Assignment to Hell (75 page)

UNPUBLISHED SOURCES

Adler, Marlene, former assistant to Walter Cronkite, Jr. Interviewed by phone and e-mail, 2010–2011.

Atkinson, Rick, World War II historian. Interviewed in 2009–2010 by e-mail.

Bieber, Susie, deputy to Andy Rooney. Interviewed in New York, March 2010 and April 2011, and by phone and e-mail, 2009–2011.

Boylan, James, husband of Betsy Wade and friend of Homer Bigart. Interviewed in New York and via e-mail through Betsy, 2010 and 2011.

Boyle, Ed, Jr., nephew of Hal Boyle. Interviewed by phone and e-mail, 2010–2011.

Boyle, Hal, letters to his wife, Mary Frances Young Boyle, from North Africa and Europe, 1942–1945, part of Boyle’s papers at the Wisconsin Historical Society.

——, draft manuscript for
Dear Mary: The Letters of a War Correspondent
, an unpublished book, part of Boyle’s papers at the Wisconsin Historical Society.

——, World War II scrapbook compiled by his sister-in-law, Monica Murphy Boyle, and generously lent by her son Ed, Hal’s nephew.

Brookes, Arthur, guide at Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial. Interviewed by author in Cambridge, July 2011, and by e-mail, July–August 2011.

Carleton, Don, executive director, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin, Cronkite chronicler, and archivist of Cronkite: Eyewitness to a Century at the LBJ Library, University of Texas at Austin. Interviewed in Austin, May 2010, and by phone and e-mail, 2010–2011.

Chitwood, Dana, friend of the family of Sergeant Tyre Weaver. Interviewed by phone and e-mail, February 2011.

Cronkite, Kate, daughter of Walter Cronkite, Jr. Interviewed in Austin, May 2010, and by phone and e-mail, 2009–2011.

Cronkite, Nancy, daughter of Walter Cronkite, Jr. Interviewed by e-mail, 2009–2011.

Cronkite, Walter, Jr., November 1995 script treatments for Discovery Channel’s
Cronkite Remembers
documentaries (drafted by Mary Dore, the Cronkite Ward Company).

——, 1942 shipboard diaries, USS
Arkansas
and USS
Texas
, in personal papers, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.

——, 1942–1945 personal correspondence from Europe to his wife, Betsy Maxwell Cronkite, and his parents, in Cronkite’s personal papers, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.

Cronkite, Walter III (“Chip”), son of Walter Cronkite, Jr. Interviewed in Washington, D.C., November 2010, and in New York, April 2011, and by phone and e-mail, 2009–2011.

Cronkite, Walter IV, son of Chip, grandson of Walter Cronkite, Jr., and his grandfather’s future chronicler. Interviewed by e-mail 2011.

Fields, Dana, Associated Press reporter, Kansas City. Interviewed by phone and e-mail, March 2010.

Flannery, Jeff, manuscript specialist, Library of Congress. Interviewed by phone, November 2011.

Foster, Terry, researcher, U.S. Army Military Research Center, Carlisle Barracks, PA. Interviewed in Carlisle, May 2010, and by e-mail, 2010–2011.

Frankish, Brian, son of former United Press reporter Jack Frankish, colleague of Walter Cronkite. Interviewed by phone and e-mail, 2010–2011.

Isserman, Maurice, professor at Hamilton College and future Cronkite chronicler. Interviewed by e-mail, 2011.

Gallez, Gilbert, archivist, Château de Vouilly, Normandy. Interviewed at Vouilly, July 2011, and by e-mail, 2011.

Gesas, Tracy Boyle, daughter of Hal Boyle. Interviewed by phone and e-mail, 2010.

Hamel, James, grandson of Mme. Hamel, proprietress, Château de Vouilly, Normandy. Interviewed at Vouilly, July 2011.

Hamill, Pete, Liebling devotee and editor of Liebling World War II collection. Interviewed by phone and e-mail, 2011.

Hamilton, Jim, Writing 69th historian. Interviewed by e-mail, January 2010.

Katz, Rod, military history specialist, Library of Congress. Interviewed by e-mail, November 2009.

