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Scope and Contents

The Papers of Fred Stover document Stover's long career as an outspoken liberal farm and peace activist. Most of the materials in the collection consist of Stover's long train of correspondence, to and from fellow farmers, union members, and (especially in later years) political and social leftists. One box of the correspondence consists of a selection of letters and articles written to Stover in his capacity as editor of U.S. Farm News.

Various speeches and addresses made by Stover are also included in the collection. Series II of the collection deals with the various organizations with which Stover was involved over the years: the Iowa Farmers Union (both during and after its connection with the National Farmers Union), the parallel farm organizations Iowa Farmers Association and U.S. Farmers Association, and the Progressive Party (of which Stover was an important and visible figure during its formative years in the late 1940s).

Many of Stover's writings are in draft form. Stover had a tendency to dash off drafts of letters, speeches and articles on the backs of envelopes, to leave them undated or untitled, and often to leave it unclear whether the item in question was, in fact, an article, a speech, a letter, or something else altogether. These drafts have been collected here but are only arranged roughly, by date when the date can be determined.

Other materials in the collection include material relating to Stover's pre-union career with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, assorted photographs and audiovisual materials, and photocopies of documents from Stover's FBI file, which were obtained by Des Moines Register reporter Thomas Knudson in the 1980s.

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Biographical Note

We have a right to be disgusted. We have a right to be depressed and downhearted. But we do not have the right to quit. Knowing what we know, we do not have the right to quit.

                                                                                     --Fred Stover, 1976

 

Frederick William Stover was born on August 6, 1898, on a farm outside Hampton, Iowa (where he spent the majority of his life). His parents were German immigrants who left their homeland for the United States at the end of the 19th century and settled in northern Iowa on a small rented farm. He was raised in a conservative environment that emphasized the value of family and hard work, and it was in this atmosphere that Stover became committed to the farming life. His family was relatively prosperous until the post-World War I economic depression, which devastated many farm families across the nation. According to Stover, it was in this period that he began to experience an awakened political consciousness.

"Never made sense to me that the fellow who had the mortgage on our farm could collect his interest every year and that came first; next came taxes. If there was anything left for the family well and good, and if there wasn't, it was just too bad. I think this is where I got my education, where I got my strong beliefs about the evils of interest."

Stover's own farm career started in 1924, when he rented 160 acres from his father; over time, his holdings would grow into a 240 acre-property that Stover would manage and identify with for the rest of his life.

Stover was active in farm issues from an early age. He was elected township chairman of the Cerro Gordo County Fam Bureau in 1923, and served as county president from 1931-1934. During his tenure as president Stover began to believe that traditional farmer's cooperatives had only limited effectiveness in overcoming the constant problem of insufficient income for famers, and that federal intervention was necessary to solve the farmers' plight and establish a system of economic fairness. This belief led naturally to Stover's lifelong commitment to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's activist federal policies and the programs of the New Deal.

In late 1933 Stover's work with the Farm Bureau brought him to the attention of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's new Agricultural Adjustment Administration, which hired him as an administrator for the federal Corn-Hog Program in Iowa.

"We put everything we had into organizing that corn-hog program and those early meetings. When the elected township and county chairmen called a meeting, nearly all farmers came. It was like getting a rebirth of democracy in every township in the land. It was a wonderful thing. And the farmships supported the program."

Stover worked for the AAA until 1939, in Iowa and also for a time in both Michigan and Pennsylvania. In 1939 he was called to Washington, D.C. to assist the USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation with developing and refining its program of grain storage (the so-called "Ever-Normal Granary") as part of the overall agricultural loan process. Stover was appointed in 1942 to supervise the USDA War Boards (bodies set up in each county and state early in 1942, that were comprised of USDA officials and empowered to supervise agricultural activities) in the 10 states in the North Central region of the United States. He resigned in 1943, and returned to Hampton where he managed the war hemp industries plant there.

During his tenure with the War Boards, Stover became interested in the work of the Iowa Farmers Union, a progressive farmers interest organization that was the state branch of the National Farmers Union. One of the reasons for his resignation from the USDA was so that he could return to Iowa and help build up the union there. Although the IFU drew in members from across the political spectrum (including, as Stover put it, "all kinds of right wing dangerous elements" including Milo Reno, who Stover described as a "race-hater, a Red-baiter"), Stover saw a powerful progressive element in the organization that he wanted to support in order to promote "the liberal fight for agriculture." In 1944 he was elected Vice-President of the IFU, and in 1945 succeeded anti-New Dealer O.B. Weber as the union's President.

