Correspondence, 1923-1981

This series includes correspondence of Col. Kirby with business associates, the War Department and Hollywood celebrities. Correspondents include: Sol Taishoff, Richard M. Nixon, William Hedges, Abel Green, Niles Trammell, William S. Paley, and Washington columnist Betty Beale. It also includes copies of letters he wrote to Bing Crosby, Edgar Bergen, Bob Hope, Dinah Shore, and Jack Benny. One folder contains correspondence between Mrs. Kirby and Sol Taishoff, from the years after Col. Kirby’s death. Another folder contains invitations from the Radio Correspondents Association and the Radio Pioneers Club and Christmas cards to Mrs. Kirby from Al Sager, a member of the CBS broadcasting team.

This series also documents Col. Kirby's efforts to produce a live television program called Backstage Washington featuring Betty Beale, a Washington newspaper columnist. This show would broadcast live before a studio audience and "show the human interest side of the men and women at work and play in the Nation's Capital". Materials include correspondence, a sample treatment of subject matter and personality, and reports.