Franklin McMahon Collection
Inclusive Dates
1965 – 1998
Bulk Dates
1965 – 1984
Abstract
The Franklin McMahon collection consists primarily of audio recordings of significant political and social events from the 1960s, 70s and 80s. These recordings include interviews, political speeches, and environmental audio captured on location at Democratic and Republican National Conventions in the 1960s and 70s. McMahon’s subjects include Richard and Pat Nixon, Walter Cronkite, Jane Fonda, Abby Hoffman, Studs Terkel, Jesse Jackson, Ralph Nader, Hubert Humphrey, Ted Kennedy and Edmund Muskie. Capturing reflections on the major political events and socio-cultural issues of the time, including the Vietnam War and Women’s Liberation Movement, McMahon’s audio recordings provide a rich, acoustic record of a tumultuous period in American history. The collection also contains a few films, including one on the “Chicago Seven” conspiracy trial.
Collection Items
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Items with Viewable Media
- #2 (Audio)
- 69 CR 180
- 1972 Convention Franklin McMahon Artist
- 1972 Convention Franklin McMahon Artist Soundtrack
- 1972 Dem Convention CBS Short Programs
- American City at Christmas Time, An
- An American City At Christmastime
- Artist as Reporter, The
- Artist as Reporter, The
- B+W Vatican
- [Barat?] or [Barnt?] Prof. on radio (Audio)
- Bobby Seale Segment Picture
- Callaway (Audio)
- Chicago Police Radio Program 15 Sept. 1968 (Audio)
- Conversation with Bruce Openar [?] (Audio)
- Cricket Harris (Audio)
- Dupe of Brooke, 3 3/4 ips, Reagan Floor Mgr, Halley Press Conf, 8-2-68 (Audio)
- Ford on Postal Service, Ford & Reagan (Audio)
- Foreign Affairs; Sen. Irvin; HHH [Hubert Humphrey], [George] McGovern, [Eugene] McCarthy, Patrick McMahon, “Pacem in Terris #3” (Audio)
- Franklin McMahon - TV Documentary
- Fuller (Audio)
- G. [Gerald] Ford 3 3/4 excerpts [?]; Gerald Ford at 68 conv. off the air; U.N. China entrance, U. Thant; other stuff; Walter Hickel reads letter about youth (Audio)
- [George?] Wallace (Audio)
- [George] Wallace, Northern press guy; Cape Kennedy, Gemini Countdown; Swimming Pool Interview; Montgomery March speeches (Audio)
- Hatcher of Gary (Audio)
- Henry Kissinger’s section (save) (Audio)
- Herbert Klein polls, Vietnam (Audio)
- HHH [Hubert Humphrey] in airplane (Audio)
- HHH [Hubert Humphrey] Penna. cocktail party. Side B: HHH Election Day campaigns (Audio)
- House Judiciary Committee Hearing (Audio)
- Interim, McG[overn] Kala[mazoo] statement. Side B: McG[overn]. Kalamazoo (Audio)
- IT #3, Scene: Politic: 72, Nixon to Russia & California Primary (Audio)
- Jackie Ceasar, Bobby Woodfall [?] 8/27/78 (Audio)
- Jackson, Mississippi (Audio)
- Jesse Jackson
- Jesse Jackson (Edited Picture)
- Jesse Jackson, U. of Madison and people, January 13, 1972. Side B: People in Wisconsin (Audio)
- Johnson N.H. [New Hampshire] spots (Audio)
- Kennedy LA, sports arena east / [B] Kennedy LA, Kennedy airplane, sports arena (Audio)
- Kup’s Show (Audio)
- Living Well, Dying Well, Rachel Naomi Remen, MD, The Art of Dying, March 31-April 2, 1995 (Audio)
- Lund, McCa[illegible], Danilovic, McMahon Chi. Art Coalition (Audio)
- Margaret Mead (Audio)
- McCarthy in San F. aft. Negro neighborhood; Side B: Kennedy Press Conf. airplane (Audio)
- Midnight Special: Florsheim on Art (Audio)
- Misc.; Hartke 15000; Cronkite from China; Berrigan in Boston Common; writer on spurs [?]; antiwar mother and Spock; NIT dove/hawk [illegible] straight; [illegible] train, etc.; crowd peace; Nixon peace (Audio)
- Mr. Richard Nixon address at Lakelawn--Delevan, Wisconsin March 3, 1968 (Audio)
