(1913/05/30) "North End Grocer Dies Suddenly" Vincennes Western Sun.
(1929/04/19) "1929 YMCA Circus Scores Biggest Hit" Vincennes Sun p. 1. A.A. Mercy "Says Everything Tip-Top Under YMCA 'Big Top'" Vincennes Commercial p. 12.
(1929/05/14) A.A. Mercey "Bag of Tricks Unloaded at 'The Minstrel-Revue'" Vincennes Comercial p. 1. Harold Williamson "Minstrel Revue Scores a Hit" Vincennes Sun p. 3.
(1932/08/19) "Meet the Masters of Ceremonies!" Nicollet Live Wire Souenir Walkathon Edition (Minneapolis, MN) p. 1.* "Skelton Sponsor Going Nuts Too" p. 3.*
(1937/03/06) Nelson B. Bell "Maid of Salem, on the screen and Red Skelton, on the stage" Washington Post p. 12.
(1937/03/10) "Capitol, Wash" Variety p. 50.
(1937/03/12) Nelson B. Bell "'Red' Skelton, Who Opens His Second Week at the Capitol Today, Begins Ascent to Top of the Heap" Washington Post p. 18.
(1937/03/13) "Capitol Offers Reel and Real Kidnap Cases" Washington Post p. 12.
(1937/04/03) "At Loew's Theatre" Montreal Gazette p. 13
(1937/04/07) "Loew's Montreal" Variety p. 58.
(1937/04/10) Royal Alexandra "What Press Agents Say About Coming Events" Toronto Daily Star p. 9.
(1937/06/16) "New Acts: Red Skelton" Variety p. 50. "State, N.Y." Variety p. 52.
(1937/06/20) Nancy Lee "At the Riverside" Milwaukee Journal p. 12.
(1937/07/03) James S. Pooler "Mickey Rooney Steals Show as Cabin Boy in 'Slave Ship'" Detriot Free Press p. 9.
(1937/07/14) "Capitol, Wash" Variety p. 60.
(1937/07/21) "Capitol, Wash" Variety p. 61.
(1937/07/22) AD Washington Post p. 14.
(1937/08/13) "'Red' Skelton Tells of City in Radio Debut" Vincennes Sun-Commercial p. 1.
(1937/08/18) "Loew's State, N.Y." Variety p. 66.
(1937/08/24) Walter Winchell "On Broadway" Indianapolis Star p. 4.
(1937/08/26) "Red Skelton to Pursue Feud With Joe Cook on Air Tonight" Vincenns Sun-Commercial p. 1.
(1937/08/27) "Red Returns to Radio by Popular Demand" Vincennes Post p. 1.
(1937/12/04) "Big Town Girl Proves Diverting Comedy" Philadelphia Inquirer p. 8.
(1938/01/13) "Shubert" Cincinnati Enquirer p. 11.
(1938/02/09) "State, N.Y." Variety.
(1938/02/11) PHOTO Cleveland Plain Dealer p. 8.
(1938/02/12) Glenn C. Pullen "'Red' Skelton Funnier in His New Palace Act" Cleaveland Plain Dealer p. 9.
(1938/02/16) "Palace, Cleveland" Variety.
(1938/04/20) "Loew's Montreal" Variety p. 44.
(1938/07/06) Eileen Creelman "Red Skelton of 'Having Wonderful Time,' Discusses His Hollywood Debut" New York Sun p. 17. "State, N.Y." Variety p. 47.
(1938/09/23) "Nerves Jitter as ZaSue Turns on Heap of Histrionics" Columbus Dispatch p. 20-A.
(1938/09/24) Dayle Frazier "ZaSu Pitts Features Palace's Stage Show" Columbus Dispatch p. 12.
(1938/11/09) "Roxy, N.Y." Variety
(1938/12/03) "Roger Pryor Club Guest" Indianapolis News pt. 2, p. 2.
(1939/01/30) "Roosevelt's See 'Command' Play to Open Paralysis Campaign" Washington Post p. 1.
(1939/02/15) "City Prepares homecoming for 'Red' Skelton" Vincennes Post p. 2.
(1939/02/17) "At the Pantheon" Vincennes Post p. 10.
