A Guide to the Charles McDowell Papers, 1944-2004
Accession Number 44427
A Collection in
the Library of Virginia

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Charles McDowell Papers, 1944-2004. Accession 44427. Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Acquisition Information

Gift of Ann McDowell, Alexandria.

Descriptive Summary

Repository: The Library of Virginia
Accession Number: 44427
Title: Charles McDowell Papers, 1944-2004
Physical Description: 17 cubic feet (36 boxes)
Language: English

Scope and Content

Papers, 1944-2004, of Charles McDowell (1926-2010) of Alexandria, Virginia, documenting his career as a reporter for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, panelist on the PBS program "Washington Week in Review," and other journalistic activities. Includes columns, correspondence and subject files, books, and videotapes.

Biographical Information

Charles Rice McDowell, Jr. was born in Danville, Kentucky on 24 June 1926. He is the son of Charles Rice McDowell, Sr. (1895-1968) and Catherine Frazier Feland (1904-1986). When he was young, the family moved to Lexington, Virginia, where the elder McDowell was a professor of law at Washington and Lee University. The younger McDowell was a student there, where he majored in English, and graduated in 1948. He then attended the Columbia University School of Journalism, and graduated the following year.

McDowell then moved to Richmond Virginia, and joined the staff of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, where he would remain his entire career, retiring in 1998. He covered local news, and was then assigned to the State Capitol, where he reported on the Virginia General Assembly and state politics. In 1954, McDowell began to write a syndicated column which appeared 3-4 times per week, and would span the remainder of his career. He was assigned to Washington, D.C. in 1965, and he relocated to Alexandria. McDowell wrote three books: "Campaign Fever," which was a journal of the 1964 presidential election, and two collections of humor columns entitled "One Thing After Another" (1960) and "What Did You Have in Mind?" (1963). He was also a panelist on PBS's "Washington Week in Review" for 18 years, beginning in 1978, and he was a writer, narrator, and host for other PBS programs, including "Summer of Judgement: The Watergate Hearings," "Richmond Memories," and "For the Record." McDowell also provided voice-overs for the productions "The Civil War" and "Baseball" by Ken Burns.

McDowell was inducted in the Virginia Communications Hall of Fame in 1988, and awarded the Fourth Estate Award by the National Press Club in 1996. He married Ann Rice of Ashland, Virginia. McDowell died on 5 November 2010.

Contents List

• Series I. Columns, 1946-1998. Boxes: 1-9
  Extent: 9 boxes. The collection contains photocopies of McDowell's column which appeared in the Richmond Times-Dispatch from 1954 until his retirement in 1998. The columns appeared 3-4 times per week, and were also syndicated by Media General News Service and the Scripps Howard News Service and appeared in other newspapers across the country. The earliest columns were titled "Charles McDowell Today" and "Capital Sidelights." McDowell wrote on a wide variety of topics of local, state, and national interest, including politics, history, personal news, society and popular culture, weather, and sports. Recurring fictional characters appeared in the column over the many years it ran, namely McDowell's relative Aunt Gertrude, his neighbor Mr. Bumbleton, Reliable Source, and Alfred the Capitol Square Squirrel. McDowell's columns were laced with satirical musings and political punditry. There are no copies of the column for the years 1986 to 1997, but there is an index which includes the title of the column, paper in which it appeared, date, and page number. This series also includes early articles written by McDowell while he was a student at Washington and Lee University entitled "Reporter-at-Large," and as a sports reporter for the Roanoke Times entitled "Time For Sports." Chronological.
• 3 November 1958-31 December 1962. Box: 1 Folder: 1-14
  
