AHJ_ah01626 Inventory of the Charter Heslep papers, 1909-1973 (bulk 1930-1960) Heslep (Charter) papers Processed by Kathryn Brooks The creation of the EAD-version of this finding aid has been made possible through a grant from the National Historic Publications and Records Commission. University of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.
American Heritage Center Dept. 3924, 1000 E. University Avenue University of Wyoming Laramie, WY 82071 Phone: 307.766.2574 Fax:307.766.5511 Email:ahcref@uwyo.edu URL:http://ahc.uwyo.edu/
2012

University of Wyoming

 Finding aid encoded by Kathryn Brooks May 2012 Finding aid is in English Collection Summary Heslep, Charter, 1904-1963 Charter Heslep papers 1909-1973 (bulk 1930-1960) 01626 27.20 cubic ft. (55 boxes) University of Wyoming. American Heritage Center. English Contains the papers of Charter Heslep, who worked as a journalist and radio broadcaster, a radio news censor for the U.S. government, and assistant to the director of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Biography of Charter Heslep

Charter Heslep (1904-1963) was a journalist and radio broadcaster originally from Richmond, Virginia. He started at the Washington Daily News in 1929, later becoming managing editor. In 1941 he became night news editor for NBC in Washington. During WWII he worked for the government as chief radio news censor. He became Washington manager for the Mutual Broadcasting Company in 1946. In 1949 he took on the role of assistant to the director of the Atomic Energy Commission. Heslep ghost-wrote Admiral William D. Leahy's memoir I Was There.

Scope and Content

The collection contains clippings, pamphlets, photographs, and other material on Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal; personal and professional correspondence; photographs; correspondence and manuscripts for Leahy's memoir I Was There; business files; news releases; speeches; and diaries (1921-1952).

 Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.

 Copyright Information

The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.

 Related Materials

There is one other known archival collection created by Charter Heslep at the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum.

 Acquisition Information

This material was received from the estate of Margaret Smith Heslep (wife) and from Sara Heslep (daughter) between 1965 and 1974. Further materials were purchased in 1985 and 2015.

 Processing Information

The collection was processed by Kathryn Brooks in May 2012 and updated by Jamie J. Greene in June 2016.

 Preferred Citation

Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Collection Name, Collection Number, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