(1939/02/19) "Red Skelton Will Come Back Home Today, After 6 Years" Vincennes Sun-Commercial p. 1. "'Red' Skelton Homecoming Starts at 10:12 Today" Vincennes Post p. 1.
(1939/02/20) "City Greets Red Skelton, Famous Entertainer At Reception Sunday, Civic Dinner Monday" Vincennes Sun-Commercial p. 1.
(1939/02/21) "Vincennes Takes Delight In Honoring Popular 'Red' Skelton" Vincennes Post p. 2. "Red Goes Back to School, But Not to Study" Vincennes Sun-Commercial p. 1.
(1939/09/06) "Chicago" Variety p. 39.
(1940/01/24) "Capitol, Wash" Variety p. 18.
(1940/01/30) "D.C. and Nation to Dance at Birthday Ball Tonight" Washington Post p. 1.
(1940/01/31) PHOTO Washington Post p. 1.
(1940/02/10) "Dizzy, Diverting 'Girl Friday' Opens at Earle" Washington Post p. 6.
(1940/03/20) "Paramount, N.Y." Variety p. 46.
(1940/05/01) "Chicago, Chi" Variety p. 47.
(1940/05/18) Richard L. Coe "Skelton Continues" Washington Post p. 14.
(1940/05/22) "Earle, Wash" Variety p. 55.
(1940/10/14) "Skelton, Back Home From Hollywood, Reveals He Has Gone Serious In New Film" Vincennes Sun-Commercial p. 1.
(1940/10/15) "Swings Hammer" Vincennes Post p. 1.
(1940) Indiana Works Progress Administration Index to Birth Records Knox Country, Indiana: 1882-1920 p. 183.
(1941/01/17) Archer Winsten "'Flight Command' Zooms Into Capitol Theatre" New York Post. Robert Francis "'Flight Command' At the Capitol" Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
(1941/08/14) Frederick C. Othman "Ex-Usherette Leads Skelton to Success" New York Telegraph p. 1.
(1941/08/28) G.E. Blackford "'Whistling in the Dark' Shown at Loew Criterion" New York Journal-American p. 10. Bosley Crowther REVIEW New York Times p. 23. Herbert Cohn "Red Skelton Arrives as a Comedy Star" Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
(1941/08/31) "Hoosier Comedian Makes Good in Films" Indianapolis Star sec. 5, p. 1.
(1941/09/06) John Mosher "Comic Relief" The New Yorker p. 53.
(1941/10/12) "Red Skelton's Film Masterpiece Has Never Grossed A Dollar" Baltimore Morning Star sec. 1, p. 6.
(1941/12/08) Red Skelton "Skelton Writes Life Story Under Title 'I'll Tell All'" Milwaukee Journal p. 1.
(1941/12/13) Red Skelton "Are Comedians People?" Liberty p. 49.
(1942/02/21) "At Home-On the Set-On the Air Red Skelton's Always Clowning" Movie-Radio Guide p. 6.* [1 page. Photos Red playing at home, on the studio and on the set of "Whistling in the Dark".]
(1942/06) Leo Silver Screen p. 5.* [Promote "Ship Ahoy".]
(1942/06) Edna Skelton told to James Reid ""I Married a Screwball"" Silver Screen p. 22.
(1942/06) John R. Franchey "Everything Funny But Love" Radio and Television Mirror p. 8.
(1942/07/31) Kitty Callahan "Redheaded Comet" The Family Circle p. 10.
(1942/11) Martha B. Darbyshire "Red Skelton - He Dood It!" The American Home p. 20.
(1942-42) Edna Skelton "Life With Red" Motion Picture.
(1943/01/23) Sheilah Graham Globe-Democrat (St. Louis).
(1943/02/27) "Red Skelton Waits Outside Court as Wife Divorces Him" Los Angeles Times p. 2A.
(1944/02/12) "Whiskers!" Sea-Tac Keel (Seattle-Tacoma) p. 3.* [Photo from "Whistling in Brooklyn". Was at bond show at the Roxy Theater.]
(1944/02/14) "Stars Cluster Again at Birthday Balls" Life p. 34.*
(1944/04/10) "Red and Muriel Aren't Going to "Dood It" Now".
