Manuscripts

David Carlisle Controversy

Description: Approx. 12 items: letters, news clippings, and other material related to A Bright, Shining Lie, by Neil Sheehan,which won the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1989. Controversy arose when African American veterans disputed accounts of their actions during the Korean War which were used in the aforementioned book, which was mainly about the Vietnam War.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1989
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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Editorials & Articles - July - December

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Reprints of editorials, articles, and reports originally published in the Los Angeles Times. Includes "Southern California's Latino Community," series which won a 1984 Pulitzer Prize.

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Awards - Pulitzer Prize 1969 - William Tuohy and Gold Medal

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9 items: 2-pp. press release, from Columbia Univ., "Pulitzer Prizes -- 1969...International Reporting Award to William Tuohy (LAT) - Few correspondents have seen and written more about the war in Vietnam than William Tuohy..."; article copy, Among Ourselves, 5/1969, "Times wins two Pulitzer Prizes"; LAT article copy, "Times honored with two Pulitzer Prizes...expose' of wrongdoing in City government, coverage of Viet war earn coveted awards"; tear sheet, Editor & Publisher, 5/10/1969, "Pulitzer medal for public service is awarded to Los Angeles Times"; letter from The White House, signed "Dick," 5/13/1969, congratulating Otis Chandler on the Pulitzer award; related items and dupes.

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Awards - Pulitzer Prize 1976 - Phil Kerby

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9 items: Management Bulletin, 5/3/1976, announces Phil Kerby's being awarded a Pulitzer Prize for distinguished editorial writing; LAT article copy, 5/4/1976, "Times editorial writer awarded Pulitzer Prize"; LAT article copy, 5/4/1976, "Kerby's Pulitzer caps a career to be prized"; dupes of previous stories; tear sheet and copy, Among Ourselves, 6/1976, "Phil Kerby's Pulitzer - coveted award caps 45-year news career"; sturdy folder containing 8 editorials by Kerby from LAT during 1975 (for which he won Prize), with an introduction by Otis Chandler; flyer from same time frame, "Phil Kerby worries about freedom. Everybody's."

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Contests and Awards

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Approx. 80 items: letters, memos, article copies and tear sheets related to awards won by LAT staffers. Organizations in the correspondence include: Pulitzer (Prize) Committee ; Sigma Delta Chi.

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Miscellaneous - Newspaper clippings - Pulitzer Prize

Manuscripts

Approx. 80 items: 1984 news clips from newspapers, in California and nationwide, mentioning the Pulitzer Prizes won by LAT for 1983 stories. Conservation photocopies made April 2007. Originals removed.

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Awards - Pulitzer Prize 1955 - John L. Gaunt

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7 items: two photocopies (in two sizes) of the certificate for John Gaunt's Pulitzer Prize for News Photography; three LAT article copies--4/4/, 5/3, 5/10/1955--on various prizes Gaunt won for "Tragedy in the Surf (a.k.a. "Tragedy in the Sea"); two copies, Among Ourselves article, 6/1955, "Gaunt wins third Pulitzer for Times";

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