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Associated Press: U.S. City Bureaus Collection (Gale)
Associated Press: U.S. City Bureaus Collection Primarily a post-World War II collection, these bureau records—consisting primarily of wire copy, as well as correspondence and newsletters—cover a broad segment of American political and social history. Major subjects include the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr., Cuba, the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago, the My Lai massacre trial of Lt. William Calley Jr., and the U.S. presidency. Presidents including George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Jimmy Carter, and John F. Kennedy are all represented in the files.
The Dallas bureau led the coverage of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963 and both Dallas and Austin wrote about subsequent events, from the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald to the trial of Jack Ruby to the Warren Commission report. Highlights from the San Francisco bureau include the growth of the counterculture movement and radical politics, as well as the gay rights movement. The Birmingham, Atlanta, and New Orleans bureaus were on the front lines of the civil rights struggles of the 1960s, covering the Birmingham bombings, events in Selma from 1963 to 1966, the Freedom Rides, desegregation, and the Black Panthers. The Miami bureau devoted considerable copy to Cuba, including the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Cuban refugees. The Chicago bureau boasted an especially active crime beat. The bureaus extensively covered education, environmental issues, immigration, crime, urban affairs, sports, and politics.
