205th Field Press Censorship Detachment Records
Collection
Identifier: Mss-0406
The majority of the material in the 205th Field Press Censorship Detachment Records document its administrative history and activities, particularly training conducted and undertaken by the unit. There are also research papers that discuss various aspects of military press censorship, including how press censorship was implemented in the European Theater during World War II and during the Korean War. Finally, the collection contains a 1988 obituary for Ernest Theodore “Ted” Simms, Jr., a professor of horticulture at Clemson University and a former commander of the 205th.
The Records are arranged alphabetically by folder title and cover the period from 1950 to 1990, with the bulk of the collection dating from 1953 to 1976. The collection can be used for research on wartime censorship policies and on censorship training in the U.S. Army Reserves during the Cold War period.
This collection is open to the public without restriction.
The unit was constituted in the United States Army Reserve as the 205th Field Press Censorship Organization and activated at Clemson, SC in 1953. In 1960 it was reorganized and redesignated as the 205th Field Press Censorship Detachment. The detachment was reorganized and redesignated again in 1972 as the 205th Public Information Detachment (Field Press Censorship). It was inactivated in 1976 at Clemson, SC. Later, the detachment was redesignated in 1992 as the 205th Public Affairs Detachment and activated in 1995 at Garner, NC. It was inactivated at Garner in 2001 and reactivated in 2011 at Fort Sam Houston, TX.
.5 Cubic Feet
English
This collection is a useful resource for research on wartime censorship policies and training in the U.S. Army Reserves during the Cold War period.
The records contain sample examinations, lesson plans, manuals, orders, photographs, regulations, research papers, and other material that document the training and other activities of the 205th Field Press Censorship Detachment stationed in Clemson, SC and of wartime press censorship in general.
Content Warning: This collection contains visual depictions of graphic violence.
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Donated by James M. Smith in 1990. Accession 90-039.
This collection contains visual depictions of graphic violence.
The collection was processed and a finding aid created by James Cross in 2023-2024.
Part of the Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives Repository