Nina Gilden Seavey FOIA Documents Collection
Over 150,000 pages of FBI and other federal agency documents concerning the lead-up and aftermath of the burning of an Air Force ROTC building on the Washington University campus on May 4, 1970.
All materials in the collection are digital.
An index of FBI classification numbers in the collection is available, see: FBI File Numbers St. Louis
Dates
- Creation: 1950-2019
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1965-1975
Creator
- Seavey, Nina Gilden (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Please request digital access by contacting the Department of Special Collections, spec@wumail.wustl.edu
Conditions Governing Use
Users of the collection must read and agree to abide by the rules and procedures set forth in the Materials Use Policies.
Providing access to materials does not constitute permission to publish or otherwise authorize use. All publication not covered by fair use or other exceptions is restricted to those who have permission of the copyright holder, which may or may not be Washington University.
If you wish to publish or license Special Collections materials, please contact Special Collections to inquire about copyright status at (314) 935-5495 or spec@wumail.wustl.edu. (Publish means quotation in whole or in part in seminar or term papers, theses or dissertations, journal articles, monographs, books, digital forms, photographs, images, dramatic presentations, transcriptions, or any other form prepared for a limited or general public.)
Extent
38 Gigabytes (4435 digital files)
Historical Information
Most materials in the collection were obtained by Nina Gilden Seavey via Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed in 2015. These documents, along with additional research and publicly available documents, were utilized by Seavey to create the documentary podcast series “My Fugitive” (Pineapple Street Studios, 2021) and to publish “Surveillance and Subversion of Student Activists, 1967-1970: Standoff in St. Louis,” a chapter in Left in the Midwest: St. Louis Progressive Activism in the 1960s and 1970s (University of Missouri Press, December 2022).
Arrangement
My Fugitive FOIA Documents Collection is divided into six series:
Series 01: FOIA files from FBI and NARA
Series 02: FOIA Files - My Fugitive Research Copy
Series 03: Timelines
Series 04: Research and Files on LaParade
Series 05: FBI Oral Histories
Series 06: Research and Files on Confidential Informants
This structure followes how folders/sub-folders were digitally arranged by the donor prior to transfer to the archives.
See additional descriptions at the series level for further details.
Source of Acquisition
Accession number LH2023-006. Gift of Nina Gilden Seavey, November 2022.
Digital Access
While the entirety of this collection is in digital format, it is not presently availble online due to technical constraints.
Please request digital access by contacting the Department of Special Collections, spec@wumail.wustl.eduAfter contacting the department an access link to browse, download, and search the files will be provided.
Processing Information
Finding aid created by Sarah Schnuriger, January 2023. Descriptions by Robert Manley and Miranda Rectenwald, February 2023.
Creator
- Seavey, Nina Gilden (Person)
- Title
- Nina Gilden Seavey FOIA Documents Collection
- Status
- completed
- Date
- January 2023
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- eng
Collecting Area Details
Part of the Local History Collecting Area
Miranda Rectenwald
Olin Library, 1 Brookings Drive
MSC 1061-141-B
St. Louis MO 63130 US
(314) 935-5495
spec@wumail.wustl.edu