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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. 35 items. Letters, memos, telegrams, newspaper clippings. Subjects include: "narcotics problem" campaign (letter from R. Nixon); Feather River water project; letter to Oregonian Editor Robert Notson, in which Williams writes of new Publisher Otis Chandler that he "will become a great one"; Times-sponsored charity football game & NAACP; correspondence with the Nieman Fellowship Committee; letter of appreciation from columnist Robert Novak, Washington, DC; 3-pp. letter in 1969 to Jack Nightscales (Vancouver Sun) on "the major challenge for [newspapers in] the '70s...will be to make them an essential part of their...audiences' daily lives"; series of letters between editor of the Picayune Item (Mississippi) and Otis C. and Williams about controversial story by LAT's staffer Ken Reich; awarding of the B-1 bomber contract; exchange of letters with Robert Neumann, US Ambassador to Afghanistan; W.'s letter to R. Nixon; exchange of letters involving misunderstanding of fee charged by EX-Times staffer who went into PR; etc.
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Approx. 60 items. B. corresponded with Joe Holt (U.S. Rep.), Herb Klein (editor, San Diego Union), Ted Rogers (Independent TV), Glenard Lipscomb (U.S. Rep), Otis Chandler (handwritten note),
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Approx. 50 items. Includes letters from Sen. Estes Kefauver and US Court of Appeals Judge Irving Kaufman. Subjects overall include: foreign policy coverage; an interesting letter about Richard Nixon from Edwin Knopf of Pacific Palisades who writes (1961), "Nixon simply doesn't like people....(his has) a smile without mirth and eyes that have no kindness." memo on Times book coverage; assassination of JFK and aftermath; a segment of Congressional Record (4/1968); etc.
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Approx. 65 items. Letters, memos, news clippings. Subjects include: exchange of letters with a Porterville, CA., physician, James Williams, Jr., who complains, "For the past year...your news characteristics of reporting have changed, leaning definitely...to the left." Williams implies that W. might be a communist dupe. W. replies, "My intentions are to see that the news is printed as factually as...possible."; exchange of letters on Editor & Publisher questionnaire, "...New Directions in Journalism"; exchange of letters with John Wayne related to the film, "The Alamo," Americanism, and other topics; the ups and downs of the Space program ; letter typical of early 1960s from Lee Wright (Canoga Park, 1964) complaining of LAT's shift from conservatism and canceling his subscription; ads taken by opponents of Vietnam war; exchange of letters with James Brady, editor of WWD, in which B. complains that Joyce Haber (LAT) has plagiarized from Women's Wear Daily, W. responds; LAT cookbook; popularity of various LAT segments, including advertising; phosphates in laundry detergent; letter from A. L. Wirin and response; etc. A. L. Wirin correspondence removed from Autograph File and returned to Williams Subject Files.
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Approx. 150 items. Folder includes letters from Bassett to many persons who contributed information or aided him in locating information related to the writing of his book on the history of the Times. Among his correspondents: Bill Stout, Rep. Alphonzo Bell, Nick Williams, Justice Earl Warren (ret.), (Sen.) William Knowland, Frank Capra, John Goldman, Leonard Wibberly, Otis Chandler, Tom Snyder (KNBC), Jonathan Kirsch, Edmund G. Brown, Warren Christopher, Richard Nixon, Herb Klein, etc. Split into two folders.
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"Approx. 70 items. Includes list of 1971 articles by B. (same list in folder titled "1971 Articles." The folder includes a report to Bill Thomas from B. titled "Japan Really Won the War," and an article on the British justice system pulled from Catholic Digest of Jan. 1972. Among the prominent persons Bassett corresponded with are a Adm. B.A. Clarey, U.S. Navy, Gov. Edmund G. Brown, August Sebastiani and Sam J. Sebastiani [of Sebastiani Vineyards], U.S. Rep. Bob Wilson, Robert S. Elegant [journalist & author], Herbert Klein [Nixon Dir. of Comm.], Roger Howell [of Bowdoin College], etc. "
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