"They [the members of the IFU] must choose whether the progressive and comprehensive program of the National Farmers Union and its cooperative programs and dynamic leaders are to receive our effective support as a peoples' movement, or whether individuals and interests hostile to our program are to be permitted to wield a frightening and dictatorial influence...whether we are to appeal to the many thousands of liberal thinking farmers in Iowa, and make definite plans to invite them into our organization and start a strong independent and progressive farm movement in Iowa, or whether we are to appeal to the reactionary type of farmer..."

                                                                                                      -Fred Stover, March 1, 1945

Stover's tenure at the IFU was stormy and controversial. Stover was an outspoken pro-FDR liberal who originally shared these beliefs and had a positive working relationship with National Farmers Union President James G. Patton. The two both supported the United Nations and a movement towards peace, and opposed a militaristic foreign policy and the increasing international arms race. They both fought to end the disparity of income between farm and industrial economies and to preserve commodity price parity. However, things changed in 1948, with the presidential candidacy of former Secretary of Agriculture and Vice-President Henry A. Wallace. Stover actively supported Wallace and aligned himself politically with the Progressive Party's campaign and platform. (Indeed, Stover was the man who actually put Wallace's name into nomination for President at the Progressive Party's 1948 convention.) This conflicted with Patton's own perception of the Farmers Union as a nonpartisan organization that did not endorse specific candidates. Patton's insistence on a nonpartisan stance angered Stover, who believed Patton and the NFU were, in fact, behaving in a partisan manner against Wallace and against a firm progressive stand. He vowed that he would "not become either a conservative or a luke warm sterile and frightened liberal just to accomodate a few people who have yet to demonstrate that they can and will build the Farmers Union." As Stover led the IFU towards an intensely progressive vision, he came into continued conflict with the liberal, yet more mainstream NFU.

1950 was a crisis year for Stover and the IFU. The Korean War broke out in June of that year, and Patton made the decision to end the NFU's ongoing criticism of an aggressive American foreign policy in order to ensure his organization's continued political influence. In this, the NFU was following the lead of many other liberal organizations that in the early years of the Cold War wanted to deflect charges of being Communist or sympathizing with Communism. The phenomenon of Red-baiting finally touched the NFU and Stover in September 1950, when right-wing Republican Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire publicly charged that Communists had infiltrated and were taking over the NFU. He specifically mentioned that "the president of the organization [the IFU] is F.W. Stover. He has been and still is, so far as I know, one of the leaders of the Communist-dominated Progressive Party." Stover publicly and vehemently denied the charges, stating that "the Iowa Farmers Union is following its own line." Bridges' claims, together with the NFU's new political direction and support of American forces in Korea, created an atmosphere of hostility to Stover.

Stover did not help to calm matters. He gave speeches and wrote articles (most notably his 1950 NFU convention speech "Atomic Blessing or Atomic Blasting?") decrying American militarism, claiming that the U.S. was battling in Korea for economic gain rather than to promote democracy and ignoring worldwide calls for peace, and charging that increased military spending was hurting the American economy, especially the agricultural sector. Therefore it became clear that, between Patton's pro-Truman, pro-government stance and Stover's strong belief that to support the war and military spending was to hurt the American farmer and that America's foreign and domestic policies could not be separated, something had to give.

From 1951-1954 the NFU struggled with Stover over the future of his leadership of the IFU. The national organization worked secretly to oust Stover from his position. As the Korean War dragged on and Patton's battle with Stover continued, the NFU continued to compromise its earlier political positions by supporting a pro-American role in world affairs, opposing the growth of new farmers' cooperatives and government aid to farmers, and, generally falling into line with the new, more conservative politics of the Cold War. Finally in 1954 the NFU succeeded in revoking the charter of the Iowa Farmers Union (via an underhanded tactic of restructuring membership requirements in order to ensure that the IFU could not meet the minimum).  Stover continued, undaunted, to lead the IFU as an independent farmers' group.

