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Collection Number: 04022

Collection Title: Charles Harvey Crutchfield Papers, 1942-2000 (bulk 1945-1964, 1968-1977)

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Abstract Charles Harvey Crutchfield was born in Hope, Ark., on 27 July 1912, grew up in Spartanburg, S.C., and matriculated at Wofford College for one year, 1929-1930. He began his career in broadcasting in 1929 as a radio announcer and worked at a number of radio stations before joining the staff of WBT in Charlotte, N.C., in 1933. Crutchfield held several positions at the station and at its parent company, retiring as president of the Jefferson-Pilot Broadcasting Company in 1977. Crutchfield had a decades-long friendship with the Reverend Billy Graham and was chiefly responsible for launching Graham's television presence. Following his retirement, Crutchfield founded his own consulting company, Media Communications, Inc., which was devoted to broadcasting issues, and was active with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the North Carolina Agency for Public Telecommunications, as well as in the larger broadcasting community and in professional and civic organizations. The collection traces the broadcasting career of Charles Harvey Crutchfield, beginning in the 1940s when he was program director and then general manager of radio station WBT and continuing until his retirement as president of the Jefferson-Pilot Broadcasting Company in 1977. The files consist primarily of correspondence, memoranda, clippings, and other materials relating to the Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company in its various incarnations. Of particular interest are files addressing current events in the broadcasting community and Crutchfield's response, in the various capacities he held, to them. Topics covered include union organization efforts, Senate hearings regarding representation of affiliate stations in the national spot sales field, the expansion and growth of the Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company, and the development of Community Antenna Television. Crutchfield's ardent anti-communist stance is reflected throughout these materials. Crutchfield corresponded regularly with Reverend Billy Graham and, later, with CBS News president Richard Salant and Frank Stanton, president of CBS Inc.; routine correspondence with national and local political figures is also included. There are also files, comprised chiefly of correspondence, reports, and clippings, that document Crutchfield's work with his consulting firm, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the North Carolina Agency for Public Telecommunications, and professional and civic organizations. Audiocassettes primarily contain interviews with Charles Crutchfield and WBT programs prepared in honor of various anniversaries celebrated by the station. A number of video tapes are recordings of obituaries of and tributes to Crutchfield. Films include "Weep for the Innocent" and footage of fired employees picketing WBT in the late 1940s.
Creator Crutchfield, Charles Harvey, 1912-1998.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
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Received from Charles Harvey Crutchfield of Charlotte, N.C. in February 1978 (Acc. 78006); additions received in 1980 (Acc. 80172) and 1986 (Acc. 86043, 86069) from Charles Harvey Crutchfield, in 1999 (Acc. 98485, 98526) from Leslie Crutchfield Tompkins of Charlotte, N.C., and in 2000 (Acc. 98549, 98625) from WBTV of Charlotte, N.C.
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Charles Harvey Crutchfield was born in Hope, Ark., on 27 July 1912, grew up in Spartanburg, S.C., and matriculated at Wofford College for one year, 1929-1930. He began his career in broadcasting in 1929 as an announcer with Spartanburg's first radio station and worked at a number of radio stations before joining the staff of WBT in Charlotte, N.C., in 1933. When Crutchfield joined the staff of WBT, it was owned by the Columbia Broadcasting System; this station was sold to Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company, which expanded its interests in the broadcasting field, purchasing radio station WBTW of Florence, S.C., and television station WBTV, the first such station in the Carolinas, and creating a subsidiary company, Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company. This company is now known as Jefferson-Pilot Communications Company, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Jefferson-Pilot Corporation. Crutchfield became program director of the station in 1935 and in 1945, following the sale of WBT to Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company, became general manager of the station. Crutchfield had a decades-long friendship with the Reverend Billy Graham and was chiefly responsible for launching Graham's television presence. In 1965, Crutchfield became president of Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company and remained in this position until his retirement in 1977. Following his retirement from the Jefferson-Pilot Broadcasting Company, Crutchfield founded his own consulting company, Media Communications, Inc., which was devoted to broadcasting issues. Crutchfield was nominated to the Board of Directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) in 1976 by President Gerald Ford, and remained active with the CPB for several years. He also served as the chair of the Board of Directors of the North Carolina Agency for Public Telecommunications (APT), which was started by Governor James B. Hunt Jr. in 1980.

Crutchfield was active in numerous professional and civic organizations, including a United States State Department appointment to assist in setting up the Greek radio network in 1951, serving as a representative of the United States broadcasting industry in a special mission to Russia in 1956, and visiting Radio Free Europe operations in Munich, Germany, in 1962. He was elected president of the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce in 1971, received an honorary doctorate from Appalachian State University in 1973, and received the North Carolina Distinguished Citizen Award in 1977. Throughout his life, Crutchfield was an adamant anti-communist.

In 1931, Crutchfield married Jacqueline Williams of Miami, Fla., and they had two children, Richard and Leslie. He died in 1998.

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These files trace the broadcasting career of Charles Harvey Crutchfield, beginning in the 1940s when he was program director and then general manager of radio station WBT, Charlotte, N.C., and continuing until his retirement as president of the Jefferson-Pilot Broadcasting Company in 1977. The files consist primarily of correspondence, memoranda, clippings, and other materials relating to the Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company in its various incarnations. Of particular interest are clusters of files addressing current events in the broadcasting community and Crutchfield's response, in the various capacities he held, to them. Topics covered include union organization efforts, Senate hearings regarding representation of affiliate stations in the national spot sales field, the expansion and growth of the Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company, and the development of Community Antenna Television. Crutchfield's ardent anti-communist stance is reflected throughout these materials. Crutchfield corresponded regularly with Reverend Billy Graham and, later, with CBS News president Richard Salant and Frank Stanton, president of CBS Inc.; routine correspondence from political figures Senator Sam J. Ervin, Governor Terry Sanford, J. Edgar Hoover, Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard M. Nixon, and H. Ross Perot is also included. There are also files, comprised chiefly of correspondence, reports, and clippings, that document Crutchfield's work with Media Communications, Inc., the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the North Carolina Agency for Public Telecommunications, and professional and civic organizations.

Audiocassettes primarily contain interviews with Charles Crutchfield and WBT programs prepared in honor of various anniversaries celebrated by the station. A number of video tapes are recordings of obituaries of and tributes to Charles Crutchfield. Films include "Weep for the Innocent" and footage of fired employees picketing WBT in the late 1940s.

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Series 1. Professional Papers, 1942-2000.

About 28,000 items.

Arrangement: chronological, and alphabetically within year.

Note that in certain cases, files are arranged by subject rather than strictly chronologically.

