Dates: 1942-1944
The papers of Wilbur D. Sparks consist of press clippings pertaining to the Truman Committee and its activities during World War II.
Size: 2 linear inches (about 75 pages).
Access: Open.
Copyright: No donation of copyright was received with this collection. Documents created by U.S. government employees in the course of their official duties are in the public domain. Copyright interest in other documents presumably belongs to the creators of those documents, or their heirs.
Processed by: Eric Vaughan (2012) as part of the Truman Library Internship Program.
Supervising Archivists: Randy Sowell and David Clark.
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1918 (October 4) |
Born, Savannah, Missouri |
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1941 |
Graduated from University of Missouri Law School |
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1941 (October) |
Became an Investigator for the Truman Committee |
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1944 (April) |
Promoted to Chief of the Committee's staff office |
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1945 (October) |
Appointed Chief Investigator of the Committee |
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1946 (November) |
Ended his employment with the Committee |
The Papers of Wilbur D. Sparks consist of a scrapbook of press clippings that pertain to the time he spent as an attorney investigator for the Truman Committee during World War II. Each press clipping has been labeled with the date and the name of the publication in which it appeared. The majority of these clippings discuss the various investigations that the Truman Committee was pursuing at that time, with a focus on fraud and mismanagement in the national defense program.
The Truman Library also has an online oral history interview with Wilbur D. Sparks, as well as (speeches, statements, press releases, and transcripts relating to the Truman Committee Record Group 46).
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SCRAPBOOK FILE, 1942-1944 Press clippings from a scrapbook. Arranged alphabetically. |
Box 1
- Scrapbook, 1942-1944