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Speeches - Los Angeles Bar Association
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Press - Freedom of - Speeches
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5 items: 105-pp. booklet, Freedom of the Press - what it is, how it was obtained, how it can be retained, Newspaper-Radio Committee, 3/1942 ; reprint, Southern California Law Review, 3/1942, "Freedom of the Press in prospect and retrospect" by Leon R. Yankwich ; 12-pp. speech notes - Federal Bar Assn. ("Bassett" added at top margin in red ink) ; 7-pp. "Statement of William F. Thomas, Editor, Los Angeles Times, before United States Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights," 2/27/1973 ; multi-;age speech notes, headed "Sigma Delta Chi Sp... - Santa Ana" - 6/3/1977.
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Speeches - Greater Los Angeles Press Club 8-Ball Final Annual
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5 items: Thomas speech to Cosmopolitan Club, Santa Barbara, CA., 3/20/1975 ; LAT version of Cosmo speech, 3/30/1975 ; another version presented at "8-Ball Final annual publication of Greater Los Angeles Press Club, 9/23/1977 ; two letters related to the speech and another copy.
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Speeches
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Approx. 25 items--there are duplicate copies of some speeches. The folder contains speech manuscripts for remarks delivered at Bowdoin College, the Federal Bar Assn., The Buckley School, a speech about the Watts Riots (1965), remarks given at a panel discussion in Nashville, speeches at the Wilshire Bar Assn., Historical Society of Southern California, a short speech titled "A Five-minute History of the Los Angeles Times," etc. There are also several news clippings related to talks by Bassett.
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Speeches - 1978 Region 11 SPJ-SDX Conference
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2 items: two copies, 12-pp., "1978 Region 11 SPJ-SPX Conference Speech - Costa Mesa, California," 4/22/1978 by William F. Thomas, Executive Vice President and Editor, Los Angeles Times. One copy is spiral-bound (with speaker notations), one is stapled.
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Federal Bar Association
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A copy of the speech given at the Federal Bar Association.
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Speeches
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2 items. Speech texts. 9-pp. text on press credibility, date and audience not given; 17-pp. text on, broadly, "The Role of the Press in a Free Society," delivered on 11/21/1967, to the Wilshire Bar Assn
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