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Fawn McKay Brodie audio-visual collection, 1946-1995
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Brodie, Fawn McKay, 1915-1981
- Title
- Fawn McKay Brodie audio-visual collection
- Dates
- 1946-1995 (inclusive)19461995
1971-1980 (bulk)19711980 - Quantity
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61 audiocassette
1 reel-to-reel audiotapes
3 microcassette : Norelco
1 u-matic - Collection Number
- A0026
- Summary
- The Fawn McKay Brodie audio-visual collection (1946-1995, bulk 1971-1980) consists primarily of oral history interviews with people associated with President Richard Nixon, his life, his administartion, and the controversies surrounding it. Brodie conducted these interviews as part of the research for her 1981 book, Richard Nixon: The Shaping of his Character. In addition to Brodie's own interviews, the collection also contains archived dictation and radio news reports used by Brodie in her research, as well as a television interview with Brodie and a recording of her 1978 lecture, Nixon: The Child and the Man and other material relating to Brodie's works and interests. Utah native Fawn Brodie was a history professor and biographer who published several books about historical figures, including Thomas Jefferson and Joseph Smith.
- Repository
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University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860
Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu - Access Restrictions
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Materials must be used on-site; no use of original material, access copies will be made available for viewing. Five business days advanced notice required. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law, condition of the material, or by donor.
- Languages
- English
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Fawn McKay Brodie (1915-1981) was born Fawn McKay in Ogden, Utah and grew up in nearby Huntsville. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from the University of Utah in 1934 and in 1936 completed a Master of Arts degree at the University of Chicago, where she met and married Bernard Brodie. After graduation began researching the history of the Book of Mormon and, in 1945, published No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith, which resulted in her 1946 excommunication from Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
After publishing two more biographies, Thaddeus Stevens: Scourge of the South (1959) and The Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard Burton (1967), Brodie began to teach history and American political biography at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History was published in 1974 and Richard Nixon: The Shaping of His Character in late 1981, nine monts after her death from lung cancer earlier that year.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The Fawn McKay Brodie audio-visual collection (1946-1995, bulk 1971-1980) consists primarily of oral history interviews with people associated with President Richard Nixon, his life, his administartion, and the controversies surrounding it. Brodie conducted these interviews as part of the research for her 1981 book, Richard Nixon: The Shaping of his Character. In addition to Brodie's own interviews, the collection also contains archived dictation and radio news reports used by Brodie in her research, as well as a television interview with Brodie and a recording of her 1978 lecture, Nixon: The Child and the Man and other material relating to Brodie's works and interests. Unless otherwise noted, all materials in this collection have been digitized and are available on compact disc or DVD.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Restrictions on Use
The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library's Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.
Preferred Citation
Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
Materials are arranged in the order of their original donation.
Acquisition Information
Donated by Pamela Brodie and Bruce Brodie in 1982 and Steve Mayfield in 1999.
Processing Note
Processed in 1998 and 1999.
Related Materials
See also the Fawn McKay Brodie papers (MS 0360) and photograph collection (P0026).
Forms part of the Aileen H. Clyde 20th Century Women's Legacy Archives.