These files trace the broadcasting career of Charles Crutchfield, beginning in the 1940s when he was program director and then general manager of radio station WBT, Charlotte, N.C., and continuing until his retirement as president of the Jefferson-Pilot Broadcasting Company in 1977. The files consist primarily of correspondence, memoranda, clippings, and other materials relating to the administration of and topical subjects relating to the Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company in its various incarnations. Of particular interest are clusters of files addressing current events in the broadcasting community and the response of Crutchfield, in the capacities he held, to them. Topics covered include union organization efforts, Senate hearings regarding representation of affiliate stations in the national spot sales field, the expansion and growth of the Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company, and the development of Community Antenna Television. Crutchfield corresponded regularly with Reverend Billy Graham and, later, with CBS News President Richard Salant and Frank Stanton, President of CBS Inc.; routine correspondence, such as courtesy notes, from political figures Sam Ervin, Terry Sanford, J. Edgar Hoover, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, and H. Ross Perot, are included. Crutchfield's ardent anti-communist stance is reflected throughout these materials.

Note that, with few exceptions, original folder titles have been retained.

Folder 1-5

Folder 1

Folder 2

Folder 3

Folder 4

Folder 5

American Federation of Musicians (AFM), 1943-1957

Folder 6-9

Folder 6

Folder 7

Folder 8

Folder 9

American Federation of Radio Artists, 1942-1949

Folder 10-11

Folder 10

Folder 11

American Federation of Radio Artists, 1951-1954

Folder 12-14

Folder 12

Folder 13

Folder 14

American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), 1955-1957

Folder 15

Broadcasting Magazine, 1948

Folder 16

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, 1943-1947

Folder 17-31

Folder 17

Folder 18

Folder 19

Folder 20

Folder 21

Folder 22

Folder 23

Folder 24

Folder 25

Folder 26

Folder 27

Folder 28

Folder 29

Folder 30

Folder 31

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), 1946-1949

Correspondence and other materials relating to the firing of ten engineers, allegedly for their involvement in union organizing. The IBEW initiated a boycott of companies advertising on radio station WBT by encouraging individuals to remit postcards to these companies indicating their reluctance to patronize companies which sanction such allegedly anti-union behavior. The sponsoring companies in turn forwarded the postcards to WBT, which recorded the names and addresses of the individuals who had remitted postcards, and sent them material rebutting the union's presentation of the situation. These records may be found in Oversize Papers OP-4022/1. A representative postcard has been retained.

Oversize Paper OPF-4022/1

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Boycott Records, 1949

Records of individuals who sent postcards to advertisers of WBT indicating they would boycott their products due to alleged anti-union policies of WBT.

Folder 32-40

Folder 32

Folder 33

Folder 34

Folder 35

Folder 36

Folder 37

Folder 38

Folder 39

Folder 40

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, 1949-1954

Correspondence, newspaper clippings, memos, telegrams, and handbills relating to a labor dispute with IBEW and the trial of labor organizer and former WBT employee Sterling Hicks, who was twice convicted of conspiracy to blow up transmission towers of WBT.

Folder 41

Clippings, 1949-1951

Folder 42

Armory-TV Cotton Bowl, 1950

The Cotton Bowl was scheduled to be aired at the armory with cooperation from the Charlotte Park and Recreation Commission so that those without television could watch the football game, but this was cancelled under pressure from the IBEW, which threatened to picket the armory during the game.

Folder 43-44

Folder 43

Folder 44

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, 1954

Folder 45-48

Folder 45

Folder 46

Folder 47

Folder 48

National Labor Relations Board, 1948-1954

Clippings, correspondence, and memos, including material on a Supreme Court decision handed down in December of 1953 upholding the right of an employer to fire picketing employees who publicly deride the employer's product, though what the picketing employees say must have nothing to do with the labor dispute.

Box 6

Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), 1945-1949

Television-Networks, 1950

Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) Correspondence, Rates, Commissions, 1952-1958

Florence, S.C., 1952-1953

Materials detailing the interests of Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company (JSBC) in starting a television station in Florence, S.C.

Rate File: Network, National, CBS, 1953

Box 7

Radio Sales, Network Clearances, and Rates, 1946-1954

WBTW Florence, S.C., 1954-1955

Correspondence, clippings, and photographs relating to the advertising potential of the proposed television station. Also included is a bound transcript of a lawsuit brought by PeeDee Electric Cooperative, Inc. against defendants including Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company seeking to stop electricity from being furnished to the new television station. This suit was denied by the Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Box 8

WBTW: J. William Quinn, 1955-1956

CBS Radio and Spot Sales Hearings, 1955-1956

Senate Hearings, 1956

Box 9

Senate Hearings, 1956

CBS, 1957

Broadcast News magazine, 1957

Federal Communications Commission (FCC)-Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) Inquiry, 1957-1958

The FCC issued a report recommending that "divisions of organizations which also operate networks should be prohibited from representing stations (other than their owned and operated stations) in the national spot sales field." It was alleged that CBS and National Broadcasting Company (NBC) Spot Sales restrained other station representatives in seeking the opportunity to represent CBS and NBC affiliates, restrained competition between network television advertising business and national spot television advertising business, and conspired to control rates. The issue of whether Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company had any agreement or understanding with CBS with regard to the level of national spot rates of its television stations was addressed.

Box 10

Network-Spot Sales Hearings, 1959

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released its decision stating that television stations may not be represented in the national spot sales field by the spot sales organization of the network with which the station is affiliated.

Channel 8, 1957-1958

Correspondence, clippings, and memos relating to the proposal submitted by Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) seeking to operate a television station in Greensboro. Four companies were vying for control of this channel.

Box 11

Channel 8, 1957-1958

Box 12

Channel 8, 1958-1960

Box 13

Channel 8, 1959-1960

Box 14

Channel 8, 1960-1962

Correspondence with the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) and CBS, 1957-1960

Box 15

Channel 8, 1959-1964

Box 16

1961

Affiliates

"Anti-Communism:" Foreign Policy, Alan Newcomb, etc. (Primarily correspondence relating to anti-communist activities, including correspondence with North Carolina Governor Terry Sanford, Senator Sam Ervin, Edward R. Murrow, and J. Edgar Hoover)

Association of Maximum Service Telecasters, Inc.