(1944/07) Sgt. Hal Bergman "Skelton Gets a Short Arm" The Leatherneck p. 50.*
(1945/10/10) "He Dood It, the Lucky Stiff" The Stars and Stripes p. 3.* [Photo: Discharged.]
(1946/11/03) Hedda Hopper "Yes, Red Skelton's Always That Way" Los Angeles Times p. 2.
(1947/04) "The Skelton Scrapbook" Radio Mirror p. 40.*
(1947-48) Maxine Arnold "Clown In Civvies" Photoplay p. 89.
1948
(1948/01) Verna Felton "Love That Red-Head" Radio Mirror p. 46.*
(1948/09/08) "Red Skelton Show" Variety p. 30.
(1948/12) Carl Schroeder "The Face" Modern Television & Radio p. 40.*
(1948) Current Biography 1947 p. 580.
(1948) Red Skelton "I Really Went to Clown" Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey p. 11.
(1949/04) Pauline Swanson "The Skelton Saga" Radio Mirror p. 56.
(1949/11) Georgia Skelton "My Husband, Red Skelton" Radio and Television Mirror p. 32.
(1950/04/15) Lloyd Shearer "Is HE a BIG LAUGH!" Collier's p. 22.*
(1951/09/28) "All Marx and Skelton, too" TV Guide p. 12.
(1951/10/22) "Rubber Face on TV" Life p. 71.*
(1952/01/06) John Crosby "Radio and Television" New York Herald Tribune.
(1952/01/11) "The Secret of Skelton's Success" TV Guide p. 8.
(1952/03/15) "Red Skelton a Top Click in TV" TV Digest p. 8.
(1952/03/22) "Red Skelton a Top Click in TV" TV Digest p. 6.
(1952/03/29) John Florea (photographer) "Helter Skelton" Collier's p. 26.
(1952/05) "MGM Movie-of-the-Month Calendar" McCalls p. 9.* [Promote "Lovely to Look At"]
(1952/05) Bob Willett ""Skelton's Not Funny"" New Liberty p. 22.
(1952/07) "Red Skelton" Movie Fan p. 48.* [2 page photo story. Behind the scenes of "Lovely to Look At".]
(1952/10/04) Strikeout Steve McGonigle alias Red Skelton "I Dood It!" TV Digest p. 8.
(1952/12/05) "Skelton's Troubles" TV Guide p. 10.
(1952) Philippe Halsman (photographer) "Photographing A Mugging Skelton" U.S. Camera p. 36. [200 photos in 2 hours by photographer Philippe Halsman.]
(1952/06) "TV's Only Straight Girl" Night and Day p. 28.
(1953/08) "Meet the Baby...That Broke the Stork's Back" Prevue p. 24.* [2 page. Photos of Red as a baby eating a cake in large high chair.]
(1953/10/02) "Skelton Tries Again" TV Guide p. 5. [Red returns to TV now on CBS]
1955
(1955/05/08) Lloyd Shearer "Red Skelton: He Never Stops Clowning" Parade p. 28.*
(1955/10) "Red Skelton Visits Racine Plant" The Jonwax Journal p. 3.*
(1955/10) "Stars" Children's Playmate p. 6.*
(1955/11) "Clowning and Praying Go Together" TV Illustrated p. 35.*
1956
(1956/04/28) "Right Up There" TV Guide p. 4.
(1956/07/21) "What Every Comic's Wife Should Know" TV Guide p. 4.
(1956/09) "When Nobody Wanted Red" TV Illustrated p. 34.
(1957/04/02) George Eells. "Red Skelton Still Fighting for Laughs" Look p. 57.*
(1957/05) Maxine Arnold "Command Performance" TV Radio Mirror p. 10.*
(1957/06/15) "A Comedian Faces A Tragedy" TV Guide p. 20.
(1957/07) Ruth Waterbury "Red Skelton Finds Faith Where There is No Hope" TV Star Parade p. 18.
(1957/10) "Visiting, Rome" TV and Radio Mirror p. 7.* [Photo]
(1958/01/18) "Red Skelton.. The Comedian Who's Never Himself" TV This Week p. 4.
(1958/04) Andre Fontaine "Red Skelton: A Father's Hardest Test"Redbook p. 32.
(1958/05) Maxine Arnold "King of Clowns" TV Radio Mirror p. 6.
