Jackie Robinson Papers

Jackie Robinson Papers

Joseph W. McCarthy (1915–1980) met Jackie Robinson in the mid-1950s and helped Robinson utilize the papers in this collection to write a series of three articles published in LOOK Magazine in 1955 (also included in this collection). McCarthy was a prominent free-lance writer and editor in New York City during the 1940s–1970s. He began his career in Boston as a reporter and sportswriter. During World War II, he was Managing Editor for the U.S. Army publication, Yank the Army Weekly, until 1945. During those years he lived in the Parkchester section of The Bronx with his young family.

In the following decades, McCarthy worked as a free-lance writer for publications such as Life, LOOK Magazine, and Holiday, and he authored, edited, or was ghost writer of eight books that included the 1961 memoir, Firsthand Report, by Sherman Adams, about Adams's years in the Eisenhower White House; the letters of the comedian Fred Allen—Fred Allen's Letters (1966); and a book on President Kennedy, Johnny We Hardly Knew Ye (1972).

Robinson, Jackie

McCarthy, Joseph W.

1943–1955

English

Mixed-media collection

MS-ROBINSON