William Stuart Lester letters dealing with the Goebel affair, 1952
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- William Stuart Lester letters dealing with the Goebel affair, 1952
- Creator
- Lester, William Stewart.
- Extent
- 1 reel of microfilm (7 ft.).
- Subjects
- Beckner, Lucien, 1872-1963.
- Blakley, Stephens.
- Goebel, William, 1856-1900--Assassination.
- Lester, William Stewart.
- Morris, Charles H.
- Wallace, Tom, 1874-1961.
- Christopher Gist Historical Society.
- Assassination--Kentucky.
- Kentucky--Politics and government--1865-1950
- Arrangement
- Arranged by correspondent, but not alphabetically.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- Historian. Lester, who did graduate work at the University of Kentucky, was apparently researching the Goebel killing for a proposed book in 1952 (presumably never published).
- Scope and Content
- This is a microfilmed copy of letters about the 1900 assassination of Governor William Goebel. The letters were sent to W. S. Lester of Silver Springs, Maryland as part of his research on the subject. The materials include a paper on assassination written by a member of the Christopher Gist Historical Society and several letters from notables in Kentucky, such as Lucien Beckner, state geologist and historian, and Tom Wallace, then editor emeritus of the COURIER-JOURNAL. Other letter writers include Charles H. Morris and Stephens Blakley.
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