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JFK Assassination Plus General Discussion & Debate => JFK Assassination Plus General Discussion And Debate => Topic started by: Daniel McGuire on June 07, 2026, 03:14:06 PM
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Does anyone have any idea when the missing daybooks of George Hunter White went missing? Or if they were ever seen when the books surfaced in the 1970's? I am talking about the daybooks for the years 1963, 1964, and 1966 through 1969. They were not digitized and placed online by the Stanford Library, which now holds the originals. Stanford claims to not have these missing books.
This is, to say the least, a curious gap.
John Crewdson, the legendary NYTIMES reporter, reported on the George Hunter White diaries as early as 1977 in this NYTIMES article.https://www.nytimes.com/1977/09/20/archives/abuses-in-testing-of-drugs-by-cia-to-be-panel-focus-senate-panel-to.html (https://www.nytimes.com/1977/09/20/archives/abuses-in-testing-of-drugs-by-cia-to-be-panel-focus-senate-panel-to.html) The memorable quote from his piece:
“He paid his rent,” Mr. Milonas said, adding that he could shed no light on an entry in Mr. White's diary for Oct. 19, 1961 that refers to an afternoon meeting at the Planation Inn of the “civil liberties and rubber hose society.”
They were very hard to get access to at that time. Crewdson has no recollection of whether the missing books were in the collection when he looked at them. Several researchers like Hank Albarelli and Doug Valentine looked at the books in either the 70's or 80's, but I have not seen references to GHW daybooks from the missing years in their writings.
The story of the daybooks is that they were passed along after his death to a local community college. From there they went to another library and finally ended up at Stanford.
Were the key books never given (along with all the others) to the community college by White's wife? Or did they disappear some time after that?
Thanks! DAN MCGUIRE
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This would probably be a good question to post at the Ed Forum. Linda O'Hara of Santa Fe, who posts there as "Leslie Sharp" (and is much older than her photo would suggest), was a close associate of Albarelli and has mentioned George Hunter White in several of her posts. Whatever I may think of her ideas, she does seem to be a fount of arcane knowledge about the stuff she's interested in. If anyone would have an answer to your question, she would be a good bet.
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I also noted that Ed Berger at the Ed Forum dialogued with Leslie Sharp on this and specifically referenced the Stanford archive, so he might be another source. For those - like me - who have no clue about any of this, the link to the Stanford archive is below. What Dan is calling daybooks are listed as "daily appointment books." And that's all I have to say about that.
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/static/ark:/13030/tf6k40059b
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Thanks for the info.