The Audie Murphy National Fan Club has operated on and off since the 1950's under different managing editors. The fan club was a great source of news, stories, personal accounts, opinions, and memorabilia on Audie Murphy. After Audie's death in 1971, the club disbanded but was later resurrected in the mid 1990's.

Audie Leon Murphy Photo provided by Eva Dano

Unfortunately, the amount of research, writing, editing, and physical labor required to keep the organization running was enormous and done on a strictly voluntary basis. Over the years, the club editors became harder to find and eventually, the organization ceased to exist at the end of 2000.

The organization was founded on May 25, 1952 by Ms. Margaret Walters, a secretary from Charleston, West Virginia. The organization had several hundred members and published a monthly mimeographed booklet that was about twenty to twenty five pages in length. The title of the booklet was "Audie's Almanac." Audie wrote a monthly description of his next month's activities in each newsletter. While other clubs may have existed, the booklet put out by Ms. Walter's carried the message "The Only Official Audie Murphy Fan Club" along the bottom of the front cover (Simpson, pp.286-287).

After Audie's death, the organization was resurrected in the 1990's. Stan Smith was one of the club's most prolific editors but has since retired from his duties. Fortunately, he remains a major contributor to this website and has generously made available the newsletters he was responsible for during his tenure as editor. While dated, they are still interesting and loaded with facts and information. These newsletters are genuine treasures and make for fun reading.

To download these newsletters, just click on any of the buttons in the table to the right. All are in PDF file format. Most are small. A few are large and will take a short period of time to download.

Webmaster Request: If you have copies of any newsletters from the Audie Murphy Fan Club not shown here which you would like to contribute to the website, particularly those by Margaret Walters entitled "Audie's Almanac", please contact the webmaster at richard.rodgers@audiemurphy.com. Credit to the source of any material used will be given.