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Finding aid created by: David Hazel
Date: 2018
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Summary |
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Creator: | Burnham, David, 1933- |
Title: | David Burnham Papers |
Dates: | 1951-2014 |
Size: | 4 boxes (2.5 linear feet) |
Abstract: | Items from Burnham's time as an investigative reporter and faculty member at Syracuse University. |
Language: | English |
Repository: |
University Archives, Special Collections Research Center Syracuse University Libraries 222 Waverly Ave., Suite 600 Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 |
David Burnham (1933- ) is an associate research professor at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication. He is also the co-founder/co-director of the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC). He became a reporter shortly after receiving his Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University in 1955. Burnham has worked for UPI, CBS, Newsweek, and is most famous for having worked at The New York Times as an investigative reporter from 1968 to 1986. He has gained decades of experience concentrating on federal enforcement and surveillance issues.
Burnham has written three books and penned numerous magazine articles. Burnham’s first book, The Rise of the Computer State, was published in 1984. His investigative book on the Internal Revenue Service, A Law unto Itself: Power, Politics and the IRS, was published in 1990. A third book, Above the Law: Secret Deals, Political Fixes, and Other Misadventures of the U.S. Department of Justice, was published in 1996.
Over the years, Burnham has received a number of professional honors including the George Polk Award for Community Service, Long Island University (1968); the Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship (1987); the Best Investigative Book of 1990, Investigative Reporters and Editors (1990); and the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, Bellagio, Italy (1992). In 2003, Burnham was awarded an honorary doctorate degree in Humane Letters from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. In 2006, he was inducted into the National Freedom of Information Act Hall of Fame.
The David Burnham Papers consists of correspondence, research notes, articles, news clippings, interview records, reports, videocasette tapes, microcasette tapes, a news broadcast transcript, a television script, and a color photograph print. Some documents are related to notable individuals such as John Wayne and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Access Restrictions:
Please note that the collection is housed off-site, and advance notice is required to allow time to have the materials brought to the Reading Room on campus.
Access to recordings requires advance notice to produce a use copy.
Use Restrictions:
Written permission must be obtained from the Syracuse University Archives and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.
The University Archives also contains a clipping file on David Burnham.
Names
Burnham, David, 1933-
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
Syracuse University -- History.
Syracuse University.
Subjects
Investigative reporting.
Journalism.
United States. -- Internal Revenue Service.
College teachers.
Higher education.
Types of Material
Clippings (information artifacts)
Interviews.
Microcassettes.
Photographs.
Videocassettes.
Preferred Citation
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
David Burnham Papers,
University Archives,
Special Collections Research Center
Syracuse University Libraries
Acquisition Information
The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse transferred this collection to the Syracuse University Archives in 2018.
Processing Information
This collection has been fully processed and rehoused in acid free folders and archival boxes.
Materials have been arranged alphabetically and chronologically. Many of Burnham's original folder titles have been retained.
Media
Subject Files
Media | |||||||||||
Box 1 | [untitled] undated (Mini-cassette; running time 60:00) (ID#: sua_burnham_d_006) | ||||||||||
Box 1 | [untitled] undated (Mini-cassette; running time 60:00) (ID#: sua_burnham_d_007) | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Al Bayse undated (Mini-cassette; running time 60:00) (ID#: sua_burnham_d_003) | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Brow well, Session NY [?] undated - Label has illegible text, and "Albert Turner" is crossed out. (Mini-cassette; running time 60:00) (ID#: sua_burnham_d_004) | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Levi Thompson undated (Mini-cassette; running time 60:00) (ID#: sua_burnham_d_005) | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Nightline: Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) - FBI August 5, 1997 - Video recording of the ABC's Nightline show from August 5, 1997: TRAC - FBI. (VHS; running time 30:00) (ID#: sua_burnham_d_001) | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Nightline: Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) - FBI (Burnham) August 5, 1997 - Video recording of the ABC's Nightline show from August 5, 1997: TRAC - FBI. "Burnham" is written on the box. (VHS; running time 30:00) (ID#: sua_burnham_d_002) |
Subject Files | |||||||||||
Box 2 | American Libraries Association correspondence and notes on Internal Revenue Service agent visits 1987 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Annual reports of the attorney general 1981, undated | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Assorted interviews and news reports 1977-1992 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Assorted interview transcripts 1966-1968, 1993, undated | ||||||||||