He faced renewed controversy in early 1954, after former Communist Helen Wood Birnie charged on the February 21 edition of the NBC radio show "Last Man Out" that Stover was a Communist involved with inflitrating American agriculture. Stover denied the allegations, asked the FCC to investigate the program, and sued the broadcasting station, WHO-FM, for libel. He lost the suit, despite the strong lack of any real evidence identifying Stover as a Communist. It was also around this time that Stover began coming under the scrutiny and surveillance of the FBI, an investigation that would stretch for decades and end with no concrete results whatsoever.

In 1955 the NFU sued Stover to stop him from using the name "Iowa Farmers Union"or its insiginia. He was unsuccessful in fighting the suit and his old IFU, comprised of members who supported his progressive stance and followed him away from the NFU after his explusion, evolved into two parallel organizations - the Iowa Farmers Association and the U.S. Farmers Association. The latter, Stover's flagship group, adopted the slogan "Peace and Parity" (later "Peace, Parity, and Power to the People"), which reflected Stover's conviction that America's domestic economy and policies and its foreign policies were two sides of the same coin in which one impacted the other.

"Foreign policy [is] just domestic policy away from home."  

                                                               - Fred Stover (1965)

Stover's last forty post-Farmers Union years were spent promoting the causes of peace, progressivism, and anti-militarism for which he had fought all his life. He never achieved (or, indeed, desired) a position of political influence, although he did receive one vote for nomination as President at the 1976 Democratic National Convention. In the pages of his publication U.S. Farm News he vocally opposed the Vietnam War and other instances of American military intervention, continued to promote parity of agricultural income, and decried what he saw as the inherent immorality and unfairness of the American capitalist economy. A powerfully vocal advocate for the American farmer, Fred Stover died of a stroke in Hampton, Iowa, on July 12, 1990.

 

(The first 4 italicized quotes in this note are taken from Marc Gellar's May 4, 1975 seminar paper "Fred Stover and the Farmers Union in Cold War America"  - available in the Papers of Fred Stover administrative file. The last is quoted from Bruce E. Field, Harvest of Dissent: The National Farmers Union and the Early Cold War (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1998). )

Historical Note

The development of the various farm organizations with which Stover was involved can seem complicated at times.

In 1917 the state of Iowa chartered a branch - the Iowa Division - of the Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union (aka the National Farmers Union). The NFU was founded in 1902 as a populist grassroots agricultural movement, devoted to giving smaller farmers a political and economic voice. It was a progressive, consistently left-of-center group, albeit with conservative pockets. Throughout the 1930s and into the 1940s the NFU was a firm supporter of New Deal programs and other progressive legislation designed to provide farmers with economic opportunities such as price parity. It strove to protect small farms from increased corporate farm expansion.

The FECU - Iowa Division (aka the Iowa Farmers Union) - under the leadership of Fred Stover broke with the national organization in the early 1950s over tensions produced by the Cold War. The increasingly conservative, pro-government stance of the NFU under President James G. Patton was strenuously opposed by Stover and his defiantly progressive, New Dealer, anti-Korean War IFU. In 1952 Stover broke away from the NFU and incorporated a new, leftist agricultural movement, later called the Iowa Union Farmer Association. In February 1960 this group officially changed its name to the U.S. Farmers Association.

At the same time, Stover attempted to maintain control over the original IFU. In March 1954 the national organization revoked the IFU's charter, and Stover struggled with the NFU over rights to the organization and its name. He claimed that as a corporation chartered by the state of Iowa, the NFU had no authority to dissolve the Iowa Farmers Union. A court case was instituted by the NFU in 1955, and Stover lost the right to use the name "Iowa Farmers Union" or its original logo. In November 1955, the IFU changed its name officially to the Iowa Farmers Union. It changed again in October 1959 to become the Iowa Fraternal Union. At the group's September 1962 convention the members voted to change the name once more, to the Iowa Farmers Association. The IFA operated in tandem with the U.S. Farmers Association, sharing membership, dues, and an official journal, the U.S. Farm News.

