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Howard, J.L. (Jack)
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2 items: clip envelope with typed and written notations - "Howard, J.L. (Jack)...Pasadena murder case...Los Angeles Evening Herald & Express, 6/25/(19)36 - No L.A. Times clips ; Herald & Express, 6/25/1936, "How Cooley murder was solved."
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Radio/TV Coverage - Transcripts
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9 items. Transcripts on various topics, including: Bruce Herschenson (KABC-radio) savages LAT -"inaccurate...misinformation....Robots and computers....the L.A. Times has reached that point"; David Reavill reports on Times Mirror earnings, mentioning newsprint costs and TM's lumber mills; several briefs on downtown area blackout (10/1983) during which LAT printed Herald-Examiner and La Opinion; long Michael Jackson interview (KABC-radio) with Robert Rawitch, Suburban Editor of LAT;
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Bradley, Tom
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Approx. 25 items: LAT news stories and editorials, internal LAT reports, about the career and life of Tom Bradley, mayor of L.A. from 1973 until 1993. LAT opinion on Bradley seemed to be mixed.
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Correspondence & Miscellaneous
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2 items: A four-page typed letter to Bassett, dated 3/6/1978, from former President Gerald Ford, writing that he is "concerned about the direction the Democratic Administration is taking our country"; a clipping, dated 7/3/'78, from the L.A. Herald-Examiner, titled "Comeback time for Dick Nixon."
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Politics - Los Angeles City
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Approx. 20 items: clips and copies from LAT and other L.A. media on L.A. mayors, city government, relations between the Press and politics locally, journalism's influence on public opinion, etc. Notable items: pp. 33 - 47 from "Los Angeles Times and Public Opinion," a 1929 thesis written at Claremont Colleges by John Homer Williams ; pp. 207 - 228, copied from book The Fragmented Metropolis, L.A. - 1850 - 1930, by Robert Fogelson, 1967 ; 58-pp. college (?) paper, written for a Political Science class (1971), "The role and influence of the Los Angeles Times in City politics...", by Rich Wiseman.
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Bowron, Fletcher - Clippings
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50+ items: LAT news stories and editorials on Fletcher Bowron and his service to L.A. as mayor, and later as judge, including everything from feuds with LAT to endorsements of him by LAT and back to feuding. Notable among these items is one letter, 1974, from Albine Bowron, the mayor's widow, to James Bassett, a high-ranking LAT editor, and another, 1974, from Mayor Tom Bradley (L.A.) to retired Chief Justice Earl Warren.
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