• 1 January 1963-30 June 1966. Box: 2 Folder: 1-15
  
• 1 July 1966-31 December 1970. Box: 3 Folder: 1-12
  
• 1 January 1971-31 December 1973. Box: 4 Folder: 1-12
  
• 1 January 1974-25 December 1977. Box: 5 Folder: 1-13
  
• 1977-1980. Box: 6 Folder: 1-13
  
• 1981-1998. Box: 7 Folder: 1-12
  
• Columns - Editorial Page . Box: 7 Folder: 13-14
  
• Columns - February, Seasons, Holidays . Box: 8 Folder: 1-2
  
• Columns - Free Lance, 1950's. Box: 8 Folder: 3
  
• Columns to Reprint (Maybe) . Box: 8 Folder: 4
  
• Good Columns . Box: 8 Folder: 5
  
• Op-Ed Columns, 1958-1959. Box: 8 Folder: 6-7
  
• Original Proposal for Column and Test Columns . Box: 8 Folder: 8
  
• Roanoke Times Columns ("Time for Sports") . Box: 8 Folder: 9
  
• Sunday Columns, 1954-1959. Box: 8 Folder: 10-13
  
• Sunday Columns, 1959. Box: 9 Folder: 1
  
• Sunday Columns, 1960. Box: 9 Folder: 2
  
• Washington and Lee Columns . Box: 9 Folder: 3
  
• Series II. Correspondence and Subject Files, 1944-2004. Boxes: 10-34
  Extent: 25 boxes.
  The correspondence contains letters written by readers of McDowell's column, and those who viewed his appearances on the PBS program "Washington Week in Review" and other programs. The correspondence includes reactions, both for and against, to McDowell's writings and viewpoints. There are also congratulatory letters relating to the many awards he received and upon his retirement in 1998, as well as invitations to make appearances and speeches, ideas for future columns, and resumes from prospective journalists. There is also correspondence between McDowell and literary agents and magazine editors.
  The subject files contain a wide variety of materials relating to McDowell's nearly 40 years as a journalist and author. There are manuscript drafts and free-lance articles for various publications, reviews, publicity, and correspondence relating to books he wrote, including "One Thing After Another" (1960), "What Did You Have in Mind?" (1963), and "Campaign Fever" (1965). There is background information for his articles, columns, and speeches, especially on the subjects of Congress, television and political conventions, elections, inaugurations, and campaign finance reform.
  McDowell did voice-overs for the Ken Burns productions, "The Civil War" (1990) and "Baseball" (1994), and the collection contains articles and reviews, notes, correspondence, clippings, and screening and final scripts. He also was a host on the program "For the Record," which aired on Central Virginia Public Television, which was devoted to public policy, politics, and history. The collection includes drafts of questions McDowell posed to his guests, working files, and background biographical information. Videotapes of some of the programs are also included in the collection. McDowell also a narrated the 1983 program on Watergate called, "Summer of Judgment: The Watergate Hearings," which was a production of WETA in Washington, DC. There are reviews, viewer mail, and a transcript of the program.
  The subject files also include biographical information, copies of his daily news articles and special feature stories for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, get well cards, Gridiron Club dinner programs, speeches, scripts, clippings, and membership lists, information on the visit of Nikita Khrushchev to the United States in 1959, photographs, programs, speech notes and drafts, as well as information relating to his work with Paul Duke (1926-2005), and with the Virginia congressional campaign of Andrew McCutcheon. Alphabetical.
• Academy Road House . Box: 10 Folder: 1
  