- Mr. Richard Nixon at Carthage College, Racine-Kenosha, Wisconsin (Audio)
- Nader and others (Audio)
- New [illegible], [illegible], off-the-air (Audio)
- Nixon (Audio)
- Nixon (Audio)
- Nixon, Chicago, Crowd for Repub. Convention; David [Eisenhower] and Julie [Nixon] White House (Audio)
- Nixon Recon [?] (Audio)
- Norm Pellegrini Recording Sessions/Depression (Audio)
- Orlando Opera 40th Anniversary Season Preview 1998-1999 (Audio)
- Pete Seeger, etc. (Audio)
- Politics (Audio)
- Politics (Audio)
- Politics (Audio)
- Politics; Dawn of a Decade 1970 Voices (2 sides) (Audio)
- Pope Farewell Press Conference; Misc. [?] (Audio)
- Portrait of an Election 1972
- Portrait of an Election 1972, Part 1
- Portrait of an Election - Part 1
- Pres. Johnson in Chicago “good positive speech” (Audio)
- Primary Color 76 (From Can)
- Primary Color 76 (Work Print)
- Primary Colors 1980 (Audio)
- Ramsey Clark [reel also possibly includes “Pope Voice in Latin”] (Audio)
- Real Violins
- Real Violins stuff”, “Whole Thing about Amer.([?] I changed.” (Audio)
- Republican Conv. 68; “Stuff on other side, off the air Oct. 71” (Audio)
- Right to Life [also scratched out piece of tape which says “Studs [illegible]” (Audio)
- RNC platforms; VFW; Ashbrook; Rogers; Million People; [illegible]. Side B: RNC Platform 1A; McCloskey, Romney (Audio)
- Scene:Politic:68
- Scene: Politic: 68 (Part 1)
- Scene: Politic: 68 (Part 2)
- Scene: Politic: 68 (Part 3)
- Sen. [illegible] testimony; “Uh...uh...you know tape” (Audio)
- Sen. Jackson announcement and other stuff, 19 Nov 71 (Audio)
- Side 1: Nebraska; Side 2: Claude Brown and Studs [?] (Audio)
- Side A: 1 America: Illinois Put Over McGovern; Side B: Happy Days, Illinois Put McGovern Over (Audio)
- Side A: 11/27/78- Investigating Comm. on Kenn. Assassination; Side B: [Kenn. Assass.] Continued--Stokes-Chairman, Devine, Creyer, Farentian [?], Fitlean [?], Edgar (Audio)
- Side A: “69-CR-Pt. 2”; Cab Driver Convention; N.Y., Music, Rocky; Boston Hare Krishna Off-Air/ Side B: Streiver (?--label is mostly illegible); Bruce Marder (?); Keating Ethnic; Nell (Audio)
- Side A: ABM- Adlai Stevenson, January 7, 1969. Side B: unknown, Part 1. (Audio)
- Side A: Agnew, Press, December. Side B: Agnew, Corning (illegible), New Jersey (Audio)
- Side A: AH “we always [illegible] dinero[?]. Other writing on side A illegible. Side B: Chicago 8 conspiracy trial: Comments. (Audio)
- Side A and B: Bernadette Devlin Press Conference, Holiday Ballroom (Audio)
- Side A and B: Can(d)idates Victory N.H. Speech (Audio)
- Side A and B: Carbray’s Friends (Audio)
- Side A and B: Chicago Agnew meeting comments (Audio)
- Side A and B: Kissinger; Yorty delegate (Audio)
- Side A and B: McCarthy, Circle Campus, U. of Illinois, February 14, 1972 (Audio)
- Side A and B: Muskie Press Meeting (Audio)
- Side A and B: Nixon, 1972 Milwaukee Speech on Russia (Audio)
- Side A and B: Nixon, January 3, CBS: Political Motives (Audio)
- Side A and B: Nixon, WBBM 1973 (Audio)
- Side A and B: Oklahoma, Nebraska 1973 (Audio)
- Side A and B: Ted Kennedy: October 12, 1971 (Audio)
- Side A and B: Wallace Ft. Myers [Fla.] Press Conf. (Audio)
- Side A: Ashbrook, M. rally, New Hampshire. Side B: Muskie speech, New Hampshire; anti-war excerpt out. (Audio)
- Side A: Barry Commoner on Ecology, end #1. Side B: Barry Commoner, End Pt. II (Audio)
- Side A: Benjamin Spock, Schoen[illegible], Studs [Terkel]. Side B: [Ralph] Nader (Audio)
- Side A: Boston Peace, Nov. 6, Economy, Elevator Oper., “Lies”, Phoenix, Shoppers World, Ice Cream Bells, Woman “Chilly out there”. Side B: Boston Peace, Phoenix, [illegible] off-air, McCort [?] [illegible] under Nixon (Audio)
