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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
Approx. 67 items. Reviews of the 1979 book, The Powers that Be, by David Halberstam. Clippings, photocopies and reprints of reviews from Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Time, N.Y.Times, Washington Post, Harpers, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, New West, The Oregonian, Manchester Union Leader (New Hampshire), many other major magazines and newspapers, and many relatively small newspapers around California, the Pacific Coast states and New York City. Split into two folders.
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3 items. Three interviews with David Halberstam, author of the 1979 book, The Powers that Be, which deals, in part, with the history of the Los Angeles Times. 1) Transcript of Jess Marlow (KNBC-tv) interview of Halberstam. 2) Transcript of Michael Jackson (KABC radio) interview of Halberstam. 3) Transcript of Merv Griffin (KTTV-tv) interview of Halberstam.
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Approx. 20 items. Reviews of the 1977 book, Thinking Big: the Story of the Los Angeles Times, its Publishers, and their Influence on Southern California. Clips, photocopies, and reprints from Newsday, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, N.Y. Times, Columbia Journalism Review and others, plus a memo by Robert Erburu reacting to the coverage.
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Approx. 30 items: memos, letters and reports related to the Times-Post News Service. Some correspondence with Ben Bradlee, Washington Post Editor. Split into two folders.
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1 item: 56-pp. transcript of ABC-tv program featuring the comments of John Babcock, Otis Chandler, Ben Bagdikian, David Halberstam, Carey McWilliams, Bill Robertson, Jack Tatum, Eldon Finley, Ralph Nader, Pat Brown, John Pastier and Marshall Berges. Subjects include: Bagdikian's view that newspapers owned by big conglomerates tend to write news based on the wishes of the conglomerate -- Otis Chandler refuted that as far as Times Mirror went, indicating that the writers and editors are free to report as they see fit ; Halberstam gives his impressions of Otis--"by Chandler standards a liberal... I think he wants to do the right thing" ; Halberstam on Harrison Gray Otis, founder of what became the Times Mirror empire - "He was a bellicose man...combative, aggressive...rather fight than make a profit" ; Los Angeles Times boosterism : Los Angeles Times vs. the unions ; Halberstam on Harry Chandler - "an economic tycoon (who) wanted power" ; how Harrison Gray Otis and later Harry Chandler amassed the money and power that carried forward the Times Mirror "empire" ; Owens River aqueduct ; real estate dealings ; Tejon Ranch ; Otis C. on extended Chandler stockholders - "They're very unhappy with me sometimes" ; Halberstam on Dorothy Chandler - "considered the radical liberal within the (extended Chandler) family" ; development of Downtown and the Music Center ; objectivity of Los Angeles Times.
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Originally maintained as the Los Angeles Times History Center, the Los Angeles Times Records contains materials related to the business life of the Los Angeles Times and its owners - both corporate and personal. The business material is roughly organized by Times department; research material collected by the History Center to document the Times and materials related to the Otis/Chandler families are organized by subject. The records include accounting papers, legal documents, correspondence, directories, memoranda, reprints of articles, supplements to the newspaper, manuscripts, oral history transcripts, ephemera, newspapers, newspaper clippings, and objects. The collection includes a significant amount of audiovisual material, including photographs, film, and audio tapes. There are also several samples of printed newspapers that were collected by the Times History Center.
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