Agencies

ASCAP

Associated Press

Educational TV

E Miscellaneous

F Miscellaneous

G Miscellaneous

Kiplinger Letters

Land of the Free (Correspondence regarding a locally produced television program of the same title on the subject of communism)

"Letter from a Young Communist"

Box 17

1961

L Miscellaneous

M Miscellaneous

Negotiations: Art Elliott

North Carolina Association of Broadcasters

N Miscellaneous

Political

Pulse

P Miscellaneous

Religion

Radio Moscow (Correspondence and clippings related to a WBT radio program dedicated to "interpreting and refuting Soviet propaganda" in an effort to counter the "persistent bombardment from Radio Moscow of twisted news, half-truths, and red herrings designed to confuse and divide us.")

Representation Negotiations

Box 18

1961

R Miscellaneous

S Miscellaneous

Talent

Thanks Letters

Television Advertising Representatives, Inc.

T Miscellaneous

U Miscellaneous

WBT: John Blair & Co.

WBTV: Broadcast Policies

WBTV: Correspondence with Viewers

WBTV: Federal Trade Commission

WBTV: National Association of Broadcasters

WBTV: Personnel Responsibilities

WBTV: Political Complaints

Box 19

1961

WBTV: Political Policy

WBTV: Program Format

WBTV: Station Coverage

WBTV: Station and Program Popularity

WBTW: Young Television Corporation

Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company: Board

Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company: General

Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company: Interest in Other Stations

Jefferson Standard Foundation

Charles H. Crutchfield: Confidential: Business

Charles H. Crutchfield: Government Agencies

Announcers

Contributions: Company

Box 20

1961

Editorials

Federal Communications Commission (FCC): General

Federal Communications Commission (FCC): Miscellaneous

Federal Communications Commission (FCC): Official

FM

Inter-Office: Charles Harvey Crutchfield

Inter-Office: General

Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Co.

Kirkland, Ellis, Hodson, Chaffetz, & Masters

Legal Matters: Company

A. G. Myers (Gastonia)

Box 21

1961

Personnel Department

Personnel: Bonus, Salary, Insurance

Personnel: General

A. M. Pullen & Co.

A. D. Ring Associates

Talent

WBIG Greensboro

Thomas B. Cookerly

J. R. Covington

M. H. Crocker

Engineering: General

T. E. Howard

W. J. Jorgenson

Paul Marion

News: Radio & TV

Program: Radio: St. Clair

Program: TV: Rierson

Box 22

1961

Promotion: Radio: Larry Harding

Promotion: TV: John Dillon

Property & Purchasing: P. M. Covington, George Adams

William Quinn

Research: General

Robert Rierson

Salary Administration

Lacy Sellars: Manager, Quality Control Department

K. T. Tredwell

WBTW: General

J. M. Bryan

CBS: Executive File: CBS Inc.

CBS Radio

CBS Television

Charles H. Crutchfield: Confidential: Business

ABC Network

American Federation of Television and Radio Artists

Box 23

1961-1962

WBTW: Spot Sales: Charles Harvey Crutchfield

Relay-Florida

America Illustrated Magazine

Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company: Board

Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company: Foundation

Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company: General

Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company: Interest in Other Properties

Charles Harvey Crutchfield: Boards & Committees

Charles Harvey Crutchfield: Civic Miscellaneous

Charles Harvey Crutchfield: Company Business

Charles Harvey Crutchfield: Government Agencies

Box 24

1962

Charles Harvey Crutchfield: Trip to Europe, October 1962

Joseph M. Bryan

Jack Burney Research

Michaux H. Crocker

Business Office: Reports, recaps, etc.

Thomas B. Cookerly

J. R. Covington

Engineering: General

Thomas E. Howard

W. J. Jorgenson

Box 25

1962

Paul Marion

William Melson

Alan Newcomb: Director of Public Affairs

News: WBT and WBTV: Ervin Melton

Program: WBT Radio

Program: WBTV Television

Promotion: WBT Radio

Promotion: WBTV Television

Property & Purchasing: P. M. Covington, George Adams

Public Service

William Quinn

Research

Dallas Robbins

Sales Department: WBT Radio

Sales Department: WBTV Television

Lacy Sellars

Announcers

Budgets

Box 26

1962

Community Antenna Television (CATV) Proposals (Proposals, correspondence, comments, and questionnaires related to the interest of Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company in obtaining a CATV franchise in Florence, S.C.)

Contributions

Federal Communications Commission (FCC): General

Federal Communications Commission (FCC): Official

FM

Howard Holderness

Inter-Office: Charles Harvey Crutchfield

Inter-Office: General

Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company

Kirkland, Ellis, Hodson, Chaffetz, & Masters

Legal Matters: Company

A. G. Myers

Overtime Reports

Personnel: Bonus, Salary, Insurance

Personnel: General

Box 27

1962

Policy (Company): Donations, Editorial

A. M. Pullen Company

Salary Administration

WBIG: Greensboro, N.C.

WBTW

CBS Inc: Executive

CBS Radio

CBS Spot Selling: Compensation Reduction

CBS Television

NBC Network

CBS Affiliates

CBS Affiliates: Advisory Board

Box 28

1962

Affiliates

Agencies

Association of Maximum Service Telecasters, Inc.

Applications

Associated Press

A Miscellaneous

John Blair & Co.

Clients: Active

Clients: Perspective

Comments from Audience

Contributions (Company)

Congratulatory Notes

C Miscellaneous

D Miscellaneous

Educational TV

E Miscellaneous

Football

F Miscellaneous

G Miscellaneous

Box 29

1962

H Miscellaneous

K Miscellaneous

"Letter from a Young Communist"

L Miscellaneous

Mc Miscellaneous

National Association of Broadcasters

North Carolina Association of Broadcasters

N Miscellaneous

Other Stations

Pay TV

Political

Promotion: WBT's 40th Anniversary

Box 30

1962

P Miscellaneous

Radio Moscow

Religious

Research

Russia/Greece/Radio Free Europe Miscellaneous, 1951-1962

R Miscellaneous

Staff Memos: Charles Harvey Crutchfield

Staff Memos: General

Land of the Free

Talent

Thanks Letters

Tickets: Theater and Broadcast

Box 31

1962

Television Advertising Representatives, Inc.

T Miscellaneous

U Miscellaneous

W Miscellaneous

Young Television Corporation

Cancellation: "The Defenders"

Anti-Communist Miscellaneous

WFMY Proposal

Box 32

1962-1963

Harry Golden

National Labor Relations Board and National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians (Addresses, memoranda, and correspondence relating to a vote whereby the technicians of WBT and WBTV rejected representation by the NABET)

Unions: General

American Federation of Television and Radio Artists

Affiliates

Affiliates: Advisory Board

Agencies

Association of Maximum Service Telecasters, Inc.

Applications

Associated Press

Box 33

1963

A Miscellaneous

John Blair & Co.

