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Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm2007085367
Collection material in English
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
The papers of Robert G. Spivack, journalist, were given to the Library of Congress by his daughter, Miranda Spivack, in 2007.
The papers of Robert G. Spivack were processed by Joseph K. Brooks with the assistance of Maria Farmer, Jewel McPherson, and Chanté Flowers in 2012.
Copyright in the unpublished writings of Robert G. Spivack in these papers and in other collections of papers in the custody of the Library of Congress has been dedicated to the public.
The papers of Robert G. Spivack are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Robert G. Spivack Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of Robert Gerald Spivack (1915-1970) span the years 1931-1970, with the bulk of the material dating between 1936 and 1970. Spivack was a reporter who covered news, politics, and organized crime in New York for the
The General Correspondence consists of letters and memoranda exchanged between Spivack and friends, colleagues, literary agents, public figures, and readers of his articles, columns, and newsletters. Included are memoranda to and from editors and colleagues at the
The Speeches and Writings include articles, book projects, columns, interviews, memoranda for the record, newsletters, and newspapers, written or edited by Spivack or by others. The series includes a comprehensive file of Spivack's articles for the
Speeches and Writings include Spivack's book projects relating to Thomas E. Dewey, underworld figure Frank Costello, Lyndon B. Johnson's administration, and Congressman Franklin D. Roosevelt (1914-1988).
Spivack's columns documented in the papers include In the Town's Backrooms, which covered politics on the New York and national levels, and his syndicated product Watch on the Potomac treating national politics from 1956 to 1970. The series includes examples of the University of Cincinnati newspaper that Spivack edited as a student,
The Subject File includes files relating to Spivack's late 1960s initiative, Reporters' News Syndicate, a program designed to give minority candidates practical training in journalism, and to Spivack's activism beginning in the 1930s with student and other groups advocating for war refugees and occupied peoples, against American isolationism, and in favor of United States participation in World War II. Spivack was editor of
The collection is arranged in five series:
Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm2007085367
Correspondence with friends, editors, newspaper owners, colleagues, public figures, and readers of his articles, columns, and newsletters.
Arranged chronologically.
Articles, columns, book projects, newsletters, newspapers, memoranda for the record, interviews, reporters' notes, political skits, satiric songs, speeches and miscellaneous material.
Arranged into writings and speeches by Spivack and writing and speeches by others, and thereunder alphabetically by type of material.
Topical files and organizational records.
Arranged alphabetically by subject or organization.
Biographical material, press releases, printed matter, and miscellaneous material.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material.
Two scrapbooks and a poster.
Arranged and described according to the series, container, and file from which the material was removed.