Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Collection Summary
| Title | L. Patrick Gray III papers, 1931-2008 |
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| Span Dates | 1931-2008 |
| ID No. | MSS86267 |
| Creator | Gray, L. Patrick, III (Louis Patrick), 1916-2005 |
| Extent | 36,000 items |
| Extent | 102 containers plus 2 classified and 3 oversize |
| Extent | 42 linear feet |
| Extent | 20,325 digital files (16.85 MB) |
| Language | Collection material in English |
| Location | Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. |
| Finding Aid Permalink | Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms019023 |
| LCCN Permalink | LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm2018086267 |
| Summary | Lawyer, assistant attorney general for the United States Department of Justice Civil Division, and acting director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Correspondence, memoranda, notes, writings, speeches, testimony, legal records, military records, photographs, printed matter, and other papers relating chiefly to Gray's time as acting director of the FBI during the Richard M. Nixon presidential administration and the impact of this period on his life in the following years. Topics include the investigation of the Watergate Affair, other FBI actions in 1972 and 1973, and changes in that institution following the death of J. Edgar Hoover. |