B Miscellaneous

Charles Harvey Crutchfield: Personal: Confidential

Charles Harvey Crutchfield: Personal: Family

Charlotte News

Charlotte Observer

Box 34

1963

Editorializing: Supplementary File

Educational TV

E Miscellaneous

Football

G Miscellaneous

Insurance: Charles H. Crutchfield

Kiplinger Letters

K Miscellaneous

Literacy Program, 1960-1963

L Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous: Charles H. Crutchfield

Box 35

1963

Miscellaneous: Charles H. Crutchfield

M Miscellaneous

National Association of Broadcasters

North Carolina Association of Broadcasters

N Miscellaneous

Other Stations

Photographs

Political

Presbyterian Synod Sesquicentennial

Box 36

1963

Promotion Pieces: WBT

Promotion Pieces: WBTV

Public Service

Publications

P Miscellaneous

Q Miscellaneous

Radio Free Europe: Fund Drive, 1962-1963

Radio Free Europe: Chairman

Radio Liberty Programs

Box 37

1963

Radio Moscow

Religious

R Miscellaneous

Staff Memos: Charles Harvey Crutchfield

Staff Memos: General

S Miscellaneous

Television Advertising Representatives, Inc.

Tickets: Theater and Broadcast

T Miscellaneous

WBTW General

W Miscellaneous

Young TV

Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company: Board, Minutes, etc.

Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company: General

Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company: Foundation

Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company: Interest in Other Properties

Box 38

1963

Charles Harvey Crutchfield: Boards and Committees

Charles Harvey Crutchfield: Confidential: Company

Charles Harvey Crutchfield: Government Agencies

Charles Harvey Crutchfield: Medical Expense (Insurance)

Charles Harvey Crutchfield: Paid Bills

Charles Harvey Crutchfield: Trips

Business Office: Anticipated Cash Receipts and Disbursements

Business Office: Miscellaneous Reports and Figures

Business Office: Revenue Comparisons: All Stations

Business Office: Revenue Comparisons: WBT

Business Office: Revenue Comparisons: WBTV

Business Office: Revenue Comparisons: WBTW

Business Office: Salaries: Overtime

Business Office: Statement of Sales Commissions

Box 39

1963

J. M. Bryan

Grady Cole

Tom Cookerly

J. M. Covington

M. H. Crocker

Engineering: General

T. E. Howard

W. L. Jorgenson

Paul Marion

Alan Newcomb

News

Personnel Department

Program Department: WBT and Wade St. Clair

Program Department: WBTV and Robert Rierson

Promotion: WBT

Box 40

1963

Promotion: WBTV

Property and Purchasing

J. M. Quinn

Research

Dallas Robbins

Sales: WBT

Sales: WBTV

Lacy Sellars

Lacy Sellars: Quality Control

Announcers

CATV

Contributions

Federal Communications Commission (FCC): General

Federal Communications Commission (FCC): Official

Federal Communications Commission (FCC): Rosel Hyde Letters

Box 41

1963

FM

Howard Holderness

Inter-Office: Charles Harvey Crutchfield

Inter-Office: General

Jefferson Productions: John Dillon

Jefferson Productions: General

Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company

Kirkland, Ellis, Hodson, Chaffetz & Masters

A. G. Myers

Personnel: Bonus, Salary, Insurance

Personnel: General

A. M. Pullen Company

A. D. Ring & Associates

Salary Administration

ABC

Anti-Communism: Miscellaneous

CBS: General

CBS: Radio

CBS: Television

CBS Inc.: Executives

Syndication: Arthur Smith

WBIG

WBTW

Folder 476-479

Folder 476

Folder 477

Folder 478

Folder 479

1963

Charles Harvey Crutchfield: National Association of Broadcasters: Research Committee

Charles Harvey Crutchfield: North Carolina International Trade Fair: Entertainment Committee

Charles Harvey Crutchfield: Special Mailings

Section 315 Correspondence (Correspondence related to the suspension of Section 315 of the Federal Communications Act, which had mandated that equal time be allotted to political candidates for presidential, vice-presidential, congressional, and gubernatorial races. Crutchfield was in favor of suspension of Section 315)

Box 43

1964

Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company: Board, Minutes, etc.

Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company: Foundation

Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company: General

Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company: Interest in Other Properties

Charles Harvey Crutchfield: Boards, Committees, Memberships

Charles Harvey Crutchfield: Chamber of Commerce

Charles Harvey Crutchfield: Checkbooks

Charles Harvey Crutchfield: Christmas: Lists, Correspondence

Charles Harvey Crutchfield: Civic

Charles Harvey Crutchfield: Confidential: Company

Box 44

1964

Charles Harvey Crutchfield: Government Agencies

Charles Harvey Crutchfield: Medical Expense (Insurance)

Charles Harvey Crutchfield: Miscellaneous

Charles Harvey Crutchfield: Paid Bills

Charles Harvey Crutchfield: Personal: General

Charles Harvey Crutchfield: Personal: Social

Charles Harvey Crutchfield: Trips

Box 45

1964

Business Office: Miscellaneous Reports and Figures

Business Office: Revenue Comparisons: WBT

Business Office: Revenue Comparisons: WBTV

Business Office: Revenue Comparisons: WBTW

Business Office: Salaries and Overtime

Budget

J. M. Bryan

Grady Cole

Tom Cookerly

J. R. Covington

M. H. Crocker

Engineering: General

T. E. Howard

W. J. Jorgenson

Box 46

1964

Paul Marion

Alan Newcomb

News

Personnel Department

Program Department: WBT: Davis and Sinclair

Program Department: WBTV: Rierson

Promotion: WBT

Promotion: WBTV

Property: P. M. Covington

Purchasing: George Adams

William Quinn

Research

Dallas Robbins

Sales: WBT

Sales: WBTV

Lacy Sellars

WBTW

Announcers

Contributions

Box 47

1964

Federal Communications Commission (FCC): General

Federal Communications Commission (FCC): Official

FM

Howard Holderness

Inter-Office: Charles Harvey Crutchfield

Inter-Office: General

Jefferson Productions

Jefferson Productions: John Dillon

Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company

Kirkland, Ellis, Hodson, Chaffetz, & Masters

Legal

A. G. Myers

Personnel: Bonus, Salary, Insurance

Personnel: General

Pusan, Korea Student (Ung Rhee)

Box 48

1964

Salary Administration

ABC

CBS Inc.

CBS: Radio

CBS: Television

Spearhead Group

Special Mailings

Special Mailings: "Negro Blames Her Race," Cora Walker

Station Rates

Three-Part Series (Charles Harvey Crutchfield)

Technicians' Wages (Charlotte & Florence)

Affiliates Advisory Board

Agencies

Box 49

1964

Association of Maximum Service Telecasters, Inc.

