Scope and Contents Contains papers created or collected by W. Cleon Skousen throughout his various professional activities. Includes research files of clippings, publications, overhead transparencies, curriculum, lecture and educational materials, proposals for new coalitions, articles, emails, and letters on American history, the U.S. Constitution with or without a religious context, world politics, survivalism, conspiracy theories, political candidates, family studies, monetary policy, nuclear warfare,...

Scope and Contents Contains personal papers of W. Cleon Skousen, including diaries and scrapbooks. Also contains professional papers of W. Cleon Skousen, reflecting his varied careers in law enforcement, authorship, research, lecturing, education, and scholarship. Topics include communism, the United States Constitution and government history, government officials, world politics, the Book of Mormon, and police administration.Contains materials on various institutions Skousen affiliated with,...

Scope and Contents Contains materials on Causa International (CAUSA), including news clippings, business cards collected at Causa conferences, publications, viewpoint drafts, letters, photocopies of seminar lecture notes, and Causa Pan-American Convention notes, programs, VHS tapes of conferences and Causa programming, articles, and lists of participants. Topics include Central American politics, religious liberty, communism, and various events. Also includes materials on Reverend Sun Myung Moon, the founder...

Scope and Contents Letters written from United States Senator Orrin Hatch from 1991 to 1999, the first letters being copies of letters sent to other recipients, but the majority thereafter addressed to both Cleon and Jewel Skousen. The letters included copies of government documents and letters to other government officials, articles, and clippings, which provide context for the letters' topics of discussion. Cleon has annotated and highlighted content in the letters. Also includes a 1979 news release from...

Scope and Contents Contains materials on W. Cleon Skousen's years of employment with the FBI, where he was employed from 1940 to 1951. Includes subject files on various crime, police administration, and special agent topics, which contain federal publications, memos, and handbooks, speeches and writing for FBI News, a biographical recollection of time working there, and research on communism. Includes Skousen's FBI life insurance policy from 1988. Also contains materials from his service as Salt Lake City,...

Scope and Contents Contains administrative records of the Freemen Institute as collected by W. Cleon Skousen in his role as founder of the organization, including letters, articles, notes, training course agendas and curriculum, publicity materials and files on their creation, event and financial records, minutes, and clippings on the United States Constitution, monetary policy, families, communism, and world affairs. Includes audio and video event recordings, educational material, and promotional material....

Scope and Contents Contains materials created by W. Cleon Skousen in his work as an author, teacher, and scholar of Christian scripture and Latter-day Saint history, including articles used in research, religious curriculum development, clippings, notes, letters from or about church leaders or religious topics, publications, and documents about travel and research abroad, including leading travel groups to Israel. Includes drafts of "Days of the Living Christ," "Prophecy and Modern Times," "Majesty and God's...

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Includes scrapbook pages documenting the personal and professional life of W. Cleon Skousen. Scrapbook pages consist of letters, cards, newspaper clippings, photographs, ephemera, assorted journal entries and commentary, 22 cassette tapes, and other memorabilia. Also includes loose scrapbook material organized into biographical files by year. Materials dated 1913 to 2005.