Joseph Benti Interview

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  KABC TV Series on The Times Interview

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  "Fourteen items relating to a KABC TV series on The Times which aired in October 1979. These items include one note, three memos, and six letters. One of the memos has attached research regarding the Owens Valley and San Fernando. "

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  History - Interviews Regarding

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  5 items. 3 broadcast interviews on L.A. area TV stations (10/21/1975), with Otis Chandler, with Robert Gottlieb (later authored Thinking Big, a history of LAT, and with a group of independent newspaper dealers angry at LAT; interview of LAT staffer Art Seidenbaum (misspelled on transcript) by Michael Jackson of KABC-radio (10/16/1975); Tom Brokaw interview of David Halberstam on KNBC-tv (5-3-1979).

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  Radio/TV Coverage - Transcripts

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  5 items. Transcripts from various broadcast media outlets: KFWB-radio; KNBC-tv; KNXT-tv; KPOL-radio. Subjects included: new Times security system penetrated by LAPD officer (implied that Chief Ed Davis sent him to do it); interview with Lowell Thomas, Jr., Lt. Governor of Alaska; excerpt of Warren Olney and Jess Marlow interview with Police Chief Ed Davis; news brief on Los Angeles Magazine publishing a story on Marilyn Chandler (Otis' wife) and the fact that she was on the payroll of Howard Hughes' Summa Corp.

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  Radio/TV Coverage - Transcripts

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  Approx. 25 items. Reports from various broadcast media outlets (KNXT-tv, KNBC-tv, KHJ-tv, KNX-radio) on topics including: the LAT Charity Game; 4-part interview of Otis Chandler (2 sets) by Joseph Benti (10/13-10/17); Benti interview with Robert Gottlieb, author of Thinking Big, a book critical of LAT; Michael Jackson radio interview of Art Seidenbaum (spelled Sidenbaum in transcript); Councilman Joel Wachs guests on "The Tommy Hawkins Show" (KHJ-tv).

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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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  Interviews

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  8 items: five 2-pp. transcripts, dated 7/21/1969 through 7/25/1969, of an interview of Dr. Franklin Murphy broadcast on the "Tom Reddin News" program on KTLA-tv, Los Angeles; single yellow sheet, only pp. 1 is in the file, it is a Murphy interview text ending in mid-sentence, no date, no indication of interviewing person or entity; 5-pp. interview transcript, no date, no names; 11-pp. interview transcript, no date, no names.

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