Saturday Evening Post issue and photograph, 1958, 1970s

File — Box: GTM Shared Box 19 (Oversized), Folder: 5

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

Collection of materials related to author William Peter Blatty, including photographs (from his time as a student at Georgetown University and during the filming of the Exorcist on campus), clippings from The Hoya, and a letter written by Emory A. Ross, SJ, regarding Blatty and other Georgetown University students kidnapping the mascot of Villanova University in 1947. It also includes one issue of the Saturday Evening Post (March 29, 1958) featuring an article by William Peter Blatty titled "They Believed I Was an Arab Prince."

Dates

1958, 1970s

Conditions Governing Access

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