 Access Terms Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945. Leahy, William D. Washington Daily News Publishing Company. U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. New Deal, 1933-1939. Journalism--United States--History--20th century. Censorship--United States. Diaries. Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Journalism Politics, Government, and Law Science, Technology and Health Diaries Container List Series I. Journalism career 50 20th Century Congress by Estes Kefauver (inscribed by the author) 1947 24 ABC releases 1945-1955 18 After 12,000 Broadcasts - correspondence 1943-1944 20 After 12,000 Newscasts 1943-1947 15 Book - radio news 1945-1947 22 Booklets - radio/communications 1943 27 Broadcasting and Telecasting 1946-1956 18 Broadcasting circa 1947 41 Broadcasting-related publications 1954-1959 24 CBS releases 1934-1956 18 Correspondence re: Original Cooperative Arrangement XFI*KNX* Yankee Net 1932-1934 26 Editor and Publisher 1945-1952 23 FCC releases 1951-1952 24 MBS releases 1945-1952 25 Miscellaneous radio & TV releases 1945-1951 20 Mutual Broadcasting System 1941-1944 32 Mutual memoranda 1945-1946 21 The NARND (National Association of Radio News Directors) Bulletin 1949-1952 52 NBC 25th Anniversary Press Kit 1951 25 NBC memos to AAS 1941-1942 25 NBC releases 1941-1956 34 Network Press - Radio Book 1942-1944 50 New Horizons in Journalism by John E. Drewry (inscribed by Heslep) 1952 18 News Service (proposed) 1932 22 Press Research, Inc. - Communications 1945 20 Press-Radio circa 1945-1946 34 Printed materials - broadcasting education 1952-1954 12 Printed materials - broadcasting 1942-1950 23 Printed materials - broadcasting 1938-1955 28 Printed materials - broadcasting 1937-1949 28 Printed materials - freedom of the press 1935-1947 11 Printed materials - journalism/writing 1929-1950 34 Printed materials - NBC 1946-1956 22 Printed materials - radio broadcasting 1944-1955 15 Printed materials - radio 1934-1947 21 Printed materials - radio 1934-1956 29 Printed materials - radio 1937-1950 29 Printed materials - television 1949-1951 14 Public information 1943-1956 26 Radio and TV Daily 1944-1956 33 Radio book 1947-1955 16 Radio book: 1960-19__ file 1931-1963 16 Radio book: miscellaneous material up thru 1959 1933-1962 20 Radio data 1922-1940 47 Radio in education, freedom of radio 1944 20 Radio News Association - Subscribers correspondence 1934 52 Radio Propaganda - Walter Abbott 1939-1942 16 Scrapbook 1945-1947 33 Standard Rate & Data & Ayres circa 1943-1944 33 Station notes circa 1943-1944 22 Surveys - radio 1943, 1950 52 Television (RCA publication) 1939 18 Transradio News Association - (Radio News Association) 1934-1938 46 Truman Library - Independence, MO 1959-1963 46 Work samples (newspapers) 1926-1942 46 Work samples 1926-1942 Series II. Atomic Energy Commission work 49 20th anniversary of world's first reactor - background material 1962 53 Artifact - coral from Enewetak Atoll undated 53 Artifact - fragment of Trinitite (in plastic) from ground zero of atomic bomb blast undated 53 Artifact - goggles undated 53 Artifact - rod of zirconium (in plastic) undated 53 Artifact - rod of zirconium undated 47 Atoms for Peace 1958 55Biographical notes and timelinesundated 21 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 1947 55Certificate of membership to the "International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy," Genevaundated 55Certificates1958 46 Concerning atomic energy 1950-1956 46 Concerning Charter Heslep (A.E.C.) & 1st televised atomic blast 1909-1962 55Correspondence and memos1949-1963 55Department of State, NATO correspondentsApril 6, 1954 46 First Television of an Atomic Bomb 1951-1954 41 Fundamental Nuclear Energy Research 1962 52 Man and the Atom, A Report by the Mayor's Committee for the Commemoration of the Golden Anniversary of the City of New York 1949 55Memo - Personnel of Interim Contract Advisory Board, Idaho Operations OfficeJune 9, 1949 55Paul Harvey's Famous Break-in