Reubin O'Donovan Askew papers

Collection — Container: Single Folder Collections - 2000 Box 18 (00.0506-00.0534), Folder: 00.0520 - Folder 1

Identifier: 00.0520

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This collection centers around one Florida State Guard soldier, and an American soldier stationed at the Technical School and Basic Training Center for the Air Force in Gulfport Field, Mississippi. The collection includes a child's drawing, two letters written to the soldier's mother outlining Air Force training and daily life, a newspaper clipping written about the Florida State Guard drills, a letter about D-Day, and photographs of a B-26 Marauder, an American flight crew, an American and Russian soldier, and Yontan Airfield in Okinawa, and their corresponding modern negatives.

Dates

Created: 1943-1946
Other: Date acquired: 09/28/2001

Creator

Askew, Reubin O'D., 1928-2014 (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open to all researchers.

Conditions Governing Use

All requests for permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Dean for Special Collections & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Biographical or Historical Information

Reubin Askew was born in Oklahoma on September 11, 1928. He joined the Florida State Guard in 1944, lying about his age of 15 to enlist. He later attended Florida State University, earning a degree in Public Administration in 1951, and then served in the U.S. Air Force until 1953. He served as the Governor of Florida from 1970-1979.