Manuscript/Mixed Material Rumor Control Project Documents - various editions, World War II rumor project collection
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Image 1 of Rumor Control Project Documents - various editions, World War II rumor project collection Better combine our confidential memo the long 10 page RUMORCONTROL PROJECTS release then speaker suggestions The analysis of wartime rumors and the creation of agencies intended to combat rumors requires the most…- Date: 1942
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Image 2 of Rumor Control Project Documents - various editions, World War II rumor project collection 2 magazine and newspaper editors At the present time some of the best rumor columns represent public service by newspapers nevertheless the rumor column must be coordinated with the total program of…- Date: 1942
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Image 3 of Rumor Control Project Documents - various editions, World War II rumor project collection 3 The Analysis Program Reporting The director of the analysis program the Research Director should be an individual trained and experienced in social science research A combination of psychology and sociology in…- Date: 1942
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Image 4 of Rumor Control Project Documents - various editions, World War II rumor project collection 4 Reporters selected for the rumor project should be reliable and intelligent They should not be chosen simply because of their expressed interest While it is probably all right sic to announce…- Date: 1942
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Image 5 of Rumor Control Project Documents - various editions, World War II rumor project collection 5 preparing a careful record of what passes As part of a counteraction program the possibilities of recruiting a rumor monger into the project in order to be in a position to…- Date: 1942
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Image 6 of Rumor Control Project Documents - various editions, World War II rumor project collection 6 the rumor word for word as it was given Wherever possible the context of the conversation should be presented so that the rumor can be interpreted more satisfactorily In addition the…- Date: 1942
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Image 7 of Rumor Control Project Documents - various editions, World War II rumor project collection 7 participate in the general campaigns undertaken to minimize the rumors current but should not feel responsible for the activities of the educational branch For some special purposes it may be to…- Date: 1942
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Image 8 of Rumor Control Project Documents - various editions, World War II rumor project collection 8 The important thing is to have rumors reported so that the Project Directors can evaluate the informational gaps in the communitys program Because this is so the collector of rumors is…- Date: 1942
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Image 9 of Rumor Control Project Documents - various editions, World War II rumor project collection 9 ceiling prices Still other rumors will be clearly nonlocal such as reference to state matters or personal or national matters and Federal personnel Local rumor projects should deal with local rumors…- Date: 1942
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Image 10 of Rumor Control Project Documents - various editions, World War II rumor project collection 10 Bureau will provide Research Directors with special information concerning the classification schemes to be used with nonlocal rumors must it would be understood that this class of rumors must not be…- Date: 1942
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Image 11 of Rumor Control Project Documents - various editions, World War II rumor project collection 11 When in spite of this general program analysis of rumors reveals information gaps special material covering the specific subjects should be publicized as soon as possible Campaigns blanketing local topics must…- Date: 1942
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Image 12 of Rumor Control Project Documents - various editions, World War II rumor project collection 12 Such direct counteraction of a few rumors must be considered only a small part of the projects program As it is a new function the problems it involves must be clearly…- Date: 1942
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Image 13 of Rumor Control Project Documents - various editions, World War II rumor project collection 13 and typography Below an effort will be made to present a series of suggestions concerning the details of operation based upon the analyses made in the Office of War Information These…- Date: 1942
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Image 14 of Rumor Control Project Documents - various editions, World War II rumor project collection 14 Items that are simply not true are difficult to counteract since in their original form they are take in the range of the plausible They might be true except that they…- Date: 1942
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Image 15 of Rumor Control Project Documents - various editions, World War II rumor project collection 15 greater confidence in rumors than before The rumor must be described as false a tremendously exaggerated and distorted picture Emphasis must be put on the errors with a minor passing gesture…- Date: 1942
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Image 16 of Rumor Control Project Documents - various editions, World War II rumor project collection 16 Rumors which are the result of otherwise concealed worries can rarely be dealt with effectively by rational exposition While it is true that what may be an expression of anxiety for…- Date: 1942
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Image 17 of Rumor Control Project Documents - various editions, World War II rumor project collection 17 science against the rumors Those people who reject modern objective approaches will continue to believe in their omens But the large number of people who are on the fence can be…- Date: 1942
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Image 18 of Rumor Control Project Documents - various editions, World War II rumor project collection 18 treated in the same way as those collected by the reporters The Project Director can at any time table for a while a program based on any group of rumors The…- Date: 1942
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Image 19 of Rumor Control Project Documents - various editions, World War II rumor project collection 19 a clearcut statement the rumor should not be directly counteracted This is necessary inasmuch as rumors since they partake of the folk tend to be short concise catchy and the sort…- Date: 1942
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Image 20 of Rumor Control Project Documents - various editions, World War II rumor project collection 20 consider any one of these rumors without considering them all is what the Axis would like to see done It would be wiser to collect a number of these similar rumors…- Date: 1942