- Side A: California, Frank and Gary Show/ Side B: June 7 California, McGovern (Audio)
- Side A: Chinatown; Nixon toast at end. Side B: unknown (Audio)
- Side A: Coral Morgan, 2/11/80; Side B: Judy Wright, 420-2466, 2/4/80 (Audio)
- Side A: Crowd Sounds NY; Subway: Women, Train; 4 Bucks Brazil/ Side B: Roo (?); Breakfast (Audio)
- Side A: [Daniel] Ellsberg. Side B: Nixon blockade, TV. (Audio)
- Side A; Debate, New Hampshire: McGovern, Muskie, Yorty Coll.; Side B: McGovern rally, U. of New Hampshire, March 6 (Audio)
- Side A: Dem. Convention, Askew Protest. Side B: Demo. Conv. #3 Carter, Mon. (Mondale?) (Audio)
- Side A: Democratic Comm. picks Shriver. Side B: Louisville (Audio)
- Side A: Democratic National Convention McGovern. Side B: HHH; Demo. N. Committee Votes for McGovern (Audio)
- Side A: Dole, Wallace BPOE Winter Haven [Fla.], off-air, mideast, money, good. Side B: Wallace luncheon, Ft. Myers [Fla.] Sheraton. (Audio)
- Side A: Henry Jackson, Ft. Myers Fla. Side B: First Par[t?] Wallace Speech, Ft. Myers, waitress, daring Wallace (Audio)
- Side A: HH [Hubert Humphrey] crowd; HH music. Side B: Richard Nixon at HH Congress (Audio)
- Side A: HHH Challenge; HHH Disarm Black Ratio; Chisholm Track; HHH; McG/ Side B: Calif. ABC Debate (Audio)
- Side A: HHH [Hubert Humphrey], Philadelphia. Side B: HHH Philadelphia; Agnew warmup; “How You Doing?” (Audio)
- Side A: Howard Paine, National Geographic at the Smithsonian 1979 (Audio)
- Side A: [illegible], Black on Bussing, McG[overn] bowling. Side B: HHH [Hubert Humphrey] Milwaukee, Wisconsin tech school. (Audio)
- Side A: [illegible] Maryland; Carl McIntyre and Chinese. Side B: HHH [Hubert Humphrey], McG [McGovern] debate (defense); HHH bridge out of Wallace shooting. (Audio)
- Side A: [illegible] Victory HHH [Hubert Humphrey] Apr. 25, 1972; Loss, Muskie convention. Side B: (Audio)
- Side A: Jane Fonda meeting; Polish baseball. Side B: McG(overn) talking about Nixon and Eisenhower; Agnew (Audio)
- Side A: Jesse Jackson Airport, Florida sounds. Side B: Jesse Jackson Intro. (Audio)
- Side A: Jesse Jackson, Ralph Nader: Wisconsin?. Side B: MIKVA ITT, HHH labor (Audio)
- Side A: Jesse Jackson: “Work in System”; Side B: Jesse Jackson, December 5, 1971. (Audio)
- Side A: JFK-Nixon 13 Oct. 1960 Great Debate #3; Side B: HHH [Hubert Humphrey] [on] Face The Nation (Audio)
- Side A: Kennedy Mexican AM. Side B: McCarthy in California, University, Constituency Intro (Audio)
- Side A: Kennedy Oregon; John Glenn; Skating. Side B: Kennedy, Reagan Hdqtrs. (Audio)
- Side A: Labor Day, Nixon on menial. Side B: off the air, October 1972 (Audio)
- Side A: Laird 55 on bombing, N. Vietnam. Side B: unknown (Audio)
- Side A: Laird. Side B: Demo. Conv.; helicopter, women, sexism (Audio)
- Side A: Lake Forest Arch. Talk; Debbie Recording. Side B: ‘This Side’ ‘Rizzo’, NRC used (latter is crossed out) (Audio)
- Side A: Lindsay press conf., off-air TV; Side B: Lindsay speech, U. of Miami, Florida (Audio)
- Side A: Lindsay speech on Supreme Court; Eagleton off the air; Side B: We Shall Overcome: Welfare Rights (Audio)
- Side A: Mary=Freedom. Side B: Wallace, auto, pointed head, Guyana, Nigeria, foundation, [illegible] Wallace (Audio)
- Side A: Mass., Chisholm on child care. Side B: McG[overn], Penna.--hate, worker. (Audio)
- Side A: McCarthy in Indiana; MC, DOD, Street, 2 McWorkers; Side B: Indiana; MCYP, MCYP Press (Audio)
- Side A: McCarthy in Washington; Carl Hayden, German offices. Side B: Muskie, Washington Senate (Audio)
- Side A: McCarthy Oregon (’Good McCarthy Talk’); Side B: McCarthy Oregon; Cab Driver (Audio)
