Manuscripts
Los Angeles County - Government - Corruption
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Putnam, George
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Approx. 30 items. Includes: Transcripts of some of Putnam's KTTV newscasts; KABC-TV (as well as Putnam of KTTV) takes exception to an article in LAT-published newsletter, Student Outlook, titled "What to do When Stopped by Police." alleging it depicts police in a negative role; related material. Also in the folder are a large number of clippings from area newspapers.
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Los Angeles Times records
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Approx. 20 items: a variety of promotional items trumpeting the "faster format" LAT, which was introduced late in 1989, including: sports hat - "Good News (LAT)" ; blue frisbee (same logo) ; tee-shirt (same logo) ; balloons ; rack cards; and internal promotional items.
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Government Assistance - Los Angeles County Relief
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Approx. 25 items: collection of LAT editorials and news stories [news with "spin" at times] on aspects of County relief funds and how they were spent. Subjects include Federal work camps during the Depression, taxpayer's "revolts," objectionable amounts being spent for relief in the County, etc. Some examples from the 1930s illustrate the "yellow journalism" of the era.
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Los Angeles - City Government
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Approx. 12 items: LAT article copy, 6/10/1931, "Fifth official city flag proposed" ; LAT editorial, 9/14/1964, "Time for a charter change?" ; LAT edit., 10/25/1966, "Reforming Los Angeles' City Charter" ; LAT edit., 11/21/1969, "Charter reform debate" ; LAT edit., 2/23/1970, "Hollywood faces...harsh facts" ; a 1973 exchange of letters betw. Samuel Leask, ex-City Administrative Officer and James Bassett of LAT ; article copy, Los Angeles (mag), 12/1980, "His dishonor, the Mayor" (on A.C. Harper, L.A. mayor 1906 - 1909) ; LAT tear sheet, articles on new City Council District (1st), 1/18/1987 ; LAT article tear sheet, list & brief bio sketch of L.A. mayors, 1850 to 1988, 9/6/1988 ; article copy, Times Mirror (mag), Summer 1989, "A tale of two cities" (L.A. and N.Y.).
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Los Angeles Police Department
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9 items: two LAT clips from 10/1888 on police corruption ; 6-pp. POLICE DEPARTMENT...Annual report of W.A. Hammel, Chief of Police (1904) ; tear sheet from Daily Police Bulletin, 1/21/1929 ; copies of three 1960 LAT editorials, "Anarchy protects no one," 4/21, "Undermining the police force," 7/19, "The bright badge of the LAPD" ; LAT editorial, "Treading the volcano's crust," 7/23/1970 ; LAT editorial, "Who is betraying the students?", 12/13/1974.
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Los Angeles Harbor Scandal
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Approx. 15 items. Material includes: several transcripts of news programs from Radio TV Reports; a statement by attorney Grant B. Cooper on the drowning death of his client, Harbor Commission Pres. Pietro Di Carlo; demand by George D. Watson for multiple retractions/corrections related to LAT stories of October 1967; copy of KNXT (TV) editorial on "The Times Harbor Department Story," which notes "the Times has performed a public service in the best tradition of journalism"; items related to the Times-(Mayor Sam)Yorty "feud"; transcript of Yorty press conference; reaction, in the form of another KNXT broadcast, from a member of the Board of Harbor Commissioners.
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