Lawrence K. Grossman papers, 1931-2018

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Series IV: PBS



Box 8 Congratulatory letters upon appointment

Hundreds of letters from a wide range of print, broadcast, entertainment media, pr/advertising, and ancillary trades, as well as law, public affairs, academia, culture, friends and family — notables, among many others, include Gene Wilder, Lloyd Moss, Michael de Guzman, Bob Kintner, Roone Arledge


Box 8 Folder correspondence with Congressman Joshua Eilberg re "Black Perspective on the News" 1977

Programming deals with the views of the American Nazi Party and the Ku Klux Klan -exchange deals with deals with first amendment, fairness doctrine, government interference, censorship, etc.


Box 8 LKG China 1979

Folder includes diary/notes, slides, mao little red book, draft article


Box 8 Wald reports 1978

Confidential proposal on expanding to a one-hour nightly MacNeil/Lehrer news program


Box 8 PBS LKG Notes

LKG notes to help recruit his successor


Box 8 Binders

Three volumes of speech, remarks and statement drafts, The Grand Alliance/Public Subscriber Network proceedings


PBS Daily Binders


Binder 1:



Box 10 Daily Correspondence

History & preliminaries Feb-Mar 1976; Apr-May 1976; June-Aug 1976; Sept-Dec 1976; Sept-Dec 1976; Jan-Apr 1977; May-Aug 1977; Sept-Dec 1977


Binder 2:



Box 11 Daily Correspondence

Daily Correspondence Jan-Apr 1978; May-Aug 1978; Sept-Dec 1978; Jan-May 1979; Jan-July 1980


Binder 3:



Box 12 Daily Correspodence

Death of a Princess May 12,1980; Aug-Dec 1980; Jan-Apr, 1981; May-Aug 1981; Sep-Dec 1981; Jan-Apr, 1982


Binder 4:



Box 13 Daily Correspondence

May-Aug, 1982; Sept-Dec, 1982; Jan-Apr, 1983; May-Aug, 1983; Sep-Dec, 1983; 1984