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. 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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9 items. Transcripts on various subjects, including: KNBC-tv report on labor troubles, financial troubles and more at L.A. Herald-Examiner; several briefs from area broadcast news outlets on Otis Chandler's leaving LAT publisher post; KFWB-radio news report on heavy rains in Mandeville Cyn.; two KNXT-tv reports on skullduggery among some realtors (esp. in SFValley); KNXT-tv's Bill Stout presenting his "Turkey of the Month" award to Otis Chandler for comments made about gun ownership.
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Approx. 25 items. 3 examples of 60-sec. LAT "Radio Continuity" (ads); Transcripts on various subjects, including: failed talks between USA and Mexico on sale of natural gas to USA; Michael Jackson (KABC-radio) interview with LAT staffer David Shaw, in part on Shaw's articles on LAT errors in coverage; about a dozen transcripts reporting LAT's refusal to run comic strip "Doonesbury"; Jess Marlow (KNBC-tv) interview of David Halberstam, author of The Powers that Be, a book which generally praised (Otis C.-era) LAT;KABC-tv reporters comment on Howard Rosenberg's LAT article criticizing the station's coverage of the Guyana People's Temple tragedy (2 copies).
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5 items. Transcripts on the following subjects: Sky Valley Airlines (KNBC-tv report); KABC-tv's Bruce Herschenson comments on LAT's, specifically TV critic Howard Rosenberg's, "disregard of accuracy"; blurry or faint print in LAT; problems between LAT and Chicano Studies profs at CSULA (2 items).
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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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Approx. 11 items. Subjects include: LAT opening a San Diego bureau; LAT's new fashion section, "Fashion '78"; KNBC-tv reporter Kelly Lange, LAT staffer Barry Siegel, and Dr. Neil Sandberg discuss the policies of private clubs in L.A. area, "who gets in and who doesn't and why," and the relatively positive record of Riviera Country Club; KNXT-tv's Connie Chung and Bill Stout comment on "The David Begelman Financial Affair"; KNX-radio brief on death of LAT art critic Henry Seldis, of an apparent overdose of prescription drugs; etc.
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