Related Materials

PROGRESSIVE PARTY. Records of the Progressive Party, 1946-54, 30 ft.
Correspondence, speeches, reports, business records, articles, campaign materials, fact sheets, form letters, directives, telegrams, pamphlets, press releases, clippings, and other related material concerning the party and the national election of 1948. MsC160. (Finding Aid)

RENO, MILO, 1866-1936. Papers of Milo Reno, 1927-1959. 3 linear ft.
Farm leader. Correspondence, typescripts of speeches, articles, newspaper clippings, and other materials relating primarily to the activities of the National Farmers' Holiday Association and to state Farmers' Holiday associations. MsC 44. (Finding Aid)

U.S. FARM NEWS, 1974-2004. Located in Special Collections, x-Collection FOLIO HD1485.F34I6.

 

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Box Contents List

 

Series I: Correspondence

Box 1
Folder	Dates
1	1933 - 1935
2	1936 - 1941
3	1945
4	1946
5	1947
6	1948
7	March - April 1949
8	May - June 1949
9	July - August 1949
10	September - October 1949
11	November - December 1949
12	January - February 1950
13	March - April 1950
14	May - June 1950
15	July - August 1950
16	September - October 1950
17	November - December 1950
18	January - July 1951
19	August - December and undated 1951
Box 2
Folder	Dates
1	January - February 1952
2	March - April 1952
3	July  - August 1952
4	September - October 1952
5	November - December and undated 1952
6	January - February 1953
7	March - April 1953
8	May - June 1953
9	July - August 1953
10	September - October 1953
11	November - December and undated 1953
12	January - June 1954
13	July - December 1954
14	January - June 1955
15	July - December 1955
16	January - July 1956
17	August - December and undated 1956
18	January - August 1957
19	September - December and undated 1957
20	January - July 1958
21	August - December and undated 1958
22	January - July 1958
23	August - December and undated 1958
24	January - March 1959
25	April - June 1959
26	August - October 1959
27	November - December and undated 1959
28	January - February 1960
29	March - April 1960
30	May - June 1960
31	July - August 1960
32	September - October 1960
Box 3
Folder	Dates
1	November - December and undated 1960
2	January - February 1961
3	March - April 1961
4	May - June 1961
5	July - August 1961
6	September - October 1961
7	November - December and undated 1961
8	January - February 1962
9	March - April 1962
10	May - June 1962
11	July - August 1962
12	September - October 1962
13	November - December and undated 1962
14	1962 - Loyal Johnson
15	January - February 1963
16	March - April 1963
17	May - June 1963
18	July - August 1963
19	September - October 1963
20	November - December and undated 1963
21	1963 - Loyal Johnson
22	January - February 1964
Box 4
Folder	Dates
1	March - April 1964
2	May - June 1964
3	July - August 1964
4	September - October 1964
5	November - December and undated 1964
6	1964 - Loyal Johnson
7	January - February 1965
8	March - April 1965
9	May - June 1965
10	July - August 1965
11	September - October 1965
12	November - December and undated 1965
13	1965 - General Hugh Hester
14	January - June 1966
15	July - August 1966
16	September - December and undated 1966
17	1966 - General Hugh Hester
18	January - February 1967
19	March - April 1967
20	May - June 1967
21	July 1967
22	August 1967
23	September 1967
24	October 1967
25	November - December and undated 1967
26	1967 - General Hugh Hester
27	January - February 1968
28	March - April 1968
14	May - July 1968
15	August - December and undated 1968
16	January - March 1969
17	April - June 1969
Box 5
Folder	Dates
1	July - September 1969
2	October - December and undated 1969
3	January - March 1970
4	April - June 1970
5	July - December and undated 1970
6	January - February 1971
