James S(tanford) Bradshaw (#35)

An Inventory of His Personal Papers
1959-1972
At the John F. Kennedy Library
National Archives and Records Administration

Administrative Information
Biographical Note
Collection Overview
List of Series
Series Description
 

Administrative Information

Abstract
Papers 1959-1972.
Press officer, educator, government official. Press adviser to the Secretary General, Organization of American
States (1961-62); Deputy Public Affairs Adviser, Bureau of Latin America, Agency for International Development
(1962-65); Reports and Food for Peace Officer, AID, Chile (1965-67); professor, School of Journalism, Central
Michigan University (1969-78). Publications, memorandums, press releases, and pamphlets issued by the
Organization of American States, the Agency for International Development, and others; includes draft manuscript
on United States-Latin American economic relations and the Alliance for Progress.

Access
Open.

Usage Restrictions
According to the deed of gift signed March 1996, copyright of these materials has been assigned to the United States.   Documents in this collection that were prepared by officials of the United States as part of their official duties are in the public domain. Users of these materials are advised to determine the copyright status of any document from which they wish to publish.

Copyright
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Provenance
Received from James S. Bradshaw of Mt. Pleasant, MI, in October 1987 (Acc. 1987-030).

Extent
About 6000 items (2 linear feet, 7 linear inches ; 3 cubic feet)

Date Opened
July 1997

Processed by
Andrew Owen

Encoded by
James M. Roth

Personal Papers of James S. Bradshaw (1921-1990)

Biographical Note
Born on December 6, 1921 in Campbell, Missouri, James Stanford Bradshaw served in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1945, receiving the Bronze Star and Combat Infantry Badge, among other honors, for his actions in France and Germany. He joined the Associated Press in 1949 and from 1955 to 1961 he covered Latin America. In 1961, Bradshaw became press adviser to the Secretary General of the Organization of American States. This was followed by his appointment as deputy public affairs adviser for the U.S. Agency of International Development, a position he held from 1962 to 1965. From 1965 to 1967, Bradshaw acted as the reports officer for AID in Santiago, Chile. He joined the faculty of Central Michigan University in 1969 and retired at the end of 1983 as a full professor. He was a visiting professor at Xiamen University, China, 1985-86. Mr. Bradshaw died August 3, 1990.

Collection Overview
The Personal Papers of James Stanford Bradshaw reflects his interest in and involvement with Latin America in his roles as press adviser to the Secretary General, Organization of American States (1961-62); Deputy Public Affairs Adviser, Bureau of Latin America, Agency for International Development (1962-65); Reports and Food for Peace Officer, AID, Chile (1965-67), during a time which was a particularly volatile period in Latin America (1959-1970). Found within are publications, memorandums, press releases, and pamphlets issued by the Agency for International Development (AID), the Organization of American States (OAS), and the Alliance for Progress; speeches from a wide variety of public officials and figures about Latin America; and detailed summaries of conferences of the main organizations.

Spanning the end of Eisenhower’s administration to the first years of Nixon’s administration, the papers provide an invaluable look at Latin America from the rise of Castro through Kennedy’s launch of the Alliance for Progress to, at the behest of Nixon, Rockefeller’s failed whirlwind tours of the region, implicitly revealing how the initial optimism and breakthroughs of the Alliance for Progress were lost, to a great extent, on the battlefields of Southeast Asia. Nonetheless, these papers convey both the concrete details and heady optimism of the Alliance for Progress during its first few years.

List of Series
Series 1. Subject Files

Series Description

Series 1. Subject Files, 1959-1972 .
About 6000 items.
Arrangement: chronological by organization.

Subject Files contain publications, memorandums, press releases, and pamphlets issued by the Organization of American States, the Agency for International Development, and others; and includes draft manuscript on United States-Latin American economic relations and the Alliance for Progress. Also noteworthy is ‘The "Lost Highway,’" an abstract by Bradshaw covering the economic dimension of Latin American-U.S. relations, 1945-47, found in the first box, and a number of books by several authors about Latin America, found in the last box.