- Side A: McCarthy Press Side B; Lowenstein open Democratic Convention (Audio)
- Side A: McCarthy, U. of Wisconsin. Side B: Pentagon, ITT, Hurdle (?) Platform, Contributors: Ellsberg, McCarthy: Wisconsin (Audio)
- Side A: McG[overn], Israel off the air. Side B: McGovern, Rockford, Ill. (Audio)
- Side A: McGovern, California Win. Side B: Young People, McGovern (Audio)
- Side A: McGovern, Choice-VP, Chicago Dems. meet. Side B: McGovern ending, McG., Shriver, etc. Daley reacts. Off the Air. (Audio)
- Side A: McGovern in Roxbury [Mass.], ok to use. Side B: [Shirley] Chisholm; Nixon drug talk (Audio)
- Side A: McGovern, Niles, Hall; Side B: McGovern (rest of writing is illegible, except for “Davis” (Audio)
- Side A: McGovern on [illegible], Illinois Primary. Side B: McCarthy, Sheraton (Audio)
- Side A: McGovern Press Conference: Midway, Chicago, November 30, 1971. Side B: McGovern Campaign Plane, Comments by Bill Mauldin--November 30, 1971. (15 min.) (Audio)
- Side A: McGovern, “War”, “Meany”, Colo. Rally (?), Lindsay street conf.; Side B: unknown (Audio)
- Side A: McGovern wins; Side B: Lindsay quits (Audio)
- Side A: Mrs. Pat Nixon, Chicago: Kennedy and McGovern; Side B: Singer (?), Mrs. Nixon in Chicago (Audio)
- Side A: Muskie, N.H. (New Hampshire). Side B: HHH deaf; Muskie “I Can” (Audio)
- Side A: Muskie quits; Apr. 26 Nixon war talk (TV Toledo). Side B: Shirley MacLaine: Michigan, Grand Rapids; McGovern in Toledo factory (Audio)
- Side A: Muskie: Superior, Wisconsin/ Side B: Muskie; Lindsay, Black Bag (?) (Audio)
- Side A: Muskie, Wisconsin OBS, (?)plant; Side B: Lindsay-Black Colleges (?) (Audio)
- Side A: NG of Kup’s Show: Miss Hathaway; OK, Eagleton. Side B: Grant Park, 1 mo. later, “hold” (Audio)
- Side A: Nixon in Admill (?), OK 1 off the air; Side B: Rockford, McGovern, “This Land”, September 1972; Women Political Espionage, “That’s All, Baby” (Audio)
- Side A: Nixon in Peoria; McC[arthy] song; 7 wks.;Viet; Forgotten Amer.; Cheers; Rundown of Campaign. Side B: Evaluation of Muskie (Audio)
- Side A: Nixon Press Conference; Muskie on Today. street? Side B: Nixon Press Conference, June 24, 1972, off the air (Audio)
- Side A: Nixon: Schools. Side B: Business Men: Readings (Audio)
- Side A: Nixon White House; Washington; helicopter; policeman. Side B: Washington, off the air (Audio)
- Side A: No title. Side B: McGovern at Jones, October 1972 (Audio)
- Side A: Paul of P.P. and Mary [Peter, Paul and Mary]. Side B: McCloskey standup (Audio)
- Side A: Peace Boston, Berrigan 9; Side B: Peace Boston, Ellsberg (Audio)
- Side A: Polka; Side B: Linsdy [Lindsay] talk (Audio)
- Side A: Pope Paul VI #1; Stewart Matt. [?]. Side B: Pope Paul VI (Audio)
- Side A: Press Conf., Elephant Airplane & Band. Side B: Texas; Ideol.; Nixon; Press; Gov. Volyn [?] (Audio)
- Side A: Press Conference: Lawrence Scheinman, Haneda, Tokyo Hotel, 26 Jun. 1977; Head, U.S. Team, Tokai Mora. Side B: End of Press Conf. (Audio)
- Side A: Puchinski on Vietnam, Gordon Tech off-the-air. Side B: Shriver dinner[?] (Audio)
- Side A: Quaker platform, plank; McCloskey and detractors; pro-war. Side B: [George] Romney on Nixon, RNC. (Audio)
- Side A: [Ralph?] Abernathy, Nixon People; Side B: RNC, Tuesday Nixon press conference (Audio)
- Side A: RNC Convention; Credentials; Lionel Hampton. Side B: Cape Kennedy, Rocky Party (Audio)
- Side A: RNC, Mrs. Rickleshaw [?]. Side B: RNC protest (Audio)
- Side A: RNC, Quaker on Viet War, Women’s Lib, [illegible] Side B: RNC platform; Riegle on war, Irish, Homosexuals, Prayer, [Illegible] Busing (Audio)