7	March - April 1971
8	May - June 1971
9	July - August 1971
10	September - October 1971
11	November - December and undated 1971
12	January - March 1972
13	April - June 1972
14	July - September 1972
15	October - December and undated 1972
16	January - February 1973
17	March - April 1973
18	May - June 1973
19	July - August 1973
20	September - October 1973
21	November - December and undated 1973
22	January - February 1974
23	March - April 1974
24	May - June 1974
25	July - August 1974
26	September - October 1974
27	November - December and undated 1974
28	January - March 1975
29	April - July 1975
30	August - December and undated 1975
Box 6
Folder	Dates
1	January - February 1976
2	March - April 1976
3	May - June 1976
4	July - August 1976
5	September - October 1976
6	November - December and undated 1976
7	January - March 1977
8	April - July 1977
9	August - October 1977
10	November - December and undated 1977
11	January - March 1978
12	April - June 1978
13	July 1978
14	August - October 1978
15	November - December and undated 1978
16	January - February 1979
17	March - June 1979
18	July - August 1979
19	September - December and undated 1979
20	1980
21	January - August 1981
22	September - December and undated 1981
23	January - February 1982
24	March 1982
25	April - July 1982
25	August - November 1982
26	December and undated 1982
Box 7
Folder	Dates
1	January - April 1983
2	May - August 1983
3	September - December and undated 1983
4	January -April 1984
5	May - August 1984
6	September - December and undated 1984
7	1985
8	1986
9	February - October and undated 1987
10	1988
20	January 1989 - February 1990 and undated
21	Undated, A - C
22	Undated, D - H
23	Undated, J - N
24	Undated, O - S
25	Undated, Fred Stover - mostly drafts of letters
26	Undated, T - Z
27	Undated, No last name
Box 8	Copies of Letters and Articles to Stover Intended for Publication in U.S. Farm News
Folder	Dates
1	1957
2	1958
3	1959
4	1959 - Letters not to or from Stover
5	1960
6	1961
7	1962
8	1962 - C.C. Wilson
9	1963
10	1964
11	1964 - General Hugh Hester
12	1965
13	1966
14	1967
15	1968
16	1969
17	1970
18	1971
19	1972
20	1973
21	1974
22	1975
23	1976
24	1977
25	1978
26	1981
27	1982
28	1983
29	1984
30	1985
31	1986
32	1987
33	1988
34	1989
Series II: Assorted Other Writings
Box 1
Folder
1	Articles (Drafts, 1948, 1954 - 1989) - most dates estimated
2 - 4	Articles (Drafts, n.d.)
5	Articles (Pamphlet Material, n.d.)
Box 2
1	Assorted Pieces and Fragments of Writings (Drafts, dates various)
2	Radio Broadcasts (1937, 1948, 1951, 1953, 1955, n.d.)
3 - 4	Speeches (1948 - 1972, 1976)
5	Speeches and Addresses (Drafts and Notes, 1952, 1966 - 1967, 1973, n.d.)
Series III: Organizations
Box 1
Folder
	Farmers Union Cooperative Seed Service
1	Financial Reports (1949, 1956 - 1957)
2	Materials (1946? - 1948, 1958, 1967 or 1968)
	Farmers Union Livestock Commission (Omaha, NE)
3	Correspondence (1948 - 1950, 1952)
4	Statements of Business (1948 - 1950)
	Farmers Union Livestock Commission (Redwood Falls, MN)
5	Court case of FULC vs. Iowa Farmers Union (Documents, 1946, 1948, 1955, 1959 - 1961)
	Farmers Union Livestock Commission (Sioux City, IA)
6	Correspondence (1949 - 1954)
7	Meeting Minutes (194, 1955, 1974, 1976 - 1978)
8	Miscellaneous (1949, 1954, 1961, n.d.)
9	Reconciliations of Commissions (1947 - 1951)
10	Statements of Business (1948 - 1950, 1962)
	Iowa Farmers Association
11	Convention Reports (1964, 1976, 1979)
12	Correspondence (1961 - 1964, n.d.)
13	Correspondence with Directors (1961 - 1967, 1972, n.d.)
14	Incorporation Documents (1959, 1962)
15	Miscellaneous (1958 - 1968, 1973 - 1975, n.d.)
16	Receipts and Expenditures (1961 - 1982, 1987 - 1988)
17	Receipts Books (1960 - 1965)
	Iowa Farmers Union
18	Birnie/Central Broadcasting Company Lawsuit (1954 - 1956, 1959, n.d.)
