Manuscripts

McCulloch, Frank

Description: "Thirteen pieces of correspondence. Five pieces, in regards to Frank McCulloch's possible rehiring, were originally in a folder marked "restricted." These are correspondence between Otis Chandler, Frank McCulloch and Freddie [Frederica T. Miller.] Two letters regarding McCulloch taking the position. Four letters are regarding McCulloch being in town and meeting up with Chandler. The last two letters are correspondence between Frank McCulloch and Otis Chandler about a missed opportunity to meet in person. "
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1966-1972
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

McCulloch, Frank

Manuscripts

Approx. 20 items. Subject include: exchange of letters between Frank McCulloch and a U. of Iowa journalism prof. on news coverage of airliner crashes; Bircher John Rousselot alleges that he and Robert Oppenheimer were being considered as advisors to the U.S. delegation to the United Nations; Cecil Smith column on the sale of KTTV (a Times Mirror holding); McCulloch memo to Williams and Otis Chandler on the potential for expanding subscriber base in San Diego area 8/21/1961); two copies of a 5-pp., July 1, 1963, report by McCulloch on a Columbia U. Seminar on "Effective Community Reporting"; Oct. 14, 1963, resignation letter from Frank McCulloch to Otis Chandler; personal letter to Williams from McCulloch (Feb. 16, 1964) after the later had taken up his new post with Time Inc. in Southeast Asia; correspondence with Raymond McKelvey, Political Science prof. at Occidental College; Williams' business (also personal) letter to Frank McCulloch in 1968 when LAT wanted to lure him back from Time, Inc.--dated Nov. 27, 1968, begins with word "Dammit" (also is stapled inside larger stack of correspondence); full-page tear sheet of July 15, 1963, LAT Sports section with handwritten message on it; etc.

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McCulloch, Frank

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2 items: multi-page article copy (publication name not found), "Will the West take over?" by Frank McCulloch, on potential "cultural, political and scientific (shift of) leadership" to the West Coast ; article copy, Sacramento Bee, 9/14/1975, "Story of a Story," on The Bee's staff coverage of Gerald Ford assassination attempt. McCulloch was on the Bee staff at the time.

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Newsday

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Ten pieces of correspondence between Otis Chandler and employees of Newsday. The first set of letters are congratulatory and thank you letters between Otis Chandler and Tom Darcy, Newsday's political cartoonist, regarding Darcy's award for best cartoon from the Overseas Press Club, and Paul Conrad's recent Pulitzer. The second set of letters are correspondence between William (Bill) Attwood, Newsday's President and Publisher, and Otis Chandler, regarding syndication. The last set of letters are correspondence between Otis Chandler, Nick Thimmesch [Los Angeles Times Syndicate Columnist], Freddie [Frederica] Miller [Otis Chandler's Secretary], and Dave Laventhol [Newsday's Editor], which included a copy of the syndicate agreement between Nick Thimmesch and Newsday.

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Klein, Herbert G

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Four items. Photocopies of three letters of correspondence, consisting of five pages, between Herbert G. Klein [White House Communications Director], Frederica [Freddie} Miller (on behalf of Otis Chandler,) and Otis Chandler, regarding a front page story by Stu Loory about Henry Kissinger. Also a letter regarding Klein's ASNE candidacy.

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Approx. 10 items: stapled packet of three items - two letters (1961) between Josiah Macy (Pan American World Airways) and Norman Chandler's office, plus multi-page list of corporate board affiliations of Norman Chandler ; 3-pp. transcript of "Telephone conversation with Nick Williams, 9/29/1975," in which Bassett asks him about bringing Frank Haven and Frank McCulloch to LAT, their overlapping roles and how they got along ; 10-pp. transcript of "Taping with Frank McCulloch, Editor of the Sacramento Bee, on 9/16/1975" ; duplicate of previous transcript on green paper - both versions have editing markups ; packet of material related to Frederica ("Freddie") Miller, long-time administrative aide to Otis Chandler - 16-pp. transcript of Bassett's interview of her, memo of 10/22/1975 from Miller to Bassett after she reviewed aforementioned transcript, memo of 1/18/1974 from Miller to Jim Chambers on subject of the "Associated Press Election Strategy" ; 27-pp. transcript of "Interview - Mark Murphy," 2/16/1973, an editor with The Oregonian and later LAT - also 1-pp. "Biography from the Los Angeles Times" for Murphy.

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Sotomayor, Frank O

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Three items of correspondence, which include two letters and a memo, between Otis Chandler and Frank O. Sotomayor, Copy Editor for The Los Angeles Times and teacher at the Summer Program for Minority Journalists. Also in this folder are three letters and two memos regarding the Summer Program for Minority Journalists.

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