Helen S. Hawkins Collection, 1974-1987 (MSS 131)

Restrictions: Original media formats are restricted. Viewing/listening copies may be available for researchers.

Extent: 5.6 Linear feet (8 archives boxes, 2 cartons, 1 card file box)

Two manuscript versions of the book Toward a Livable World: Leo Szilard and the Crusade for Nuclear Arms Control (1987) prepared by Helen S. Hawkins (1930-1989) and co-edited with G. Allen Greb and Gertrude Weiss Szilard. The early version (1974-1976) contains a larger volume of documents by Leo Szilard than the later condensed version. The materials follow a chronological sequence which dates from 1945 to 1964. Additional materials include videorecordings and cassette audiorecordings of interviews conducted by Helen Hawkins while at KPBS Public Television in San Diego, California.

Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1930, Helen S. Hawkins received her doctorate in History from the University of California, San Diego in 1975. Between 1974 and 1975 she was a Research Associate working in the Leo Szilard Papers in the Program in Science, Technology and Public Affairs at UCSD. Hawkins later joined the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation at UCSD. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Hawkins worked in the Humanities Office of KPBS Public Television in San Diego, California. Hawkins died in 1989 in La Jolla, California.

The collection contains manuscript materials prepared by Helen Hawkins for the production of the book Toward a Livable World: Leo Szilard and the Crusade for Nuclear Arms Control (1987). Helen Hawkins co-edited the work with G. Allen Greb and Gertrude Weiss Szilard.

Arranged in three series: 1) TOWARD A LIVABLE WORLD... MANUSCRIPT MATERIALS, 2) MEDIA, and 3) MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS.

Container List

TOWARD A LIVABLE WORLD... MANUSCRIPT MATERIALS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 1) TOWARD A LIVABLE WORLD... MANUSCRIPT MATERIALS. Arranged in two subseries: A) NSF Grant Manuscript, 1974-1976 and B) IGCC Office Files.

A) NSF Grant Manuscript, 1974-1975: The National Science Foundation Grant manuscript was produced in consultation with Gertrude Weiss Szilard and includes a much larger representation of materials from the Leo Szilard Papers (also held by UCSD; see MSS 32) than is included in the published work. The manuscript contains photocopies of documents and explanatory text which follows a chronological sequence. This early version of the manuscript provides a useful introduction to the Leo Szilard Papers.

B) IGCC Office Files: Files which were transferred from UCSD's Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and represent a revised version of the manuscript. Also included is correspondence between Helen Hawkins and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press.

NSF Grant Manuscript, 1974-1976

Box 1 Folder 1
Volume II - List of documents and outline
Box 1 Folder 2
Szilard-Teller television debate transcript, corrected by Edward Teller, 1960

Part II

Box 1 Folder 3-4
Chapter One - pp.803-1030
Box 1 Folder 5
Chapter Two - pp. 1031-1195
Box 1 Folder 6-7
Chapter Three - pp. 1196-1449
Box 1 Folder 8
Chapter Four - pp. 1450-1590
Box 2 Folder 1
Chapter Five - pp. 1591-1769
Box 2 Folder 2
Chapter Six - pp. 1770-1902
Box 2 Folder 3
Chapter Seven - pp. 1903-2093
Box 2 Folder 4
Chapter Eight - pp. 2094-2165

Part III

Box 2 Folder 5
Chapter One - pp. 2166-2321
Box 2 Folder 6
Chapter Two - pp. 2322-2367. Economic and social issues
Box 2 Folder 7
Chapter Three - pp. 2368-2391. Children's stories and other pleasant matters

IGCC Office Files

Box 3 Folder 1-3
MIT Press correspondence, 1976 - 1988
Box 3 Folder 4
Prepared Table of Contents, 1975
Box 3 Folder 5
Bernstein's Introduction, 1985
Box 3 Folder 6-10
Chapter I, pages 803-1030
Box 3 Folder 11-13
Chapter II, pages 1031-1195
Box 3 Folder 14-18
Chapter III, pages 1196-1449
Box 4 Folder 1-3
Chapter IV, pages 1450-1590
Box 4 Folder 4-7
Chapter V, pages 1591-1769
Box 4 Folder 8-10
Chapter VI, pages 1770-1902
Box 4 Folder 11-14
Chapter VII, pages 1903-2093
Box 4 Folder 15-16
Chapter VIII, pages 2094-2165

Part 3

Box 4 Folder 17-19
Chapter I, pages 2166-2310
Box 5 Folder 1
Chapter I, pages 2311-2321
Box 5 Folder 2
Chapter II, pages 2362-2367
Box 5 Folder 3
Chapter III, pages 2368-2391
Box 5 Folder 4
Final Chapter VII (Weart)
Box 5 Folder 5-6
Status and Contents
Box 5 Folder 7
Front matter -- Discards
Box 5 Folder 8
Weart discards from July 1976 manuscript
Box 5 Folder 9
Gertrude Weiss Szilard (GWS) Table of Contents
Box 5 Folder 10
Gertrude Weiss Szilard (GWS)
Box 5 Folder 11-12
Chapter typescripts
Box 5 Folder 13
Table of document numbers typescript
Box 5 Folder 14
Gruber, Carol S. "Manhattan Project Maverick" - Written in summer, 1983
Box 5 Folder 15-16
Szilard - Miscellaneous papers

MEDIA

Scope and Content of Series

Series 2) MEDIA: Audio and video recordings made while Helen Hawkins worked in the Humanities Office of KPBS Public Television in San Diego, California in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She conducted numerous interviews for the program Viewpoints, special programs, and conference discussions. Important personalities interviewed include Herbert Marcuse, Herbert York, James Burke, and Gertrude Weiss Szilard.

