Pat Weaver speech collection

Collection

Identifier: 2398

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Scope and Contents

This collection contains binders of typescript speeches by Sylvester "Pat" Weaver, dating from 1949 to 1956. Weaver because NBC's vice-president of television in 1949 and was president of NBC between 1953 and 1955. The speeches cover a variety of topics related to television and radio including programming, color television, and sales and advertising. The speeches were collected by Bee Lavery, who worked as a media publicist for NBC from the late 1940s to the early 1960s.

Dates

Creation: 1949 - 1956

Creator

Weaver, Pat, 1908-2002 (Person)

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Rights Statement for Archival Description

Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

Conditions Governing Use

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Cinematic Arts Library at ctlibarc@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Cinematic Arts Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

Biographical note on Bee Lavery

Bee Canterbury Lavery (1926-2018) was a publicist for NBC from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. She graduated from the University of Southern California's School of Journalism in 1948. Lavery later served as Chief of Protocol for Los Angeles in the 1980s.

Biographical note on Pat Weaver

Sylvester Laflin "Pat" Weaver Jr. (1908-2002) was an American broadcasting executive and president of NBC from 1953 to 1955. He became chairman of the board of NBC in 1956, but resigned from the position that same year.