William G. Lambert papers, bulk 1956-1969

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I. Investigations--Research Files, 1949-1992

This series contains seven subseries arranged in Lambert's original order by investigation subject. Under each subseries, the folders are arranged in alphabetical order by subject or title. Lambert's research materials include correspondence, news clippings, notes, notebooks, photographs and transcripts.


I.1 Teamsters--Corruption--Portland, OR, 1949-1973



Box 1 Affidavits and Statements, 1955-1960


Box 1 Bennett, Clifford Orban, 1956


Box 1 Book--Unpublished--Journalistic Investigations, 1956-1973

2 folders


Box 1 Brewster, Frank W., 1957-1960


Box 1 Citation for a Pulitzer Prize in Journalism for Local Reporting Not Under Pressure of Edition Time,, 1957


Box 1 City Police--Peterson, Mayor Fred L., 1956-1959


Box 1 Clark, Raymond F., 1950-1954


Box 1 Oregon v. Raymond Clark--Howard R. Lonergan--Motion, etc.,, 1956-1958


Box 1 Clark-Daniels--Tape and Transcript, 1957 May 23


Crosby, Clyde C.


Box 1 Arizona Conviction, 1956


Box 1 Clyde Cardinal Crosby v. Oregonian Publishing Company--Case Materials, 1956-1958


Box 1 Langley-Crosby Matter, 1956-1958


Box 1 Miscellaneous, 1956-1958


Box 1 Personal History, 1956-1957


Elkins, James B., 1956-1968


Box 1 Elkins and Clark; United States v. , 1956-1957


Box 1 Indictment, 1957


Box 1 Testimony--Thomas E. Maloney, 1956


Box 1 Exposition--Recreation Swindle, 1954-1957


Box 1 Exposition--Recreation Committee--Minutes, 1954-1956


Box 1 Grand Jury, 1956-1958


Box 1 Gun Permit, 1956


Jenkins, James Q.


Box 1 Extortion Deal, 1960


Box 1 Indictment, 1958


Box 1 Libel Defense Preparation, 1956



Box 2 Langley, William M., 1954-1958


Box 2 Langley, William M.--Correspondence with Jim Purcell, Jr.,, 1955-1956


Box 2 Langley v. Oregonian Publishing Co. , 1956-1962


Box 2 Legal Cases--Miscellaneous, 1956-1957


Box 2 Legislation on Vice--Rackets, 1957


Box 2 Maloney, Thomas A.; Joseph P. McLaughlin, 1956-1958


Box 2 Maloney-Elkins--Tapes [2] and Transcripts, 1959


Box 2 Memoranda, 1955-1957


Box 2 Merrill, Jack, 1957


Box 2 Pinball Business, 1954-1958


Box 2 Plotkin, Lee, 1955


Box 2 Radio Cab, 1953-1954


Box 2 Schrunk; Sheriff Terry D. 1956-1960, 1956-1960

3 folders


Box 2 Story Drafts, 1957

2 folders


Teamsters


Box 2 Newspaper Clippings, 1956-1959

6 folders



Box 3 Photographs, 1955-1957

2 folders


Box 3 Hearing on William Langley's grand jury subpoenas, 1955-1967


Box 3 Police Records, 1949-1955


Box 3 Thornton; Attorney General Robert Y., 1957-1959


Box 3 Transcripts of Recordings, 1956


Box 3 U.S. Senate Labor Rackets Committee, 1956-1957


Box 3 Kennedy Interview [First Part Follows Second]--Tapes [3], undated


Box 3 Photographs, 1957


Box 3 Way, Mr. William Honore, 1957


Box 3 Williams, Arthur Bradley, 1956


I.2 Roy M. Cohn, 1963-1990


Box 3 Brann, Herman W., 1965


Box 3 Buckley, William F., undated


Box 3 Correspondence--Lambert with Buckley, William F. re Life magazine article, 1969-1970