19	Board of Directors Meeting Minutes (1952 - 1953)
20	Convention Materials and Reports (1947, 1950, 1954 - 1958)
21	Correspondence (1953 - 1955, 1957 - 1959, n.d.)
22	Correspondence with Directors and Officers (1949, 1954 - 1960)
23	Incorporation Materials (1917, 1952, 1955)
24	Membership/Mailing Lists (1949, 1952 - 1953, 1956, n.d.)
25	Miscellaneous (1947, 1951 - 1958, n.d.)
26	News Releases (1949 - 1950, 1952 - 1953, n.d.)
27	Pins (1933, 1962)
28	Publications and Reprints (1950 - 1954, n.d.)
29	Relations with the National Farmers Union (1950 - 1951, 1954, 1956, 1958, n.d.)
30	Resolutions (1955 - 1956, n.d.)
31	Statements by Fred Stover (1947, n.d.)
32	Trial Transcript - Suit to Retain Stover as President of IFU (1951)
Oversize Folder 1	Iowa Farmers Union: Journal of Receipts and Expenditures (1947 - 1952)
Oversize Folder 2	Iowa Farmers Union: Journal of Receipts and Expenditures (1953 - 1954)
Oversize Folder 3	Iowa Farmers Association/U.S. Farmers Association: Journal of Receipts and Expenditures (1964 - 1966)
	Progressive Party
32	Hallinan 1952 Campaign - Materials(1952)
33	National Committee Meeting Minutes (1951 - 1952)
34	Miscellaneous (1948 - 1954)
35	Newsletters (1951, 1953)
36	Reports (1951 - 1953?)
37	Resolutions (1950 - 1952)
38	Wallace 1948 Campaign - Addresses by Stover and Others (1948)
39	Wallace 1948 Campaign - Miscellaneous (1948)
40	Wallace 1948 Campaign - Publications (1948)
	U.S. Farmers Association
41	Activities with Other Farm Groups (1980 - 1983, n.d.)
42	Announcements (1961, 1985, n.d.)
43	Articles of Incorporation (1952, 1983)
44	Board Meeting Minutes (1959 - 1966, 1974 - 1975, 1979)
45	Convention Reports and Speeches (1957, 1960 - 1983, 1988, n.d.)
Box 2
Folder
	U.S. Farmers Association
1 - 2	Mailing Lists (1965 - 1967, 1977, n.d.)
3	Miscellaneous (1960?, 1961, 1963?, 1968 - 1987, n.d.)
4	News Releases (1961, 1976, 1981 - 1982, n.d.)
5	President's Reports (1960, 1967 - 1968, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1984, 1989, n.d.)
6	Publications and Reprints (dates various)
7	Resolutions (1960 - 1987?, n.d.)
8	Receipts and Expenditures (1958 - 1984)
Box 3
Folder
1 - 3	Receipts Books(1960 - 1982)
4	Stover For President Campaign (1976)
5	Stover Membership Card (1971)
19	Board of Directors Meeting Minutes (1952 - 1953)
20	Correspondence (1953 - 1955, 1957 - 1959, n.d.)
Series IV: Miscellaneous Materials
Box 1
Folder
1	Anti-Stover Signs (n.d.)
2	Datebook (1956)
3	Miscellany (1938, 1955, 1978, n.d.)
4	"My Ideal Girl" Essay (1921)
5	Personal Finances - Documentation (1933 - 1934, 1940)
6	Photographs (1946, 1977, n.d.)
7	Pre-IFU Activities: Iowa Farm Bureau Federation - Committee Report (1938)
8	Pre-IFU Activities: U.S. Department of Agriculture - Documentation (1933 - 1934, 1936 - 1937, 1942, n.d.)
9	Pre-IFU Activities: U.S. Department of Agriculture - Notebooks (1934, 1937, n.d.)
Box 2
1	Pre-IFU Activities: U.S. Department of Agriculture - Stover's Reference Book (1938-1939)
Box 3
1 - 4	Stover FBI File (Photocopy)
5	Knudson Correspondence (1982 - 1984)
Oversize Folder 1	Photograph -Progressive Party Convention, Philadelphia, PA (July 1948)
Oversize Photograph (Framed)	Photograph - Group Photo, Iowa Farmers Union 23rd Annual Convention, Des Moines, IA, September 1939
Series V: Audiovisual Materials
Box 1
	Items
	15mm film: "Peace Will Win" (2 copies) 15mm film: "The Road to Peace" (2 copies) 15mm film: "When We Grow up" 15mm film: "Vidensky kongres" (English version of Russian film?) 5-inch sound reel: Radio KFH broadcast of 9/14/1968 by Donald Woods 5-inch sound reel: Anti-Vietnam War speech by Fred Stover (1967) 5-inch sound reel: Unidentified 7-inch sound reel: Interview with Fred Stover in Des Moines (2/12 - 2/13/1969) - Reel 2