Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
8 items: various brief legal documents in the case of "The Times-Mirror Company and L.D. Hotchkiss vs. The Superior Court of the State of California..." (most items are staple-bound documents under 50-pp.) ; 57-pp. "Brief for Respondent in Opposition to Petition for Writ of Certiorari," October Term, 1939. 7 items: various brief legal documents in "The Times-Mirror Company and L.D. Hotchkiss vs. The Superior Court of the State of California..." (most items are staple-bound documents under 50-pp.) ; 65+ pp. "Supplemental brief on behalf of Respondent," October Term, 1940. 29-pp. (on 15 sheets) copy of legal document, "In the Supreme Court of the State of California - The Times-Mirror Company... and L.D. Hotchkiss vs. The Superior Court of the State of California, in and for the County of Los Angeles," (L.A. No. 16928), "... Harry Chandler and L.D. Hotchkiss (L.A. No. 16929), "Brief for American Newspaper Publishers Association as Amicus Curiae," n.d. - ca. 1939. 4 items: various brief legal documents in "The Times-Mirror Company and L.D. Hotchkiss vs. The Superior Court of the State of California..." (items are staple-bound documents under 50-pp.) ; 21-pp. staple-bound, "Nos. 1, 3.--October Term, 1941," also names "Harry Bridges, Petitioner."
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Manuscripts
4 items: 25+ pp. of US Supreme Court transcript of the two cases - Bridges vs. California and Times Mirror vs. Superior Court ; 2-pp. LAT in-house memo, 1980 ; booklet, "Freedom of the Press - the Anglo-American Struggle, 1644 - 1837" ; single sheet biography of colonial printer John Peter Zenger, who was the defendant in a pivotal libel case in 1734.
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Manuscripts
Approx. 55 items. Subjects include: memos between Williams and Otis Chandler on the Dallas Times Herald operations; what should be modified about operations of Times Herald (and Dallas News); correspondence between Williams and Felix McKnight, Editor (& Co-Publisher); etc.
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Manuscripts
Superior Court of California (Sacramento County), Times Mirror Co. vs. Franchise Tax Board, No. 97467, Brief for Defendant
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50+ items: selection of LAT news stories on strikes at the Herald-Examiner, the closing down of the Herald-Examiner, etc. ; tear sheet, Los Angeles (mag), 1/1968, "Where does the Herald-Examiner go from here?" ; article copy, Los Angeles (mag), ?/1977, "The Her-Ex...George Hearst's secret money-making machine? ; tear sheet, Downtown News, 11/18/1985, "Herald Examiner Building--Mr. Hearst's First Castle" ; multiple tear sheets, LAT, 11/2/1989, incl. pg. 1 story, "Herald Examiner will halt publishing today" and editorial headlined "End of the Herald-Examiner."
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Approx. 60 items: memos, letters, tear sheets, etc. related to persons and organizations starting with letter "H." Much of the material in this folder is related to the Herald-Examiner. Included is a 7-pp. profile of Mary Ann Dolan, Editor of the Herald-Examiner, from the 6/1982 issue of Washington Journalism Review. The article, written by Dallas writer Dennis Holder, is not totally friendly: "Dolan's philosophy...is to have her fingers in everything and her thumb on everybody."
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