Applications

Associated Press

A Miscellaneous

Blair Radio & Television

Box 50

1964

B Miscellaneous

CATV

CATV: Dick Shafto Correspondence, 1963-1964 (The correspondence in this file depicts the struggle between Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company and Dick Shafto, president of the Broadcasting Company of the South, wherein the latter sought a CATV franchise for Charlotte (where WBTV is based) but would not agree to a non-duplication of programming clause. The Broadcasting Company of the South already owned a CATV system in Florence, S.C., which duplicated WBTW programming)

Clients: Prospective and Active

Comments from Audience

Congratulatory Notes

C Miscellaneous

D Miscellaneous

Editorials & Editorializing

Box 51

1964

E Miscellaneous

G Miscellaneous

H Miscellaneous

J Miscellaneous

Kiplinger Letters

K Miscellaneous

L Miscellaneous

M Miscellaneous

National Association of Broadcasters

National Association of Broadcasters: Research Committee

Box 52

1964

N Miscellaneous

Other Stations

Political

Promotion Pieces

Public Service

Publications

P Miscellaneous

Radio Free Europe

Box 53

1964

Religious

R Miscellaneous

Staff Memos: Charles Harvey Crutchfield

Staff Memos: General

S Miscellaneous

Tickets: Theater, CBS, etc.

Television Advertising Representatives, Inc.

T Miscellaneous

W Miscellaneous

Young Television

CATV

Box 54

CATV, 1965-1967

Box 55

CATV, 1967

Box 56

CATV, 1967-1969

Box 57

CATV, 1969-1971

Box 58

CATV, 1972

1965

American Federation of Television and Radio Artists

Color TV

J. Edgar Hoover Speech, "The Faith of Free Men"

Political

Speaker Ban editorial (Correspondence and clippings related to the N.C. law enacted in 1963 prohibiting Communists and individuals who have plead the 5th Amendment when accused of Communist affiliations from speaking on the campuses of state-supported colleges and universities. Crutchfield was very much in favor of this law)

Box 59

Alan Newcomb

WBTW: Engineers

CBS: Executives, 1967

Fairness Doctrine and Cigarette Advertising, 1967

Letters from President Lyndon Johnson and others re: "Why We Fight in Vietnam" brochure, 1967

Crutchfield sent a brochure authored by Colonel Hugh A. Murrill, United States Army to a number of individuals and received numerous letters thanking him for it. In addition to that of President Johnson, letters were received from General W. C. Westmoreland, United States Army, J. Edgar Hoover, and others.

WBT and WBTV History: Miscellaneous, 1967

"Weep for the Innocent"

Materials include correspondence and requests for tapes and transcripts of a special television program of this name addressing innocent victims of crime.

Box 60

1968

Airport Mural

Anti-Discrimination Ordinance of Charlotte

CBS: Economic Study Committee

CBS: Executives

Charles Harvey Crutchfield: Awards

Charles Harvey Crutchfield: Personal

Communication Workers of America (CWA) Controversy (Correspondence and other materials relating to the refusal of WBT and twenty other broadcast stations to accept certain spot announcements prepared by the CWA, leading the CWA to file a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC))

Daily Telegraph Printing Company Correspondence

Employment of the Handicapped

Senator Sam J. Ervin

Larry Harding

Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

W. J. Jorgenson

Kenneth McFarland

National Council on Crime and Delinquency

Box 61

1968

Alan Newcomb Memorials

News Departments

Pay Television

Bill Quinn

Lacy Sellars

Special Deputies: Confidential

Special Mailings

Stock Options

Systems Analysis

Technicians Salary and Other, 1958-1968

Uncle Sam Stands Tall

Violence on Television

Box 62

1968

WBTW

WBTW: Pension: Confidential

WBTW: Tax Certificate

Weep for the Innocent

Westinghouse Property

WRVA-TV: Correspondence

WRVA-TV: Publicity

WWBT

WWBT: Fringe Benefits

Box 63

1969

Fred Barber

Charles Harvey Crutchfield: Chamber of Commerce: Personal

Charles Harvey Crutchfield: National Exchange Club Award

Charlotte Rehabilitation Hospital: Board of Managers

Tom Cookerly

J. R. Covington

M. H. Crocker

John Edgerton

Larry Harding

Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company: Board

Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company: Contributions

Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company: Foundation

Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company: General

Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company: Insurance

Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company: Interest in Other Properties

Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company: Middle Management

Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company: Stock Option Plan

Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company: Student Loans

Tommi Jones

Box 64

1969

W. J. Jorgenson

Jerry King

Paul Marion

Photographs, 1968-1969 and undated

Al Pruitt

Dallas Robbins

Lacy Sellars

Uniscience Laborotories versus Gernsbeck Publications

WBT

WBT-FM

WBTV

WBTV: 20th Anniversary

WBTW

WWBT-Richmond

WWBT-Richmond: Research

WWBT-Richmond: Tall Tower

Box 65

1970

Acquisitions

Affiliates

Association of Maximum Service Telecasters, Inc.

Announcers

Audience Correspondence

Blair Radio

Broadcasting Bill (S. 3637) (Primarily correspondence between Crutchfield and Senator Sam J. Ervin regarding the Senator's vote to override President Nixon's veto of bill S. 3637, known as the political broadcast bill. If passed, this bill would limit campaign expenditures in radio and television, resulting in candidates diverting funds from radio and television to newspapers, billboards, and other print media)

Box 66

1970

Building Addition

CBS: Economic Study Committee

CBS: Executives

CBS: General

CBS: News Meeting, 1 October 1970

CBS: Salant/Cronkite

Department Heads

Drug Project

Editorials

Engineering

Ernst & Ernst

Senator Sam Ervin

Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Proposals: Conglomerates

Freedoms Foundation

Billy Graham

"In the Name of Peace" (Materials include correspondence relating to an anti-communist documentary of the same name aimed at questioning the motives of anti-[Vietnam] War protesters, asking if these protesters are "sincerely protesting against the war or actively working to achieve a Communist victory?")

