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Title: Klement Simoncic papers
Date (inclusive): 1951-1988
Collection Number: 2011C12
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In English and Czech
Physical Description:
7 manuscript boxes
(2.6 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, radio broadcast scripts, reports, memoranda, and printed matter, relating to Radio Free Europe broadcasts
to Czechoslovakia, and to activities of the Society of International Broadcasters in representing the interests of current
and retired RFE/RL employees.
Creator:
Simoncic, Klement
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 2011.
[Identification of item], Klement Simoncic papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Simoncic served on the Czech desk of Radio Free Europe from its beginning; among his earliest papers are press reviews to
be broadcast dated June 1951. Later papers (1970s-80s) deal with labor relations at RFE/RL and with the creation of the Society
of International Broadcasters, a membership organization established in 1977 and devoted to promoting the interests of Radio
Free Europe/Radio Liberty's (RFE/RL) employees as well as the interests of U.S. international broadcasting by putting pressure
on the U.S. government to continue and expand its support of international broadcasting. The organization was headed by Major
General C. Rodney Smith, a former director of RFE/RL.
Scope and Content of Collection
Correspondence, radio broadcast scripts, reports, memoranda, press reviews, and printed matter, relating to Radio Free Europe
broadcasts to Czechoslovakia, and to activities of the Society of International Broadcasters in representing the interests
of current and retired RFE/RL employees. The collection is especially significant in that it supplements the corporate records
of RFE/RL, Inc., and adds to our knowledge of how it operated. Until now, the RFE/RL corporate records, which are also housed
at the Hoover Institution, though extensive, are incomplete; the early period of the Radios' existence has been particularly
poorly represented.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Radio broadcasting -- Czechoslovakia
Radio Free Europe
Society of International Broadcasters