Kelly, David, researcher, Library of Congress. Interviewed in Washington, D.C., November 2009, and by phone and e-mail, 2009–2011.

Komor, Valerie, archivist, Associated Press. Interviewed in New York, April 2010, and by phone and e-mail, 2010–2011.

Layzell, Alastair, and wife, Anne, British television documentary producers. Interviewed in London, July 2011, and by e-mail, 2011.

Lewis, Anthony, interpretive guide, Normandy American Cemetery. Interviewed at Colleville-sur-Mer, July 2011, and by e-mail, 2011.

Liebling, A. J., letters from Europe to his mother, sister, and friend Joe Mitchell, 1939–1944, part of Liebling’s papers at Cornell University.

——, various unpublished draft articles and research fragments written in Paris and London, 1939–44, part of Liebling’s papers at Cornell University.

MacArthur, John, president and publisher of
Harper’s Magazine
, friend of the Cronkite family, and devotee of Cronkite’s London roommate and United Press colleague Jim McGlincy. Interviewed by phone and e-mail, 2010–2011.

McManus, John C., World War II historian and professor at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. Interviewed in St. Louis, March 2010, and via e-mail, 2010–2011.

Miller, Donald, World War II historian and professor at Lafayette College. Interviewed by phone and e-mail, 2010–2011.

Miller, Harry, reference archivist, Wisconsin Historical Society. Interviewed by e-mail, March 2010.

Peel, Frances, proprietress of the Cross Keys, Molesworth, Cambridgeshire, U.K. Interviewed in Molesworth, July 2011, and by e-mail, 2011.

Pereira, Andréa Nunes, sales associate, United Press International. Interviewed by e-mail, October 2009.

Prescott, Jean, research specialist, Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum. Interviewed by e-mail, March 2010.

Romeiser, John B., professor, University of Tennessee, and biographer of AP correspondent Don Whitehead. Interviewed by e-mail, 2011.

Rooney, Andy. Interviewed in New York, April 2010 and April 2011, and via e-mail though his deputy Susie Bieber, 2010–2011.

Rooney, Brian, son of Andy Rooney. Interviewed by phone and e-mail, 2010–2011.

Rooney, Emily, daughter of Andy Rooney. Interviewed by e-mail, 2010.

Ruthman, Robert, college roommate and onetime CBS colleague of Andy Rooney. Interviewed by phone and e-mail via his son Chris, 2009–2011.

Sheets, Colleen, widow of Captain Robert Sheets. Interviewed by phone, 2010–2011, and via e-mail through her daughter, Sally Sheets Wiggins, 2009–2011.

Sheets, Robert, private World War II diary. Provided by his daughter, Sally Sheets Wiggins, 2010.

Smith, Sunny, and Lester Trott, Annapolis Yacht Club friends of Captain Bunny Rigg. Interviewed by phone, April 2011.

Sokolow, Sandy, former CBS News producer and friend and colleague of Walter Cronkite. Interviewed by phone and e-mail, 2010–2011.

Stevens, Paul, retired Associated Press reporter in Kansas City and admirer of Hal Boyle. Interviewed by phone and e-mail, March 2010.

Trillin, Calvin, friend of Hal Boyle and fellow Kansas City–bred humorist. Interviewed by e-mail via his assistant, 2011.

Wade, Betsy, colleague and chronicler of Homer Bigart. Interviewed in New York, April 2010 and April 2011, and by phone and e-mail, 2010–2011.

Weaver, Brenda, daughter-in-law of the late Sergeant Tyre Weaver. Interviewed by phone and e-mail, February 2011.

Weaver, Tyre, the one-armed USAAF miracle. Personal wartime correspondence and diary fragments, generously provided by his daughter-in-law, Brenda Weaver, February 2011.

Wiant, Susan E., daughter and biographer of former United Press reporter Toby Wiant, a colleague of Walter Cronkite. Interviewed by phone and e-mail, February 2011.

Wiggins, Sally Sheets, daughter of Captain Robert Sheets. Interviewed by phone and e-mail, 2010–2011.

Wilder, Roy, Jr., former First Army public relations officer and great friend of Joe Liebling, Andy Rooney, and Hal Boyle. Interviewed by phone and correspondence, 2011.

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