Videorecordings

Burke, James

Box 6 Folder 1
Interview/Discussion program, undated
Box 6 Folder 2
Meet James Burke, January 29, 1981
Box 6 Folder 3
California Rights, undated
Box 6 Folder 4
Christo, December 2, 1981
Box 6 Folder 5
Johnson, Sonia. Viewpoints , March 5, 1982
Box 6 Folder 6
Literacy Controversy, undated
Box 6 Folder 7
Marcuse, Herbert. Viewpoints , April 25, 1979
Box 6 Folder 8
Neuman, Justice. Interview, November 5, 1979

NewsThink

Box 7 Folder 1
Cults/De-Programming, October 21, 1977
Box 7 Folder 2
The Edifice Complex, February 24, 1978
Box 7 Folder 3
Immigration, November 11, 1977
Box 7 Folder 4
Is Progress for People?, December 16, 1977
Box 7 Folder 5
Life or Death, ca. 1977 - 1978
Box 7 Folder 6
Press Power, March 27, 1977
Box 7 Folder 7
Prop. 13, June 27, 1977
Box 7 Folder 8
Sachar, Abram, October 6, 1976
Box 8 Folder 1
Sommers, Tish. Viewpoints , March 2, 1982
Box 8 Folder 2
Stavenhagen, Rodolfo. Viewpoints , March 30, 1979
Box 9 Folder 1
Stoppard, Tom, November 23, 1981
Box 9 Folder 2
Technology and Women's Future, March 26, 1981
Box 10 Folder 1
York, Herbert. Special on nuclear test ban negotiations, January 9, 1980

Audiorecordings

Box 11 Folder 1
Abzug, Bella, undated
Box 11 Folder 2
Burbidge, Margaret. Viewpoints , March 1, 1982
Box 11 Folder 3
Burke, James. Interview entitled "Meet James Burke", November 21, 1980
Box 11 Folder 4
Christo. Interview with Christo regarding his work Running Fence , undated
Box 11 Folder 5
Clark, Ramsey. Interview focuses on human rights. Also includes a telephone interview with Congressman Lionel Van Deerlin conducted by Hawkins on immigration, undated
Box 11 Folder 6
Feedback - Archaeology. Hawkins leads a discussion between archaeologists and land developers, February 18, 1981
Box 11 Folder 7
George Sand Conference. Hawkins interviews four participants at the San Diego State University conference. Side 2: Technology and Women's Future Conference, undated
Box 11 Folder 8
Johnson, Sonia. Viewpoints interview with Mormon feminist, March 5, 1982
Box 11 Folder 9
Lerner, Max. Viewpoints interview, May 10, 1979

Marcuse, Herbert

Viewpoints interview

Box 11 Folder 10
Original cassette, April 25, 1979
Box 8 Folder 3
User copy

Question and answer discussion

Box 11 Folder 11
Original cassette, undated
Box 8 Folder 3
User copy
Box 11 Folder 12
Marty, Martin, undated
Box 11 Folder 13
Paredes, Raymund. Viewpoints interview with UCLA professor of English on Chicano literature, undated
Box 11 Folder 14
Sommers, Tish. Viewpoints interview, undated
Box 11 Folder 15
Stavenhagen, Rodolfo. Viewpoints interview, March 30, 1979
Box 11 Folder 16
Stoppard, Tom. Interview with playwright
Box 11 Folder 17
Szilard, Gertrude Weiss. Interview with widow of Dr. Leo Szilard, undated
Box 11 Folder 18
York, Herbert. Special program interview of York on nuclear test ban treaty negotiations. Side 2: Viewpoints interview with political cartoonist Paul Conrad, undated

MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 3) MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS: This series contains both personal and professional papers. These include notes on productions done while at the KPBS Humanities Office; one article and several letters written by Hawkins about women's rights, some as president of the San Diego Chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW); and a memo from a former colleague. Also included are posthumous materials, including letters of condolence to Hawkins' family and a booklet of poetry by Hawkins, published after her death.

Box 5 Folder 17
Activism - Includes letters written while president of San Diego chapter of NOW, 1970 - 1973
Box 5 Folder 18
KPBS Humanities Office productions, ca. 1977 - 1982
Box 5 Folder 19
Institute of Global Conflict & Cooperation - Memo & business card, 1989
Box 5 Folder 20
Posthumous material - Includes letters of condolence & booklet of Hawkins' poetry, 1989 - 1990