Box 67

1970

Jefferson Productions

Jefferson Standard Life Insurance

Kemper Open Golf Tournament

Mario Lazo Script Miscellaneous

Legal

Lippincott & Margulies

Liquor by the Drink (Correspondence and other writings supporting a mixed-beverages bill being considered by the North Carolina General Assembly)

Box 68

1970

Management Meeting

Metrolina Club

Mint Museum

National Association of Broadcasters

National Council on Crime and Delinquency

North Carolina Association of Broadcasters

Alan Newcomb Memorials

News Departments

Personnel: Confidential

Personnel: General

Planning and Development Committee

Police Association Speech, 25 April 1970

Political

Proposed Cigarette Ban

Public Affairs

A. M. Pullen and Company

Box 69

1970

Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company: Annual Meeting

Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company: Board

Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company: Budget

Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company: Contributions

Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company: Forecasts

Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company: Foundation

Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company: General

Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company: Interest in Other Property

Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company: Middle Management

Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company: Policy

Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company: Sales Commissions

Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company: Student Loans

Box 70

1970

Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company vs. Federal Communications Commission (FCC): Civil Action #2413, WBTW Tax Certificate

Chamber of Commerce: Audit Report

Chamber of Commerce: July-December

Box 71

1970

Chamber of Commerce: January-June

Charles Harvey Crutchfield: General, January-June

Box 72

1970

Charles Harvey Crutchfield: Insurance

Charles Harvey Crutchfield: Inter-Office

Charlotte Rehabilitation Hospital Board of Managers

Fred Barber

Frank Bateman

J. M. Bryan

Thomas B. Cookerly

Box 73

1970

J. R. Covington

P. M. Covington

M. H. Crocker

John Edgerton

Larry Harding

Harold Hinson

Tommi Jones

Wallace Jorgenson

Jerry King

Paul B. Marion

Lacy Sellars

J. W. Timberlake

School Integration/Busing

South Carolina Tax Assessment

Special Mailings

Staff Memos: Charles Harvey Crutchfield

Staff Memos: General

Box 74

1970-1971

"This Tiny, Noisy Minority" (Transcript of and correspondence regarding an address given by Crutchfield to the High Point, N.C. Rotary Club on 26 March 1970; the subject of this speech was the minority of activists engaging in violent and destructive means in order to effect change)

WBT

WBTV

WBTW

WWBT

Acquisitions

Affiliates

Association of Maximum Service Telecasters, Inc.

Box 75

1971

Audience Correspondence

Broadcasting Bill

Jim Broyhill

Cartridge Television, Inc.

CBS: Economic Study Committee

CBS: Executives

CBS: General

CBS: Salant

CBS: Stanton Contempt Proceeding re: "Selling of Pentagon" (Correspondence, memos, and other materials relating to the vote of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce of the House of Representatives to hold Frank Stanton, president of CBS, in contempt of Congress for refusing to furnish the Committee with the unused television footage from the CBS news program, "The Selling of the Pentagon")

Box 76

1971

CBS: "The Selling of the Pentagon": Miscellaneous

Clippings: Miscellaneous

Computer Negotiations

Editorials

Editorial Board

Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Conglomerate Questionnaire

Freedoms Foundation

Billy Graham

IBM Paperwork Study

Box 77

1971

Jefferson-Pilot

Jefferson Productions (Atlanta)

Kemper Open

Kirkland, Ellis, Hodson, Chaffetz, Masters & Rowe

Lazo Documentary

Management Committee

Kenneth McFarland

National Association of Broadcasters

North Carolina Association of Broadcasters

Network News: Miscellaneous

North Carolina Council on Crime & Delinquency

Project Hope

School Integration/Busing

Box 78

1971

Special Mailings

Speeches: Miscellaneous

Staff Memos: Charles Harvey Crutchfield

Staff Memos: General

WBIG

WBT

WBT-FM

WBTV

WBTV: Black Advisory Council

WFIL

WWBT

The White House: Miscellaneous

The White House: Special Commission for the President

Box 79

1971

Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company: Annual Meeting

Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company: Board

Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company: Budgets

Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company: Contributions

Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company: Financial Reports & Miscellaneous Figures

Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company: Forecasts

Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company: Foundation

Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company: Insurance

Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company: Operating Plan

Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company: Personnel

Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company: Policies

Box 80

1971

Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company

Frank Bateman

J. M. Bryan

Tom Cookerly

Bob Covington

M. H. Crocker

John Edgerton

Larry Harding

Harold Hinson

Tommi Jones

Wally Jorgenson

Jerry King

Ross Perot

Roger Soles

Bill Wilkinson

Chamber of Commerce: Annual Meeting

Box 81

1971

Chamber of Commerce: Board of Directors

Chamber of Commerce: Bylaws

Chamber of Commerce: Charter Commission

Chamber of Commerce: Contact Club

Chamber of Commerce: Drug Abuse Committee

Chamber of Commerce: Dues and Finances

Chamber of Commerce: European Tour

Chamber of Commerce: Executive Committee

Box 82

1971

Chamber of Commerce: General

Chamber of Commerce: Lease

Chamber of Commerce: Liquor by the Drink

Chamber of Commerce: Medical Center Study Committee

Chamber of Commerce: Membership Committee

Chamber of Commerce: Miscellaneous Committees

Chamber of Commerce: Obscenity Committee

Chamber of Commerce: Organization Structure

Box 83

1971

Chamber of Commerce: Program of Work Committee

Chamber of Commerce: State Legislative

Chamber of Commerce: University Research Park

Chamber of Commerce: Directory in binder

Charlotte Rehabilitation Hospital Board of Managers

Billy Graham Day: General

Box 84

Billy Graham Day, 1971-1975

General, 1971

Photographs, 1971

Legal documents, 1971-1972

Trial clippings, 1975

Box 85

1972

CBS

Billy Graham

Ross Perot

Ross Perot Project (Items relate to an idea of Crutchfield's proposing a television program featuring Perot. This program did not materialize)

Phase II Price Controls

Box 86

1972

Special Mailings

Special Mailing: American Institute for Political Communication

Special Mailing: Cincinnati Inquirer Editorial

Union (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers) Matter: Cameramen & Projectionists

The White House: Meeting (Broadcasters), 22 June 1972

The White House: Miscellaneous

Box 87

1973

Association of Maximum Service Telecasters, Inc.

Booth Towers (Salvation Army Project)

CBS

Chamber of Commerce (National)

Charlotte Rehabilitation Hospital

Congress

Box 88

1973

Editorials

Senator Sam Ervin

Billy Graham

Heineman Foundation

Honorary Doctorate: Appalachian State University Commencement Address

Kiplinger Letters

Lazo Documentary

Eugene H. Methvin (Reader's Digest)

John Mitchell

National Association of Broadcasters

New York Times Article re: Crutchfield Speech

Ross Perot

Box 89

1973-1974

Price Controls

Special Mailings

"What Price Health" (NBC Documentary-American Medical Association)

The White House

Association of Maximum Service Telecasters, Inc.

John Howard (Rockford College)

Jefferson Pilot Broadcasting Company (JPBC): Donations

Box 90

1974

Miscellaneous

Box 91

1974-1975

Special Mailings

Watergate

The White House

Acquisitions

Association of Maximum Service Telecasters, Inc.

