Ian McLellan Hunter collection of Trotsky assassination materials, 1940-1970

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Ian McLellan Hunter collection of Trotsky assassination materials, 1940-1970



Box 1 Folder 1 Clippings, 1940 May-July

Photocopies of clippings, primarily from "El Universal" of Mexico and the New York Times, and handwritten notes


Box 1 Folder 2 Clippings, 1940 August

Photocopies of clippings, primarily from "El Universal" of Mexico and the New York Times, and handwritten notes


Box 1 Folder 3 Volume 1, 1940

Photocopies of depositions by Diaz and Casas, Mexican cops; a police report of the damage inflicted in the May 24 raid; depositons by Robbins, Cornell and Schuessler, Trotsky guards; by Alfred and Marguerite Rosmer; by Trotsky and Natalya Trotsky; and by Cooper, another guard. Depositions, and in some cases second depositions, of Martinez, Galindo, Gomez, Cornell, Schuessler, Bazan, Carmen, Maria, Casas, Ortiz; report of police bomb squad; an account of the firing squad gambit.


Box 1 Folder 4 Volume 2, 1940

Photocopies of depositions by Ana, Julia, Andonegui, Martinez, N. Arenal, Ortiz, Romo, Maria, Robbins and Cooper, and Trotsky.


Box 1 Folder 5 Volume 3, 1940

Photocopies of depositions and testimony by Hernandez, Trotsky, Yanovich, Sanchez, Schultz, N. Sanchez, Vasquez, Cruz, Ricardo, Doctor.



Box 2 Folder 1 Volume 4, 1940

Photocopies of deposition of Guerrero; police records re discovery of Harte's body; depositions of Hernandez and Vasquez.


Box 2 Folder 2 Volume 5, 1940

Photocopies of depositions and confrontations involving Siqueiros, Cardenas, Hernandez, Ana, Castaneda, Vasquez.


Box 2 Folder 3 Volume 6, 1940

Photocopies of depositions and other documents


Box 2 Folder 4 Articles, 1940-1969

"Leon Trotsky, The Man and His Work." A compilation of articles by Hansen, Cannon, Natalya Trotsky, Cornell, Rosmer, Novack, Luxembourg, Serge and others. These articles are all relevant to the 1939, 1940 period of Trotsky's life. Contains "The Assassination of Leon Trotsky" by Albert Goldman (Trotsky's lawyer); plus "Vie et Mortede Trotsky',' by Victor Serge.


Box 2 Folder 5 Interviews, 1970

Interviews by Ian Hunter with various people involved in the May 24 raid and the assassination. The interviews are with Siqueiros, Polo Arenal, Cooper, "Juan", Evelyn Reed and George Novack, Hansen, Scachtman and Ricardo.


Box 2 Folder 6 English translations


Box 2 Folder 7 English translations



Box 3 Folder 1 English translations


Box 3 Folder 2 "The Founding Conference of the Fourth International"

Issued by the Trotskyist Party and contains the text of resolutions passed at the founding conference.


Box 3 "Writings of Leon Trotsky (1939-1940)", 1969

Containing Trotsky's final work, including documents re the May 24th. assault.


Box 3 "Jacques Mornard -- Gestiones para obtener su libertad preparatoria", by Eduardo Ceniceros, 1957

Ceniceros was Mornard's lawyer


Box 3 "The Case of Leon Trotsky: Report of Hearings on the Charges Made Against Him in the Moscow Trials" New York, Merit Press, 1937


Box 3 "The Mind of an Assassin" by Isaac Don Levine, 1969

Book and screenplay