Box 3 | Attorney General Holder and Judge Janet Reno correspondence 1996, 2009 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Bellagio study and conference center correspondence 1996 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | British decision on search and seizure undated | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Burke Yung testimony on Internal Revenue Service wiretapping 1965-1967 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Census Bureau quarrel with Burnham 1983 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Class of 1955 reunion photograph 2005 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Commission studies for review of laws regarding wiretapping and electronic surveillance 1976 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Computers and government news clippings 1977, 1982-1986, undated | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Congressional debate on 1798 Sedition Act undated | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Consolidated federal funds report introduction and appendix 1995 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Copies of Department of Justice annual reports undated | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Copies of hearings before the 84th and 86th Congress sessions 1957, 1961 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Corporate manslaughter article and correspondence 1994 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Crime statistics article 1974 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Criminal justice notes and news clippings 1963-1975, 1980-1984, undated | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Criminal matters case notes 1994 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Don Alexander correspondence, notes, and news clippings 1976, 1981-1989, undated | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Donald Alexander, William Simon, and tax shelter notes and news clippings 1973-1989, undated | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Edward Levi interview and bibliography 1991, undated | ||||||||||
Box 3 | Federal sentencing reporter and Nieman Foundation 2012-2013 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Frank Donner article "Electronic surveillance: the national security game" 1975 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Governor Wallace and Alabama project 1973-1974, 1992-1993, undated | ||||||||||
Box 3 | I-2c Martin Luther King Jr. surveillance 1957, 1961-1969, undated (3 folders) | ||||||||||
Box 3 | I2i Dewey report 1978 (3 folders) | ||||||||||
Box 3 | I-17b Black nationalists 1964-1975 (2 folders) | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Inter-Division intelligence unit correspondence and memos 1968-1969 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Interviews with Henry Ruth and Alan Morrison 1990 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Internal Revenue Service book proposal undated | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Caplin notes 1988-1989, undated | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Internal Revenue Service investigation of Hoover administration enemies 1987, undated | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Janet Reno correspondence, interview, news clippings, and statistics 1993-1995, undated | ||||||||||
Box 2 | J. Edgar Hoover memo to Robert Kennedy, press release on Internal Revenue Service taps 1966-1967 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | John Wayne Internal Revenue Service activity 1971 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Justice Department book proposal and testimony 1997, undated | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Kent Walker report and assorted documents on allocations 1994-1995 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Krock and Clifford writings on the dismissal of Attorney General McGrath, Robert Kennedy, and the Cold War undated | ||||||||||
Box 3 | "Last of the ninth" television pilot script 2008 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Lucinda Franks article on the Federal Bureau of Investigation tracking Sol Wachtler 1992 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | McBride and Ruth interview and news clipping 1964, 1993 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Meese investigation notes 1987 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Merit system data on administrative law judges discipline 2009-2011 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Mitchell Rogovin article and interview 1990, undated | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Mitchell Rogovin interview and wiretap policy notes 1988, undated | ||||||||||
Box 2 | New York Times correspondence and news clippings on the New York City Police Department and Internal Revenue Service 1968-1984, 1996 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Nixon, Mitchell and warrantless wiretaps: a presidential attempt to suspend the fourth amendment article 1989 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | National Security Agency data requests 1982-1984 | ||||||||||
Box 4 | National Security Agency intelligence interview and notes 1978 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Nuclear energy news clippings 1951, 1973-1984 | ||||||||||
Box 4 | Open road distribution agreement 2014 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Philip B. Heyman essay, interview, and biography 1985, 1991, undated | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Praise for Above the law 1995 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Progressive press notes undated | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Qui Tam report and correspondence 2007 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Ramsey Clark interview 1981 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Robin Straus correspondence 1985, 1991-1994 undated | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Roosevelt administration indicts Mellon 1987-1988 undated | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Roosevelt and race relations correspondence photocopies undated | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Sheldon Cohen and Federal Bureau of Investigation wiretaps correspondence and notes 1988-1989, undated | ||||||||||
Box 4 | Social Security Administration and Michael P. Gilbert correspondence and notes 2011 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Social Security 2007-2008 | ||||||||||
Box 4 | Social Security 2007-2008 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Thurgood Marshall interview 1977 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Vernon Acree notes 1989 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Victor Navasky notes undated | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Warren Christopher investigation documents 1992-1993 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | William Barr interview 1994 | ||||||||||
Box 2 | William French Smith and M.B. Schnapper articles 1979, 1985, undated | ||||||||||
Box 2 | William Lehrefeld documents of tax exempt organization during the Kennedy administration 1986-1987, undated | ||||||||||
Box 2 | William Morrow book contract 1990-1995 |