• Atlantic - Ideas, Correspondence, etc. . Box: 10 Folder: 2
  
• Atlantic - New Hampshire Primary, 1967. Box: 10 Folder: 3
  
• Atlantic - Television and the Convention, 1968. Box: 10 Folder: 4
  
• Atlantic - Virginia Politics, 1969. Box: 10 Folder: 5
  
• Automobile . Box: 10 Folder: 6
  
• "Baseball" by Ken Burns . Box: 10 Folder: 7-9
  
• "Baseball" by Ken Burns - Final Script . Box: 10 Folder: 10-12
  
• "Baseball" by Ken Burns - Screenings . Box: 10 Folder: 13-14
  
• "Baseball" by Ken Burns - Screenings . Box: 11 Folder: 1-2
  
• Biographical Information, Citations, etc. . Box: 11 Folder: 3
  
• Bolivia Trip, 1992. Box: 11 Folder: 4
  
• Book Project - "One Thing After Another" . Box: 11 Folder: 5
  
• Book Reviews . Box: 11 Folder: 6-7
  
• Bourbon . Box: 11 Folder: 8
  
• Mr. Bumbleton . Box: 11 Folder: 9
  
• "Campaign Fever" - Letters to Morrow . Box: 11 Folder: 10
  
• "Campaign Fever" - Reviews and Publicity . Box: 11 Folder: 11-12
  
• Campaign Finance Material for Speeches . Box: 11 Folder: 13
  
• Campaign Finance Reform . Box: 11 Folder: 14
  
• Campaign Reform . Box: 11 Folder: 15
  
• Capitol Building . Box: 11 Folder: 16
  
• Census . Box: 12 Folder: 1
  
• Center for the Book . Box: 12 Folder: 2
  
• Certificates . Box: 35
  
• Chestnut Blight . Box: 12 Folder: 3
  
• Cigarettes - Health . Box: 12 Folder: 4
  
• Cities . Box: 12 Folder: 5
  
• Civil Rights . Box: 12 Folder: 6
  
• "The Civil War" by Ken Burns . Box: 12 Folder: 7
  
• "The Civil War" by Ken Burns - Reviews, Artifacts, etc. . Box: 12 Folder: 8-9
  
• Civil War - Speech Notes . Box: 12 Folder: 10
  
• Clinton and the Press, 1992. Box: 12 Folder: 11
  
• Clinton Impeachment . Box: 12 Folder: 12
  
• Clippings, Drafts, Notes, 2001. Box: 12 Folder: 13
  
• Columbia School of Journalism 50th Class Reunion, 1999. Box: 12 Folder: 14
  
• Congress, 89th . Box: 13 Folder: 1
  
• Congress, 90th . Box: 13 Folder: 2
  
• "The Congress" by Ken Burns, 1989. Box: 13 Folder: 3
  
• Consular Treaty . Box: 13 Folder: 4
  
• Conventions, 1952, 1992. Box: 13 Folder: 5
  
• Conventions, 1960. Box: 13 Folder: 6
  
• Conventions, 1968. Box: 13 Folder: 7
  
• Conventions, 1984. Box: 13 Folder: 8
  
• Conventions, 1996. Box: 13 Folder: 9
  
• Correspondence, 1989. Box: 13 Folder: 10
  
• Correspondence, 1990. Box: 13 Folder: 11
  
• Correspondence, 1991. Box: 13 Folder: 12
  
• Correspondence, 1992. Box: 13 Folder: 13-16
  
• Correspondence, 1993. Box: 13 Folder: 17-18
  
• Correspondence, 1993. Box: 14 Folder: 1
  
• Correspondence, 1994. Box: 14 Folder: 2
  
• Correspondence, 1998. Box: 14 Folder: 3-5
  
• Correspondence, 1998-1999. Box: 14 Folder: 6-7
  
• Correspondence, 1999. Box: 14 Folder: 8-11
  
• Correspondence, 2000. Box: 14 Folder: 12
  
• Correspondence, 2001-2002. Box: 14 Folder: 13
  
• Correspondence, 2003-2004. Box: 14 Folder: 14
  
• Correspondence - Agents, Magazines, etc. . Box: 15 Folder: 1-3
  
• Crab Derby, 1962. Box: 15 Folder: 4
  
• D.A.R. Convention . Box: 15 Folder: 5
  
• Daily Stories, 1950-1951. Box: 15 Folder: 6-7
  
• Daily Stories, 1952. Box: 15 Folder: 8
  
• Daily Stories, 1953. Box: 15 Folder: 9
  
• Daily Stories #4, 1954-1957. Box: 15 Folder: 10-11
  
• Danville (KY) Progress Report, 2001. Box: 15 Folder: 12
  
• Debt Limit . Box: 15 Folder: 13
  
• Democratic Convention, 1952. Box: 15 Folder: 14
  
• Democratic Convention, 1968. Box: 15 Folder: 15
  
• Democratic National Convention - Columns, 1956. Box: 16 Folder: 1
  
• Democratic Primary, 1969. Box: 16 Folder: 2
  
• Democrats - Virginia . Box: 16 Folder: 3
  
• Dial - Twilight of a Presidency, 1984. Box: 16 Folder: 4
  
• Drug Hearings, 1970. Box: 16 Folder: 5
  
• Duke, Paul . Box: 16 Folder: 6-7
  
• Eisenhower . Box: 16 Folder: 8
  
• Elk (Bellwood) . Box: 16 Folder: 9
  
• Ephraim McDowell Foundation . Box: 16 Folder: 10
  
• Ethics . Box: 16 Folder: 11
  
• Facts, Statistics, etc. . Box: 16 Folder: 12
  
• Fairfax County - History, Geography, News, etc. . Box: 16 Folder: 13-14
  
• Fat Albert (School Bus) . Box: 16 Folder: 15
  
• Federal Grants - Virginia . Box: 16 Folder: 16
  
• Fiction Project . Box: 16 Folder: 17
  
• File "X" (Notes, Family Material, Correspondence, etc.) . Box: 16 Folder: 18-20
  