Audience Correspondence

Bicentennial Celebration, 20 May 1975

Black Advisory Board

Burson & Marsteller (National Population Commission)

CBS: Affiliates Advisory Board

CBS: Arthur Taylor

CBS: Executives

Charlotte Ford Tractor

Charles Harvey Crutchfield: General

Consumer Protection Agency

Box 92

1975

Employee Inventory

Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

Fred Friendly

Billy Graham

Heineman Foundation

Jefferson-Pilot Broadcasting Company: Donations

Jefferson-Pilot Broadcasting Company: Foundation

Kiplinger Letters

Mario Lazo

James B. McMillan

Eugene Methvin

Box 93

1975

Minority Training Program

National Association of Broadcasters

Ned Nordness

North Carolina Magazine: Charles Harvey Crutchfield Article, October 1975

Over-the-Counter Drug Advertising

Report to the President by the Commission on CIA Activities within the United States

United States Chamber of Commerce

WBTV News

WBTV Tall Tower

The White House

Tom Wicker ( New York Times Article & Correspondence)

Joe Young

Box 94

1976

Acquisitions

Beech Mountain & Lake Norman Properties

Chamber of Commerce Update Luncheon (National)

Ford Campaign

Paul Harvey

Jefferson-Pilot Broadcasting Company: Capital Expenditures

Jefferson-Pilot Broadcasting Company: Miscellaneous

Kiplinger Letters

Minority Report

Box 95

1976

Miscellaneous

Mobil Oil Mailing & Related Correspondence

National Driving Center, 1972-1976

Box 96

1976-1977

Special Mailings

WBTV

White House Correspondence Miscellaneous (Includes letters from Dick Cheney, then-assistant to President Gerald Ford. These letters are primarily routine correspondence, such as courtesy and thank-you letters)

Acquisitions

Association of Maximum Service Telecasters, Inc.

The Briarhoppers

CBS: Affiliates Advisory Board

CBS: Economic Study Committee

Box 97

1977

CBS: Executives

CBS: General

Chamber of Commerce: National

Chamber of Commerce: National Accrediting Board

Congressmen and Senators (Includes routine letters from senators Edward Kennedy and Jesse Helms)

Davidson Seminar

Editorials

Federal Communications Commission (FCC): Miscellaneous

Fox, James F.

Box 98

1977

Billy Graham

Billy Graham Matter (Correspondence and clippings relating to a 26 June 1977 article published by the Charlotte Observer alleging that Billy Graham had "carefully shielded from public view" information about the World Evangelism Fund, a trust separate from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Graham, and Crutchfield, asserted that this was not the case, and it was found that Graham mentioned the Fund in a taped interview given in 1971)

Harvey, Paul

Heineman Foundation

Jefferson-Pilot Broadcasting Company

Jefferson-Pilot Broadcasting Company: Board Meeting

Box 99

1977

Jones, Jenkin Lloyd

Kemper Open

Kiplinger Letters

Miscellaneous

National Association of Broadcasters

Nation's Business

Newcomen Society

Pfaelzer Brothers

Research

Richard Salant Correspondence, 1961-1977 (Two bound volumes of correspondence between Crutchfield and Salant, president of CBS News, in which they discuss, and often argue about, national and international events and issues as they occurred from 1961-1977)

Box 100

1977-1978

Special Mailings

Speech: AP Meeting (Asheville) and Distinguished Citizens Award, 29 October 1977

Speeches: Miscellaneous

Union (International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees)

United States Chamber of Commerce

The White House

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About 12,000 items.

Arrangement: chronological

Following his retirement from the Jefferson-Pilot Broadcasting Company (now Jefferson-Pilot Communications Company), Crutchfield founded his own consulting company, Media Communications, Inc., which was devoted to broadcasting issues. Crutchfield was nominated to the Board of Directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) in 1976 by President Gerald Ford and remained active with the CPB for several years. He also served as the chair of the Board of Directors of the North Carolina Agency for Public Telecommunications (APT), which was started by Governor James B. Hunt, Jr. in 1980. The files in this series are comprised chiefly of correspondence, reports, and clippings.

1977-1978

Advisory Committee on Public Radio

Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB): Charlotte Information

Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB): Comments: National Telecommunications

Box 101

Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), 1978

Employment and Employment Practices

General Information

Letters on WBTV Programming (Against)

Letters on WBTV Programming (For)

Magnuson 26 July letter and response

National Black Media Coalition

Cameron & Fellows, February-April

Cameron & Fellows, May-August

Public Radio

Public TV: Confidential

Public TV: General

Box 102

Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), 1978

Questionnaire

Radio Station Information

Raleigh Remark

Richmond Information

Washington, 2 February 1978

WETA-TV Washington Drop-In

Box 103

1978

Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB): White House Appointment Miscellaneous

Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB): White House Personal Data Statement and Follow Up

Miscellaneous, 1972-1978

Kevin Murphy: Trailways

National Association of Television Program Executives Award, 1978

Reference Materials

Box 104

Clippings, 1970s

Articles on a variety of subjects of interest to Crutchfield, many reflecting his political beliefs.

Box 105

1970s-1979

Clippings, 1970s

Videotape Production Association, Inc.

North Carolina Agency for Public Telecommunications

Public Broadcasting: Cameron & Fellows

Public Telecommunications Facilities Program

Report to the President from the President's Commission on Foreign Language and International Studies

Box 106

North Carolina Agency for Public Telecommunications (APT), 1980-1981

Appalachian Regional Committee

Application for Funds

Board Meetings

Budget

Contracts

Department of Natural Resources and Community Development

Educational Exchange

Electronic Town Hall Task Force

Executive Committee

General Assembly Action

Grants

National Telecommunications and Information Administration

Public Radio

Telephone Study

Lee Wing (Executive Director of North Carolina Agency for Public Telecommunications (APT))

Box 107

North Carolina Agency for Public Telecommunications (APT), 1982-1984

Appalachian Community Service Network

Board

Electronic Town Hall Task Force

Health and Human Services

National Association of Broadcasters Task Force on Public Broadcasting

National Telecommunications and Information Administration

North Carolina Department of Commerce

Public Radio Advisory Committee

Projects

Public Telecommunications Facilities Program

Teleconference Services

Telephone Study

Three-Year Report Committee

UNC-TV Proposal

Lee Wing

Box 108

Bound transcript of Plaintiff General William C. Westmoreland's Memorandum of Law in Opposition to Defendant CBS's Motion to Dismiss and for Summary Judgement

On 23 January 1982, CBS aired a documentary entitled "The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception" alleging that General William C. Westmoreland participated in a conspiracy to deceive the President, Congress, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the American public regarding the true size of the North Vietnamese Army. Westmoreland filed a $120 million libel suit against CBS in response.

