Collection search - Bassett, John W.H. - Interview

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Bassett, John W.H. - Interview

Item number (ISN):

413413

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1975-06-10

Item number (ISN):

413413

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

STURSBERG, Peter

Accession:

1975-0100

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1975-06-10

Production company:

Peter Stursberg (Interviewer)

Production credit:

interviewer, Peter Stursberg

Description:

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Interview of John W.H. Bassett, publishing and broadcasting executive, by reporter Peter Stursberg, about: his education; his military service in World War II; his career in journalism; his career in politics; John Bassett Sr.; John G. Diefenbaker; George Drew; George McCullagh; John D. Eaton; George Hees; Eddie Goodman; E. Davie Fulton; William Lyon Mackenzie King; Crawford Gordon; Max Aitken; Walter Gordon; M. Wallace McCutcheon; James Duncan; Georges P. Vanier; Howard Green; Douglas Harkness; George Nowlan; Mrs. Signy Eaton; Perry Ryan; Lester B. Pearson; Dalton Camp; Arthur Maloney; Robert Stanfield; Frank McGee; Margaret Meagher; David Ben-Gurion; Golda Meir; the 1948 and 1956 Progressive Conservative Party leadership conventions; journalism; the Sherbrooke Daily Record; the Toronto Telegram; the 1957 federal election; the Progressive Conservative government of 1957 to 1963; defence; the Avro Arrow; international relations; the Commonwealth; Canada-U.S. relations; Canada-Israel relations; the 1962 federal election; defence; the nuclear arms crisis of 1962; the Progressive Conservative government’s leadership crisis of 1962 to 1963; the 1963 and 1965 federal elections; and the Progressive Conservative Party’s leadership crisis of 1966. This interview was recorded by the Public Archives of Canada in John Bassett's office in Toronto. <1h 28mn>

Language:

English

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1. LAC did not receive a release form for this interview or the matching 39-page transcript.~2. Open for consultation.~3. Transcript available in the Peter Stursberg fonds.
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GENCAT identity number:

MSS 22018

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Crown copyright : no donor restrictions : with written permission of interviewee

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