Reminiscences of Mary Bancroft, 1979-1980
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- Name
- Bancroft, Mary (Interviewee)
- Jessup, Frederick Peterson, 1920-2005 (Interviewer)
- Title
- Reminiscences of Mary Bancroft, 1979-1980
- Abstract
- Bancroft, Mary (1903-1997). Childhood: Cambridge, MA; education: Smith College; C.W. Barron, mentor and friend; marriages to Sherwin Badger, Jean Rufenacht; Les Geneveys-sur-Coffrane, Switzerland, 1935-1937: local lore, Swiss sensibility; influence of memoirs by Madame de Charriere and Madame de Staël; journalist and free-lance writer, Zurich, 1938-1953; World War II, anticipation and onset of; Ca rl Jung: consulted for sneezing attacks, friendship and correspondence with; U.S. Office of Strategic Services, Intelligence Analyst, 1941-1945; Allen Dulles, espionage work and romance with; July 20, 1944 conspiracy to kill Adolf Hitler: spy work with Dr. Hans Bernd Gisevius; Nuremberg, experience at witness house for defendants; encounters with famous personages: Heinrich Hoffman, Bill Donovan, Indira Gandhi, Wilhelm Furtwängler, James and Nora Joyce, Eleanor Roosevelt, Adlai Stevenson, John F. and Robert Kennedy, Ed Koch, daughter Mary Jane's wedding to Horace Taft; society clubs of New York City; work as Democrat: campaign for state assembly, 1960; appearance in Woody Allen film "Interiors"; review of Norman Mailer's book "The Executioner's Song"; meditations on celebrity
- Collection Name
- Individual interviews oral history collection
- Subjects
- Spies; Espionage, American--20th century.--Europe, Western; Fame; World War, 1939-1945; United States Politics and government 20th century; Switzerland National characteristics; Bancroft, Mary; Rufenacht, J. G. (Jean Godefroy); Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961; Dulles, Allen, 1893-1969; Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 Assassination attempts; Gisevius, Hans Bernd, 1904-1974
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1979-1980
- Physical Description
- 385 pages
- Note (Biographical)
- Spies, United States
- Note
- Interviewed by: Peter Jessup on June 29, 1979, July 16, 1979, an unrecorded date for the third session, September 27, 1979, November 19, 1979, November 20, 1979, January 10, 1980, April 22, 1980, and December 4, 1980 in New York, New York
- Note (Provenance)
- Mary Bancroft, Gift
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 13911145
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Time-Based Media
- Time-Based Media
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-5q00-tp62
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.