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1. William Gobitas papers, 1935-1989

   100 items. 1 container. 0.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Insurance executive and piano tuner. Correspondence, notes, court documents, newspaper clippings, printed material, ephemera, and photographs relating to freedom of speech and legal cases involving Jehovah's Witnesses. Documents the United States Supreme Court case of Minersville v. Gobitis (sic) concerning the refusal of Gobitas and his sister Lillian (Gobitas) Klose to salute the American flag in their school in Minersville, Pennsylvania, in 1935.

2. John L. McCrea papers, 1898-1984

   5,255 items. 14 containers. 5.2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Naval officer, aide to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and insurance executive. Correspondence, speeches, writings, subject files, and photographs relating primarily to McCrea's career as a naval officer.

3. Robert Edgar Cecil papers, 1942-1945

   3,000 items. 7 containers plus 1 oversize. 4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Insurance executive. Correspondence, copies of minutes of meetings, reports of committees, notices and orders, camp publications, rules and regulations, financial reports, medical records, studies of food and nutrition, organization charts, and other papers relating to the administration of the Japanese prison camp at the University of Santo Tomás in Manila and also the camp at Los Baños in the Philippines where Cecil was interned during World War II.

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