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Title: Richard C. Wilson papers
Date (inclusive): 1941-1972
Collection Number: 72057
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
3 manuscript boxes, 6 card file boxes, 4 envelopes
(2.9 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, American Red Cross reports, card files on individuals, club membership lists, and printed matter, relating
to the personal experiences of former residents of the Far East, as reported in the monthly newsletter, The Far Easterner;
and to Japanese internment camps, 1941-1942
Creator:
American National Red Cross
Creator:
Wilson, Richard C., 1902-1972
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Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1972.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Richard C. Wilson Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Biographical Note
1902, September 25 |
Born, Waverly, Kansas |
1922-1924 |
Reporter, Kansas City Star |
1924-1929 |
United Press Bureau Chief, Oklahoma City, Lincoln, and Dallas |
1929-1932 |
United Press Bureau Chief, Mexico City |
1932-1934 |
United Press Hollywood feature writer and subsequently assigned to San Francisco as cable editor to handle news of Japanese
invasion of Manchuria
|
1934-1936 |
United Press Bureau Chief, Honolulu |
1936-1941 |
United Press Manager for Southeast Asia, Manila |
1941-1942 |
Interned in Japanese internment camp |
1942 |
Coordinator of U.S. propaganda program in Mexico, U.S. State Department |
1944-1948 |
Public Relations Adviser, C.V. Starr and Co. |
1948-1953 |
Advertising Director, Manila Chronicle |
1953-1972 |
Editor, Far Easterner |
1972 |
Died |
Subjects and Indexing Terms
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons
Journalists
World War, 1939-1945 -- East Asia
East Asia -- Emigration and immigration