http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8ns0s8f No online items Guide to the Stanley K. Sheinbaum Collection Preliminary arrangement and description by D. Tambo and Y. Blue Department of Special Collections Davidson Library University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Phone: (805) 893-3062 Fax: (805) 893-5749 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/special-collections/ © 2012 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Guide to the Stanley K. Mss 217 1 Sheinbaum Collection Guide to the Stanley K. Sheinbaum Collection, 1920-2011 [bulk dates 1950s-2000s] Collection number: Mss 217 Department of Special Collections Davidson Library University of California, Santa Barbara Processed by: Preliminary arrangement and description by D. Tambo and Y. Blue Date Completed: Apr. 12, 2012 Latest revision: May 14, 2012 Encoded by: A. Demeter © 2012 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Descriptive Summary Title: Stanley K. Sheinbaum Collection Dates: 1920-2011 Bulk Dates: 1950s-2000s Collection number: Mss 217 Collection Size: ca. 430 linear feet (385 cartons and document boxes, 2 oversize boxes, 129 audiotapes, 206 videotapes, 1 16 mm film) Repository: University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Dept. of Special Collections Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Abstract: Articles about Sheinbaum, copy of oral history transcript with Joan Didion, and copy of oral history transcript by UCLA. Includes material about his association with CSDI and later New Perspectives magazine. Includes files, ca. latter 1970s-mid 1980s, kept by Stanley K. Sheinbaum mainly during his tenure as University of California Regent [1977-1989], at a time when UC was involved in divestment of South African investments, due to the political situation there. Physical location: SRLF (Boxes 1-385); Del Sur (Box 386); Annex 2 (audiovisual). Languages: English Access Restrictions Collection is stored off-site; advance notice required for retrieval. Publication Rights Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained. Preferred Citation Stanley K. Sheinbaum Collection. Mss 217. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara. Acquisition Information Multiple gifts from Stanley K. Sheinbaum, 2004-2012. Biography From the Amazon.com summary of "Citizen Stan" dvd: This film profiles a man who rose from humble beginnings to influence politics on a world stage. Stanley Sheinbaum has shaped foreign policy with Prime Ministers, Presidents and Kings. His loyalty to friends and freedom sometimes meant taking great risks. His dedication to peace in the Middle East and opening a dialogue with both sides has put him at odds with people right in his own backyard. His life story holds lessons of character and history, and illustrates the conviction it Guide to the Stanley K. Mss 217 2 Sheinbaum Collection takes to change our world. Directed by Patty Sharaf. With journalist Robert Scheer. Narrated by Richard Dreyfuss. Interviews with Daniel Ellsberg, Margaret and Nicholas Papandreou, wife and son of the late Greek Prime Minister, former Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates, PLO Negotiator Nabil Shaath, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Warren Beatty, Jesse Jackson. Synopsis: Growing up in New York's rag trade, the teen-aged Sheinbaum joined the US army effort in WW2, photo-screening maps onto silk for aviators to use. A kid who had done poorly in high school, he used the GI bill to work for a doctorate in economics at Stanford. In 1954, Sheinbaum landed a teaching job at Michigan State University. He also became co-director of the Vietnam Project at MSU. Under the auspices of the University, the project was hiring men to go to South Vietnam and set up a police force. Stanley Sheinbaum was the man doing the hiring. On a disillusioning trip to Saigon to check on his work, Sheinbaum realized men he had hired were now part of the CIA. Later he came to learn they were using torture to interrogate Vietcong prisoners. Sheinbaum left the MSU project to join the first independent think-tank, the Robert Maynard Hutchins Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara. One day journalist Robert Scheer confronted Sheinbaum about his role in the Vietnam Project. Much to his surprise, Sheinbaum was a cooperative witness. He and Scheer joined rank, traveling to Vietnam in 1966 to investigate the war. The two men rode a puddle jumper through Cambodia, looking for the path of the Ho Chi Minh trail. Fully at odds with Johnson's the best and the brightest, they were trying to head off the bombing of neutral Cambodia. In Saigon, Sheinbaum locked horns with his younger brother Gil, who had become the advisor to the American ambassador, Ellsworth Bunker. Meanwhile, Stanley Sheinbaum ran for congress in Santa Barbara on an anti-war platform in 1966 and again in 1968. During the Pentagon Papers trial, Sheinbaum