- Side A: Rosemary Reither, Puebla, Mexico, Women and the Church. Side B: Discussing CELAM III (Audio)
- Side A; Sacco and Vanzetti/ Side B: 8/20 Mac, Drew, Rep. Corio (?); Louisville McGovern (Audio)
- Side A:[Shirley] Chisholm rally, Florida Bldg. Side B: Florida, Askew, Muskie?, telephoning (Audio)
- Side A: Shriver, McGovern, Kusper [?] on election judges, baseball. Side B: 1 min, Miami dub “for Frank McMahon”, Shriver (Audio)
- Side A: Shriver. Side B: Sep. 30, off-the-air [illegible] (Audio)
- Side A (?); Side B: Lindsay on NY (Audio)
- Side A: Skokie(?) Airport-Carter 11/3 Side B: 11/3/78 Belandic [?] House Carter-Polish Lady (Audio)
- Side A: Street People, Toledo. Side B: KG of Kup [Kupcinet] show--Miss Hathaway (Audio)
- Side A: Studs [Terkel] and Irish poet; 25th Anniv. Mass. Side B: A.J. Muste, Studs [Terkel] (Audio)
- Side A: Tape NG, McCloskey in New Hampshire. Side B: Nov. 7, McCloskey in New Hampshire (Audio)
- Side A: Ted Kennedy: October 12, 1971; Earring Lady. Side B: Virginia M. (Audio)
- Side A: Tension Area, July 28, 1969, Income Maintenance Side B: Tension Area Sub[illegible] (Audio)
- Side A: The Candidates’ Victory Speech, March 7: Muskie and McGovern. Side B: The Candidates’ Victory Speech, N.H.: Ashbrook and McCloskey Meet (Audio)
- Side A: U. of Michigan, Ohio State 1973; Side B: Same (?) (Audio)
- Side A: U.S. Senate-House, Nixon returns from Russia. Side B: Dallas, Tx., Nixon cont. (Audio)
- Side A: unknown. Side B: Wallace in Hammond (Audio)
- Side A: Wallace, April 14 1972, Hammond. Side B: Foreign Relations Comm. (Audio)
- Side A: Wallace in Racine, Wisconsin, “We Shall Overcome”. (Audio)
- Side A: Wallace, McGovern, Ireland, Illinois; HHH [Hubert Humphrey] taxes, McGovern farm, construct [ion?] Side B: HHH, Kenosha, Wisconsin. (Audio)
- Side A: Wallace, people, Kalamazoo. Side B: Wallace, airport. (Audio)
- Side A: Wallace. Side B: Milwaukee, Laird, Wallace (Audio)
- Side A: Welfare Rights Meeting, Sen. Harris, Beulah [?], Sanders--Miami Beach. Side B: Welfare Rights, McGovern California statement (Audio)
- Side A: Women’s Lib, Dem. Convention; Zippy/ Side B: NAACP Legal Defense Fund: Coleson?, 18 November 1971 (Audio)
- Side A: Young People in Grant Park. Side B: NY [?] Caucus; AC; Grant Park Rally [crossed out] (Audio)
- Space Chatter (Audio)
- Studs T. [Terkel] and Song Writer (Audio)
- Studs Terkel and Martin Marty [?] (Audio)
- Studs Terkel: George Washington (Audio)
- Taken out, "I will debate Carter" Ford Acceptance Speech (Audio)
- Thoreau-Studs [Terkel] (Audio)
- United Republican Tails 1968 (Audio)
- Unknown McMahon Collection cassettes (Audio)
- Unknown (No Label) (Audio)
- Unknown (No Label) (Audio)
- Unknown (No label) (Audio)
- Unknown (No label) (Audio)
- Unknown (No label) (Audio)
- Unknown (No label) (Audio)
- Unknown (No label) (Audio)
- Unknown [No title label] (Audio)
- Unknown [No title label] (Audio)
- Unknown [No title label]; label on reel says “#1, opener through tree trimmings, etc.) (Audio)
- Wallace assassination; BBM (Audio)
- Wallace Music (Audio)
- Watergate Composite #2 1972-1976 (Audio)
- Wisconsin McGovern (end) rally (Audio)
- WITW interview of [Hubert] Humphrey (Audio)
- The World of Vatican II
- World of Vatican II, The
- World of Vatican II, The
- Youth Meeting-Loyola U., Dec. 5, ‘71. Off the Air (Audio)
Collection Identifier
C.2006-08
Extent of Collection
592 Audiocassettes; 650 reels of 16mm film materials; 1 reel of 8mm film; 3 reels of 16mm magnetic track; 109 microcassettes; 228 reels of 1/4" audio; 2 LP Records
Language Of Materials
English
Subject
Custodial History
