Michael J. O'Neill papers, circa 1940s - 2000s

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Box List



Box 1 China , 1975

Includes many tourist brochures, maps and mementos from the China trip

16 cassette audio tapes, most of which are Chinese Language Audiocourse



Box 2 China, 1975-1988

Includes many tourist brochures, maps and mementos from the China trip

3 audio tapes



Box 3 Germany (Marshall Plan, 1967), Japan, Russia


Eisenhower:



Box 4 Typescripts of O'Neill's Cap Notes column and other columns, late 50s to mid 60s


Box 4 Invitation to 1961 presidential inauguration


Box 4 2 copies of a 1948 issue of Everybody's magazine in which O'Neill wrote a profile of Walter Reuther


Box 4 In NYDN string-closure envelope: Material on Dominican Republic, mid 60s: clippings, notes, article typescripts, transcript (in Spanish) of a private OAS meeting; also material on Vietnam, Great Society programs


Box 4 In envelope addressed to Mrs. O'Neill with State Dept return address: state dinner invitation, guest list, table card, etc.


Box 4 Yellow file folder of 1955-56 Headliner Award material


Box 4 Clasp envelope labeled "Asia trip with Ike"—photos of O'Neill and a photographer in Asia


Box 4 Clasp envelope labeled "My UPI polio stories"—exactly that. Old typescripts


Box 4 Microfilm of NY World-Telegram front page on which MJO had a byline on Ike surgery story


Box 4 Clasp envelope labeled "Bednasek Murder Trial, Iowa City, 1950"—old typescripts.


Box 4 Clasp envelope labeled "Sample sports writing—UP-DU bureau"—old typescripts


Box 4 Folder labeled "Jap Trip Crspndce"—materials from O'Neill's 1960 trip to Asia with Eisenhower Copy of News Pix (NYDN staff newsletter)


Box 4 Lots of loose photos from Asia, including some of Ike


Box 4 Also some materials regarding a 1960 trip to Latin America with Eisenhower


Box 4 Printouts of president's official schedule


Box 4 Maps, guidebooks


JFK, LBJ:

Formerly in plastic bins labeled "JFK in Ireland 1963," "JFK in Europe, 1963" and "LBJ: Goldwater Campaign, SE Asia Trip"



Box 5 Notes from 1961 reporting trip to SE Asia w LBJ: lots of official communiques, statements, press releases, fact sheets about the different countries to be visited


Box 5 JFK travel memorabilia from 1963 trip to Europe; additional materials specifically on trip to Ireland. Buttons, souvenir Zippo lighter, etc.


Box 5 Photos from SE Asia trip, including many of LBJ


Box 5 1964 election folder: mostly press releases, candidate speech transcripts (all/mostly LBJ), typescripts/telegram copies of O'Neill/NYDN articles



Box 6 Fund for City of NY Stuff



Box 7 Margaret Chapman, Amer-Irish



Box 8 Columbia 001

Binders within, including "Vietnam", "Terror," "Leaders," "Carter" and others (binders seem to be drafts of chapters or some other piece of writing, perhaps an autobiography?)

Manuscript and research materials for O'Neill's book The Roar of the Crowd (published 1993), about communication technology and its effects on geopolitics/history/the future

Binders of notes on different subjects (e.g., how news media covers terrorism); mostly MJO notes on secondary sources



Box 9 Columbia 002

Binders within, including "Coup", "Demo," "Econ," "Forn Rels" and others



Box 10 Columbia 003

Binders within, including "Govern", "Speeches" and others



Box 11 Speeches of Michael J. O'Neill, Part 1 of 2, 1982-2000s



Box 12 Speeches of Michael J. O'Neill, Part 2 of 2, 1960s to 1982

Also includes some miscellaneous material that's not speeches (including a couple of strategy memos for the NYDN