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Description: Includes drafts and published work, speeches, and material related to Williams's work on the Free Press-Fair Trial issue. Arranged chronologically within subsection. Date range is 1959-1981.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1959-1981
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.

Free Press - Fair Trial

Manuscripts

Approx. 12 items: letters and reports related to the Free press - Fair trial issue in 1968. Major items: 42-pp. report from Judicial Conference of the United States, 2/28/1968, title - "Report of the Committee on the operation of the jury system on the 'free press - fair trial issue" ; materials from American Society of Newspaper Editors relating to this issue ; more material from the American Society of Newspaper Editors and the Freedom of Information office ; more.

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Free Press - Fair Trial

Manuscripts

Approx. 10 items: memos, a letter, article copies and other material related to the Free press - Fair trial issue in 1973. Note: 4-pp. essay (under cover letter dated 4/16/1973) by John Gardner, Chairman, Common Cause, "The right that guards all other rights," on freedom of information.

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Free Press - Fair Trial (1 of 2)

Manuscripts

Approx. 80 items: letters, memos, newspaper clippings, reports, booklets and other material related to LAT and the Free Press - Fair Trial issue during 1966. Notable items: multi-page article copied from American Bar Association Journal, 7/1966, "Libel and public men," by William O. Bertelsman ; correspondence between NBW and Robert Notson, Exec. Editor of The Oregonian (Portland) ; ongoing correspondence between NBW and J. Edward Murray, Managing Editor, Arizona Republic ; correspondence between LAT execs and American Newspaper Publishers Assn. and American Society of Newspaper Editors ; legal documents in the case of Eason Monroe vs. City of Los Angeles ; 30-pp. complete issue of Nieman Reports, 9/1964 (filed with '66 material) ; complete issue, The Bulletin of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, 7/1966 ; 12-pp. "FREE PRESS AND FAIR TRIAL - Remarks by Gene Robb, Publisher of Albany Times-Union and Knickerbocker News (6/24/1966) ; more.

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Press - Freedom of - Clippings

Manuscripts

Approx. 50 items: LAT clips and reprints plus tear sheets from Time and Wall St. Journal on press freedom. Notable items: complete issue, The Review of Southern California Journalism, 12/1972, lead story - "It can happen here - ask Bill Farr" (the LAT reporter jailed for refusing to reveal a source to a judge) ; reprint, Time, 7/8/1974, "The Press..fair of foul" ; LAT, bound reprints, 4/1976, series title, "Free trial and free press...on a collision course."

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Free Press and Fair Trial

Manuscripts

Six items pertaining to the Free Press and Fair trial, containing newspaper and magazine clippings, reprints, and newsletters.

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Free Press - Fair Trial

Manuscripts

Approx. 12 items: letters, memos, booklets, legal documents and other material related to the Free press - Fair trial issue in 1971 and 1972. Major items: multi-page reprint from Southern California Law Review, Vol. 45, 1972, "Free Press - Fair Trial - the 'gag order,' a California aberration," by Robert S. Warren and Jeffrey M. Abell ; booklet, approx. 40 -pp., "In the Court of Appeal...The Times Mirror Company vs. Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Los Angeles...(petition filed by Robert C. Lobdell (Los Angeles Times counsel) and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher (et al) ; approx. 17 sheets contain Court of Appeals case USA vs. Dickinson (1972) ; two Freedom of Information Center reports from7/ 1972, "Infiltration of the Press (by police & government agencies)" and "Looking out for the consumer" ; more.

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