• File "Y" . Box: 16 Folder: 21
  
• Filibuster, 1965. Box: 17 Folder: 1
  
• Finnegan the Fire Chief . Box: 17 Folder: 2
  
• Fishback Lecture - Washington and Lee, . Box: 17 Folder: 3
  
• Flamingo Column . Box: 17 Folder: 4
  
• Flamingo Folklore . Box: 17 Folder: 5
  
• Flugelman-606 . Box: 17 Folder: 6
  
• "For the Record" . Box: 17 Folder: 7
  
• "For the Record" - Julian Bond . Box: 17 Folder: 8
  
• "For the Record" - Lee Hamilton . Box: 17 Folder: 9
  
• "For the Record" - Linwood Holton . Box: 17 Folder: 10-11
  
• "For the Record" - Jim Jones (Bad Blood) . Box: 17 Folder: 12
  
• "For the Record" - Gale Mattox . Box: 17 Folder: 13
  
• "For the Record" - Bobby Muller . Box: 17 Folder: 14
  
• "For the Record" - Timothy Naftali . Box: 17 Folder: 15
  
• "For the Record" - Kevin Phillips (The Cousins' Wars) . Box: 17 Folder: 16
  
• "For the Record" - John Sununu . Box: 17 Folder: 17
  
• "For the Record" - Kathryn Thornton . Box: 17 Folder: 18
  
• "For the Record" - Stansfield Turner . Box: 17 Folder: 19
  
• "For the Record" - Lech Walesa . Box: 17 Folder: 20
  
• "For the Record" - John Warner . Box: 17 Folder: 21
  
• "For the Record" - Margaret Warner . Box: 17 Folder: 22
  
• "For the Record" - Lowell Weicker . Box: 18 Folder: 1
  
• "For the Record" - Philip Zelikow . Box: 18 Folder: 2
  
• "For the Record" - Running File (Business, Planning, etc.) . Box: 18 Folder: 3
  
• Fourth Estate Award - Speeches, Letters, Clips, 1996. Box: 18 Folder: 4
  
• Henry Fowler . Box: 18 Folder: 5
  
• Fowler, Henry . Box: 18 Folder: 5
  
• Frazier, Emery L. . Box: 18 Folder: 6
  
• Funny Stories for Speeches . Box: 18 Folder: 7
  
• General Assembly, 1952. Box: 18 Folder: 8
  
• General Motors and its Detective (Ralph Nader), 1966. Box: 18 Folder: 9
  
• Get Well Letters, 1999. Box: 18 Folder: 10-13
  
• Glaser, Lewis - Quill Pens . Box: 18 Folder: 14
  
• Glassboro Summit, June 1967. Box: 18 Folder: 15
  
• G.O.P. - Chicago, 1952. Box: 18 Folder: 16
  
• G.O.P. Convention, 1996. Box: 19 Folder: 1
  
• Gridiron Club Artifacts . Box: 19 Folder: 2
  
• Gridiron Club Dinner, 1999. Box: 19 Folder: 3-6
  
• Gridiron Club Dinner, 2000. Box: 19 Folder: 7
  
• Gridiron Club Dinner, 2001. Box: 19 Folder: 8
  
• Gridiron Club Dinner (and Hawaii Speech), 2002. Box: 19 Folder: 9-10
  
• Gridiron Club Dinners, 2003-2004. Box: 19 Folder: 11
  
• Gridiron Club 100th Anniversary, 1985. Box: 19 Folder: 12-14
  
• Gridiron Club Photographs . Box: 20 Folder: 1
  
• Gridiron Speeches (Reagan, Gore, Clinton, etc.) . Box: 20 Folder: 2
  
• Gun Control Bill, 1968. Box: 20 Folder: 3
  
• Hardy, Porter, Jr. (Member of Congress) . Box: 20 Folder: 4
  
• Harvard Lecture, 16 December 1986. Box: 20 Folder: 5
  
• Hawaii, 1997 (and earlier). Box: 20 Folder: 6
  
• Hawaii, 2000 (Cancelled). Box: 20 Folder: 7-8
  
• Hawaii, 2001. Box: 20 Folder: 9
  
• Hawaii, 2002. Box: 20 Folder: 10
  
• Highways and Toll Roads . Box: 20 Folder: 11
  
• Holton, Linwood . Box: 20 Folder: 12-13
  
