Includes copies of newspapers dealing with the assassination of John K. Kennedy (1963), Martin Luther King (1968) and Robert F. Kennedy (1968), the death of Winston Churchill (1965), the first lunar landing (1969), the reconstruction of the Old State Capitol in Springfield (1968) and the U.S. Bicentennial (1976). Newspapers include the Illinois State Register, the Illinois State Journal-Register, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, and others.

Also includes a scrapbook from 1945 of clippings on Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, Vice-President and presidential candidate. Includes a 1945 letter from Wallace to Myers.