Eritrea in September 1968. The recording has interviews with rank and file independence fighters and commanders
such as Osman Mohammed Idris (aka Abu Shenab) of the Eritrean Liberation Front (E.L.F.), who were fighting for independence
from Ethiopia. The correspondence include letters to and from Eritrean nationalists such as Woldeab Woldemariam, Kidane Kiflu,
Mohamud Dinai, and Osman Saleh Sabbe.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Audiotapes
Eritrea -- History
Nationalism -- Eritrea
Tagādlo hārnat ʼÉrtrā