• Humor and Politics . Box: 20 Folder: 14
  
• Hunger . Box: 20 Folder: 15
  
• Hunting Creek Affair, 1968. Box: 20 Folder: 16
  
• Huntley Meadows . Box: 20 Folder: 17
  
• Inaugurations . Box: 21 Folder: 1
  
• Inaugurations - PBS Documentary, 1992. Box: 21 Folder: 2
  
• "The James: Revolutionary River" . Box: 21 Folder: 3
  
• Johnson, Lyndon B. . Box: 21 Folder: 4
  
• Kennedy, Robert . Box: 21 Folder: 5
  
• Khrushchev Trip to U.S., 1959. Box: 21 Folder: 6-7
  
• Last Wagon West . Box: 21 Folder: 8-9
  
• Lawyers Title News . Box: 21 Folder: 10
  
• Letters To and From Congress . Box: 21 Folder: 11
  
• Lexington . Box: 21 Folder: 12
  
• Lexington (McCrum) . Box: 21 Folder: 13
  
• "Littlest Bunny" - Haynie and McDowell . Box: 21 Folder: 14
  
• Magazine By-Lines . Box: 21 Folder: 15
  
• Magazine Stories . Box: 21 Folder: 16
  
• Mansfield, Mike . Box: 21 Folder: 17
  
• Manuscripts and Drafts . Box: 21 Folder: 18
  
• Markers . Box: 21 Folder: 19
  
• Martinsville Seven . Box: 21 Folder: 20
  
• Massive Resistance (Latimer History) . Box: 21 Folder: 21
  
• McCutcheon Campaign, 1968. Box: 22 Folder: 1-2
  
• McDowell, Catherine . Box: 22 Folder: 3
  
• Media General - Phone Directory . Box: 22 Folder: 4
  
• Media General Washington Bureau (Doster Memos) . Box: 22 Folder: 5
  
• Medicare . Box: 22 Folder: 6
  
• Memorabilia . Box: 22 Folder: 7
  
• Meredith, Henry . Box: 22 Folder: 8
  
• Moon (Space Exploration) . Box: 22 Folder: 9
  
• Morrow Correspondence - "Campaign Fever" . Box: 22 Folder: 10
  
• Morrow Publicity . Box: 22 Folder: 11
  
• The Names People Elect, 1975. Box: 22 Folder: 12
  
• "New Towns" - WETA, 1986. Box: 22 Folder: 13
  
• News and Features, 1965-1966. Box: 22 Folder: 14-15
  
• News and Features, 1967. Box: 22 Folder: 16-17
  
• News and Features, 1968. Box: 22 Folder: 18-19
  
• News and Features, 1969. Box: 23 Folder: 1-2
  
• News and Features, 1970. Box: 23 Folder: 3-4
  
• News and Features, January 1971-May 1972. Box: 23 Folder: 5
  
• News and Features, June-December 1972. Box: 23 Folder: 6
  
• News and Features, 1973. Box: 23 Folder: 7
  
• News and Features, 1974-1975. Box: 23 Folder: 8
  
• News and Features, 1976. Box: 23 Folder: 9
  
• News and Features Stories - Conventions, etc. 1970's. Box: 23 Folder: 10
  
• News-Leader Biographies . Box: 23 Folder: 11
  
• Newsweek . Box: 23 Folder: 12-13
  
• Newsweek Ad for "Washington Week in Review," 25 March 1991. Box: 24 Folder: 1
  
• Nixon, Richard M. . Box: 24 Folder: 2
  
• "No Higher Honor: Linwood Holton" . Box: 24 Folder: 3
  
• Northern Virginia Politics . Box: 24 Folder: 4
  
• Notes for President . Box: 24 Folder: 5
  
• "Nuclear War: A Guide to Armageddon," 1982. Box: 24 Folder: 6
  
• Numbers - Richmond and Hopewell (Gambling) . Box: 24 Folder: 7
  
• Nuts (Publications, Mail, Organizations, etc.) . Box: 24 Folder: 8
  
• Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) - Sargent Shriver . Box: 24 Folder: 9
  
