John F. Stacks Papers, 1914-2003

Description: Papers of John F. Stacks (1942-2012), biographer of James B. Reston, contains photocopies, e-mail printouts, audio cassettes, photographs, and newspaper clippings used by Stacks in researching and writing Scotty: James B. Reston and the Rise and Fall of American Journalism and includes speeches, correspondence of Reston with family members, political officials, personal friends, and New York Times associates, Stacks' interviews and Stacks' partial transcripts of audio cassettes of interviews of Reston family and associates including: Max Frankel, Don Graham, Fred Graham, Jimmy Greenfield, Linda Greenhouse, David Halberstam, Henry Kissinger, Kate Medina, Paul Nitze, Dick Reston, Jim Reston, Jody Reston, Sally Reston, Abe Rosenthal, Arthur Schlesinger, Hedrick Smith, Seymour Topping, Tom Wicker and Jonathan Yardley.