Manuscripts

Flanagan, Charles

Description: Approx. 40 items. LAT briefs and news stories on Flanagan. Representative headlines: "Yorty names four (incl. Flanagan) to Planning Commission (1961) ; "City planner tells Jury of $1,000 bribe offer" (1962) ; "Planning Commissioner's (Flanagan) votes aid friends" (1967) ; "Flanagan praised by Yorty, called zoning scapegoat" (1967) ; "Times seeks to crush commissions--Yorty" (1967) ; more.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1961 - 1967
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Los Angeles Harbor Scandal

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items. Material includes: several transcripts of news programs from Radio TV Reports; a statement by attorney Grant B. Cooper on the drowning death of his client, Harbor Commission Pres. Pietro Di Carlo; demand by George D. Watson for multiple retractions/corrections related to LAT stories of October 1967; copy of KNXT (TV) editorial on "The Times Harbor Department Story," which notes "the Times has performed a public service in the best tradition of journalism"; items related to the Times-(Mayor Sam)Yorty "feud"; transcript of Yorty press conference; reaction, in the form of another KNXT broadcast, from a member of the Board of Harbor Commissioners.

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Shuler, Robert

Manuscripts

Approx. 25 items. A sampling of headlines from LAT news stories and editorials: 9/19/1929, "Shuler radio gossiping scored by grand jury...charges (made) based on mere hearsay injuring innocent persons" ; 12/28/1930, "Shuler radio battle opens here on January 8...Radio Commission to decide if pastor must get off the air" ; 6/22/1953, "Dr. Bob Shuler Sr. ends pastorate...veteran fundamentalist gives farewell sermon at Trinity Methodist Church" ; 9/12/1965, "Rev. Shuler dies...former prohibitionist."

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Yorty, Sam - 1966

Manuscripts

Approx. 30 items. Subjects include: Otis Chandler publicly remarking that Yorty had failed to show leadership in race relations, after which Yorty challenged C. to a debate on who was doing the most to improve race relations in L.A.; Yorty, LAT and Vietnam issues; repeated allegations by Yorty of LAT "distortions"; complete transcript of Yorty press conference of 6/9/1966; text of Yorty speech to AP Managing Editors Assn., 11/18/1966; etc.

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Yorty, Sam - 1968

Manuscripts

Approx. 75 items. Transcripts of press conferences and other public gatherings, news summaries from Yorty's office, news clippings, letters. Subjects include: Yorty refers to Otis Chandler and L.A.'s District Attorney as "practically in a conspiracy to get (me)" - Radio-TV Reports, 10/15/1968; Yorty's forays into international affairs; Yorty says he may sue LAT over an editorial cartoon; much more of the same in the Yorty-LAT face off; several letters from Yorty to LAT foreign correspondent William Tuohy; Yorty files a $2 million libel suit against LAT (12/1968); copy of the libel suit Yorty filed with County Superior Court; Yorty accuses LAT of protecting "friends" and "harpooning" their "enemies"; Yorty sponsors creation of his own editorial cartoons criticizing Otis Chandler & LAT; etc.

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Yorty, Sam - 1961, 1963-1965

Manuscripts

Approx. 30 items. Subjects include: internal memos discussing Yorty and his relationship with LAT; discussion of Yorty's affinity for news anchor George Putnam; colorful marginal notes about Yorty by Otis C. and others; 1963 invitation for W. to attend Yorty birthday party at Hollywood Palladium and W.'s regrets; Yorty claims that LAT material was "purposely one-sided," etc. Otis C. wrote marginal notes critical of Yorty. In red pencil he wrote on an August 1963 Mayoral letter --"A real kook with impossible emotions," and "[Yorty is] always looking for someone to give him sympathy."

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Yorty, Sam - 1969

Manuscripts

Approx. 30 items. Letters, booklet, "The Yorty Years," a highly favorable view of his mayorship, transcripts of media reports on Yorty, sections from L.A. Free Press and Herald-Examiner, etc. Specific subjects include: LAT hesitates to endorse Tom Bradley in mayoral race of 1969, instead endorsing Alfonzo Bell as the most likely to unseat Yorty; Yorty's office newsletter (3/13/1969) reports on Yorty's speech to the Westwood Young Republicans; Yorty newsletter predicting mass police resignations should Bradley win election; George Putnam newscast highly critical of Otis Chandler and LAT; much more material relating to Yorty-LAT feud; etc.

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Flanagan, Charles

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