• Old Speech Notes, 1961-1966. Box: 24 Folder: 10
  
• Oliver Hill . Box: 24 Folder: 11
  
• Outside Pieces - Free Lance . Box: 24 Folder: 12-13
  
• "Packaging American Wars" - Roanoke TV, 1982. Box: 24 Folder: 14
  
• Pennies and Dollar Coin . Box: 24 Folder: 15
  
• Personal Artifacts, 1981-1985. Box: 25 Folder: 1-4
  
• Personal Relics, etc. . Box: 25 Folder: 5
  
• Photographs . Box: 25 Folder: 6
  
• Plants . Box: 25 Folder: 7
  
• Politicians (Speech Topic) . Box: 25 Folder: 8
  
• Politics, 1960. Box: 25 Folder: 9
  
• Politics, 1992. Box: 25 Folder: 10
  
• Politics Poop . Box: 25 Folder: 11
  
• Pollard, Fred G. . Box: 25 Folder: 12
  
• Pollution - Ecology . Box: 25 Folder: 13
  
• Post Reprints . Box: 25 Folder: 14
  
• Poverty - Food Programs . Box: 25 Folder: 15
  
• Powell, Lewis F. . Box: 25 Folder: 16
  
• "Power Battle" Series, 1949. Box: 25 Folder: 17
  
• Power Companies - Utilities . Box: 25 Folder: 18-19
  
• Presidential Campaign, 1968. Box: 25 Folder: 20-21
  
• Presidential Campaign, 1968. Box: 26 Folder: 1-2
  
• Presidential Campaign, 2000. Box: 26 Folder: 3
  
• Presidential Campaign - Clippings, 2000. Box: 26 Folder: 4
  
• Presidential Humor . Box: 26 Folder: 5
  
• Press Conferences . Box: 26 Folder: 6
  
• Press - Dinners 1968. Box: 26 Folder: 7-8
  
• Press Passes . Box: 26 Folder: 9
  
• Project - People's "Papers" . Box: 26 Folder: 10
  
• P.T.A. . Box: 26 Folder: 11
  
• Public Broadcasting . Box: 26 Folder: 12
  
• Public Housing Series, 1949. Box: 26 Folder: 13
  
• Puns in Newspapers . Box: 26 Folder: 14
  
• Puzzles . Box: 26 Folder: 15
  
• Quotes and Anecdotes . Box: 26 Folder: 16
  
• Racoons . Box: 26 Folder: 17
  
• Rawlings, George C., Jr. . Box: 26 Folder: 18
  
• Reagan, Ronald . Box: 26 Folder: 19
  
• Reapportionment . Box: 26 Folder: 20
  
• Redistricting . Box: 26 Folder: 21
  
• Republican Convention, 1980. Box: 26 Folder: 22
  
• Republican Convention, 1988. Box: 27 Folder: 1
  
• Republican Right . Box: 27 Folder: 2
  
• Republicans - Virginia . Box: 27 Folder: 3
  
• Retirement . Box: 27 Folder: 4
  
• Retirement - Clippings . Box: 27 Folder: 5
  
• Retirement, July 1998. Box: 27 Folder: 6
  
• Richmond . Box: 27 Folder: 7
  
• "Richmond Memories" . Box: 27 Folder: 8
  
• Richmond Newspaper Guild . Box: 27 Folder: 9
  
• Roads . Box: 27 Folder: 10
  
• Robb, Chuck - Clippings . Box: 27 Folder: 11
  
• Robertson, A. Willis . Box: 27 Folder: 12
  
• Rockefeller, Nelson . Box: 27 Folder: 13
  
• Rockwell, George Lincoln - Nazi . Box: 27 Folder: 14
  
• Rogallo Kite . Box: 27 Folder: 15
  
• Romney, George . Box: 27 Folder: 16
  
• Rural Virginia . Box: 27 Folder: 17
  
• Sabato Analysis - 1994 U.S. Senate Election . Box: 27 Folder: 18
  
• Safe Deposit Box . Box: 27 Folder: 19
  
• Satterfield, David E. III . Box: 27 Folder: 20
  
• Section IV Light . Box: 27 Folder: 21
  
• Section IV News Background . Box: 27 Folder: 22
  
• Selected Clips . Box: 27 Folder: 23
  
• Sigma Delta Chi . Box: 27 Folder: 24
  
• Smith, Howard W. . Box: 27 Folder: 25
  
• Smoking . Box: 27 Folder: 26
  
• Social Security . Box: 28 Folder: 1
  
• Sold and Dead Pile . Box: 28 Folder: 2
  
• Speech - "A Good Word for Politicians" - UVA, 1985. Box: 28 Folder: 3
  
• Speech - Arizona Senior Academy, 2000. Box: 28 Folder: 4
  
• Speech in the Dark, 1983. Box: 28 Folder: 5
  
• Speech Material . Box: 28 Folder: 6
  
• Speech Notes and Drafts, 1997-1998. Box: 28 Folder: 7
  
• Speech Notes and Drafts, 2000-2001. Box: 28 Folder: 8
  
• Speech Prep - Recent Texts, 1997-1999. Box: 28 Folder: 9
  
• Speech Prep - Statistics, Quotes, Jokes, etc. . Box: 28 Folder: 10
  
• Speech Schedule and Texts, 1998-2001. Box: 28 Folder: 11
  
• Speeches, 1995. Box: 28 Folder: 12
  
• Speeches, 1996-1997. Box: 28 Folder: 13
  
• Speeches, 1998. Box: 28 Folder: 14
  
• Speeches, 1999-2000. Box: 29 Folder: 1-3
  
• Speeches, 2000-2001. Box: 29 Folder: 4
  
• Speeches, 2001. Box: 29 Folder: 5
  
• Spong, William B. . Box: 29 Folder: 6-9
  
• State of the World Global Conference, 1993. Box: 29 Folder: 10
  
• Stationary . Box: 29 Folder: 11
  
• "Summer of Judgment: The Watergate Hearings" . Box: 29 Folder: 12-13
  
• "Summer of Judgment: The Watergate Hearings" - Reviews, Mail . Box: 29 Folder: 14
  
• "Summer of Judgment: The Watergate Hearings" - Transcript . Box: 30 Folder: 1-2
  