organized the defense of Daniel Ellsberg and landed on Nixon's enemies list. Sheinbaum's commitment to the cause of peace has taken him to Greece, Palestine, and the streets of Los Angeles. Don't miss this incredible life story. A copy of "Citizen Stan" has been cataloged separately for Special Collections. Stanley K. Sheinbaum: A 20th Century Knight's Quest for Peace, Civil Liberties and Economic Justice, by Stanley K. Sheinbaum, with William A. Meis, Jr. (2011) traces Sheinbaum's life in memoir form. A copy has been included in the Personal/Biographical section of this collection and another copy has been cataloged separately for Special Collections. Additional biographical information about Stanley K. Sheinbaum may be found in this collection, in the Biographical/Personal series, and elsewhere throughout the collection. On the web, see also: www.digitalnpq.org/about/sheinbaum.html http://keywiki.org/index.php/Stanley_Sheinbaum Scope and Content of Collection Arrangement The collection contains the following series: Series I: Personal/Biographical. General. Includes files on other families with the Sheinbaum (or similar) surname and Warner (SKS wife Betty's family). Box 1. Awards and Honors. Box 2. Biographies, Oral Histories and Other about SKS. General. Includes cvs, resumés, and other biographical overview information. Box 2. Chronological files, 1949-2003, n.d. Mainly articles about SKS and copies of correspondence re important events in SKS' life. Boxes 3-4. Alphabetical. Mainly by surname of interviewer/author. Includes work by/for "Citizen Stan" documentary; Joan Didion interviews; Bruce B. Henderson interviews; Alan Jolis "Anatomy of a Citizen Warrior..." and interviews; William A. Meis, Jr. Stanley K. Sheinbaum: A 20th Century Knight's Quest for Peace, Civil Liberties and Economic Justice...; A Nation Lost and Found: 1936 America Remembered by Ordinary and Extraordinary People, compiled by Frank Pierson and Stanley K. Sheinbaum; Marc Raskin oral history project; Robert Scheer interviews; and UCLA Oral History by Dale Treleven and William van Benschoten. Boxes 4-6. Calendars. Daily appointments, 1968-1992. Box 7. Correspondence. Alphabetical. In/out. Includes "Assorted Nonsense" - things that SKS found amusing, Harry Girvetz, King Hussein, Alan Jolis, Sydney Pollack, Barbra Streisand, and Kit Tremaine. Box 7. Chronological, 1955-2011, n.d. Mainly outoing. Boxes 7-8. Packets, ca. 1982-2001. Arranged chronologically; contains copies of important correspondence by SKS or articles by others that he considered significant, and that he sent to various lists of individuals. Box 9. Guide to the Stanley K. Mss 217 3 Sheinbaum Collection Dissertation Files, pre-1965. SKS didn't finish doctorate; copy burnt in CSDI fire - some existing files are charred from the fire. Box 10. Early Life. Includes DeWitt Clinton High School (New York), 1920-1934, military service (WWII), Oklahoma A&M, Stanford University - undergrad and grad school, application for federal employment. Box 11. Speeches by SKS, ca. 1964-1999. Arranged chronologically; includes talks, lectures, statements, broadcasts; includes supporting correspondence and research files. Boxes 11-13. Teaching. Files for Stanford (ca. 1950-1953), Michigan State University (ca. 1955-1957), University of California Santa Barbara (1963). Box 13. Travel. Mainly maps and travel guides of trips abroad, Middle East and elsewhere. Writings by SKS, ca. 1961-2003. Arranged alphabetically by title. See also CSDI series. Box 14. Series II: American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) - Southern California Chapter / ACLU Foundation, ca. 1972-2004. SKS was head of the ACLU Foundation of Southern California from 1973 to 1982, as well as on the executive committee and board of directors. Includes awards and celebrations, board minutes, correspondence (in/out), financial material, memos, plans, reports, studies, and subject/topic files. Arranged alphabetically by folder title. Boxes 15-30. See also: Additions, Box 371. Series III: Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions [CSDI]. SKS was a Senior Fellow with the Santa Barbara-based think tank headed up by Robert Maynard Hutchins. For related materials see: Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions Collection (Mss 18) and Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions / Princeton University Files (Mss 253), which include a number of files by and pertaining to SKS. Alpha, ca. 1959-1974. People and subjects (often topics discussed by CSDI). Boxes 31-34. Chronological, ca. 1960-1971. Includes memos, papers, presentations and speeches by SKS, most relating to dialogue discussions and other CSDI events; also files re the Roof article on economics for Encyclopaedia Britannica. Boxes 35-36. Correspondence, ca. 1959-1970. In/out. Re CSDI matters. Boxes 36-37. Economics, ca. 1961-1964. Includes Encyclopaedia Britannica files for Roof article on economics.