Larry LeSueur papers
Scope and Contents
This collection contains typewritten scripts, correspondence, articles, journals, audiocassettes and audio reels, and artifacts documenting LeSueur's 40-year careeer as a radio correspondent. Radio scripts and newspaper clippings include LeSueur's vivid accounts of war, written while he was stationed abroad from 1939 through the end of World War II. Other scripts, delivered while LeSueur was a White House correspondent, feature his first-person descriptions of business at the highest levels of government. In addition, audiocassettes and audio reels include some of LeSueur's broadcasts, as well as oral histories, interviews, and memories of D-Day. The material dates from 1935 to 2003.
Dates
- Creation: 1935-2003
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1940 - 1984
Creator
- Lesueur, Laurence Edward (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Some material may be copyrighted or restricted. It is the patron's obligation to determine and satisfy copyright or other case restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in the collections.
Biographical / Historical
Laurence Edward "Larry" LeSueur was a Peabody-award winning radio correspondent best known as one of "Murrow's Boys," a band of international correspondents assembled in Europe before and during World War II by Edward R. Murrow. He was born in New York in 1909, and began his career as a print journalist for United Press in the 1930s. He left New York for London in 1939, introduced himself to Murrow, and secured a position with him on the CBS Radio Network. He reported from the Russian front in 1941 and 1942, with a weekly radio broadcast called "An American in Russia," and wrote a book on the experience called Twelve Months that Changed the World, published in 1943.
On D-Day, June 6, 1944, LeSueur was one of the first journalists to land at Normandy and report back news of the battle to Americans at home. He covered Europe throughout the war, including broadcasting news of the liberation of Paris. After the war, LeSueur continued broadcasting for CBS Radio as White House correspondent, most notably from the Paris Peace Conference. He left CBS in 1963 but continued covering the White House, for Voice of America, until his retirement in 1984. He died on February 5, 2003 at the age of 93.
Extent
10 Linear Feet (17 document boxes, 3 flat boxes, and 1 film)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Laurence Edward "Larry" LeSueur was a Peabody-award winning radio correspondent best known as one of "Murrow's Boys," a band of international correspondents assembled in Europe before and during World War II by Edward R. Murrow for CBS. On D-Day, June 6, 1944, LeSueur was one of the first journalists to land at Normandy and report back news of the battle to Americans at home. This collection contains typewritten scripts, correspondence, articles, journals, audiocassettes and audio reels, and artifacts documenting LeSueur's 40-year career as a radio correspondent. Radio scripts and newspaper clippings include LeSueur's vivid accounts of war, written while he was stationed abroad from 1939 through the end of World War II. Other scripts, delivered while LeSueur was a White House correspondent, feature his first-person descriptions of business at the highest levels of government. The material dates from 1935 to 2003.
Arrangement
Organized into six series: Radio scripts, Subject files, Notebooks and journals, Audiovisual, Artifacts, and Clippings.
Physical Location
Materials are stored off-site, and will require additional retrieval time. Please contact the Special Collections Research Center for more information.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Amy LeSueur, 2012 (2012.059).
- Title
- Guide to the Larry LeSueur papers, 1935-2003
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Special Collections Research Center, The George Washington University
- Date
- 2012
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Research Center, The George Washington University Repository
George Washington University Gelman Library
2130 H Street NW
Washington DC 20052 United States of America
speccoll@gwu.edu