ASSOCIATED PRESS ORIGINAL TELETYPE BY THE AP BUREA CHIEF JOHN BAUSMAN ABOUT SOVIET UNION LEADER NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV’S 75th BIRTHDAY by John Bausman, AP Moscow bureau chief, 1968-72 - 1969

[1969 MOSCOW KHRUSHCHEV BIRTHDAY ORIGINAL AP TELETYPE JOHN BAUSMAN BUREAU CHIEF] AN ASSOCIATED PRESS ORIGINAL TELETYPE BY THE AP BUREA CHIEF JOHN BAUSMAN ABOUT SOVIET UNION LEADER NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV'S 75th BIRTHDAY, handwritten "Moscow" in red ink in upper right corner of first page, April 13 [1969], 2 long (about 20") yellow teletype pages, "by JOHN BAUSMAN" byline, excerpts "MOSCOW AP - Nikita S. Khrushchev, whose voice once commanded the councils of peace and war, marks his 75th birthday Thursday [2 days away] in oblivion and silence…No public mention of his birthday is expected…His volumes of speeches…has been removed from the libraries…Publicly Khrushchev is ignored as if he never existed…No Westerners are authorized [to visit him]…details of his lonely life are skimpy…apparently has taken up photography…During his years in power…"; NOTES: JOHN BAUSMAN, 1923-2016, worked for the Associated Press beginning in 1950 and covered such diverse posts as Newark and Atlantic City, New Jersey; Warsaw, Poland; Budapest, Hungary and Frankfurt, Germany…ended his foreign assignments as Chief of Bureau in Moscow during the Soviet era from 1968-1972…in 1970 was named by Isvestia as one of five Western correspondents promoting the cause of Zionism in his reporting…curiously his son Charles Bausman was identified in photographs as one of the activists breaking into the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and he fled to Russian before being apprehended for questioning (Southern Poverty Law Center, Far-Right Propagandist Turns up in Moscow After Jan. 6, Sept. 1, 2021); PROVENANCE: acquired at a Greenwich, CT, estate sale of John Bausman possessions including some career memorabilia /// CONDITION: well preserved, entirely legible, horizontal folds as kept by previous owner.