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Title: John Downing Weaver Collection about the Olympic Games,
Date (inclusive): 1972-1985
Collection number: 1363
Creator:
Weaver, John Downing, 1912-
Extent:
16 boxes (8 linear ft.)
2 oversize boxes
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Abstract: John D. Weaver (b. 1912) worked for various federal agencies, including the National Recovery Administration (1933-35). He
was also a reporter, feature writer, book reviewer, and copy editor for the
Kansas City star (1935-40) and contributed articles, short stories, and book reviews to magazines, and wrote novels and non-fiction. The collection
consists mostly of ephemera, clippings, and memorabilia relating to the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, but also of the city's
1932 games, on efforts to stage an Olympiad in Los Angeles in 1980, on the U.S. boycott of the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, and
on the Winter games in Sarajevo.
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language:
English.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
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], John Downing Weaver Collection about the Olympic Games (Collection 1363). Department of Special
Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
4233966
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of John D. Weaver, 1984.
Weaver was born February 4, 1912 in Washington, D.C.; attended Georgetown University, 1928-29; AB, College of William and
Mary, 1932; AM, George Washington University, 1933; worked for various federal agencies, including the National Recovery Administration,
1933-35; was also reporter, feature writer, book reviewer, and copy editor,
Kansas City star, 1935-40; contributed articles, short stories, and book reviews to magazines; also wrote novels and non-fiction; published
works include:
Wind before rain (1942),
Another such victory (1948),
Warren: the man, the Court, the era (1967),
The Brownsville raid: the story of America's “black Dreyfus affair” (1970), and
Los Angeles: the enormous village (1980).
Collection consists mostly of ephemera, clippings, and memorabilia relating to the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, but also of
the city's 1932 games, on efforts to stage an Olympiad in Los Angeles in 1980, on the U.S. boycott of the 1980 Olympics in
Moscow, and on the Winter games in Sarajevo. Includes subject files such as accommodations, administration, arts festival,
ceremonies, crime, drugs, funding, security, smog, and traffic, and especially events, which are listed by specific competition.
Arranged in the following series:
- Efforts to get 1980 and 1984 games for Los Angeles (Box 1).
- 1980 Moscow games (Box 2).
- Winter games, Sarajevo (Box 3).
- Los Angeles games (Boxes 4-16).
- Games in 2004 (Box 16).
- Official Guide to Los Angeles, 1984 and Los Angeles times and Los Angeles daily news Olympics supplements (Boxes 17-18).
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Olympic Games (23rd: 1984: Los Angeles, Calif.).