(1958/10/05) Lloyd Shearer "The Real Scoop on the Hoop Craze" Parade p. 11.
(1958/10/13) Chandler Brossard "Red Skelton: What Keeps Him Going?" Look p. 34.
(1959/01/24) Dwight Whitney "What Makes A Clown?" TV Guide p. 17.
(1959/12/12) "'The Wizard of Oz' with Red Skelton and daughter Valentina" TV Guide p. 14.*
(1960/02/20) Dan Jenkins "It Hasn't All Been Laughs" TV Guide p. 17.
(1960/04) Nonean Conner "Red Skelton's Magic Secret" TV Radio Mirror p. 36.
(1960/10/03) "Sixth Sense Only" Time p. 65.*
(1960/10/30) "Clarence A. Stout, Composer, Friend of Red Skelton, Dies" Vincennes Sun-Commercial p. 27.
(1960/12/04) "On Cover: TV's Top Clown" TV News (Chicago Daily) p. 4.
(1961/04/21) Grey Villet (photographer) "The Invincible Red" Life p. 109.
(1961/10/14) Robert De Roos "Television's Greatest Clown" pt. 1 TV Guide p. 12.
(1961/10/21) Robert De Roos "Television's Greatest Clown" pt. 2 TV Guide p. 26.*
(1962/06/20) "Frank Borzage, Director, 69, Dies" New York Times.*
(1962/08/26) George McCormack "Red Skelton Started Clowning in Vincennes" Sunday Press (Evansville)
(1962/08/26) Glen Elsasser "We Remember Red" Indianapolis Star Magazine p. 32.
(1962/10/09) "Red Skelton Sues N.B.C. Over a Paar Rebroadcast".*
(1962/10/30) David W. Jackson "Vincennes' Famed Comedian Drops In For Visit to His Old Home Wednesday" Vincennes Sun Commercial p. 1.
(1963/01/06) Lloyd Shearer "From Panic to Peace The New Red Skelton" Parade p. 4.
(1963/04/20) Dwight Whitney "The Weekly Ordeal of Red Skelton" pt. 1 TV Guide p. 15.
(1963/04/27) Dwight Whitney "The Weekly Ordeal of Red Skelton" pt. 2 TV Guide p. 15.
(1963/07) Gene Lester "Meet Valentina Skelton, California Teen-Ager" Teen-Agers Ingenue p. 47.*
(1963/10) ""the mean widdle kid..." Red Skelton" Screen Thrills Illustrated p. 28.*
(1964/12) Sallie Kay "The Joys & Sorrows of Being Red Skelton" Lady's Circle p. 22.*
(1965/10/16) Ronald Searle "Portrait of a Clown" TV Guide p. 20.
(1966/03/06) "Mr. Tuesday Night" TV Week (Glendale News-Press) p. 9.* [Profile. Special letter to a daughter of a producer. Her horse died.]
(1966/05/14) "Red Skelton and The Sounds Of Music" TV News p. 7.
(1966/08/20) Dwight Whitney "'A Clown Is A Warrior Who Fights Gloom'" TV Guide p. 16.
(1966/10) Ed Wynn "Red Skelton" McCalls.
(1966/10/15) "Be A Clown" TV Guide p. 10.
(1966/11/05) Marian Dern "Laugh, Clown, Laugh - and Hope That Others Do" TV Week (Glendale News-Press) p. 9.* [Article on "Clown Alley" chief technical advisor clown Bobby Kay.]
(1967/03/04) "Ozzie Nelson Remembers Red Skelton When" TV News p. 7.
(1967/06/17) Bill Davidson "'I'm Nuts and I Know It'" Saturday Evening Post p. 66.*
(1967/10/19) Robert Schultheis "Stout's Minstrel Shows Gave Start to Lad Called Red" Vincennes Valley Advance p. 8.
