Lawrence K. Grossman papers, 1931-2018

Confidential memos for the files written by LKG about a series of secret settlement meetings arranged by Sonnenberg with the principals & without attorneys — Francis Flynn Chair NY News; Leon Levy Sr Partner Oppenheimer; LKG. Also includes envelope with confidential memo detailing conversation he had with Alan Pearce, PhD, communications economist, office of the chairman FCC at a restaurant in which Pearce told LKG "I hope you know that you don't have a chance of winning" The envelope includes a doily with LKG handwritten notes, and business card of Alan Pearce, PhD, communications economist. Note is a copy of LKG's note to Pearce following their conversation "A terribly indiscreet personal question: How can you, as a "liberal humanist," work in an environment in which you can say --regardless of the merits, that one side does not have a chance, in a judicial procss? Doesn' that denote the ultimate cynicism and justify all lack of faith in our system of our society? I get very scared when the good people go along and accept such common wisdom because they end up being responsible for it."

Senator John O. Pastore, chairman of Subcommittee on Communications introduced S. 2004, bill to amend Communications act of 1934 to establish orderly procedures for consideration of applications for renewal of broadcast licenses. Materials include Senate 81 Forum PR regarding Senate hearings; background info on bill, correspondence to and from LKG and Senate Committee Counsel Nicholas Zapple; and memos, notes, drafts re LKG testimony

Folder includes the semi-annual and event-driven communications LKG kept with Forum's stockholders starting in September 1969 through August 1975; Drafts of the "About Forum Communications" write-up, which includes bios of its shareholders; as well as information on Forum Communications, Inc. capitalization and related information

Includes various letters and information

Amend Communications Act 1934 Communications Subcommittee on Commerce Hearings S. 2004 Aug 5,6,71969; FCC application for construction permit for a new television station to operate on channel 11 at NYC (2 copies); Hearing exhibits of Forum Communications Volume One, Exhibits 1A-26A; Volume Two, Exhibits 27A-30A; Proposed Findings of Facts, Volume One (2 copies); Volume Two (2 copies); Conclusion of Law of Forum Communications volume three (2 copies); Forum exceptions to Initial Decision & Request for Oral Arguments (2 copies); Miscellaneous loose papers; Study: Mass Communications in the United States

LKG and others on his behalf sent -100s of pitch letters with a high-end portfolio brochure announcing the new company to a who's who list of print, broadcast, entertainment media, pr/advertising, and ancillary trades, as well as law, public affairs, academia, culture, friends and family. There was an overwhelming response notables, among many others, include Walter Annenburg, John Chancelor, Irving Citlin, George Bristol, CP Burtin, Irv Fein, Mike Cowles, David Werblin, Estelle Ellis, Les Bernstein , Frank Stanton, Himan Brown Also includes LKG letter to Fred Friendly after his infamous NYTimes resignation from CBS following their decision to broadcast The Lucy Show rather than Senate hearings questioning American involvement in Vietnam

CPB put out an RFP for programming and the team at LKG Inc. worked with various artists, producers, and writers, including Tom Wolfe, Richard Moore, Richard Ellison, Gene Shalit, RO Blechman, and others to brainstorm, research, fund raise for, and in some case produce programs. The archives include correspondence, research, pitches, sketches, and other materials related to this process. PBS was also a client. LKG, Inc. consulted on fund raising, image, and scheduling.

LKG was engaged by the Republic of the Philippines to use media to help improve nutrition information to mothers

(1) Background Paper Prepared for the Workshop on Communications Technology for Education in the Philippines, Aug 23, 1975 (2) The Utilization of Communications Media in the Family Planning Program of the Philippines: A Country Report (3) Communication and Change: Some Perspectives for a total Communications Program for Family Planning in the Philippines (4) Planned and Purposive Use of Communication Development

Paper presented at Expert Group Meeting on the Integrated Use of Folk Media and Mass Media in Family Communication programs November 20-24 1972

