Manuscript Division Stewart Hensley Papers

Stewart Hensley Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS75842

Scope and Content Note

The papers of Stewart Hensley (1913-1976) span the years 1936-1975 with the bulk of the material dated after 1942. The papers are organized into the following series: General Correspondence, Notebooks, Subject File, News Releases, and Miscellany.

Although some of Hensley's correspondence in the General Correspondence series is exchanged with prominent contemporaries such as Zbigniew Brzezinski, Dean Rusk, and Ronald L. Ziegler, the remainder and largest part is of a routine nature concerning speaking engagements and personal affairs.

The Notebooks series includes spiral-bound notebooks containing Hansley's notes of interviews and conversations with State Department and other government officials, some of which were used for publication.

The Subject File and News Releases series contain reference and research files composed of newspaper articles and clippings, press kits and releases, reports, printed matter, and other items of a similar nature. The Miscellany series includes certificates, invitations, and printed matter.

Dates

Creation: 1936-1975
Creation: Majority of material found within ( 1942-1975)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Access and Restrictions

The papers of Stewart Hensley are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.

Copyright Status

The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Stewart Hensley is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).

Biographical Note

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Stewart Hensley was born in Saguache, Colorado, in 1913. Following his graduation from the University of Missouri School of Journalism in 1934, he worked on several newspapers in New Mexico and Texas and served as news chief of the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service before beginning his career with United Press Associations, later United Press International, in 1944. After a brief period on the foreign news desk in New York, he was assigned to the China-Burma-India theater as a war correspondent in 1945 and subsequently became United Press Associations manager for India. Hensley was transferred to the Washington bureau in 1947 and became chief diplomatic and State Department correspondent for United Press International in 1958, a position in which he served until his death. He reported for the United Press International from nearly fifty countries and was a familiar figure at major international conferences and on the overseas trips of American presidents from Dwight D. Eisenhower through Richard M. Nixon. Hensley received the Distinguished Service in Journalism award by the University of Missouri in 1965. He died on February 15, 1976 in Washington, D.C.

Extent

4,000 items
16 containers
6.4 linear feet

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Additional Description

Abstract

Newspaper correspondent. Correspondence, notebooks, transcriptions of interviews, speeches, research files, printed matter and other papers relating to Hensley's career as a reporter and chief diplomatic correspondent for the United Press Associations, later the United Press International.

Arrangement of the Papers

This collection is arranged in five series:

Catalog Record

https://lccn.loc.gov/mm81075842

Provenance

The papers of Stewart Hensley were given to the Library of Congress by his wife, Martha P. Hensley, 1976-1979. Additional items were also given by Martha P. Hensley in 1989.

Transfers

Photographs have been transferred to the Prints and Photographs Division where they are identified as part of the Stewart Hensley Papers.

Processing History

The papers of Stewart Hensley were arranged and described in 1979. The finding aid was revised in 2010. An addition of sixteen items, 1945-1949, received in 1989 was interfiled with similar material in the Correspondence series in 2010.