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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
"Correspondence, notes, and other general material to and from Marshall Berges during his work on the history of the Los Angeles Times. Includes many letters back and forth with Otis Chandler regarding comments on drafts and marketing appearances. REMOVED TO AUDIO-VISUAL BOXES: one cassette tape labeled "Community Viewpoint: Marshall Berges 5/13/84 6:30 am KFI Radio."
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Forty letters comprising 102 pages, pertaining to reader's correspondence. Some of the topics include editorial policy, political cartoons, Dorothy Healey, Jack Smith, press operations, letters to the editor, editorial viewpoint, communism, campus unrest (civil disobedience), copyright policy-permision to reproduce, Ted Bomar, 1969 mayor news stories, how a news story gets in print, Norman Chandler, Angela Davis, Art Sidenbaum, and Sirhan Sirhan.
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Approx. 30 items. Letters, memos, a bibliography of RAND Corp. publications. Subjects include: editorial cartoons; an incident in which LAT columnist Art Ryon, allegedly drunk, spoke to the annual meeting of the Agricultural Council of Calif. at the El Mirador Hotel, Palm Springs; Richard Reston's personal impressions of working the Moscow Bureau in letter to Williams; cancer drugs; community seminar-racial understanding; exchange of letters with Assemblyman Leo Ryan; members of Rigby family take exception to reportage on plane crash that killed one family member and injured others, and after which a 15 year-old boy struggled through snowstorm to bring help; etc. Nelson Rockefeller letter removed from Autograph File and returned to Williams Subject Files.
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Approx. 35 items. Letters, memos. Some letters are from readers urging LAT to resume publication of conservative Morrie Ryskind's columns. (R. had ceased submitting material following LAT refusal to run one in late 1965) Most of the remaining correspondence involves LAT staff conducting a sort of "post-mortem" on Ryskind's association with LAT. Some are exchanges between Rex Barley (LAT Syndicate) or Nick Williams and Ryskind. The LAT declined to run certain of his columns when they believed he was making unsubstantiated allegations regarding media outlets. Also, Ryskind was a member of the John Birch Society and did not approve when LAT did an expose on the group, which seemed to fuel the "feud." A 6-pp. memo Williams wrote to Otis Chandler contains much information about the situation. It is dated March 7, 1966. Also in the file are another group of letters critical of LAT for "censoring" Ryskind.
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Approx. 20 items. Memos and letters. Subjects include: work by Leonard Feather (jazz critic); Sheinwold on Bridge; staffers writing books (on their own time); crime in L.A. and the nation; "Viewpoint of the Times" essays; John Steinbeck writing on Vietnam; etc.
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8 sheets of legal-size paper with clippings pasted on them. Clippings all seem to be from LAT, though only one actually has logo included. Subjects include: "a new daily paper, called the Tribune"; H.H. Boyce files a libel suit against LAT; LAT "sets a trap" and the Tribune falls for the hoax; testimony from the trial, etc.
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