Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
2 items: transcripts of interview with Los Angeles Times Editor Frank Haven, in two parts, 21-pp. and 27-pp., 3/26/1980. Subjects include: memories of his childhood ; Haven works his way up in journalism - he started at San Diego Sun as a teen ; to Los Angeles Times at age 28 (p. 6) ; many memories of newspaper operations in that era ; memories of Nick Williams ; memories of Otis Chandler's 1960s campaign to improve the paper and make the political coverage more balanced, non-partisan ; origins of Sam Yorty-Los Angeles Times feud ; SIDE 2 ; comments on the Nixon-Kennedy election (1960) ; comments on Jayne Mansfield and Frank Sinatra ; interviewer asks Haven to evaluate the strengths & weaknesses of Otis Chandler ; (Side 2, p. 6) ; the GeoTek case ; comments on Bill Thomas (p.11) ; memories of various top editors ; more.
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2 items: 52-pp. transcript of interview by Marshall Berges with Jack Nelson, Washington DC Bureau Chief, 8/1/1980. A second transcript of the same material, with mark-outs and corrections is on tan sheets. Notable names and subjects include: Nelson describes his typical day and week (pp. 1 - 10) ; he comments on the new respect given in the 1970s to Los Angeles Times in Washington (pp. 17) ; Nelson recalls his childhood, youth and military service (pp. 19 - 20) ; hired by Atlanta Constitution in 1952 ; winner of a Pulitzer Prize in 1959 and applies for a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard (for 1962) ; Nelson is hired in 1965 to open the Atlanta Bureau of Los Angeles Times (pp. 21 - 22) ; more about his youth (pp. 24 - 26) ; "the Los Angeles Times as an institution is...very open and candid" (pp. 30) ; relations between home office of Los Angeles Times and DC Bureau (pp. 37) ; Los Angeles Times top brass wanted Nelson to be a "writing bureau chief," and that was the way he wanted it, too ; discusses strengths and weaknesses of colleagues. (There are gaps in the transcript from pp. 49 on but it is not clear if they are recording flaws or something taken out in editing.
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1 item: 28-pp. transcript of interview Norman Chandler and Dorothy Buffum Chandler, 12/19/1972 and photocopy of the annotated transcript. Subjects include: Harry Chandler's interest in "monkey gland treatments" (pp. 1 - 3) ; Harry Chandler's diet (pp. 3 - 5) ; Norman Chandler and Dorothy Buffum Chandler agree they were served the same meal every Thursday night, when they ate at Harry Chandler's home - it was "(fried) chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, and peas, and ice cream" (pp. 5) ; Norman Chandler clarifies aspects of the legend that Harrison Gray Otis had a cannon mounted on the hood of his car -- "it was...just a decoration" (pp. 5) ; liquor ads and Los Angeles Times ; Harry Chandler was a "teetotaler" (pp. 7) ; attitudes of both Harry Chandler and Norman Chandler toward alcohol consumption (pp. 7 - 8) ; Harry Chandler rarely attended social and public events (pp. 9) ; in the years right after WW II "smog" became an issue in L.A. (pp. 10 - 12) ; Los Angeles Times dabbles in radio - KHJ (pp. 13) ; Los Angeles Times dabbles in television - KTTV (pp. 15) ; The Mirror (pp. 16 - 20) ; Norman Chandler - "on the whole I was pleased with the progress of (Los Angeles Times) while I was publisher," (pp. 21) - he wanted Los Angeles Times to be FAIR, RESPECTED, AND TO RENDER PUBLIC SERVICE, (pp. 22) - agrees that prior to late 1950s, Los Angeles Times was politically biased, biased on labor reporting ; L.D. Hotchkiss (1940s+ editor) and his personality (pp. 25 - 27).
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Memos and letters pertaining to Ken Reich. Also included are the first three (3) chapters of Reich's book.
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1 item: 28-pp. transcript of interview with Richard Bergholz by Marshall Berges. Subjects include: Bergholz' role and responsibilities ; his work reporting on political candidates and campaigns ; print / broadcast journalism and style vs. substance ; Bergholz childhood and youth memories ; working with Associated Press and Copley ; comments about David Halberstam's book, The Powers that Be (1979), that dealt with Los Angeles Times and other major news sources ; more.
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1 item: 130-pp. transcript of interview with journalist Robert Scheer. Notable names and subjects include: he describes his freelance writing career as of mid-1970s - Playboy (magazine), book contract, editing gig at New Times (pp. 1 - 3) ; Scheer hired by Los Angeles Times, 1976 (pp. 7) ; anecdotes about working methods ; writing on the "Jewish Community" ; immigration ; his thoughts on Q & A format (45 - 46) ; more on his methods ; Scheer talks about childhood in The Bronx (pp. 55 - 57) ; "my bleeding liberalism, (or whatever) the right word is" (pp. 57) ; more on youth & background, Scheer is part Jewish, part secular Catholic, and very liberal (pp. 60 - 61) ; Scheer and first wife want to "escape" her strict orthodox Jewish background by going west (pp. 65) ; his studies at UC Berkeley and acquaintance with Al Martinez, Bill Boyarsky, Oakland Tribune writers, and William Knowland, Publisher (pp. 67) ; Lawrence Ferlinghetti (pp. 71 - 72) ; Scheer makes several references throughout the interview to his 1976 interview of pres. candidate Jimmy Carter that appeared in Playboy (magazine). ; first impression on joining Los Angeles Times (pp. 84 - 86) ; his views on Jerry Brown (pp. 117).
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