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Contains personal papers of Jewel Skousen, including letters received from her husband, W. Cleon Skousen, and other family members and friends, emails, family history, ephemera connected to family member events, passports, address lists, and compact discs of family history, photographs, family events, and computer back-up. Materials dated 1936 to 2006.

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,...

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Includes journals and daily and weekly planners of W. Cleon Skousen, dated 1952 to 1998.

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 handwritten and annotated drafts, partial manuscripts, contracts, royalty records, lists of publications, speeches and associated programs for speech events, articles, and correspondence regarding publications. Materials relate to "Naked Communist," "Naked Capitalist," "The Making of America," "The Cleansing of America," "The First Two Thousand Years," "The Third Thousand Years," "The Fourth Thousand Years" "The Five Thousand Year Leap," and "So You Want to Raise a Boy?" as well as...

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 Papers related to W. Cleon Skousen's time as a professor of religion and American history and government at Brigham Young University. Skousen was employed as a professor from December 1951 to August 1956, and from 1967 to 1978. Materials include a recollection on Skousen's first five years as a professor, anonymous student ratings of his religion classes, notes and articles used in teaching classes on the constitution, Relgion 232-H class notes, and the university faculty and administrative...

Scope and Contents Contains the personal papers of W. Cleon Skousen, including printed emails, greeting and condolence cards, letters, passports, yearbooks, class notes and school records, diplomas, family history, notes from daily life events, ephemera from events and church meetings, and Skousen's personal library index. Also includes photographs and negatives (black and white and color) of family, friends, and travels, including an oversize photograph of a group in front of a church building and a photo...

Scope and Contents Contains materials collected or created by W. Cleon Skousen throughout his varied careers and professional activities. Includes letters from Senator Orrin Hatch, religion scholarship research and drafts, documents from several organizations Skousen was affiliated with or founded, drafts and research for various publications and speeches, subject files on his FBI and Salt Lake City Police chief careers, documents from his time as a Brigham Young University professor, and other plaques,...

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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.