(1968/02) Ruth Waterbury "The Clown Who Won't Come Near Children" TV Radio Mirror p. 49.*
(1968/05/24) Lawrence Laurent "The Durable Red Bleaches Blue Material into Pure White" The Telegram (Toronto) p. 98.*
(1968/10) "The Tragic Life Story of Red Skelton" TV Star Parade p. 43.*
(1969/04-05) "Portrait of a Clown" Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey p. 17.*
(1969/08/20) "A Close One for Red Skelton" Telegram (Toronto).*
(1969/10) Grover Brinkman "Red Skelton's Birthplace" Outdoor Indiana p. 24.*
(1970/02/19) "Skelton off?" Spectator (Hamilton).*
(1970/02/20) "CBS castoff, Skelton hired by NBC" Spectator (Hamilton).*
(1970/05) "Red Skelton: His terrifying prediction about JFK" TV Radio Mirror p. 42.*
(1970/06/24) Jack Miller "Skelton-grand old star in an overdue exit" Spectator p. 35.*
(1970/08/28) Jack Miller "Skelton on stage-a labor of the heart" Spectator.* "Speading his Image" [Photo: Butter schulpture.]
(1970/08/28) "70-pound spread depicts Skelton, Kadiddlehopper" Globe.*
(1970/10/03) Dwight Whitney "Big Red" TV Guide p. 30.
(1970/11/28) TV Guide cover [Guest on John Wayne's special "Swing Out, Sweet Land".]
(1971/11/12) "Red Skelton to Divorce Wife". FWNS*
(1972/02) "A New Lady for Red" Modern Screen p. 11.*
(1973/Winter) Ernest N. Corneau "Red Skelton the clown of clowns!" Classic Film Collector p. 4.*
(1976/05/12) "Skelton's ex-wife victim of gunshot" Globe/Mail.*
(1976) John Dunning TUNE IN YESTERDAY p. 507.*
(1977/03/14) Ross Wetzsteon "Red, the Renaissance Goof" Village Voice p. 18.
(1977/Autumn) Betty Hinshaw "Red Skelton in Drama Class" Burris Briefs p. 1.*
(1977/11/08) Ken Potter "Red Skelton: Business 'Leeches' Ripped Me Off for Over $6 Million" National Enquirer.*
(1979) Arthur Marx "Red Skelton's Terrible Abony - Watching His Only Son Die" National Enquirer p. 30.*
(1979) Arthur Marx RED SKELTON
(1979) James Robert Parish, William T. Leonard THE FUNSTERS p. 591 [Red Skelton], 690 [Ed Wynn].*
(1979/10/09) "Red Skelton's Vincennes Boyhood..." Vincennes Valley Advance p. 6.
(1982/10) Joe Collura "Red Skelton tells how he dood it" Classic Images p. 34.*
(1986/09/19) Gloria Echols "Dr. Skelton leaves 'em laughing".*
(1986/Winter) "Ball State honors Red Skelton" Presenting Ball State.*
(1987) "Hoosier honored for acting".*
(1988/07/19) "Comedian Skelton collapses during benefit in Hawaii".*
(1989/01/10) "Fame is academic" Indianapolis Star.*
(1991/07/02) Red Skelton "My most frightening moment" National Enquirer.*
(1991/09) Angi McCarty "Portait Of A Clown" Alumnus (Ball State) p. 6.*
(1991/10/05) Lila Sneed "Skelton brings time-tested comedy to Emens" Ball State Daily News p. 3.*
(1993/02/10) "Medal for Skelton requested".*
(1996/02/20) Betsy Baytons "Interview with Red Skelton" Dance Collection Oral History, New York Public Library at Lincoln Center.
(1996/03) Wes D. Gehring "Red Skelton and Clem Kadiddlehopper" Indiana Magazine of History p. 46.*
(1996/06/07) "Ads promoting Hoosier pride feature Red Skelton, Larry Bird" Indianapolis Star p. D5.*
(1996) Ron Lackmann SAME TIME...SAME STATION.*
(1997/11) Charlotte Shepperd "Pen Point" Alumnus (Ball State) p. inside front cover.*
(1998/Winter) Douglas Wissing "Red Skelton The Last Vaudevillian" Traces p. 12.*
(1998) John Dunning ON THE AIR p. 568.*
(2000/Fall) Wes D. Gehring "The Mentor and the Clown" Traces p. 32.*
(2001/Spring) Wes D. Gehring SEEING RED...THE SKELTON IN HOLLYWOOD'S CLOSET.*
(?) "Red Skelton and Co."
Robert 'Gus' Stevens "Red Skelton papers".
Lewis Historical Library, Vincennes University "Clarence Stout Papers".