Manuscripts

Editorial Mail

Description: 4 items. Cover letter and list with total numbers of letters addressed to "Dear Abby," Art Buchwald, Barry Goldwater and other columnists and features for the entire year of 1961. Cover letter and report with mail check on letters addressed to the various departments of Editorial done in Feb. and March of 1962.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1961 - 1962
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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Ramsdell, Kirby

Manuscripts

8 items. Memos and reports. 17 pp. report on organized labor by Ramsdell; 7 pp. "underlying facts and assumptions" & excerpts of the Kaiser Committee report on the company and its employees; operation of Editorial Pages; items in letters column that include personal attacks; rapid transit debate; from 1962, a multi-page report to Williams by Ramsdell providing his impressions and opinions of a dozen or more syndicated op-ed columnists LAT used at the time, including Joseph Alsop, William F. Buckley, Jr., Roscoe Drummond, Barry Goldwater, Walter Lippman, Drew Pearson and Abigail Van Buren (the last two receiving very low marks); etc.

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Goldwater, Barry

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Three items. A letter to Otis Chandler from Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater. A letter to Goldwater from Freddie Miller, with an attached also written by Miller, but address to M. Stanton, Evans, Editor of the Indianapolis News.

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Departments - Editorial - Editorial Development Department

Manuscripts

1item: 3-pp. "Los Angeles Times Technology Fair" memo (6/24/1993), addressed to "All hands." Two forms are attached to the memo - "Editorial Development Volunteer" and "Proposal for Editorial Development Project."

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Goldwater, Barry

Manuscripts

30+ items: LAT clips (and a few other items) following the ups and downs of Barry Goldwater's 1964 primary races, the Republican nomination for president in the summer of that year, and the final campaign and defeat. Notable item: a 5/20/1964 letter from Edwin McDowell of the Arizona Republic, to James Bassett, Director of LAT Editorial Page, expressing "disappoin(ment) that the conservative Times...decided to support Rockefeller in preference to Goldwater."

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S - Miscellaneous Correspondence

Manuscripts

Approx. 25 items. Letters, memos, clippings. Subjects include: discussion of politicians as columnists--Nixon, Goldwater, others; letter from Thomas Storke, Editor/publisher, Santa Barbara News-Press, praising LAT as "the outstanding newspaper of the U.S.," and adding, "you and Otis are making a fine team."; S. Calif. "water problem": a "Conquest-of-Space Trophy"; memo from Display Advertising (from Ted Sell) explaining an advertiser was canceling because "(he) deplores the new vicious trend The Times has taken toward Liberalism," and does not like Otis Chandler or Stanford; literacy & illiteracy in the paper; planning for European trip with Sterling Slappey, Germany Bureau; Among Ourselves articles about the Editorial Dept.; a major film festival for So. California; etc.

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Vietnam Editorial

Manuscripts

Correspondence regarding a Los Angeles Times editorial entitled "Get out of Vietnam NOW." Many of the letters are from other newspapers across the United States that reprinted the editorial in their own papers. Some letters have attached a response letter from Otis Chandler.

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