• Sunday Magazine . Box: 30 Folder: 3
  
• Supreme Court . Box: 30 Folder: 4
  
• Sympathy Letters - Death of Catherine F. McDowell, 1986. Box: 30 Folder: 5-7
  
• Tax Cut Issue - Clippings, 1999. Box: 30 Folder: 8
  
• Tax Sharing . Box: 30 Folder: 9
  
• Television and Politics . Box: 30 Folder: 10-12
  
• Thanksgiving . Box: 30 Folder: 13
  
• Three Characters from Lexington . Box: 30 Folder: 14
  
• Times-Dispatch and Television . Box: 30 Folder: 15
  
• Tornado of 1951 . Box: 31 Folder: 1
  
• Train Wreck - R.F. & P., 1970. Box: 31 Folder: 2
  
• Tuck, Gov. Bill . Box: 31 Folder: 3
  
• Un-American Activities Committee . Box: 31 Folder: 4
  
• Uncle Billy . Box: 31 Folder: 5
  
• VEPCO . Box: 31 Folder: 6
  
• Veterans Administration . Box: 31 Folder: 7
  
• Vice-President, 1968. Box: 31 Folder: 8
  
• Vietnam . Box: 31 Folder: 9
  
• Virginia Museum . Box: 31 Folder: 10
  
• Virginia Politics . Box: 31 Folder: 11
  
• Voting Rights . Box: 31 Folder: 12
  
• Wallace, George C. . Box: 31 Folder: 13
  
• Warren Commission . Box: 31 Folder: 14
  
• Washington, D.C. - Tourism, Monuments, etc. . Box: 31 Folder: 15
  
• "Washington Week in Review" - Anniversaries . Box: 31 Folder: 16
  
• "Washington Week in Review" at 1992 Political Conventions . Box: 31 Folder: 17
  
• "Washington Week in Review" - Mail, 1982. Box: 32 Folder: 1-5
  
• "Washington Week in Review" - Mail, 1987. Box: 32 Folder: 6-12
  
• "Washington Week in Review" - Mail, 1989. Box: 33 Folder: 1-7
  
• "Washington Week in Review" - Mail, 1990. Box: 33 Folder: 8-11
  
• "Washington Week in Review" - Mail, 1992. Box: 33 Folder: 12-13
  
• "Washington Week in Review" - Mail, 1992. Box: 34 Folder: 1-4
  
• "Washington Week in Review" - Mail, 1995-1996. Box: 34 Folder: 5
  
• Washingtonian - William C. Battle, 1969. Box: 34 Folder: 6
  
• Washingtonian - Howell vs. Godwin, 1973. Box: 34 Folder: 7
  
• Washingtonian - The Political History of Virginia, 1977. Box: 34 Folder: 8
  
• Washingtonian - TV, Politics, 1986. Box: 34 Folder: 9
  
• Washingtonian - Article of Charles McDowell, 2000. Box: 34 Folder: 10
  
• Watergate Revisited - WETA, 1994. Box: 34 Folder: 11
  
• Watergate (Sam Ervin) . Box: 34 Folder: 12
  
• WETA Channel 26 . Box: 34 Folder: 13
  
• White House "Insiders" . Box: 34 Folder: 14
  
• Whitehurst, G. William . Box: 34 Folder: 15
  
• Wilson Wyatt Narration - Louisville PBS, 1994. Box: 34 Folder: 16
  
• Wiretapping - Fairfax Chief Durrer . Box: 34 Folder: 17
  
• Woodrow Wilson Birthplace Advisory Council . Box: 34 Folder: 18
  
• World Bank . Box: 34 Folder: 19
  
• Writing - Tips, Pointers, etc. . Box: 34 Folder: 20-21
  
• Young, Stephen M. . Box: 34 Folder: 22
  
• Zoo . Box: 34 Folder: 23
  
• Series III. Books and Videotapes . Boxes: 35-36
  Extent: 2 boxes.
  The collection contains numerous books presented to McDowell that contain inscriptions by the authors.
  Videotapes in the collection include many of McDowell's appearances on "For the Record," as well as programs which he narrated, including "Summer of Judgment: The Watergate Hearings," "The James: Revolutionary River," and "Richmond Memories." There are also taped interviews with McDowell, speeches, and other appearances.
• Red Barber. 1947: When All Hell Broke Loose in Baseball. (De Capo Press, 1982) . Box: 35
  
• Harry F. Byrd, Jr. Double Trouble: Vignettes from a Life in Politics and Newspapering (Harrisonburg, Va.: RR Donnelley and Sons, 2007) . Box: 35
  
• Bruce Chadwick. The Reel Civil War: Mythmaking in American Film. (New York: Knopf, 2001) . Box: 35
  
• Paul Duke, ed. Beyond Reagan: The Politics of Upheaval. (New York: Warner Books, 1986) . Box: 35
  
• Kent M. Keith. Anyway: The Paradoxical Commandments. (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2001) . Box: 35
  
• C. Brian Kelly. Best Little Stories from the White House. (Charlottesville, Va: Montpelier Publishing, 1992) . Box: 35
  
• Florence Selden Peple. The Red and White Secret. (Richmond, Va.: Garrett & Massie, 1931) . Box: 35
  