Narrative to Argonne (carbon of page 4)undated 55Photographs - portraits of Charter Heslepundated 9 Printed materials - atomic energy 1955-1963 21 Printed materials - atomic energy 1942-1950 23 Printed materials - atomic energy 1945-1949 28 Printed materials - atomic energy 1946-1953 29 Printed materials - atomic energy 1946-1960 31 Printed materials - atomic energy 1945-1959 21 Printed materials - U.S. Atomic Energy Commission 1948-1949 28 Printed materials - U.S. Atomic Energy Commission 1946-1949 29 Printed materials - U.S. Atomic Energy Commission 1946-1949 28 Printed materials - United Nations - atomic energy 1946-1958 29 Printed materials - United Nations - atomic energy 1946-1948 55Program - 38th annual metting of the West Virginia Academy of Science1963 22 Public Reaction to the Atomic Bomb and World Affairs 1947 April 55Remarks - Program Resources in Atomic Energy FieldNovember 3, 1951 55Report on European assignmentsJanuary 25, 1959 14 Second Symposium, 1959 1944-1956 23 Significant Radio Scripts - Atomic Energy 1950-1953 55Slides - International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, Geneva1955 55Speech - "Ghosting: A Necessity, Not A Sin", Conference College Compostion, Mayflower Hotel, Washington D.C.April 4, 1961 55Speech - "Scientist Won't Bite" remarks before National Association Radio News EditorsNovember 14, 1951 55Speech - "The AEC CAN Talk" delivery to American Women in Radio and TVApril 24, 1954 55Speech - Remarks by Charter Heslep before the Cosmopolitan Club, Washington D.C.November 20, 1952 22 They Said It Couldn't Be Done: The Story of the First Live Televising of an Atomic Detonation 1952 May 9 55Trip Report - travel in South America, May 24-June 12,1959 1959 14 U.S. Del. (scientific development) 1943-1956 Series III. Censorship work 20 Broadcast News Desk monthly reports 1942-1944 18 Censorship - personal 1942-1944 20 Censorship policy & comment 1942-1944 16 Censorship R-Series Special Requests 1942-1944 16 Censorship 1939-1945 33 Censorship 1941-1945 17 Clippings 1943-1944 17 Disarmament 1943-1946 32 FCC file 1945-1950 17 Heslep daily files 1943-1944 18 Heslep daily files 1943 19 Heslep daily files 1942-1944 20 Heslep daily files 1943 25 Heslep daily files 1944 17 Memoranda 1943 September 16 Memos by Heslep 1942 19 Memos by Heslep 1942 November 16 OC (Office of Censorship) press releases 1942-1944 17 Press memos 1942-1944 32 V-E Day Programs undated Series IV. Printed materials 1 1930 campaign 1929-1932 8 Addresses by FDR 1932-1943 41 The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 1933, 1935 53 Art prints (4) undated 35 Articles 1946-1952 47 Binder - periodical digests 1949-1950 47 Binder - printed materials - FDR 1942-1961 47 Binder - Roosevelt collection - executive orders 1933-1935 48 Binder - Roosevelt collection - messages and speeches 1933-1947 48 Binder - Roosevelt collection - pamphlets 1933-1949 48 Binder - Roosevelt collection - press research material vol. I 1944 48 Binder - Roosevelt collection - press research material vol. II - Truman 1944 48 Binder - Roosevelt collection - printed materials 1933-1960 6 Book reviews 1932-1962 39 Booklets 1947-1950 38 Bulletins 1952-1959 11 Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions - Interviews on the American Character 1961-1962 33 Clippings - Theodore Granik 1939-1944 12 Clippings 1933-1959 15 Clippings 1942-1947 31 Clippings 1930-1952, undated 47 Clippings circa 1945-1953 9 Congressional publications 1931-1962 43 Congressional Quarterly Almanac Vol. IV 1948 43 Congressional Quarterly Log 1948 44 Congressional Quarterly Log 1948 45 Congressional Quarterly Log 1947 47 Congressional Quarterly Log 1944 31 Congressional Quarterly Notebook 1947 43 Congressional Quarterly Notebook 1947 44 Congressional Quarterly Notebook 1948 44 Congressional Quarterly Notebook 1946 45 Congressional Quarterly Notebook 1946 47 Congressional Quarterly Notebook 1944 47 Congressional Quarterly Notebook 1945 45 Congressional Quarterly Weekly Log 1946 13 Congressional