Scope and Content Note
The papers of Fred Patterson Graham (1931- ) span the years 1947-1983. The collection consists of correspondence, diary, speeches, writings, notebooks, interviews, research materials, legal records, newspaper columns, news scripts, subject files, scrapbooks, audio recordings, and other papers. The papers are organized in eight series: Diary; Family Correspondence; General Correspondence; Subject File; Speeches, Writings, and Related Material; Financial Papers; Notebooks; and Miscellany.
The collection pertains chiefly to Graham's career as a Supreme Court correspondent for theNew York Times and as legal correspondent for the Columbia Broadcasting System, inc. (later CBS Inc.). Included are drafts of Graham's bookThe Alias Program (1977) and his unpublished work concerning the Supreme Court. Subjects include Spiro T. Agnew, G. Harrold Carswell, Edmund Orgill's campaign for governor of Tennessee, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, the Department of Justice Witness Protection Program, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Supreme Court justices including Warren E. Burger and Abe Fortas.