Box 3 Buckley, William F. and Jack O'Brian, 1968-1969


Box 3 Corporate Opportunities, 1966-1969


Box 3 Correspondence-Martenson, Jean M., 1986


Box 3 Dirksen; U.S. Sen. Everett M., 1967-1968


Box 3 Finances, 1965-1970


Box 3 First and Second Trials, 1964-1969


Box 3 Gallagher, Neil and Lawrence I. Weisman, 1969


Box 3 Indictments [1968], 1968-1969


Life magazine, article


Box 3 "The One-Man Roy Cohn Lobby" Life--Carbon Makeup, 1969


Box 3 Checking File, 1969


Box 3 Correspondence--General, 1969


Box 3 Long, Ed, 1967-1968


Box 3 [James L.] Marcus-Affair, 1967-1970


Box 3 Documents, 1967


Box 3 McCarthy Committee, 1968


Box 3 Miscellaneous, 1969


Box 3 [Robert M.] Morgenthau's "Vendetta", 1967-1968



Box 4 Newspaper Clippings, 1963-1990

5 folders


Box 4 Notes, 1969-1975


Box 4 Rosenstiel, Lewis, 1967


Box 4 Tax Return, 1963-1966


Box 4 United States v. Cohn, 1967-1969


Box 4 United States v. DeSapio, 1968


Box 4 Weisl, Hon. Edwin L., 1964


I.3 James W. Hoffa and John W. McCormick, 1964-1975


Box 4 Goldwater, Barry, 1964

2 folders


Box 4 Hoffa, James W., 1967-1975


Box 4 McCormick, John W., 1969-1970


I.4 Howard Hughes and Ronald Reagan, 1966-1985


Howard Hughes


Clifford Irving--Autobiography Hoax


Box 4 Affidavit and Exhibits, 1972


Box 4 Irving, Edith, 1972-1976


Box 4 Investigative Findings, 1971-1972


Box 4 Newspaper Clippings, 1972-1973


Box 4 Time Inc.--McGraw Hill Material, 1971-1972


Box 4 Miscellaneous, 1967-1985


Box 4 TWA Lawsuit, 1971



Box 5 Ronald Reagan, 1966-1967

2 folders


I.5 David Burnham, Lyndon B. Johnson, E. Howard Hunt, and Miscellaneous Subject Files,, 1961-1991


Box 5 Burnham, David, 1987-1990


Box 5 Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), 1973-1978


Hunt, E. Howard


Fake Cable


Box 5 Newspaper Clippings, 1972-1981


Box 5 Correspondence, 1963-1973


Box 5 Notebooks, undated


Box 5 Johnson, Lyndon B., 1989-1991


Box 5 Long, Edward B., 1967-1990


Box 5 March on Washington--Negro Civil Rights, 1961-1963


I.6 Abe Fortas, 1966-1992


Box 5 Correspondence--Lambert, William G., 1969


Kalman, Laura


Box 5 Correspondence, 1990


Box 5 Manuscript--Abe Fortas: A Biography, 1990


Life magazine


Box 5 Checking File, 1966-1969

2 folders


Box 5 Correspondence--Article--Reaction to, 1969



Box 6 Page Proofs, 1969


Box 6 Press--Reaction to, 1969


Box 6 Published, 1969


Box 6 Radio/TV Reports, 1969


Box 6 Resignation--Reaction to--Newspaper Clippings, 1969


Murphy, Bruce Allen


Box 6 Correspondence--"Fortas: The Rise and Ruin of a Supreme Court Justice",, 1988


Newspapers


Box 6 Chicago Press, 1969


Box 6 Clippings, 1968-1991

4 folders


Box 6 Editorials, 1969


Box 6 Los Angeles Press, 1969


Box 6 Wolfson, Louis, 1969-1992

2 folders


Box 6 Correspondence, 1969-1980


Box 6 Newspaper Clippings, 1969


I.7 Cornelius E. Gallagher, 1959-1975



Box 7 Backlash, 1967-1968


Box 7 Broadway National Bank, Bayonne, NJ, 1967-1968


Box 7 Clark, Ramsey, 1968


Box 7 Congressional Investigation, 1968


Box 7 De Angelis Scandal, 1968


Box 7 Edmart/Truman, Martin, 1968


Box 7 General Information, 1969


Box 7 Hoffman, Stephen L., 1961-1966


Box 7 House Ethics Committee, 1969


Box 7 Income Tax Evasion and Perjury, 1971-1975


Box 7 Lambert--Notes re, Gallagher, 1968


Life magazine


Box 7 Carbon File, 1968


Box 7 Checking Copies and Carbon Files, 1959-1969

3 folders


Box 7 Response to, 1968


Box 7 Letters to the Editor--Response to the U.S. Attorney General,, 1968 August 30


