Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Gladwin Hill papers
- Dates:
- 1949-1991, bulk Bulk, 1963-1968
- Creators:
- Hill, Gladwin
- Abstract:
- This collection consists of Gladwin Hill's clippings files on the assassinations of the Kennedy brothers and the notes he took while covering their assassinations for The New York Times in 1963 and 1968. Also included in this collection are magazines and newspapers with features about the Kennedy family.
- Extent:
- 2.0 Linear feet 3 boxes; 1 map case file
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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[Box/folder# or item name], Gladwin Hill papers, Collection no. 0178, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California.
Background
- Scope and content:
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This collection includes Gladwin Hill's notes, clippings files, and drafts of his articles from his investigation of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. Also included in this collection are his notes and copy filed while covering the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963 and magazines and newspapers with features about the Kennedy family and the Supreme Court. The titles of the files in this collection are Hill's original file titles.
- Biographical / historical:
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Gladwin Hill (1914-1992) was born in Boston and graduated from the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachussetts in 1932 and Harvard College in 1936. He started his career as a journalist working for the Associated Press. He spent World War II in Europe as a war correspondent. In 1945, he joined the New York Times and after the war he established the Times' first news bureau in Los Angeles, California. He served as the bureau chief for twenty-three years and was one of the first reporters to cover the environment as a beat. He covered the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy by Sirhan Sirhan in 1968 for the New York Times. After retiring in 1979, Hill continued to contribute to local publications and taught journalism at USC. He passed away in Los Angeles in 1992.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Sponsor:
- The processing of this collection and the creation of this finding aid was funded by the generous support of the National Historic Publications and Records Commission.
- Date Prepared:
- 2011 March
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2011-04-15T03:17-0700
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. Advance notice required for access. Consult finding aid for additional information.
- Terms of access:
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The collection contains published articles; researchers are reminded of the copyright restrictions imposed by publishers on reusing their articles and parts of books. It is the responsibility of researchers to acquire permission from publishers when reusing such materials. The copyright to unpublished materials belongs to the heirs of the writers. Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder.
- Preferred citation:
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[Box/folder# or item name], Gladwin Hill papers, Collection no. 0178, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California.
- Location of this collection:
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Special CollectionsDoheny Memorial Library, Room 209Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189, US
- Contact:
- (213) 740-5900