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Patsey Embry Bowers Collection<br /> MUM00734<br />

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Patsey Embry Bowers Collection


MUM00734

PURL

http://purl.oclc.org/umarchives/MUM00734/

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Summary Information

Repository
University of Mississippi Libraries
Title
Patsey Embry Bowers Collection
Date
December 1963
Extent
0.25 Linear feet

 1 box

Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The collection consists of UPI teletype release received by WNLA radio station in Indianola, Mississippi and covering President
John F. Kennedy’s assassination.

Preferred Citation

Patsey Embry Bowers Collection (MUM00734), Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library, The University of Mississippi

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Biographical Note

Patsey Embry Bowers worked at the Indianola, Mississippi radio station WNLA on when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated
in Dallas, Texas. She preserved the UPI teletype news reports of the event received at the station in December 1963.

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Scope and Content

The collection consists of UPI teletype release received by WNLA radio station in Indianola, Mississippi and covering President
John F. Kennedy’s assassination.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

University of Mississippi Libraries

Access Restrictions

The Patsey Embry Bowers Collection is open for research.

Copyright Restrictions

The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions
of copyrighted material. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a
photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be “used
for any purpose other than private study, scholarship or research.” If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy
or reproduction for purposes in excess of “fair use,” that user may be liable for copyright infringement.

Additions

No further additions are expected to this collection.

Acquisition Information

Patsey Embry Bowers’ husband Cecil Bowers donated the collection in September 2013.

Processing Information

Collection processed by Political Papers Archivist Leigh McWhite. Finding aid created by Susan Ivey.

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Controlled Access Headings

Personal Name(s)

  • Bowers, Cecil
  • Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 — Assassination

Subject(s)

  • radio journalism

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Collection Inventory

UPI teletype 1963 

Scope and Content

Re: teletype received at WNLA radio station in Indianola, Mississippi with news coverage of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.

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