Popular Culture

03.24.11

Salvatore Phillip "Sonny" Bono

(1935-1998)

03.23.11

Norman Kingsley Mailer (1923-2007)—an American writer and director—was the author of the bestselling novel The Naked and the Dead. This release consists of one section of an FBI domestic security investigative file on Mailer. The file begins in 1962 and ends in 1974.

03.22.11

Paul Harvey

Paul Harvey Aurandt Paul Harvey Aurandt (1918-2009), popularly known as Paul Harvey, was a long-time radio broadcaster for ABC. Harvey corresponded with the Bureau on a range of issues between 1956 and 1986. He was also the subject of two investigations, a 1951 Atomic Energy Act investigation sparked when he entered a restricted area at a U.S. facility in pursuit of a story and a 1983 background investigation.

03.15.11

Bettie Page

Bettie Mae Page (1923-2008) was famous for her pin-up portraits and nude modeling. Although the FBI did not investigate Page, her name appeared in several FBI interstate transportation of obscene materials investigations, a San Francisco Field Office crime survey, and—in passing—a counterintelligence investigation. These materials are dated between 1947 and 1957.

03.02.11

Walter Leland Cronkite

Walter Leland Cronkite Walter Leland Cronkite (1916-2009), famous newscaster and journalist, worked for CBS News for five decades. Although the FBI did not investigate Cronkite, his name does appear in its files, usually in passing reference to his contact with an individual under FBI investigation or due to his professional contacts with the Bureau. These excerpts range from 1956 to 2000.

03.02.11