Henry Eichel Papers
The Henry Eichel Papers consist of four linear feet split into three series: Persons, Topics, and Photographs.
The Persons and Topics series consist of newspaper clippings and notes from stories Eichel planned on writing.
The Photographs series consists of mainly headshots of many South Carolinians in the news in the 1970s. Many of the photos have percentages written on the back as indicators of how they should appear in a newspaper, and some have been cut out from their original print shape.
Of particular interest is the folder "Movie Stars" which contains photographs from television shows and movies provided by networks and studios in order to write advertisements or reviews of the films and television shows. Photographs include Al Pacino, Clint Eastwood, Mia Farrow, Jack Nicholson, Roman Polanski, Richard Pryor, Robert Redford, Burt Reynolds, Gene Wilder, and others. Shows or movies include "The Carol Burnett Show," "Hawaii Five-O," "Serpico," "The Great Gatsby," and "The Exorcist" among others.
Dates
- 1958 - 2003
Use Guidelines
Library use only.
Copyright
Copyright of the Henry Eichel Papers has been transferred to the University of South Carolina. However, this collection contains numerous newspaper clippings. Researchers should contact the publisher of the newspaper clippings for further information on copyright.
Extent
4 boxes
Biographical Note
A Camden native, Henry Eichel spent 42 years – his entire career – devoted to informing the public through the news.
Eichel graduated from Camden High School in 1962. A lover of the news, Eichel attended the University of South Carolina for journalism and was involved in the Young Democrats, the Press Club, and the Clariosophic Literary Society. After graduating, he joined the Navy and served in South Vietnam first aboard a landing craft on the Hương Giang and Cua Viet Rivers and then as a combat correspondent.
In 1969, after leaving the Navy, Eichel worked for the Buffalo Evening News in Buffalo, New York, for almost a year before he found his permanent home: the Charlotte Observer. Here he would stay, first as a reporter from November 1969 to July 1975, and then as the Columbia Bureau Chief from July 1975 until his retirement in September 2006.
Not one to be away from the news for long, Eichel was the editor for Gamecocks Illustrated, a semi-monthly magazine for coverage of Gamecocks football, basketball, and baseball, from November 2006 until it ceased publication in December 2009.
Physical Location
South Carolina Political Collections, Ernest F. Hollings Special Collections Library, University of South Carolina. 1322 Greene St., Columbia, SC 29208
Donated by
Donated by Henry Eichel.
Processing Information
Processed in 2022 by Ann Abney
- Abscam Bribery Scandal, 1980
- Bass, Jack (1934)
- Beasley, David M.
- Campbell, Carroll A., 1940-2005
- Charlotte Observer
- Columbia (S.C.)
- Dent, Harry S. (Harry Shuler), 1930-2007
- Derrick, Butler Carson, Jr., 1936-2014
- Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
- Eastwood, Clint, 1930-
- Edens, J. Drake (James Drake), 1925-1982
- Farrow, Mia, 1945-
- Finney, Ernest A., Jr. (Ernest Adolphus), 1931-2017
- Fowler, Donald L. (Donald Lionel), 1935-2020
- Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris), 1909-1998
- Gressette, L. Marion (Lawrence Marion)
- Hodges, Jim, 1956-
- Hollings, Ernest F. (Ernest Frederick), 1922-2019
- Inglis, Bob, 1959-
- Jenrette, John W.
- Journalists -- United States.
- Lourie, Isadore E.
- McNair, Robert E. (Robert Evander), 1923-2007
- Mims, William Walton, 1911-2007
- Nicholson, Jack, 1937-
- Orangeburg Massacre, Orangeburg, S.C., 1968.
- Pacino, Al, 1940-
- Perry, Matthew J. (Matthew James), 1921-2011
- Photographs.
- Polanski, Roman, 1933-
- Pryor, Richard, 1940-2005
- Ravenel, Charles Dufort, 1938-
- Redford, Robert (Charles Robert), 1937-
- Reynolds, Burt, 1936-2018
- Riley, Richard W. (Richard Wilson)
- South Carolina. Department of Health and Environmental Control
- Thurmond, Nancy Moore
- Thurmond, Strom, 1902-2003
- Turnipseed, Tom (George Thomas Turnipseed), 1936-2020
- University of South Carolina
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- Voting.
- Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919-1998
- Watson, Albert
- Westmoreland, William C. (William Childs), 1914-2005
- Wilder, Gene, 1933-2016
- Young, Ed (Edward Lunn Young), 1920-2017
- Zeigler, Eugene N.
Source
- Eichel, Henry, 1944- (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the South Carolina Political Collections Repository
Ernest F. Hollings Special Collections Library
1322 Greene St.
University of South Carolina
Columbia SC 29208 USA
803-777-0577
scpc@mailbox.sc.edu
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin