Call Number:

C0786

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 4 boxes
• 1.6 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Samuel Chavkin Papers, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1974-1979 (bulk) and 1974-1994 (inclusive)

Creator:

Chavkin, Samuel, 1913-1994.

Form:

Articles -- 20th century., Correspondence -- 20th century, Interviews -- 20th century., and photographs -- 20th century

Abstract:

Consists of 59 audio recordings and selected correspondence and articles by American journalist Samuel Chavkin, who covered events in Chile for various publications in the 1970s, primarily after the military junta of 1973.

Samuel Chavkin was an American journalist.

The collection consists of 59 audio recordings and selected correspondence and articles by Chavkin, who covered events in Chile for various publications in the 1970s, primarily after the military junta of 1973. Included are recordings taken from the radio shows, "Radio Habana, Cuba" and "De Chile y Para Chile," of interviews (1974-1978) with Augusto Pinochet, Joan Jara, Carmen Castillo, Laura Allende, Miguel Schweitzer, Beatriz Allende, and others, and many other recordings of interviews conducted by Chavkin with various people discussing Salvador Allende, Pablo Neruda, and the political, social, and economic conditions in Chile. Also present are a typescript of an interview with Harald Edelstam, Swedish Ambassador to Chile; various articles and editorials by Chavkin about Chile; a small amount of correspondence with Ximena de la Barra MacDonald, G. Perotti, Harald Edelstam, and others; photographs of Chile under military rule; and a typescript, with autograph corrections, of an unpublished English translation of Chile: The Executioners (Las Fuerza Armadas de Chile, 1976), by Fernando Rivas Sanchez and Elizabeth Reiman Weigert.

Organized into two series: Series 1: Correspondence, Articles and Editorials, Photographs, and Works of Others and Series 2: Audiorecordings.