Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
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. 25 items: LAT articles and other material related to William F. Knowland, U.S. Senator, one-time gubernatorial candidate, later Oakland Tribune publisher. Notable items: LAT editorial copy, 8/15/1945, "The naming of Sen. Knowland" ; article tear sheet, California - the Magazine of the Pacific, 12/1950, "The shifting sands of American foreign policy" by William F. Knowland ; 22-pp. copy of manuscript of speech delivered 10/17/1961, to Freedom Club of Los Angeles, title "1961 - the Year of Decision" (on "China/Russia") ; 20-pp. transcript of "Taping with Senator William F. Knowland on June 12, 1973" ; LAT article 2/24/1974, on "William F. Knowland...ex-Senator," which opens with "William Fife Knowland...killed himself Saturday with a single bullet wound in the temple, authorities said..."
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6 items, including: 3-pp. (undated report or transcript of article? - on green paper) headed "The Harry Chandler - Joseph R. Knowland loan" ; LAT article copy ?, 4/23/1951, "U.S. business good, publishers report...MacArthur [firing by Truman] is biggest story, say newspaper executives in N.Y." ; LAT ? article copy, 2/2/1966, "Death takes Joseph R. Knowland."
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Correspondence regarding the William C. Knowland/ Goodwin Knight election for California Governor, including letters and photocopies from Knowland, Knight, and Hotchkiss. Original Knowland letter dated March 10, 1958 and Knight letter dated April 29, 1957 removed from Autograph File and returned to Hotchkiss files. File of L. D. Hotchkiss.
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Approx. 35 items: letters, financial reports, memos, bulletins, and other material related to communications between Western States Building-Loan Association and TM.
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Approx. 12 items: handwritten notes, n.d. ; 4-pp. of typed notes from Inside USA, by John Gunther, 1947, on the Cameron - Chandler - Knowland Axis in California politics ; letter, 3/24/1960, to Norman Chandler from Edmund G. Brown, Governor of Calif. ; an Associated Press profile of Edmund G. Brown, 3/22/1968 ; 3-pp. typed / handwritten notes on William F. Knowland from the book Dancing Bear, by Gladwin Hill (publ. 1968) ; several pieces of correspondence, 1977, between Bassett and the Knight-Brown Project representative at UC Berkeley ; related material.
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Three letters of correspondence between Donald R. Dwight, Publisher of The Minneapolis Star and Tribune, and Otis Chandler. Also in this folder is an attachment that came with one of the letters.
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