Randall B. Woods Interview Tapes
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Scope and Content Note
The collection includes eighty-two audiocassette tapes containing interviews conducted by Randall Woods with J. William Fulbright, Dale Bumpers, McGeorge Bundy, Orval Faubus, Allan Gilbert, Hoyt Purvis, Arthur Schlesinger, Dean Rusk, Lee Williams, and others as part of research for Woods' biography on Fulbright. The locations of the interviews include Fayetteville, AR; Washington, D.C.; and Bonn, Germany.
Dates
- 1988-1996
Creator
- Woods, Randall Bennett, 1944- (Person)
Language of Materials
Materials are in English.
Access Information
Please call (479) 575-8444 or email specoll@uark.edu at least two weeks in advance of your arrival to ensure availability of the materials.
Use Information
No use restrictions apply.
No Interlibrary Loan.
Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).)
Biographical Note
Randall Bennett Woods (1944 - ) received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas in 1972. In 1985 he was named John A. Cooper Professor of American History and in 1996 was promoted to Distinguished Professor. Woods has served as Associate Dean, Interim Dean, and Dean of Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas. The interviews in this collection were collected by Woods for his award -winning Fulbright: A Biography (Cambridge, 1995), which was nominated for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and which won the Ferrell and Ledbetter Prizes. In 2006, the Free Press published LBJ: Architect of American Ambition. Woods was selected to be both Mary Ball Washington Distinguished Professor at University College, Dublin and the Fulbright 50th Anniversary Chair at the University of Bonn.
Extent
1.63 Linear Feet (3 boxes)
Arrangement of the Papers
Tapes have been retained in Woods' original order, with original tape numbers; they are arranged alphabetically by interviewee except for tapes #81 and 82.
Acquisition Information
The Randall B. Woods Interview Tapes were donated to the Special Collections Department by Randall B. Woods in October 1999.
Processing Information
Processed by Robyn Spears and Samuel Ownbey; completed in August 2019.
- Title
- Randall B. Woods Interview Tapes
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Robyn Spears and Samuel Ownbey
- Date
- August 2019
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Department Repository
University of Arkansas Libraries
365 N. McIlroy Avenue
Fayetteville AR 72701 United States
(479) 575-8444
specoll@uark.edu