MacKnight, Jesse M. Papers

Dates: 1917-1984

Special Assistant to the Secretary of State, 1945-1956; Foreign Service officer, 1956-1972; Charge d'Affaires, Surinam, 1956-1958; Charge d'Affaires, Togo, 1959-1960; U.N. Adviser, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, 1961-1972

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FOLDER TITLE LIST

NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR PREVENTION OF WAR

Box 1

  • Inter-Council Newsletter, 1938-1939
  • Material gathered by the Council, 1934-1939
  • Material mailed under MacKnight's name, 1936-1939
  • Material on the work of the Council, 1935-1939
  • Miscellaneous near-print material, 1917-1969
  • News clippings, 1934-1954
  • "Peace Action," 1936-1939
  • "Unity," 1938

Box 2

  • Washington Newsletter, 1935
  • Washington Information Letter, 1936
  • Washington Information Letter, 1938
  • Washington Information Letter, 1939
  • Printed material

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE (Farm Security Administration)

Box 3

  • Penderlea Homesteads, NC, 1939-1940
  • Tygart Valley, West Virginia, General, 1938-1942 (3 folders)
  • Tygart Valley, West Virginia, Draft Report #1 (3 folders)

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Box 4

  • Administration - Organization of the Special Defense Unit, 1941-1942
  • Analysis Unit - Foreign Agents Registration Section
  • Annual Report, SWPU, 1942
  • Foreign Agents Registration Act, 1941-1942
  • Foreign Agents Blank Registration forms
  • General, 1942-1946
  • "MacKnight Publications Kept in Master Set."
  • Propaganda Analysis Techniques
  • Restraint of Traitor Bill, 1941
  • Sedition, 1940-1942
  • Social Justice mail case, 1942

Box 5

  • Voorhis Act, analysis and bakcground, 1941-1942
  • Voorhis Act, legislative history
  • Voorhis Act, proposed amendments, 1942
  • Voorhis Act, registrants, 1941-1942
  • World Service
  • Domestic Foreign Language Press Highlights: Central Europe Field Reports, 1943
  • Domestic Foreign Language Press Highlights: Armenian-American Press, 1943
  • Domestic Foreign Language Press Highlights: Chinese Press, 1942-1943
  • Domestic Foreign Language Press Highlights: East European Press, 1942-1943

Box 6

  • Domestic Foreign Language Press Highlights: French Press, 1941-1943
  • Domestic Foreign Language Press Highlights: German Press, 1941-1943
  • Domestic Foreign Language Press Highlights: Russian-Balkan Press, 1941-1943 (2 folders)
  • Domestic Foreign Language Press Highlights: Scandinavian Press, 1941-1943

Box 7

  • Domestic Foreign Language Press Highlights: Spanish Press, 1942-1943

NATIONAL WAR COLLEGE, 1951-1952

  • NWC file

DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs

  • Hanover, NH Roundtable, August 1954
  • News clippings
  • News release, 1956-1957
  • Radio Free Europe, 1956
  • Suspension case, 1954, charges against MacKnight
  • Suspension case, 1954, affidavits
  • Suspension case, 1954, correspondence
  • Suspension case, 1954, miscellany
  • Suspension case, 1954, working papers

Box 8

  • Chronological file, October 1946
  • Chronological file, November 1946
  • Chronological file, December 1946
  • Chronological file, January 1947
  • Chronological file, February 1947
  • Chronological file, March 1947
  • Chronological file, April 1947
  • Coplon case, 1949

DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Foreign Service Officer, Surinam (S.A.)

Box 9

  • Chronological file, September-December 1956
  • Chronological file, January-March 1957
  • Chronological file, April-June 1957
  • Chronological file, July-September 1957

Box 10

  • Chronological file, October-December 1957
  • Chronological file, January-March 1958
  • Chronological file, April-June 1958
  • Chronological file, July-September 1958
  • Chronological file, Ocober-November 1959
  • Miscellany

DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Foreign Service Officer, Togo (Africa)

Box 11

  • Africa, general
  • Concert, Louis Armstrong, 1960
  • Correspondence, 1958-1961
  • Correspondence, Violet, 1960-1962 (Mrs. MacKnight)
  • Correspondence, Season's Greetings, 1960
  • Government/non-government affiars
  • Independence, 1960
  • Independence, anniversary, 1961
  • Invitations
  • Obituaries
  • Photographs
  • Post Reports, 1957, 1960
  • Press releases, 1960-1963
  • U.S. Consulate opening, 1969
  • U.S. Consulate, general
  • U.S. Embassy staff

Box 12

  • Visit of U.S. Congressmen to Togo, 1960
  • Visit of Henderson and party to Togo, 1960

DEPARTMENT OF STATE: U.N. Advisor, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State

  • Assassination of President Olympio (of Togo), 1963
  • Correspondence, 1961-1967
  • General
  • Speech file
  • Summer employees, 1965
  • Visit of U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, G. Mennen Williams to Togo, 1961
  • Visit of Members of Togo National Assembly to Washington, D.C., 1961
  • Visit of President Olympio of Togo to Washington, D.C., 1962
  • Visit of U.S. Ambassador Barrows to Togo, 1962
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Board of Foreign Service Examiners

Box 13

  • General File (2 folders)
  • Equal opportunity
  • Foreign Service Reserve Officers program
  • Foreign Service Staff Officers program
  • Junior Foreign Staff Officers program (2 folders)
  • Student grades (2 folders)
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Personal File

Box 14

  • "After Retirement"
  • Assignment and Training report
  • Awards
  • Correspondence, 1939-1976
  • Correspondence, P.T.A.
  • Employee Personal Record
  • Farewell party, August 2, 1968
  • F.S.O. -- Preference Reports
  • Personnel, general
  • State Department, performance rating
  • State Department, personnel actions
  • State Department, promotion to Class 1
  • State Department, retirement

Box 15

  • State Department, travel vouchers, schedules
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Miscellaneous File
  • Foreign affiars manuals and circulars
  • Notes by Jesse M. MacKnight
  • Foreign Agents Registration Act, 1937-1942
  • Group Health Association, 1984
  • 1940 Voting Survey, Erie County, Ohio
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Printed Materials
  • Miscellaneous publications

Box 16

  • Miscellaneous publications
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