Quarterly, Vol. 1 1945 13 Congressional Quarterly, Vol. III 1947 32 Congressional sheets 1945-1948 6 Duplicates 1929-1959 8 Editorial Research Reports 1931-1933 11 Editorial Research Reports 1933-1947 39 Editorial Research Reports 1929-1947 40 Editorial Research Reports 1932-1960 6 FDR cartoons 1933-1949 1 FDR clippings 1913-1929 1 FDR clippings 1931-1934 2 FDR clippings 1935-1939 3 FDR clippings 1940-1944 4 FDR clippings 1945-1948 5 FDR clippings 1949-1963 53 FDR composite given to members of the 1956 National Democratic Convention by the Warm Springs Memorial Commission 1956 6 FDR death 1945 6 FDR duplicates 1933-1960 7 FDR inaugural newspapers 1933 March 6 FDR paintings & sculptures 1928-1968 10 FDR picture books 1945, 1950 1 FDR pictures 1919-1942 2 FDR pictures 1935-1940 3 FDR pictures 1941-1951 8 International Conciliation 1936-1949 21 International Conciliation 1945-1947 53 Ladies' Home Journal 1948, 1952 33 Large clippings 1933-1944 10 Liberty 1932 53 Life magazine 1948 November 1 53 Look 1952 April 22 34 Magazine clippings 1945-1959 8 Misc. printed materials circa 1941-1951, 1962-1963 10 Misc. printed materials 1956-1962 38 Misc. printed materials 1946-1960 39 Misc. printed materials 1944-1959 41 Misc. printed materials 1945, 1952 32 Miscellaneous sheets & pages 1933-1956 6 Mrs. Roosevelt's death 1948-1963 36 Newspaper clippings - photos 1952 36 Newspaper clippings 1938-1952 53 Newspapers 1949-1950 12 Newsweek 1945 11 Pamphlets - The Fund for the Republic 1958-1961 37 Pamphlets 1940-1961 38 Pamphlets 1942-1961 46 Periodical concerning the 20th anniversary of the first nuclear reactor 1962 36 Periodicals 1932-1950 39 Plans/reports 1948-1960 48 Presidents of the United States, Their Lives and Times 1946 41 Press Research, Inc. publications 1944-1945 21 Printed materials - education 1943-1951 10 Printed materials - FDR 1928-1952 12 Printed materials - FDR 1942-1962 23 Printed materials - general 1944-1950 9 Printed materials - math & science 1934-1962 9 Printed materials - misc. 1945-1963 34 Printed materials - misc. 1948, 1950 22 Printed materials - miscellaneous 1944-1950, undated 9 Printed materials - population studies 1961-1963 11 Printed materials - science 1959-1962 9 Printed materials - U.S.A. general 1931, 1963, undated 9 Printed materials - war/peace/revolution 1932-1947 41 Propaganda 1947-1948 53 Public Works Administration illustrated map of P.W.A. projects circa 1930s 38 Reports to Congress 1949 40 Reports to Congress 1949 11 Reports to the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions 1961-1962 42 The Senator 1939 33 Small clippings 1943-1944 40 Task Force Reports 1949 12 TIME 1945 12 The United States News 1945 8 Value of Flood Height Reduction from Tennessee Valley Authority Reservoirs to the Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi River 1939 11 Wyoming Oil Fields Company 1925 Series V. Personal 50 Binder - correspondence record circa 1952-1958 49 Biographical information 1939-1963 49 Biography 1963 49 Charter & Margaret correspondence 1935-1955 30 Correspondence 1942-1956 35 Correspondence 1941-1952 49 Correspondence 1935-1968 50 Diaries 1921-1943 50 Diaries/reminders (in envelopes) 1922-1949 46 Highlights of Charter Heslep's character 1935-1951 54 Letters from people of note 1954 35 Memoranda 1940-1941 42 Miscellaneous programs 1923-1937 35 Music programs - National Symphony 1930-1936 35 Music programs - Philharmonic Symphony 1931-1937 36 Music programs - recitals 1925-1934 35 Music programs 1922-1936 51 National Diaries (daybooks) 1953-1963 50 National Diaries (daybooks) 1944-1952 49 Notebooks 1921, undated 46 Personal Moments 1926-1959 37 Photographs 1938-1973 49 Photographs 1937-1963, undated 25 Pictures from Life magazine 1943 42 Theater programs 1922-1937 46 Truman, Harry & Margaret 1947-1958 Series VI. Other 14 Leahy-approved mss. Chapters 1-7 circa 1949 14 Interrogation - II circa 1941-1948 14 Interrogation - extra copy circa 1949 30 Original Leahy notes 1940-1945 35 Campaign material 1941-1960