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Image 21 of Rumor Control Project Documents - various editions, World War II rumor project collection 21 Special campaigns should not be directed against any particular rumor except in very rare cases Sometimes a particular rumor causes serious trouble in and of itself but this is so rare…- Date: 1942
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Image 22 of Rumor Control Project Documents - various editions, World War II rumor project collection 22 no point in this long quote I have seen several articles in your paper dealing on various phases of the Army mess In a great many instances the officer is undoubtedly…- Date: 1942
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Image 23 of Rumor Control Project Documents - various editions, World War II rumor project collection 23 rumors are being circulated by Axis sympathizers He takes too long to get to the actual denial At no point does he specifically state that the rumor is false even though…- Date: 1942
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Image 24 of Rumor Control Project Documents - various editions, World War II rumor project collection 24 FACTLast week it was pointed out that so much of this scrap rubber still is seen in piles because reclamation plants even though now processing scrap rubber at the rate of…- Date: 1942
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Image 25 of Rumor Control Project Documents - various editions, World War II rumor project collection 25 One wellknown rumor column started its masthead with the following Some of the most dangerous false rumors now in circulation are examined and answered by competent and official authority in the…- Date: 1942
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Image 26 of Rumor Control Project Documents - various editions, World War II rumor project collection 26 assigned to merchant ships as Army gunners to replace Navy gunners They can be identified by an emblem on their right arm an anchor and a double A They are in…- Date: 1942
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Image 27 of Rumor Control Project Documents - various editions, World War II rumor project collection 27 FACTThis is one version of probably the most widespread persistent rumor that has been peddled around town since Pearl Harbor For the past two months it has sprung up with reference…- Date: 1942
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Image 28 of Rumor Control Project Documents - various editions, World War II rumor project collection 28 too detailed The director of Selective Service denounces the rumor as an outright lie from start to finish There never has been a dispute over a religious incident he says no…- Date: 1942
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Image 29 of Rumor Control Project Documents - various editions, World War II rumor project collection 29 priest went to protest 6 Preist was insulted 7 Priest was beten up 8 FBI was called in 9 The board was closed up All of these details are not necessary…- Date: 1942
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Image 30 of Rumor Control Project Documents - various editions, World War II rumor project collection 30 give them techniques for identifying and stopping rumors relieve their general anxieties and improve their morale Rumor control projects must not lead to witchhunts Care must be taken to avoid the…- Date: 1942
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Image 31 of Rumor Control Project Documents - various editions, World War II rumor project collection 31 but to the community at large It is also obvious that for reasons of military security newspapers must refrain from making any comment about certain occurrences until long after the event…- Date: 1942
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Image 32 of Rumor Control Project Documents - various editions, World War II rumor project collection to the public The success of the project depends largely upon the skills of these people and the confidence they inspire Workers in the project should make themselves expert in the fundamentals…- Date: 1942
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Image 33 of Rumor Control Project Documents - various editions, World War II rumor project collection As has been indicated earlier rumors spring up as the function of the relation between interest and the available news In some communities particularly ports war industry towns and army camp towns…- Date: 1942
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Image 34 of Rumor Control Project Documents - various editions, World War II rumor project collection 2 be known by the people of the country The people must have confidence in their normal sources of information or else rumors will run riot For the sake of rumor control…- Date: 1942
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Image 35 of Rumor Control Project Documents - various editions, World War II rumor project collection In dealing with supernatural rumors it should be recognized that some of them may be quite harmless As has been pointed out for some members of the Community its attack on this…- Date: 1942
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Image 36 of Rumor Control Project Documents - various editions, World War II rumor project collection Roger Gaus 3220355B RUMORCOMBATTING PROJECTS The analysis of malignant wartime rumors and the creation and development of agencies calculated to combat effectively these rumors is a task requiring the most expert direction…- Date: 1942
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Image 37 of Rumor Control Project Documents - various editions, World War II rumor project collection 2 security newspapers must refrain from making any comment about certain occurrences until long after the event People should understand why it is that such information is delayed or completely withheld If…- Date: 1942
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Image 38 of Rumor Control Project Documents - various editions, World War II rumor project collection 3 The Service Club Training Center Camp State September 12 1942 Gentlemen I have seen several articles in your paper dealing on various phases of the Army mess In a great many…- Date: 1942
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Image 39 of Rumor Control Project Documents - various editions, World War II rumor project collection 4 FACTLieutenant Colonel Frederick Schoenfeld commanding officer of induction in Eastern Pennsylvania says This too is one of the oldest rumors of this war or of any other war It seems obvious…- Date: 1942
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Image 40 of Rumor Control Project Documents - various editions, World War II rumor project collection 5 New England because reclamation plants even though now processing scrap rubber at the rate of one ton every minute will be working the remainder of this year before they can utilize…- Date: 1942