Newspapers


Box 7 Associated Press, 1968


Box 7 Bayonne Times , 1968

2 folders


Box 7 Dembe, Harvey and Ed, 1968


Box 7 Hudson Dispatch , 1968


Box 7 Jersey Journal , 1968

2 folders


Box 7 Miscellaneous, 1968-1970

3 folders


Box 7 New York Times , 1968


Box 7 Newark Evening News , 1968


Box 7 Newark News , 1968


Box 7 Star-Ledger , 1968


Box 7 Notebooks--Gallagher II, 1968-1969


Box 7 Outside Information, 1968


Box 7 Pros and Cons of Formal Inquiry as Reported in the Newspaper, 1968


Box 7 Real Estate, 1968-1969


Transcripts


Box 7 Telephone and Television, 1968


Box 7 WABC-TV (NYC), undated


Box 7 Zicarelli, Joseph, 1967-1968

II. Libel Litigation Consultancy, 1964-1994

This series consists of three subseries related to Lambert's post journalism career as a libel litigation consultant. The first subseries II.1: Libel Cases--Testimony (1975-1994) is arranged alphabetically by libel case title. Subseries II.2: Law--Research (1964-1994) is arranged alphabetically by subject. The third subseries II.3: Mock Libel Trials (1985-1987) is arranged chronologically and documents his participation in various state and national press association conventions and conferences.


II.1 Libel Cases--Testimony, 1975-1994



Box 8 Carroll v. Pittsburgh Press , 1982-1988


Box 8 Curran v. Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc. (PNI), 1984-1988


Box 8 Edghill v. Municipal Publications, Inc. , 1982-1990


Box 8 Judge Bernard Snyder, 1983-1989


Box 8 Expert Testimony, 1982-1988


Box 8 Fee Invoices, 1994


Box 8 Witness Correspondence, 1989-1991


Box 8 Greene County Commission v. Observer Publishing Co. , 1990-1993


Box 8 Hepps v. Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc. (PNI), 1981-1986


Box 8 Johnson v. Parade Publications , 1986-1987


Box 8 Kramer v. KDKA , 1984-1987


Box 8 Larsen v. Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc. (PNI), 1983-1993


Box 8 Lexalt v. McClatchy Newspapers , 1985-1989


Box 8 Lindsay v. Globe International, Inc. , 1994


Box 8 Litchfield and Kentish v. Times Newspapers Ltd., London , 1975-1979


Box 8 McDermott v. Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc. (PNI), 1984-1993


Box 8 Miscellaneous, 1981-1994


Box 8 Mosesian v. McClatchy Newspapers , 1987


Box 8 Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc. (PNI), 1983-1994


Box 8 Cases, 1983-1994


Box 8 Contract, 1985-1988


Box 8 Ramada v. Dow Jones , 1981-1988



Box 9 Rosati v. Sheraton and WCAU , 1978-1982


Box 9 Lambert Testimony--Rosati Deposition, 1982


Box 9 Rust Evader Corp. v. Plain Dealer Publishing Co. , 1993


Box 9 Sciandra v. Scranton Times , 1985-1987


Box 9 Sprague v. Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc. (PNI), 1984-1990


Box 9 Urella v. Walter , 1973-1989


Box 9 Warford v. Lexington Herald-Leader , 1988-1989


Box 9 Winter v. Manhattan Inc. , 1987-1990


II.2 Law--Research, 1964-1994


Box 9 Judiciary, 1983-1993


Box 9 Lawyers, 1964-1994


Press


Box 9 Miscellaneous, 1988-1993


Box 9 People, 1986-1993


II.3 Mock Libel Trials, 1985-1987



Box 10 Pennsylvania Press Conference, 1985 May 31


Box 10 Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers' Association, 61st Annual Meeting,, 1985 September 26


Box 10 Associated Press Managing Editors Association, Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA,, 1985 October 31


Box 10 New Jersey Press Association, Annual Convention, Absecon, NJ, 1985 November 7


Box 10 New Jersey Press Association, Spring Conference, Cherry Hill, NJ,, 1986 April 4


Box 10 American Society of Newspaper Editors, Annual Convention, Washington, DC,, 1986 April 11


Box 10 American Newspaper Publishers Association, Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA,, 1986 April 23


Box 10 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX,, 1987 August 2