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Libel Cases - Valley Paper Company
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Libel Cases - Reese, Hayden - Article on Twin Lakes, San Fernando Valley
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8 items. Material includes clipping of LAT San Fernando Valley (Sect. K) for 9/20/1962. Story title is "Twin Lakes Holds Firm Against Modernization." Also letter of complaint about the article and in-house memos related to the situation, and a memo to Williams from Richard Adams recommending "that the newspaper...not publish a retraction..."
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Libel Cases - Coates, Paul
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6 items. Material in file deals with demand by an attorney for Wesley A. Swift of Lancaster, that LAT retract statements made about Swift by columnist Paul Coates (5/13/1962). The Times investigated Swift further and obtained a Sheriff's Dept. memo linking "Rev. Smith" to "anti-Jew, anti-Commie, anti-Negro propaganda," and past involvement with the KKK. The last dated item in the file is a memo from 6/4/1962. It is to Frank McCulloch from Richard G. Adams (presumably of LAT Legal Dept.) and states that "since Swift is a hatemonger, The Times will not retract. The demand is to be ignored."
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Libel Cases - Greenberg, Carl - John Birch Society
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Approx. 15 items. Material includes: a small, spiral-bound notebook with notes & quotes; newspaper clippings; memos and letters; an Oct. 15, 1962, news release from Committee to Re-elect Governor Brown. A representative of the John Birch Society demanded a retraction for publication by LAT of a statement of Gov. Edmund. Brown regarding the JBS. There seems to be at least two Greenberg stories mentioned here that JBS took exception to.
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Libel Cases
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Approx. 15 items. Subjects include: the "death" of Wyndham Mooring; quoting testimony in depositions; reference to Whitcomb Motor Hotel as "dreary, run-down"; demand for correction from attorney for O.H. English (bookmaking raid); material defining and discussing libel; correspondence from Mae Murray; etc. Mae Murray correspondence removed from Autograph File and returned to Williams Subject files.
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Libel Cases - Pearson, Drew
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Approx. 20 items. Material relates to a demand for retraction by Frank "One Eye" Dragna through his San Diego attorney, Rock Zaitzow. Certain pieces of information were provided, including "mug shots" of Dragna and some of his associates. Interoffice memos and notes from columnist Drew Pearson are in the file. In the end, the Times did print a correction stating that some claims in the article were found to be unsubstantiated. There was also a small number of items related to another complaint involving Abundavita Corp., actor Bob Cummings and right-winger Rev. Billy J. Hargis.
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Times Mirror Company interim reports
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Brochures: "Interim Report to Shareholders Twelve Weeks Ending March 25, 1962" (2 copies); "Interim Report to Shareholders Twenty-eight Weeks Ending July 15, 1962" (2 copies); "Interim Report to Shareholders Forty Weeks Ending October 7, 1962" (1 copy).
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