O'Gara, John E. Papers

Vice President, R. H. Macy and Co., 1936-1949; Colonel, U.S. Army, 1943-1944; Official, U.S. State Department and Central Intelligence Agency, 1949-1961

The John E. O’Gara papers include correspondence, handwritten notes, applications, newspaper articles, photographs and other documents related to his service in the military, and to his work in the private sector and for the U. S. government.

Size: Less than one-half of one linear foot (about 300 pages).
Access: Open.
Copyright: The donor gave to the United States of America all literary property rights in all writings of the late John E. O’Gara in this collection and in other collections of papers deposited in the Harry S. Truman Library.
Processed by: Philip D. Lagerquist (1973)
Updated by: Joel Burzinski (2010) as part of the Truman Library Internship Program.
Supervising Archivists: Randy Sowell and David Clark.

The papers of John E. O’Gara date from 1894 to 1973, but mostly focus on the time span from 1942 to 1961. The papers include correspondence, photographs, handwritten notes, newspaper articles, memoranda, applications, and other documents.

The O’Gara Papers are organized in a Subject File and focus on his military career, his transition from the private to the public sector, and his work in the Central Intelligence Agency.