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Controversy and Confusion
Honor America Day
Letter from Richard Nixon to Bob Hope, July 13, 1970. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (134.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0134]
Letter from Carl F. Ruenger to Bob Hope, June 7, 1970. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (134.01.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0134_01, bhp0134_01p1]
Dick Gregory and Honor America Day
Letter from Dick Gregory to Bob Hope, July 1, 1970. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (134.03.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0134_03, bhp0134_03p1, bhp0134_03p2]
Hope for the Families of POWs
Letter from “Vickey” to Bob Hope, ca. 1970s. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (135.02.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0135_02]
Jokes for White House dinner honoring POWs, May 24, 1973. Typescript. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (136.01.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0136_01]
Jokes for White House dinner honoring POWs, May 24, 1973. Typescript. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (136.01.01)
[Digital ID # bhp0136_01p1]
The Entertainer as Diplomat
Bob Hope in Vientiane, Laos, with Nguyen Van Tranh (middle), and Rev. G. Edward Roffe (1905–2000, left), Christian Alliance Church minister and interpreter, December 23, 1971. Copyprint. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (133.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0133]
Hope for the POWs
Letter from POW Fred Flom to Bob Hope, February 24, 1973. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (135.00.00)
[Digital ID# 169a]
Letter from Bob Hope to Fred Flom, May 3, 1973. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (136.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0136]
Feiffer and the POWs
Jules Feiffer. Cartoon with handwritten notes, March 18, 1973. Jules Feiffer Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (137.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0137]
Letter from Jules Feiffer to Robert Chambers, March 27, 1973. Jules Feiffer Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (138.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0138]
Jules Feiffer. Cartoon with handwritten notes, March 1973. Jules Feiffer Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (137.01.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0137_01]
Academy Awards Controversy
Telegram from James A. Klein to Bob Hope, April 8, 1975. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (139.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0139]
Bob Hope. Handwritten draft of announcement for Frank Sinatra to read during Academy Awards broadcast, April 8, 1975. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (140.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0140]
"I Am Now for Gun Control"
Letter from Senator Edward M. Kennedy to Bob Hope, May 27, 1981. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (139.02.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0139_02]
Note from Harold R. Jerue to Bob Hope written on photocopy of newspaper article, ca. May 1981. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (141.02.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0141_02]
Anita Bryant
Bob Temmey. “Bob Hope: Why I Don’t Agree with the War on Homosexuals.” National Enquirer, ca. July 1977. Newspaper clipping. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (142.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0142]
Letter from Gladys Williams to Bob Hope, January 10, 1978. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (143.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0143]
Letter from Bob Hope to Gladys Williams, February 7, 1978. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (144.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0144]
Letter from Don Anderson to Bob Hope, April 28, 1978. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (141.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0141]
Letter from Reverend James Frensley to John McKinley, president of Texaco, April 25, 1978. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (143.01.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0143_01]
Letter from Bob Hope to Reverend James Frensley, May 15, 1978. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (144.01.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0144_01]
Letter from J. L. Bower to Bob Hope, April 25, 1978. Typescript. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (141.01.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0141_01]
Utter Confusion
Jules Feiffer. A Dance to the New Year, December 29, 1991. Reproduction of ink drawing on paper with paste-ons. Jules Feiffer Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (146.00.00)
[Digital ID# ppmsca-24375]
The Library of Congress does not have permission to show this image online
Blurring of the Lines
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Entertainment and the News
Barriers between Entertainment and Politics
Interdepartmental correspondence from William S. Hedges (1895–1978) to NBC station managers, January 10, 1936. National Broadcasting Company History Files, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (147.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0147]
Interdepartmental correspondence from John Royal to NBC station managers, January 9, 1936. Typescript. National Broadcasting Company History Files, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (147.01.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0147p3]
Letter from Dorothy Kemble, editor for continuity acceptance, to Bertha Brainard (1890–1946), director of commercial programming, April 27, 1938. National Broadcasting Company History Files, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (147.02.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0147_02]
Bob Hope Blurs the Lines
Bob Hope. Notes for broadcast, July 1952. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (148.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0148]
Letter from Alben Barkley (1877–1956) to Bob Hope, August 29, 1952. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (148.01.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0148_01]
Bob Hope’s jokes for monolog at Republican National Convention, July 1952. Typescript with handwritten emendations. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (148.02.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0148_02]
Faux News
Dana Edelson, photographer. Amy Poehler (b. 1971), Seth Meyers (b. 1973), and Senator John McCain on set of “Weekend Update” on Saturday Night Live, May 17, 2008. Copyprint. Courtesy of the NBC Universal Photo Bank (149.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0149]
The Colbert Nation
Stephen Colbert. I Am America (And So Can You!) New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2007. Courtesy of Alan Gevinson (150.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0150]
Blurring of the Lines
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Television and Politics
“The Revolutionary Impact of Television”
Senator John F. Kennedy, “Television as I See It: A Force That Has Changed the Political Scene.” TV Guide, November 14–20, 1959. Courtesy of Alan Gevinson (154.01.00 and 154.01.01)
[Digital ID # bhp0154_01, bhp0154_01p1]
Jules Feiffer. “Pencils ready televiewers?” March 20, 1966. Ink drawing on layered paper with paste-ons. Jules Feiffer Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (151.02.00)
[Digital ID # ppmsca-31187]
Television and the News
Jules Feiffer. “—American planes fly under the cover of night to parachute under-water mines into heavily traveled—” May 28, 1967. Ink drawing on layered paper with paste-ons. Jules Feiffer Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (151.00.00)
[Digital ID # ppmsca-24363]
The Library does not have permission to show this image online
“Dynamic Duo,” 1971. Reproduction of poster. Yanker Poster Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (154.00.00)
[Digital ID # ppmsca-23476]
Political Advertising on Television
Tony Schwartz. Polaroid stills from “Daisy ad,” 1964. Tony Schwartz Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (152.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0152p1—bhp0152p4]
Blurring of the Lines
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Politics and Camp
Gerald R. Fordzie
Fordzie: Happy Days Are Here Again! 1976. Poster. Yanker Poster Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (155.00.00)
[Digital ID# yan-1a38770]
Ronbo
Alfred Gescheidt. Ronbo. Update Art, Inc., 1985. Poster. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (155.01.00)
[Digital ID # ppmsca-30630]
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