UUM_A0026.xml Guide to the Fawn McKay Brodie audio-visual collection Brodie (Fawn McKay) audio-visual collection Finding aid created by Special Collections staff. J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections

1998 (Last modified: 2025)
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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-11-14. Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), 2nd Edition. J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections Fawn McKay Brodie audio-visual collection Brodie, Fawn McKay, 1915-1981 A0026 61 audiocassette 1 reel-to-reel audiotapes 3 microcassette Norelco 1 u-matic 1946-1995 1971-1980 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. Click here to request digitized materials from the collection or visit ArchivesSpace for a container level list of digitized materials. English

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.

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.

Materials are arranged in the order of their original donation.

Audio-visual materials can be fragile and require specialized equipment to play back. For this reason, access to audio-visual materials is provided through digital copies, and it might take longer to provide access to items that are not yet digitized. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law, condition of the material, or by donor.

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.

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Donated by Pamela Brodie and Bruce Brodie in 1982 and Steve Mayfield in 1999.

Processed in 1998 and 1999.

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.

 Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 Kissinger, Henry, 1923- History--20th century--United States Oral history Political Campaigns Moving Images Sound Recordings Oral histories Sound recordings Nixon: The Child and the Man lecture 1978 October 19 audiocassette 1 KUTV News interview with Fawn Brodie about her work on Joseph Smith circa 1971 U-Matic (TM) 2 John Dean 1977 June 22 audiocassette 3 Jack Anderson 1975 April 19 audiocassette 4 General Robert Cushman 1978 June audiocassette 5 Bob Finch 1977 March audiocassette 6 Helmut Sommerfeldt 1977 March 14 audiocassette 7 Bob Woodward 1980 April 06 audiocassette 8 Martin Agronsky, Henry Kissinger, Channel 28 1977 January 11 audiocassette 9 Richard Bergholz, Los Angeles Times 1980 April 01 audiocassette 10 Thomas Bewley 1976 April 15 audiocassette 11 Richard Bissell 1977 March 28 audiocassette 12 Pat Brown (Edmund G.), Beverly Hills 1976 April 15 audiocassette 13 Lou Cannon, Washington Post 1980 April 28 audiocassette 14 Kenneth Chotener (Murray Chotner's son), Santa Monica 1978 February 18 audiocassette 15-16 Judge James Cobey Undated audiocassette 17 Reverand Coffin, Last Whittier Quaker Church 1976 April 15 audiocassette 18 Roy Coln, New York City Eye and Ear Hospital 1979 April 26 audiocassette 19 Tom Dixon, KFAC Radio Los Angeles 1975 November 28 audiocassette 20 Evelyn Dorn, Nixon's Whittier secretary 1946 April 13 audiocassette 21 Eugene Genoresa, Los Angeles 1977 November 06 audiocassette 22 Bob Green, Newsday, Rokonhoma, New York 1977 March 30 audiocassette 23 Haldiman-Wallace Undated audiocassette 24 Leonard Wood Hall, Garden City, New York 1975 August 20 audiocassette 25 Hess Undated microcassette 26-27

These interviews were recorded on a format not supported by our archive and are not available on compact disc at this time.

 Stephen Hess 1978 February 01 audiocassette 28 Phoebe Howard (Elizabeth Evans' sister) 1976 November 21 audiocassette 29 Henry Kissinger and Dan Frost 1979 October 11 audiocassette 30 Henry Kissinger lecture dictation 1968 April 04 open reel audiotape 31 Herb Klein 1977 March 22 audiocassette 32-33 Anthony Lewis, New York Times, Boston 1977 March 28 audiocassette 34 Rose Olive and O. Marshburn (Nixon's aunt and uncle), Whittier 1977 April 30 audiocassette 35 Dick Mathis, Los Angeles 1977 August 19 audiocassette 36 Unidentified Nixon associate Undated audiocassette 37 CBS News coverage of Nixon's resignation speech; statement by Gerald Ford 1974 August 08 audiocassette 38 NBC News coverage of Nixon's farewell speech with commentary; Gerald Ford's inauguration 1977 August 19 audiocassette 39 Nixon interview with Frost 1977 May 04 1977 May 12 1977 May 19 1977 May 25 1977 September 05 audiocassette 40-44 Nixon and Dunpey 1979 November 26 audiocassette 45-46 Nixon Melhouse film Undated audiocassette 47 William Purdue, New York 1976 November 05 audiocassette 48 Judge J. Pasht 1976 October 03 audiocassette 49 Dan Rather, CBS, New York 1975 August 30 audiocassette 50 James Reston, Jr., University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) 1977 April 21 audiocassette 51 Ed Rubin Undated audiocassette 52 Mrs. Foster (Georgia) Sherwood 1973 October 10 audiocassette 53 Ralph de Toledano 1975 August 30 audiocassette 54-55 Jerry Voorkis, Claremont 1978 February 22 audiocassette 56 Jessamyn West (cousin of Richard Nixon) at home of her brother, Merle West, in Hacienda Heights 1976 September 29 audiocassette 57-58 Paul Ziffren 1976 December 18 audiocassette 59 George Reedy at Marquette University 1977 March 25 audiocassette 60 Stephen Hess Undated microcassette 61

These interviews were recorded on a format not supported by our archive and are not available on compact disc at this time.

 Discussion of future of higher education in the sate of Utah 1974 audiocassette 62 "Fawn Brodie Symposium: No Man Knows My History" 1995 August audiocassette 63-66

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.