Employees - Palmer, Kyle

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  Employees - Palmer, Kyle - Interview

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  1 item: 94-pp. transcript of "Interview of Kyle Palmer by Robert L. Knutson," recorded Jan. - Mar. 1962. Palmer's 40-yr. long career with LAT (beginning in 1920) included political coverage, editorial writing, and much more. He became a powerful individual with the resources of the LAT behind him. He was known as "the Little Governor" in the days before television, to give an indication of his influence. He could make or break the political career of almost anyone. There are many underscorings in red ink, plus some marginal notes

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  Editors - Palmer, Kyle

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  One large green scrapbook and three companion folders. The material includes newsprint clippings of articles by Kyle Palmer. The subject matter of the clips is World War II and politics. Palmer was the "Political Editor" of LAT during that time frame.

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  Palmer, Kyle Files

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  Kyle Palmer (1892-1962) started at the Times in 1920 and was the political editor from 1939-1961. He was a well-known Republican "kingmaker" in the state of California. One scrapbook of articles by Kyle Palmer. Date range is 1936-1949.

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  Correspondence & Miscellaneous - Palmer, Kyle

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  3 items: 3-pp. letter, 5/26/1954, Bassett to Palmer, reporting on events in Washington, DC - mentioning "McCarthy...circus," Nixon (as Vice President) and others ; 2-pp. letter, 7/21/1954, headed "Personal & Confidential," and providing Palmer with Bassett's view from Washington, DC ; 3-pp. letter, "Kyle" to "Jim," with more political news.

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  Employees - Jones, Cleaves

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  Approx. 30 items: copies of a selection of articles written by Jones, an LAT political reporter and later editorial writer. He wrote on National and International affairs. The file includes a copy of the LAT obit for Jones, 8/18/1951.

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  Johnson, Hiram (1 of 2)

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  Approx. 60 items: collection of news stories and editorials on political career of Hiram Johnson, who was involved in a decades-long feud with first H.G. Otis, later Harry Chandler. LAT reports and comments on Johnson were uniformly negative, or LAT ignored him. Notable items: 6 sheets torn from Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly (1950s?), "Hiram Johnson and World War I...a Progressive in transition" ; 3-pp. copied from Current Biography, 1941, entry for Hiram (Warren) Johnson ; LAT obit, 8/7/1945, "The death of Hiram Johnson," is not kind to the deceased but, as LAT put it, "it would be hypocritical to forget or retract..." ; letter copy, 8/19/1940, from LAT's Kyle Palmer to Sen. Hiram Johnson, on Palmer/LAT endorsement of Johnson for Senate, "an editorial which...I never thought [I would] either write or read."

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