George F. Jenks papers

The George F. Jenks Papers consists of articles, columns, and book reviews written by Toledo Blade editor and reporter George F. Jenks, along with numerous family photographs and an original artwork political cartoon. The photographic materials are from Jenks’ family and include Baldwin, Jenks and Pennington family members.

The literary materials cover the editorial career of Jenks and consist of national and political news topics authored by Jenks from 1942 to 1980, while he worked as an editor in the Blade’s Washington Bureau and as the paper’s National Affairs Editor. Especially interesting is his coverage of Vice President Richard Nixon’s 1959 trip to the Soviet Union and Nikita Khrushchev’s tour of the United States. This is along with his reporting on Presidential elections from 1960 to 1972.