Jesse Helms Center

Jesse Helms Center
Established	1994
Location	Wingate, North Carolina
Director	Bill Cobey
Website	www.jessehelmscenter.org

The Jesse Helms Center, located in Wingate, North Carolina and named for its founder Jesse Helms, is a repository of Helms' papers, letters, and speeches, transcripts of his televised editorials for WRAL-TV, and campaign materials such as polling information and advertisements.^[1] The Chairman of the Jesse Helms Center is Bill Cobey.^[2]

The center was established in 1994, after Helms turned down requests for his papers to be left to an Ivy League university and left them to his home-town Wingate University instead.^[3] In 2001, the center opened a $3.3 million, two-story brick and glass headquarters.^[1]

"It's a first-rate collection," said William A. Link, chairman of the history department at the University of Florida, "Sometimes you get collections that have been sanitized. That's not the case with this collection. It's quite full and rich."^[1]

The Helms Center also hosts a center-sponsored lecture series with notable participants such as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Condoleezza Rice and the Dalai Lama.^[1]

The center started the Helms Foreign Relations School: two days of classes held near Washington, D.C.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e} Papers endure at Helms Center in Wingate
2. ^ Chairman of the Jesse Helms Center Remembers The Senator; July 04, 2008.
3. ^ St. Onge, Peter; Torralba, Mike (6 July 2008). "Small-town upbringing shaped a senator". The News & Observer. http://www.newsobserver.com/politics/politicians/helms/story/1132244.html. Retrieved June 9, 2009. ^{[dead link]}

• In Monroe, Helms' roots remembered: Rural values, and a deep admiration for his father, helped shape the staunchly conservative senator's outlook, observers say. By Peter St. Onge and Mike Torralba.

External links

• Jesse Helms Center official website

Coordinates: 35°58′34″N 80°26′01″W / 35.97611°N 80.43361°W / 35.97611; -80.43361