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| cassette | ||
| 1 | Nixon: The Child and the Man lecture | 1978 October 19 |
| 2 | KUTV News interview with Fawn Brodie about her work on Joseph Smith | circa 1971 |
| 3 | John Dean | 1977 June 22 |
| 4 | Jack Anderson | 1975 April 19 |
| 5 | General Robert Cushman | 1978 June |
| 6 | Bob Finch | 1977 March |
| 7 | Helmut Sommerfeldt | 1977 March 14 |
| 8 | Bob Woodward | 1980 April 06 |
| 9 | Martin Agronsky, Henry Kissinger, Channel 28 | 1977 January 11 |
| 10 | Richard Bergholz, Los Angeles Times | 1980 April 01 |
| 11 | Thomas Bewley | 1976 April 15 |
| 12 | Richard Bissell | 1977 March 28 |
| 13 | Pat Brown (Edmund G.), Beverly Hills | 1976 April 15 |
| 14 | Lou Cannon, Washington Post | 1980 April 28 |
| 15-16 | Kenneth Chotener (Murray Chotner's son), Santa Monica | 1978 February 18 |
| 17 | Judge James Cobey | Undated |
| 18 | Reverand Coffin, Last Whittier Quaker Church | 1976 April 15 |
| 19 | Roy Coln, New York City Eye and Ear Hospital | 1979 April 26 |
| 20 | Tom Dixon, KFAC Radio Los Angeles | 1975 November 28 |
| 21 | Evelyn Dorn, Nixon's Whittier secretary | 1946 April 13 |
| 22 | Eugene Genoresa, Los Angeles | 1977 November 06 |
| 23 | Bob Green, Newsday, Rokonhoma, New York | 1977 March 30 |
| 24 | Haldiman-Wallace | Undated |
| 25 | Leonard Wood Hall, Garden City, New York | 1975 August 20 |
| 26-27 | Hess
These interviews were recorded on a format not supported by our archive and are not available on compact disc at this time.
|
Undated |
| 28 | Stephen Hess | 1978 February 01 |
| 29 | Phoebe Howard (Elizabeth Evans' sister) | 1976 November 21 |
| 30 | Henry Kissinger and Dan Frost | 1979 October 11 |
| Reel | ||
| 31 | Henry Kissinger lecture dictation | 1968 April 04 |
| cassette | ||
| 32-33 | Herb Klein | 1977 March 22 |
| 34 | Anthony Lewis, New York Times, Boston | 1977 March 28 |
| 35 | Rose Olive and O. Marshburn (Nixon's aunt and uncle), Whittier | 1977 April 30 |
| 36 | Dick Mathis, Los Angeles | 1977 August 19 |
| 37 | Unidentified Nixon associate | Undated |
| 38 | CBS News coverage of Nixon's resignation speech; statement by Gerald Ford | 1974 August 08 |
| 39 | NBC News coverage of Nixon's farewell speech with commentary; Gerald Ford's inauguration | 1977 August 19 |
| 40-44 | Nixon interview with Frost | 1977 May 04, 1977 May 12, 1977 May 19, 1977 May 25, 1977 September 05 |
| 45-46 | Nixon and Dunpey | 1979 November 26 |
| 47 | Nixon Melhouse film | Undated |
| 48 | William Purdue, New York | 1976 November 05 |
| 49 | Judge J. Pasht | 1976 October 03 |
| 50 | Dan Rather, CBS, New York | 1975 August 30 |
| 51 | James Reston, Jr., University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) | 1977 April 21 |
| 52 | Ed Rubin | Undated |
| 53 | Mrs. Foster (Georgia) Sherwood | 1973 October 10 |
| 54-55 | Ralph de Toledano | 1975 August 30 |
| 56 | Jerry Voorkis, Claremont | 1978 February 22 |
| 57-58 | Jessamyn West (cousin of Richard Nixon) at home of her brother, Merle West, in Hacienda Heights | 1976 September 29 |
| 59 | Paul Ziffren | 1976 December 18 |
| 60 | George Reedy at Marquette University | 1977 March 25 |
| 61 | Stephen Hess
These interviews were recorded on a format not supported by our archive and are not available on compact disc at this time.
|
Undated |
| 62 | Discussion of future of higher education in the sate of Utah | 1974 |
| 63-66 | "Fawn Brodie Symposium: No Man Knows My History"
Presenters include Martha Bradley, Linda K. Newell, Newell Bringhurst, Mario dePillis, Roger Launius, William Mulder, Laivinia Fielding Anderson, Mauricio Mazon, Todd Compton. Also includes August 6, 1995, radio interview with Newell Bringhurst on KTKK radio.
|
1995 August |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- History--20th century--United States
- Oral history
Personal Names
- Kissinger, Henry, 1923-
- Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994
Form or Genre Terms
- Oral histories
- Sound recordings
