University of Wyoming
Interviews with Spiro Agnew -- audio cassette tapes.
Joseph Medill Patterson Albright (b.1937) was a journalist and Washington correspondent for Cox Newspapers, 1976 through the 1980s. He began his career with the"Chicago Sun Tribune", 1958-1961;later moved to "Newsday" 1961-1971 where he was chief of the Washington Bureau and served as a legislative aide to Senator Ed Muskie. In 1972-1975 he was Washington correspondent for the "San Francisco Chronicle". He wrote "What Makes Spiro Run: Life and Times of Spiro Agnew" (1972) and co-authored several books with his wife, Marcia Kunstel, also a news correspondent. These include: "Their Promised Land: Arab versus Jew in History's Caldron: One Valley in the Jerusalem Hills" (1990) and "Bombshell: Secret Story of America's Unknown Atomic Spy Conspiracy" (1997).
The collection contains copies of Albright's articles and other clippings, subject files on Spiro Agnew, Jackson Amendment, Northrup Corporation, Pan American Airlines, Penn Central Railroad among others. Also included are periodicals, government publications, and other printed materials. There are extensive files by topic that contain Albright's hand written notes, correspondence and telegrams, related printed material and clippings on such issues as Presidents Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan, weapons, oil, energy, gold, and many other political issues. The notebooks that he used during his career with "San Francisco Chronicle" and Cox Newspapers are included.
There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.
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There are no known other archival collections created by Joseph Albright at the date of processing.
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