American Values

American Values is the name of a project created in 1965 that was intended to "select, pool, catalog, and disseminate the best of the advertising industry's public service...for the benefit of all Americans" in response to a perceived drop in morality and increase in crime, drug use, and presence of "filth" in America and American media. Crutchfield was the founding chair of the venture, which never quite materialized and was revisited in the mid-1970s and again in the early 1980s. These files consist of correspondence, clippings, and printed materials.

Box 109

American Values

Box 110

American Values

Box 111

American Values

Miscellaneous, 1990s

Primarily correspondence with professional associates, politicians, and Billy Graham relating to broadcasting and current events. Also included are selected letters and articles from previous years that were of particular importance to Crutchfield.

Box 112

Miscellaneous, 1990s

Box 113

Miscellaneous, 1990s

Bound volume, "The History of WBT," 2000

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40 items.

Arrangement: by format.

Processing information: Note that original titles have, for the most part, been retained.

Audiocassettes primarily contain interviews with Charles Crutchfield and WBT programs prepared in honor of various anniversaries celebrated by the station. A number of video tapes are recordings of obituaries of and tributes to Charles Crutchfield. Films include "Weep for the Innocent," for which accompanying materials may be found in Series 1, Box 59 and Box 62, and footage of fired employees picketing WBT in the late 1940s (see Series 1, Box 3). These materials are, for the most part, undated, except where noted otherwise.

Audiocassette C-4022/1

Charles Crutchfield Interview with Lynn Haessly, 8 January 1986

Audiocassette

Audiocassette C-4022/2

Charles Crutchfield Interview with Mary Ann Sanger, Museum of the New South

Audiocassette

Audiocassette C-4022/3

Charles Crutchfield Tape 1

Audiocassette

Audiocassette C-4022/4

Charles Crutchfield Tape 2

Audiocassette

Audiocassette C-4022/5

Charles Crutchfield on Jack Phipps

Audiocassette

Audiocassette C-4022/6

"Jefferson Spotlight" TV Audio of WBT and WBTV Reminiscing with Local Personalities, 1955

Audiocassette

Audiocassette C-4022/7

WBT 20th Anniversary: Old WBT Excerpts

Audiocassette

Audiocassette C-4022/8

WBT 70th Anniversary: Vignettes Tape 1

Audiocassette

Audiocassette C-4022/9

WBT 70th Anniversary: Vignettes Tape 2

Audiocassette

Audiocassette C-4022/10

WBT Anniversary Show 3-5pm, 10 April 1992

Audiocassette

Audiocassette C-4022/11

WBT 75th Anniversary: History of Station, Comments about and induction of Charles Crutchfield as first charter member of WBT Hall of Fame

Audiocassette

Audiocassette C-4022/12

Hello Henry-Briarhoppers

Audiocassette

Audiocassette C-4022/13

John Hancock, 6 May 1992

Audiocassette

Audiocassette C-4022/14

Mike Collins and Ross Perot

Audiocassette

Audiocassette C-4022/15

Happy Holidays 1997, Ty and Pat Boyd

Audiocassette

Audiocassette C-4022/16

CMH Records 10374, "Swinging on the Swinging Bridge," Arthur Smith and Raymond Fairchild, 1992

Audiocassette

Audiocassette C-4022/17

"Swinging on the Swinging Bridge," Arthur Smith and Raymond Fairchild (dubbed recording)

Audiocassette

Audiocassette C-4022/18

WFBC Radio Greenville/Spartanburg 50th Anniversary Show 1933-1983, 21 May 1983: tape 1

Audiocassette

Aired Saturday 21 May 1983, 8am-12 noon

Audiocassette C-4022/19

WFBC Radio Greenville/Spartanburg 50th Anniversary Show 1933-1983, 21 May 1983: tape 2

Audiocassette

Aired Saturday 21 May 1983, 8am-12 noon

Audiocassette C-4022/20

WFBC Radio Greenville/Spartanburg 50th Anniversary Show 1933-1983, 21 May 1983: tape 3

Audiocassette

Aired Saturday 21 May 1983, 8am-12 noon

Audiocassette C-4022/21

WFBC Radio Greenville/Spartanburg 50th Anniversary Show 1933-1983, 21 May 1983: tape 4

Audiocassette

Aired Saturday 21 May 1983, 8am-12 noon

Audiodisc D-4022/1

"A Message from Charles H. Crutchfield, President, Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company"/"An Old Fashioned Christmas with Ted Smith" (33-1/3 rpm)

Audiotape T-4022/1

"What's the Issue?" Recording of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States on the subject of Regulation of Broadcasting, Charles Crutchfield and Arch Booth, President, Chamber of Commerce of the United States, participants, 21 minutes, 28 November 1974

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Audiotape T-4022/2

Nixon

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Film F-4022/1

Weep for the Innocent

16mm motion picture film

black and white
Film F-4022/2

Alexander Home

16mm motion picture film

Film F-4022/3

Pickets

16mm motion picture film

Videotape VT-4022/1

WBTV News Farewell to Charles Crutchfield, 30 December 1977

VHS

Videotape VT-4022/2

Charles Crutchfield Interview with Andy Shorr, including outtakes, 1977

VHS

Videotape VT-4022/3

WBTV obituary of Charles Crutchfield, August 1988

VHS

Videotape VT-4022/4

WBTV coverage of the death of Charles H. Crutchfield, 23 minutes, August 1998

BetacamSP

Videotape VT-4022/5

WBTV: The First 50 Years, approximately 60 minutes, 15 July 1999

BetacamSP

Videotape VT-4022/6

Kuralt

VHS

Videotape VT-4022/7

Edward R. Murrow

VHS

Videotape VT-4022/8

"40th Anniversary of UNC-TV" A UNC-TV Special and WBTV News Feature, 8 January 1995

VHS

Videotape VT-4022/9

"Friday #1 & Friday #2"(40th Anniversary of UNC-TV), 50 minutes, January 1995

VHS

Videotape VT-4022/10

Country Music

VHS

Videotape VT-4022/11

Arthur Smith and the Crackerjacks Reunion

VHS

56 minutes

Videotape VT-4022/12

"Museum of the New South: Charlotte & the New South: A Region at Work," 57 minutes (VHS)

VHS

57 minutes

Videotape VT-4022/13

Funeral of Richard M. Nixon, 27 April 1994

VHS

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