John Kneubuhl papers

Fonds — Box: 1-2

Identifier: MANUSCRIPT-P00063

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The "Samoan History" series are recordings of an audio series created by John Kneuhuhl in both English and Samoan about the history of Samoa. The "Interviews and lectures, John Kneubuhl" series contains audio and video of lectures by John Kneubuhl, and of him being interviewed by various people. The "Interviews, Dotsy Kneubuhl" series are of interviews conducted with John Kneubuhl's wife, Dotsy.

Dates

Creation: Majority of material found in 1980

Language of Materials

These materials are in English, Samoan, or English and Samoan.

Conditions Governing Access

These papers are open to access for reseach.

Biographical / Historical

The son of a Samoan mother and an American father, Kneubuhl was born and raised in Samoa, attended school in Honolulu, and studied under Thorton Wilder at Yale. Returning to Hawaii in the mid 1940s, he won acclaim as a playwright with the Honolulu Community Theater, but then moved to Hollywood for a long successful career as a writer for television. Have Gun Will Travel, Wild Wild West, Startrek, and Hawaii 5-0 were among the many series he contributed to. After twenty years, Kneubuhl was back in Samoa, lecturing on Polynesian history and culture and gardening and writing plays. Kneubuhl died in 1992.

Extent

.5 Linear Feet

Additional Description

Immediate Source of Acquisition

These papers were donated to the Library by Victoria N. Kneubuhl in 2016.

Processing Information

The compact discs were reformatted from audio cassette; the discs labeled tape #1-tape #44 (original tape #29-30 and original tape #41-42 not reformatted because they are duplicates of original tape #27-28 and original tape #39-40); the streaming video was reformatted from video cassette.