Columbus C. Chambers reminiscences | Collections | The Huntington

Columbus C. Chambers reminiscences | Collections | The Huntington

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News at ten : fifty years with Stan Chambers
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A legend in his own time, Stan Chambers, reporter for KTLA Channel 5 news has been eye witness to most major events in Southern California during the past half century. He has covered the Bobby Kennedy assassination, the visit of Pope John Paul II, the 1984 Olympics, the Watts riots, the Rodney King riots, the Bel Air fire, the Baldwin Hills dam disaster and a thousand more events right up to last November's Malibu fire and January's devastating Northridge quake.
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Engineering reminiscences
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John C. Palmer diary
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Albion C. Sweetser letter to Alvah Littlefield and A. Blood
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James C. Ridgway diary
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Pocket diary that Ridgeway kept in 1865 includes brief accounts of the battle at Hatcher's Run (Feb.5-7), Watkins's House (Mar. 25), the Appomattox Campaign (Mar. 28-April 9), the surrender of Lee and his army, and March to Washington, D.C. (May 2-12). The diary effectively ends on May 16; the rest of the manuscript consists of brief entries, mostly scattered accounts made in the 1868-1872.
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