These materials had been with McMahon at his home in Lake Forest until he donated them to CFA. CFA picked up these materials at his home before he moved.
Related Materials
Some of McMahon's drawings and paintings are at the Chicago History Museum.
Related Collections
Access Restrictions
This collection is open to on-site access. Appointments must be made with Chicago Film Archives. Due to the fragile nature of the films, only video copies will be provided for on-site viewing.
Use Restrictions
Chicago Film Archives holds the copyright for the films in this collection. CFA must notify family of any public exhibition of the materials and share (50%) any revenues the material brings in. Also, CFA must attribute the materials to Mr. McMahon.
Creators
McMahon, Franklin
(was created by)
(William) Franklin McMahon was an artist and reporter who was dedicated to chronicling the important social, political and cultural events of his time. He worked in Chicago as a courtroom sketch artist, and drew the “Chicago Seven” conspiracy trial, the events surrounding the murder of Emmett Till, the Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965, the Watergate hearings and Neil Armstrong’s historic walk on the moon. McMahon made all of his drawings on site because he believed that the artist-reporter could “see around the corners” to capture the emotional essence of his subjects. He worked as an artist on assignment for the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Daily News, the Chicago Sun Times, the New York Times, and Life, Look and Sports Illustrated magazines.
McMahon was born in 1921 in Chicago. He grew up in the city’s west side, and lived in Oak Park and Los Angeles before finishing high school in Chicago in 1939. His professional artistic career began while he was a student at Fenwick High School and one of his drawings was published in Collier’s magazine. Upon graduation, McMahon enlisted in the United States Air Force and served as a B-17 navigator in missions over Germany. While on one of these missions, McMahon’s plane was shot down and he spent several months as a prisoner of war in Germany. He made drawings (in secret) of his German captors which were later published.
After WWII, McMahon returned to Chicago and married his high school sweetheart, Irene Leahy McMahon. The couple were married for fifty-one years and had nine children. They lived in Lake Forest, Illinois. Irene McMahon was a travel reporter for the Pioneer Press and various other local and national publications. Franklin McMahon traveled with his wife and made drawings of the international locations they visited.
McMahon’s work has been collected by the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institute and the Chicago History Museum, among other institutions. His drawings of the “Chicago Seven” conspiracy trial and the trial following the murder of Emmett Till are in the Chicago History Museum’s permanent collection.
McMahon received numerous prizes for his artwork, including the Art Institute of Chicago’s “Renaissance Prize,” and three Emmys and a Peabody award for films that included his illustrations. He was the recipient of honorary degrees from Loyola University and Lake Forest College, and was a “guiding faculty” member of the Famous Artists School in Wilton, Connecticut.
Irene McMahon passed away in 1997. Franklin McMahon passed away in 2012. They are survived by their nine children: William Franklin McMahon, Mark McMahon, Mary McMahon Taplin, Deborah McMahon Osterholtz, Patrick McMahon, Hugh McMahon, Margot McMahon, Michelle McMahon-Kubota, and Michael McMahon.
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