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Scope and Content Note
The papers of Bryson Brennan Rash (1913-1992) span the years 1918-1992 and consist of broadcast scripts, correspondence, speeches, photographs, news clippings, a book draft, and miscellaneous biographical material. Reflecting Rash's pioneering role in radio and television broadcast journalism, the papers include material from a 1939 experimental television remote location transmission, the Army-McCarthy hearings, the hydrogen-bomb test in 1956 at Eniwetok (later known as Enewetak), Rash's years as White House correspondent during the Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower administrations, and his work on local Washington, D.C., history.