Program materials and paper

(1) Background Paper Prepared for the Workshop on Communications Technology for Education in the Philippines, Aug 23, 1975 (2) The Utilization of Communications Media in the Family Planning Program of the Philippines: A Country Report (3) Communication and Change: Some Perspectives for a total Communications

Program for Family Planning in the Philippines (4) Planned and Purposive Use of Communication Development

Factual account of all the programs distributed by the Public Broadcasting Service to its member stations from Oct 1, 1971 to October 1,1972. It provides an analysis of PBS programming during that one-year period, a brief description of each program trasmitted by PBS, and summarizes other facts regarding the programming organization and operation of PBS. (A brief summary of programs distributed since Oct. 1,1972 is also included)

1996 Diary clothbound designed & distributed by Design Research: by week sat through sun daily appointments — line items mostly written in pencil or ink by LKG or later by secretary some notable entries: feb 25 lunch Dan Quayle; April 17 Judy Collins party ; July 8 lunch John Mitchell, Oct 6 Milton Friedman. From 1997 -1991 volumes are New Yorker Diary

2 dozen pamphlets and booklets, research materials on integration in education, committee meeting notes & minutes, correspondence.

Statewide conference 1965 Focus on Housing Shortage & Know Your Rights Pamphlet. Alberta N. Grossman volunteered with the CT. Council on Human Rights to help integrate housing in CT following the passage of the CT fair housing act. Box contains multiple lists of volunteers, organizations, letters correspondence from leaders of the CT civil rights movement, multiple versions of Know Your Rights Pamphlet in English and Spanish translation, which was ultimately designed by John Graham, NBC's graphic designer at the behest of LKG. Includes -50 fund raising letters to CT-based corporations, churches, and other organizations (in some cases, corporations reject sponsorship as too controversial, but the individual provides a personal donation), as well as please to community organizations to help distribute the 100,000 pamphlets that have been delivered to the Grossman living room. At NBC, LKG is researching/pitching programming focused on civil rights, housing, etc.

Includes note from confidential sources in 60 minutes/tobacco story; Source material for Fox/whistleblower CJR story

LKG articles: 1976 with Eric Sevareid "As They Were Saying"; 1977, "Why Not the Best?..."; 1980, "Proposal for a Grand Alliance."

Digital Promise Files: Responses to report draft; board retreat; Spectrum issues; copies of bill; drafts of Digital Gift to the Nation report. Book idea files: Proposals/versions; Book Civic Participation; Book Media future Book Murdoch; Book Media Future; Book Politics Future; Book Money & Politics; First Amendment Book; Book Public Opinion; Book War Opinion; Clips monographs; Book Life in Older America research material

Throughout his career LKG gave hundreds of informal talks and speeches around the world. Box contains drafts, research materials, note cards, final speeches, reprints, clippings. Topics range from the future of public television, to terrorism to politics, to reshaping democracy for the digital age. His remarks or writings often spurred a significant response (see correspondence box - especially response to Murrow speech)

Files include: Writing-technology; mise for filing; Arguments for ammo; clips testimony/bills FAS games; general writnig, education; records libraries & museums; Morril Act Polling; Board of Directors; and correspondence

Major folder General Miscellaneous correspondence with subfolders: Academics, museums libraries cultural institutions; Admirers & Friends; Home Life LKG; Advertising, PR Agents, Studios & Associations (highlight Emerson Foote correspondence re: resignation from McCann-Erickson 1964); Elena Androunas (highlight Russia press and education under Gorbachev - Columbia); Artists/Writers/Producers (highlights Tom Wolf, Grant Tinker; Home Life- LKG; Marvin Kalb (highlight - 20 Feb 1990 letter/clip re NY Times editorial - LKG's suggestion that candidates take responsibility for the content of the message on their tv ads); Robert Kintner (highlights White House years); James and Jonathan Marshall; John McMillan; Newt Minow; NBC (highlights notes from Tom Brokaw, Diane Sawyer, Tim Russert); Helen Saccani Letters; Gene Shalit; Polital Figures (highlights: President Johnson letter, Jack Valenti (special assistant to Pres. Kennedy) Henry Kissinger, John Sununu COS Reagan; Haim Zohar, Consul of Israel. See also NBC 80s Box 2 for many more); Newspapers-NY Times (Highlights Max Frankel letters, Anthony Lewis; TV Boradcast & Cable; Richard Wald; George Zimbel

