Manuscripts

Fitts, Buron

Description: Approx. 25 items. LAT news stories and editorials, a partial biography, single-sheet, titled "Buron Fitts - the Man," and other biographical materials. An LAT story, 3/30/1973, gives the details of his apparent suicide - "Former Dist. Atty. Buron Fitts found shot to death at home" in Three Rivers, CA. Also an 8/8/1930 letter from Fitts to the "Fitts-for-Governor" Headquarters, reading in part, "I do not want to end this campaign heavily in debt...I am not financially able to assume the burden."
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1930 - 1973
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
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Werner, Pete and Helen

Manuscripts

Approx. 20 items: LAT news stories and editorial copies from the 1930s and 1940s on the activities of one-time City Atty. Pete Werner and wife Helen (described as a "political queen of the 1920s" in L.A.), transcripts of hearings, other information. Notable items: LAT obit copy, 5/11/1947, "Helen Werner, political 'queen' of 20s, dies" ; 25-pp. transcript (on onionskin paper), from Dist. Court of Appeal of State of California, 2nd Appellate Dist., Div. Two, "Edwin P. Werner, Plaintiff and Appellant, vs. Southern California Associated Newspapers...Defendant and Respondent," filed 6/2/1949.

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Correspondence & Miscellaneous

Manuscripts

Approx. 80 items. Includes business and personal letters, postcards (blank & handwritten), photographs, a personal letter from Dist. Atty. Evelle J. Younger. and an invitation to dinner from Kay and Paul Conrad.

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Viereck, George S

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1 item: LAT editorial copy, 4/22/1916, "The treason of Viereck," aimed at a man who, according to LAT, is a "foreign-paid, anti-American propagan(dist)."

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Johnson, Hiram (1 of 2)

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Approx. 60 items: collection of news stories and editorials on political career of Hiram Johnson, who was involved in a decades-long feud with first H.G. Otis, later Harry Chandler. LAT reports and comments on Johnson were uniformly negative, or LAT ignored him. Notable items: 6 sheets torn from Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly (1950s?), "Hiram Johnson and World War I...a Progressive in transition" ; 3-pp. copied from Current Biography, 1941, entry for Hiram (Warren) Johnson ; LAT obit, 8/7/1945, "The death of Hiram Johnson," is not kind to the deceased but, as LAT put it, "it would be hypocritical to forget or retract..." ; letter copy, 8/19/1940, from LAT's Kyle Palmer to Sen. Hiram Johnson, on Palmer/LAT endorsement of Johnson for Senate, "an editorial which...I never thought [I would] either write or read."

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Rochester, George

Manuscripts

Approx. 12 items: LAT news copy, 5/21/1936, "Rochester to be Fitts opponent...former state senator enters primary race for office of district attorney" ; LAT news copy, 5/18/1938, "Gambling ship raid ruled legal by Webb" ; LAT news copy, 1/4/1965, "Study group suggests ways to speed justice," reads in part, "the blue-ribbon commission of 12 judges and lawyers [is] headed by attorney George W. Rochester..." ; more.

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Kegley, Carl S

Manuscripts

Approx. 25 items: 2-pp. "KEGLEY INDEX -- from 1933 to date [1968]" - a chrono. summary of collected articles ; LAT news story copy, 9/21/1933, "Fitts [D.A.] clashes on crime drive...denunciation of Minute Men interrupted by Kegley" ; LAT article, 3/22/1968, "City attorney (Kegley) agrees to draft 'unconstitutional' ordinance," for San Clemente.

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