James Lawrence Fly papers, 1920-1977

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Series IV: Federal Communications Commission, 1939-1944

J.L.F. was Chairman of the F.C.C.


Subject File



Box 15 Appointments to F.C.C. and resignation


Box 15 Attorney General


Box 15 Bar admissions


Box 15 Baruch, Bernard M.


Box 15 Board of War Communications: Orders


Box 15 Collier's article re: television


Box 15 Congratulations F.C.C. appointment, 1939 September 01


Box 15 Congratulations on reappointment to F.C.C., 1942 July 01


Box 15 Dodd & Watson vs. the U.S.


Box 15 Ethridge, Mark


Box 15 Friedrich. C. J.


Box 15 General correspondence


Box 15 Kudos to J.L.F.



Box 16 Milestones in F. C.C. history since 1939


Box 16 Misc.


Box 16 O'Brien, John Lord


Box 16 Olds, Irving


Box 16 Photographs


Box 16 Press conferences, 1943



Box 17 F.D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N.Y.


Box 17 The Saturday Evening Post article, 1940 September 28


Box 17 Sulzberger, Arthur Hays


Box 17 Swope, Herbert Bayard


Box 17 Television


Box 17 Television: J.L.F. speeches & articles


Box 17 White House (including xerox copies of correspondence made by the Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, NY)


Box 17 White House Press Conferences


Box 17 Whitehair, Francis P.


Allocation hearings, 1944



Box 18 Allocation hearings, 1944



Box 19 Allocation hearings, 1944



Box 20 Allocation hearings, 1944


Cox Investigation Committee, 1943



Box 21 Cox Investigation Committee, 1943



Box 22 Cox Investigation Committee, 1943



Box 23 Cox Investigation Committee, 1943


FM hearings, 1945



Box 24 FM hearings, 1945


Free Speech


Box 24 Free Speech



Box 25 Free Speech


Newspaper hearings



Box 26 Newspaper hearings


Wiretapping



Box 27 Wiretapping


Printed materials


Box 27 Books



Box 28 Publicity - clippings

See also: Oversize scrapbook



Box 29 Publicity - clippings

See also: Oversize scrapbook



Box 30 Publicity - clippings

See also: Oversize scrapbook



Box 31 Publicity - clippings

See also: Oversize scrapbook


Speeches & articles

Drafts, printed copies, manuscripts, correspondence, and related materials



Box 32 Suggested speeches & articles: correspondence


Box 32 References to speeches and testimony on F.C.C. problems (extracts of speeches)


Box 32 1939 - April 1940



Box 33 April 1940 - May 1941



Box 34 May - December 1940



Box 35 January - September 1942



Box 36 October 1942 - August 1943



Box 37 September - December 1943



Box 38 January - May 1944



Box 39 June - November 1944