Personal programs, information – Restricted Receipts – business and travel – Restricted Radio broadcast scripts from the Pacific area – Restricted Radio broadcast scripts from Europe – Restricted Radio broadcast scripts from Europe – Original restricted due to brittle paper condition, usable copies in boxes 1-5 Tape 2 – Interview with Colonels Tibbets and SweeneyĬopies of reel-to-reel recordings (also in vault as "Disc 004 336") Khrushchev Dinner at Hotel Fort Des Moines (part 2)
Khrushchev Dinner at Hotel Fort Des Moines (part 1) Phone recorded interview with Congressman Ben Jensen of Iowa after he was shot by Puerto Rican Nationalists in the halls of the U.S. Khrushchev Dinner at Hotel Fort Des Moinesīroadcast 18 second excerpt of atomic blast on 6:15 p.m. Jack Shelley at Yucca Flats before, during and after atomic blast Jack Shelley at the Garst Farm during Khrushchev visit Interview with Bill Binford of radio station KORK, Las Vegas
Interview with Iowa Legislators witnessing bomb blast Las Vegas report prior to atomic bomb testĪtomic bomb blast minutes before and after the blastĬolonel Tibbits interview concerning atomic blastġ5 Minutes after atomic blast interview with Lt. Reports from Las Vegas (pre-atomic bomb test) Telephone reports from Las Vegas prior to atomic bomb test Japanese surrender on the Battleship Missouri
Jack Shelley with the First Army in the German frontierīroadcast from Holland (Marshall Montgomery)īroadcast from Guam (Russia declares war on Japan)īroadcast from Guam (Atomic blast report)īroadcast from Guam (Guam to San Francisco) Jack Shelley on signing of Japanese surrenderīroadcast from London (North American Guest Night) Group Photo of Annual Dinner, National Association of Radio News Directors, Hotel Commodore, New York, New York Photographs of Shelley at work, including one with Herb Plambeck and Ronald Reagan Radio broadcast scripts from the Pacific areaĪcceptance remarks for James W. He received the Broadcaster of the Year Award (1980) from the Iowa Broadcasters Association. He was president of the Iowa Freedom of Information Council (1981) and a member of a committee appointed by the Iowa Supreme Court to advise it on the use of cameras and tape recorders in court trials. He is a past president of the International Radio-Television News Directors Association, which he helped found, and of the Associated Press Radio and Television Association. Jack Shelley helped found the Iowa Broadcast News Association, an organization that honored him by establishing the Jack Shelley Award (1971). Iowa State University honored him for his academic contributions with an Outstanding Teacher Award and a Faculty Citation from the Iowa State University Alumni Association (1982). Shelley joined Iowa State University as an Associate Professor of Journalism (1965), then served as Professor (1969) until his retirement (1982). The tape recorder Shelley took along to record the event was one of the few to withstand the shock of the blast. Missouri in Tokyo Bay to cover the Allies' acceptance of the unconditional Japanese surrender, and was one of twenty reporters chosen to cover the atomic bomb tests at Yucca Flats, Nevada (1953). Shelley recorded one of the first broadcast interviews with crew members of the airplanes that dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.
He interviewed hundreds of combat soldiers in both theaters. Shelley was a war correspondent (1944-1945) in Europe and the Pacific covering World War II. He was assistant news director for five years, then became news director for both radio and television until he left in 1965. He graduated from Boone High School (1929), and earned a Bachelor of Journalism Degree from the University of Missouri at Columbia (1935).Īfter a short stay with the Iowa Herald in Clinton, Iowa, Shelley went to work for WHO radio (1935) in Des Moines, Iowa. "Jack" Shelley was born in Boone, Iowa, on March 8, 1912.