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The [[Committee on Public Information]] was established on the 13th April 1917 and operated until its abolition on 21st August 1921.<ref>The National Archives, Guide to Federal Records, [http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/063.html Records of the Committee on Public Information] (Record Group 63) 1917-21 152 cu. ft.</ref> Its official functions were to:
  
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*Release government news during the First World War
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*Sustain Morale
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*Administer 'voluntary press censorship'<ref>The National Archives, Guide to Federal Records, [http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/063.html Records of the Committee on Public Information] (Record Group 63) 1917-21 152 cu. ft.</ref>
  
 
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*[[Edward Bernays]] | [[George Creel]] Chairman| Associate Chairmen [[Carl Byoir]] and [[Harvey J. O'Higgins]] |
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*[[Edward Bernays]] | [[George Creel]] Chairman | Associate Chairmen [[Carl Byoir]] and [[Harvey J. O'Higgins]]<ref>The National Archives, Guide to Federal Records, [http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/063.html Records of the Committee on Public Information] (Record Group 63) 1917-21 152 cu. ft.</ref> | [[Walter Lippmann]] | [[John Balderston]]
  
 
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* Blakey, George T: ''Historians on the Homefront: American Propagandists for the Great War''. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky (1970), ISBN 0-8131-1236-2.
 
* Blakey, George T: ''Historians on the Homefront: American Propagandists for the Great War''. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky (1970), ISBN 0-8131-1236-2.
 
*Creel, George (1947). ''Rebel at Large: Recollections of Fifty Crowded Years''. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons.
 
*Creel, George (1947). ''Rebel at Large: Recollections of Fifty Crowded Years''. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons.
* George Creel: ''How We Advertised America: The First Telling of the Amazing Story of the Committee on Public Information That Carried the Gospel of Americanism to Every Corner of the Globe''. Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Pub. Co. (January 2008), ISBN 0548820929 (10), ISBN 978-0548820926 (13).
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* George Creel: ''[http://www.archive.org/details/howweadvertameri00creerich How We Advertised America: The First Telling of the Amazing Story of the Committee on Public Information That Carried the Gospel of Americanism to Every Corner of the Globe]'', Harper and Brothers, 1920.
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*James Robert Mock and Cedric Larson, [http://www.archive.org/details/wordsthatwonwars00mockrich Words that won the war; the story of the Committee on Public Information, 1917-1919], Princeton, 1939.
 
*Bruce Pinkleton '[http://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst;jsessionid=LvMLZrNb2nHCLrMXx5pMYGxWJyKLVN1QyLVPcSy4D1HKlv6HgLls!-1553468468!1699119870?docId=96422525 The Campaign of the Committee on Public Information: Its Contributions to the History and Evolution of Public Relations]', ''Journal of Public Relations Research'', Vol. 6, 1994.
 
*Bruce Pinkleton '[http://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst;jsessionid=LvMLZrNb2nHCLrMXx5pMYGxWJyKLVN1QyLVPcSy4D1HKlv6HgLls!-1553468468!1699119870?docId=96422525 The Campaign of the Committee on Public Information: Its Contributions to the History and Evolution of Public Relations]', ''Journal of Public Relations Research'', Vol. 6, 1994.
 
*Stephen Vaughn ''Holding Fast the Inner Lines: Democracy, Nationalism, and the Committee on Public Information'' (Supplementary volumes to the Papers of Woodrow Wilson), Univ of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC, 1980
 
*Stephen Vaughn ''Holding Fast the Inner Lines: Democracy, Nationalism, and the Committee on Public Information'' (Supplementary volumes to the Papers of Woodrow Wilson), Univ of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC, 1980

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The Committee on Public Information was established on the 13th April 1917 and operated until its abolition on 21st August 1921.[1] Its official functions were to:

  • Release government news during the First World War
  • Sustain Morale
  • Administer 'voluntary press censorship'[2]

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  1. The National Archives, Guide to Federal Records, Records of the Committee on Public Information (Record Group 63) 1917-21 152 cu. ft.
  2. The National Archives, Guide to Federal Records, Records of the Committee on Public Information (Record Group 63) 1917-21 152 cu. ft.
  3. The National Archives, Guide to Federal Records, Records of the Committee on Public Information (Record Group 63) 1917-21 152 cu. ft.