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Stop the presses: Benjamin C. Bradlee papers open for research

February 14, 2017 By Ancelyn Krivak

Ben Bradlee in his office at The Washington Post with Katharine Graham, Patrick Tyler, and Boisfeuillet Jones Jr., 1983.

The papers of Washington Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee are now open for research at the Harry Ransom Center. [Read more…] about Stop the presses: Benjamin C. Bradlee papers open for research

Filed Under: Acquisitions, archive, Books + Manuscripts, News, Publishing Tagged With: A Good life, acquisition, Ben Bradlee, Ben Bradlee Papers, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, editor, Finding Aid, Harvard Grant Study, How to Read a Newspaper, John F. Kennedy, journalism, Katharine Graham, news, newspaper, newsroom, Newsweek, Pentagon Papers, reporter, The Washington Post, Washington, Watergate

Washington Post Editor Ben Bradlee’s Archive Donated

June 3, 2015 By Jennifer Tisdale

Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham with reporters Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward, editor Howard Simons discuss the Watergate story in Post managing editor Benjamin C. Bradlee in Bradlee's office at the Washington Post, April, 1973.

The archive of Ben Bradlee (1921-2014), former editor of The Washington Post, has been donated to the Ransom Center.

 

Bradlee presided over the Post — first as managing editor and then as executive editor — and led the paper through the publication of the Pentagon Papers and coverage of the Watergate scandal. Under his leadership, the Post earned 17 Pulitzer Prizes and a reputation for excellence in investigative reporting.

[Read more…] about Washington Post Editor Ben Bradlee’s Archive Donated

Filed Under: Acquisitions, Books + Manuscripts, News, Research + Teaching Tagged With: acquisition, Ben Bradlee, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, Fellowships, Jacqueline Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, journalism, Katharine Graham, Lillian Hellman, Newsweek, Pentagon Papers, Philip Graham, Richard Nixon, Sally Quinn, Washington Post, Watergate, Woodward and Bernstein Watergate Papers

New book explores origins of Watergate's Deep Throat

March 21, 2012 By Jennifer Tisdale

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Cover of Max Holland's "Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat."

Author and journalist Max Holland accessed the Ransom Center’s Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein Watergate Papers while researching his book Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat (University Press of Kansas, 2012), which is now available. Holland describes his work at the Center:

The genesis of Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat began when I read a news item in 2007 about the opening of materials relating to Mark Felt in the Woodward and Bernstein Papers at the Ransom Center. Having done research in archives for years, one thing I’ve learned is that newly opened papers invariably contain new insights into a historical event, no matter how much it has already been written about.

I wasn’t disappointed after perusing the collection.

The single-most important documents, of course, were Bob Woodward’s typewritten notes from his encounters with W. Mark Felt, a.k.a. Deep Throat. Other Woodward notes from contemporaneous interviews with L. Patrick Gray III and Donald Santarelli were useful too. Early drafts of All the President’s Men, particularly those portions about Deep Throat that were excised from the published book, illuminated the Woodward/Felt relationship. Finally, an interview that Carl Bernstein and Woodward conducted with the late Howard Simons was vital for my book, since he was the only Post editor I could not interview myself.

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching Tagged With: All the President’s Men, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, Deep Throat, Donald Santarelli, Howard Simons, Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat, Mark Felt, Max Holland, Patrick Gray III, University Press of Kansas, Watergate, Woodward and Bernstein Watergate Papers

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