Subfolders Beyond the Wasteland correspondence with Jane Gelfman, agent and various publishers (nice rejections); Book reviews; Congrats; John McMillan Electronic Republic (letters with notes, commentary on writing) and book drafts); Electronic Republic Post Murrow Speech; Permission to Photocopy; Publishing correspondence with publisher about marketing, etc.); Twentieth Century Fund (funder or book, includes correspondence and contracts)

Subfolders Photos, Family letters; Family & Friends personal favors; Columbia/Gannet Princeton Stuart Professorship; Gannett/Columbia Farewell; Horizon; Responses to Murrow Speech, Speaking Engagement, Speaking Engagement Requests International/Thank yous, Speaking Engagement Media; Thank You Media Trades; Thank You letters Mise; Pitches to LKG; LKG biography

Includes correspondence with Kirsten O Lundberg of JFK school who drafted the JFK case study by the "President and Fellows of Harvard College "General Electric and the National Broadcasting CO: A Clash of Cultures" in 1989. Includes LKG comments on the draft and final

Background materials, clippings, booklets

Subjects Direct democracy, technology; news: future information

Confidential plan Volumes I & II by Alvin H. Prelmutter, Inc. for The Public Broadcasting Service, The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and the John and Mary Markle Foundation

LKG folder

Brochure, correspondence, descriptions, drafts

LKG was asked to serve on many board and advisory counsels, or act as as a consultant to many nonprofits. The board folder includes correspondence from, among others, leadership in the following organizations the American Heart Association, Symphony for United Nations, International Leadership Center on Longevity and Society, CT Public Television, the National Research Council board on Natural Disasters, National Academy of Sciences, First International Congress on Cancer and AIDS, The Bretton Woods Committee, International Council for Global Health Progress, The Gihon Foundation Council on Ideas

LKC drew on the research, outlines, and writing from the "Insider's View of American Television" that he started while at CBS in the late 50s, early 60s, those files (mostly blue) were mixed in with his other working files for drafting Beyond the Wasteland. Included are: Advertising; Book Notes, International TV, Outlines (CBS era), Paramount Pictures, Public Policy Regulation, Reflections on TV and Politics, Tiananmen Square, TV History Ad & Politics (CBS era), TV Ratings (CBS-era), Washing DC (CBS era). Also in the box are correspondence with publishers (rejections) for Wasteland, as well as working correspondence contracts, etc. with Twentieth Century Fund, who funded the book, LKC's agent and publisher, as well as articles and clippings

1st: (white box) Electronic Republic source material; 2nd: (kraft box) Book Drafts; 3rd:(white box) Original Copy Edited Not Final Draft; 4th: (white box) Final Draft; 5th (white box) Rough Page Proofs with Final Edits

Files include: Gaming Briefing LKG, Digital Promise Introduction Booklet, Mise, (bills educational games); DP, Clippings & Publicity); DP Educational examples, Learning Technologies; DP foundations; DP Learning Federation; DP Public TV weekend, Public TV 3; DP Presentations/ldeas; DP- Miscellaneous; The Carnegie Initiative Corp; The FCC Senate Hearings - LKG Testimony

Issues concerning advertising and public television study, program plan

Hearing on spectrum Auctions September 12,1995, Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation

1964,1965,1968,1969,1970, 1971,1972,1973,1974,1975

Newspaper and Magazine advertisements for CBS. Book one: 7/27/56 through 10/26/58; Book two 10/27/58 through 10/27/59; Book three undated; NBC 60s Promotion Department National Broadcasting Company Advertising Reprints-196210.5 x 16 softcover book

LARRY GROSSMAN gold stamped on cover