Journalism

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Subject files, audio-visual materials, and notebooks. Note that research is included with publications, where possible.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Subject files, audio-visual materials, and notebooks. Note that research is included with publications, where possible.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Materials are organized by the work and arranged chronologically. Contents and size of materials for each book vary widely. The largest series, Trust Me and Down By the River, contain large amounts of research files. Street Signs Chicago contains correspondence between Bowden and the Houlberg-Kreinberg family.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This addition to the Charles Bowden archives includes complete manuscripts of Café Blood Some of the Dead are Still Breathing: Living in the Future, Exodus, Trinity, Inferno, Dreamland: The Way Out of Juarez, Fire In The Earth, Miss Sinaloa, Bowden Reader, Torch Song, and other articles featured in G. Q. Magazine and National Geographic. Other materials include a complete file of his book, magazine, and movie contracts; tax information; hand-written reporting notebooks; research and...

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Materials on grants and radio scripts that were not accepted, as well as an article pitch and letters of reference for awards.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The bulk of the material consists of Holley’s notes, research, articles, editorials and columns written during his tenure as editor and contributor for The Texas Humanist, The Texas Observer, The San Antonio Light, San Antonio Express-News, The San Diego Tribune, Texas Co-op Power and the Houston Chronicle (“Native Texan” column). Additional materials include edited speech drafts written for Governor Ann Richards and notes, drafts and research materials for pieces appearing in the Texas...

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Contains obituaries, newspaper articles on Fowler, and photographic materials.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Folders are grouped by publication and arranged chronologically. Folders vary widely in content and extent. Some folders contain only the published article, while others include correspondence, notes, research, drafts, and proofs, to varying degrees. The bulk of materials can be found in the Arizona Highways (mainly published articles), City Magazine, Harper's, ...

Subseries Description From the Sub-Series: This series contains records requested by Lee Hancock under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), a folder on the protocol for a FLIR imagery trial by Vector Data Systems, and the United States General Accounting Office report on military assistance during the standoff. Also included in this series is the briefing of Dr. Igor Smirnov, recorded on VHS,on the possibility of using Russian psychotherapeutics to encourage the Branch Davidians to surrender at Mount Carmel. A viewing copy on DVD...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The bulk of the material consists of Holley’s notes, research, articles, editorials and columns written during his tenure as editor and contributor for The Texas Humanist, The Texas Observer, The San Antonio Light, San Antonio Express-News, The San Diego Tribune, Texas Co-op Power and the Houston Chronicle (“Native Texan” column). Additional materials include edited speech drafts written for Governor Ann Richards and notes, drafts and research materials for pieces appearing in the Texas...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The bulk of the material consists of Holley’s notes, research, articles, editorials and columns written during his tenure as editor and contributor for The Texas Humanist, The Texas Observer, The San Antonio Light, San Antonio Express-News, The San Diego Tribune, Texas Co-op Power and the Houston Chronicle (“Native Texan” column). Additional materials include edited speech drafts written for Governor Ann Richards and notes, drafts and research materials for pieces appearing in the Texas...

Series Description From the Series: The first series includes documents related to varioussiege and standoff incidents. The majority of documents are news releases and articles. Included in this series is the May 13, 1985 siege of the MOVE organization’s house in West Philadelphia that ended in the bombing of the house by police later the same day; the May 17, 1974 LAPD and Symbionese Liberation Army shootout(located in the same file as the MOVE documents); prison riots in Atlanta, Georgia in November 1987and in Talladega,...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The papers of literary journalist Charles Bowden document his prolific career covering topics including the Arizona desert and environmental protection, corruption in politics, and drugs and violence along the U.S.­–Mexico border, especially in Juárez. The collection measures 50 linear feet, and is arranged into the following sixteen series: 1) Education, 2) Writing-Newspapers, 3) Writing-Magazine & Freelance, 4) Writing-Monographs, 5) Writing-Unpublished and posthumously published, 6)...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The bulk of the material consists of Holley’s notes, research, articles, editorials and columns written during his tenure as editor and contributor for The Texas Humanist, The Texas Observer, The San Antonio Light, San Antonio Express-News, The San Diego Tribune, Texas Co-op Power and the Houston Chronicle (“Native Texan” column). Additional materials include edited speech drafts written for Governor Ann Richards and notes, drafts and research materials for pieces appearing in the Texas...

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Materials are organized by the work and arranged chronologically. Contents and size of materials for each book vary widely. The largest series, Trust Me and Down By the River, contain large amounts of research files. Street Signs Chicago contains correspondence between Bowden and the Houlberg-Kreinberg family.

Subseries Description From the Sub-Series:

These files contain documents produced by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and its agencies, the FBI and the Hostage Rescue Team (HRT). The bulk of documents are FBI documents, including major event and monitor logs, negotiations between the FBI and Mount Carmel occupants, interviews and statements of those involved in the events, and VHS tapes of Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) recordings of April 19, 1993.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Folders are grouped by publication and arranged chronologically. Folders vary widely in content and extent. Some folders contain only the published article, while others include correspondence, notes, research, drafts, and proofs, to varying degrees. The bulk of materials can be found in the Arizona Highways (mainly published articles), City Magazine, Harper's, ...

Series Description From the Series: The second series, Writings, documents Fowler’s career as a journalist. Subseries are World War II, Vietnam War, Humor, John Connally Assassination Attempt, Crime and Safety, and Boating. Each subseries contains clippings and columns by Fowler, including his “Vietnam Diary,” a special insert for the Dallas Morning News on February 27, 1966. Other items of note include articles on journalist Ernie Pyle, clippings documenting Fowler’s trip to Vietnam with Texas businessman H. Ross Perot,...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This addition to the Charles Bowden archives includes complete manuscripts of Café Blood Some of the Dead are Still Breathing: Living in the Future, Exodus, Trinity, Inferno, Dreamland: The Way Out of Juarez, Fire In The Earth, Miss Sinaloa, Bowden Reader, Torch Song, and other articles featured in G. Q. Magazine and National Geographic. Other materials include a complete file of his book, magazine, and movie contracts; tax information; hand-written reporting notebooks; research and...