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1959
Freedom of Information Center Dedicated
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The Freedom of Information Center was established as part of the School's 50th anniversary celebration. The result of a March 1958 meeting attended by 18 leaders of news and professional organizations, the FOIC was designed to support open access to government records. It eventually spawned an academic discipline based on examining controls of information affecting citizens of democracy. Today, with more than one million individual articles, these files are used by researchers all over the world.
(Top) At the dedication, Dean Earl English, left, and FOIC Director Paul Fisher, center, accepted Walter Williams' Bible from son Edwin Moss Williams and Grit publisher George Lamade, BJ '16, right. English greeted guests at the dedication (center), and Fisher accepted trial footage from Judge Sam Blair (bottom, left). Professor William H. Taft frequently used the FOIC reference and research library (bottom, right).
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