• A.J.G. Priest. Old Hilarity. (Charlottesville, Va.: The Michie Company, 1965) . Box: 35
  
• William W. Pusey III. Washington and Lee University in Fiction. (1988) . Box: 35
  
• Parke Shepherd Rouse, Jr. [Collected Stories, 1997?] . Box: 35
  
• William D. Rouse. Plucked Again! (Writers Club Press, 2000) . Box: 35
  
• Cassette - David Broder, Julie Johnson, and Charles McDowell. "Election, '96: Let the Games Begin." Ford Hall Forum, Faneuil Hall, Boston, 3 November 1995. Box: 36
  
• Cassette - Toast to Hugh Haynie, Society of Professional Journalists, 26 June 1996. Box: 36
  
• Videotape - Gridiron Club Dinner (Beta), 1982. Box: 36
  
• Videotape - "Summer of Judgment: The Watergate Hearings" (Two Copies) 1983. Box: 36
  
• Videotape - "Outlook," Demo, Potomac Television Productions, Inc., Washington, DC, 1983. Box: 36
  
• Videotape - Gridiron Club Dinner (Beta), 1984. Box: 36
  
• Videotape - "Free Speech and Advertising - Who Draws the Line?" Institute for Democratic Communication, Boston University, 1987. Box: 36
  
• Videotape - Charles McDowell Being Inducted into the Virginia Communications Hall of Fame, 1988. Box: 36
  
• Videotape - Centre College, Danville, KY Graduation, 1989. Box: 36
  
• Videotape - "The James: Revolutionary River," 1990. Box: 36
  
• Videotape - "Rally Behind the Virginians" with Charles McDowell (Program on land conservation/preservation), 1994. Box: 36
  
• Videotape - "Washington Journal," Charles McDowell Interview, C-SPAN, 4 September 1995. Box: 36
  
• Videotape - "Former Offenders: Breaking the Cycle of Violence," Across the River with Hedrick Smith, WETA, October 1995. Box: 36
  
• Videotape - "Richmond Memories" WCVE, 1995. Box: 36
  
• Videotape - "For the Record: Charles McDowell," Interview by Ken Thompson, 18 October 1996. Box: 36
  
• Videotape - "Virginia Vote '96 with Paul Duke" WCVE/WHTJ, 24 October 1996. Box: 36
  
• Videotape - "More Richmond Memories" WCVE, 1996. Box: 36
  
• Videotape - "For the Record: Margaret Warner," 10 October 1997. Box: 36
  
• Videotape - Charles McDowell and Shelby Foote, Fredericksburg Form, University of Mary Washington, 28 October 1997. Box: 36
  
• Videotape - "For the Record: Linwood Holton" Part I, 28 November 1997. Box: 36
  
• Videotape - "For the Record: Linwood Holton" Part II, 19 December 1997. Box: 36
  
• Videotape - "For the Record: Stansfield Turner," 23 January 1998. Box: 36
  
• Videotape - "For the Record: Gale Mattox," 27 February 1998. Box: 36
  
• Videotape - "For the Record: Julian Bond," 24 April 1998. Box: 36
  
• Videotape - "For the Record: Lowell Weicker," 27 April 1998. Box: 36
  
• Videotape - "For the Record: Lee Hamilton," 26 June 1998. Box: 36
  
• Videotape - "For the Record: Kathryn Thornton," 25 September 1998. Box: 36
  
• Videotape - "For the Record: Lech Walesa," 16 October 1998. Box: 36
  
• Videotape - "For the Record: John Sununu," 21 November 1998. Box: 36
  
• Videotape - "Richmond Memories: School Days" WCVE, 1998. Box: 36
  
• Videotape - "For the Record: Timothy Naftali," 8 January 1999. Box: 36
  
• Videotape - "For the Record: Bobby Muller," 12 February 1999. Box: 36
  
• Videotape - "For the Record: Philip D. Zelikow," 26 March 1999. Box: 36
  
• Videotape - "For the Record: Jim Jones," 9 April 1999. Box: 36
  
• Videotape - Washington and Lee 250th Anniversary National Day of Celebration Television Special, 1 May 1999. Box: 36
  
• Videotape - Washington and Lee 250th Anniversary Cruise, 1999. Box: 36
  
• Videotape - "For the Record: Charles McDowell" Interview by Charles Sydnor, 24 March 2000. Box: 36
  
• Videotape - "The Great Campaign of 1960." Off Center Productions and WETA, 30 October 2000. Box: 36
  
• Videotape - "Judy Garland: The Concert Years" (1985); Candidate Bill Clinton at Georgetown University, 23 October 1991; Miscellaneous Clips; "The Civil War: Episode Three" (clip); Dan Quayle on the Rush Limbaugh Show; Wimbledon Coverage. . Box: 36