Archive Record
Metadata
Catalog Number |
2008.3.468 |
Title |
Louis Armstrong Personal Papers -FBI File |
Object Type |
Papers, Personal |
Collection |
Jack Bradley Collection |
Description |
One is a series of folders containing personal papers belonging to Louis Armstrong that were saved and collected by Jack Bradley. This folder contains a copy of Louis's FBI file. Contains a cover letter from author Michael Meckna to Michael Cogswell, donating the original to the Louis Armstrong Archives. This is a copy Cogswell must have made for Bradley. File contains many short bits of information, with names blacked out. Contents include; a note of Louis being "dissatisfied with the situation" at the Flamingo Hotel in 1950 and being sent a bottle of Scotch "or a couple of reefers"; note on the stick of dynamite thrown outside of Louis's 1957 concert in Knoxville, Tennessee; information about Louis's Little Rock comments and the fallout from it; items about Louis's 1960 trip to Africa and proposed trip to Russia; Frederick V. Seabrook tribute poem about Louis sent to J. Edgar Hoover with the note, "Pops prove that a man with a black skin can win" (name of sender has been blocked out but it's probably Seabrook ); copies of the letters from the poet (again, probably Seabrook) that he sent to Robert Moses of the New York World's Fair and disc jockey Fred Robbins and forwarded to Hoover; memo about Lucille Armstrong's jewelry being stolen from the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles on November 5, 1970; pages on Jack Ruby, mentioning he called Joe Glaser at Associated Booking Corporation on August 5, 1963, asking Glaser to sign a hypnotist, Dr.Dante, and for permission to hire Louis's singer Jewel Brown (Glaser refused these requests and called Ruby a "phony," a "namedropper" and a "Damon Runyon character"; and more. |
People |
Armstrong, Lucille Wilson Brown, Jewel Cogswell, Michael Glaser, Joe Hoover, J. Edgar Meckna, Michael Moses, Robert Robbins, Fred Ruby, Jack Seabrook, Frederick V. |
Search Terms |
Africa Associated Booking Corporation Knoxville, Tennessee Little Rock Soviet Union |
Year Range from |
1949 |
Year Range to |
1971 |
Accession number |
2008.3 |