- CFAL : John Joseph Fallon: Manuscripts
- CFAL 1/ Series : Correspondence 1964-1968
Most of this correspondence is from Mr. Fallon, Mr. Brennan, Mr. Greene, Mr. Thorman, and Mr. Hoyt. The material before October, 1964, discusses the establishing of the National Catholic Reporter Publishing Company, the goals of the paper, and its financial viability. Other files include letters from Bishop Helmsing, correspondence with company counsel over tax-exempt status, correspondence concerning various controversies surrounding the paper, fund-raising reports and outlines, and letters to Fallon from individual readers of the National Catholic Reporter. The material is arranged in chronological order within each year.
- CFAL 1/01 Folder : Correspondence 1964
- CFAL 1/02 Folder : Correspondence 1965
- CFAL 1/03 Folder : Correspondence 1966
- CFAL 1/04 Folder : Correspondence 1967
- CFAL 1/05 Folder : Correspondence 1968
- CFAL 2-3/ Series : Meetings and Reports 1964-1968
Most "Meeting" files contain the letters, background material, agenda, reports, and resolutions pertaining to each meeting of the Board of Directors. Reports of the publisher, the editor, and the Company Counsel are often included. The Report of Father Fichter is the survey taken in 1967 of the NCR readership. At the Board Meeting of 10-12-68 Bishop Helmsing's condemnation of the NCR was discussed and Mr. Fallon submitted his resignation as president of the National Catholic Reporter Publishing Company.
- CFAL 2/01 Folder : Minutes 1964-1966
- CFAL 2/02 Folder : Meetings 1965/0127 and 1965/0328
- CFAL 2/03 Folder : Meeting 1965/0926
- CFAL 2/04 Folder : Applications for Publisher 1965
- CFAL 2/05 Folder : Meeting 1966/0130
- CFAL 2/06 Folder : Meeting 1966/0413
- CFAL 2/07 Folder : Meeting 1966/0913
- CFAL 2/08 Folder : Meeting 1967/0124
- CFAL 2/09 Folder : Publisher's Report 1967/0124
- CFAL 2/10 Folder : Meeting 1967/0424
- CFAL 2/11 Folder : Report of Father Fichter 1967/0727
- CFAL 2/12 Folder : Meeting 1967/0921
- CFAL 2/13 Folder : Meeting 1968/0129
- CFAL 2/14 Folder : Meeting 1968/0527
- CFAL 3/01 Folder : Board Meeting 1968/1012
- CFAL 3/02 Folder : Balance Sheets
- CFAL 3/03 Folder : Financial Reports
- CFAL 3/ Series : Fact Memo Files
The Fact Memo Files contain letters, reports, promotional materials, newspaper clippings, drafts of statements, etc. concerning the National Catholic Reporter.
- CFAL 3/04 Folder : Fact Memo File, 1964 1964
- CFAL 3/05 Folder : Fact Memo File, 1965 1965
- CFAL 3/06 Folder : Fact Memo File 1966-1968
- CFAL 3/ Series : Basic Documents
The contracts are with Bailey Publications, Inc., Traders National Bank of Kansas City, and Unruh-Pummil Mailing Service, Inc.
- CFAL 3/07 Folder : Contracts
- CFAL 3/08 Folder : Articles of Association and Bylaws
- CFAL 3/09 Folder : Extra Copy File
- CFAL 4/ Series : Copies of NCR (National Catholic Reporter) and Articles on NCR
Articles about the NCR in Newsweek. Time. The Critic. The Lamp, The Catholic Journalist, The Wall Street Journal, and The National Observer - Various copies of the NCR from 1964 through 1968.
- CFAL 4/01 Folder : Articles about NCR - I
- CFAL 4/02 Folder : Articles about NCR - II
- CFAL 4/03 Folder : Individual Copies of NCR - I
- CFAL 4/04 Folder : Individual Copies of NCR - II
- CFAL 5/ Series : Miscellaneous Files
The last folder contains papers prepared and discussed in a discussion club to which John Fallon, Frank Brennan, Mike Greene, and others belonged prior to the founding of the NCR and in which the idea of a national Catholic paper was originally discussed.
- CFAL 5/01 Folder : NCR Publicity Material - I
- CFAL 5/02 Folder : NCR Stationary
- CFAL 5/03 Folder : NCR Publicity Material - II
- CFAL 5/04 Folder : Reprints about NCR
- CFAL 5/05 Folder : Personal - I
- CFAL 5/06 Folder : Personal - II
- CFAL 5/07 Folder : Personal - III
- CFAL 5/08 Folder : Discussion Club Papers