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
3 items: LAT clip, undated - ca. 1970, "Mark Murphy appointed Times Metropolitan Editor"; single-sheet, "Biography from the Los Angeles Times," for Mark Murphy, 7/1977 (started at LAT in 1964); 24-pp. transcript of interview, headed "L.A. Times -- Mark Murphy -- Tape R#12 and R#13."
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2 items: 3-pp. typed, headed "Bill Murphy notes re possible features," with entries dated from 12/1972; original copy of "Panorama," an LAT retiree newsletter, Summer 1988.
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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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1 item: 126-pp. transcript of interview with Mark Murphy by Marshall Berges. Subject include: description of his typical day ; sizing up job applicants (pp. 11) ; dealing with his assistants (pp. 18) ; "we don't cover our own city as thoroughly as we should" (pp. 45) ; his childhood and family background (pp. 49 - 60) ; at Brigham Young University (pp. 63 - 64) ; he was raised Mormon, though later non-practicing (at time of interview) by age 22 he and wife had 2 children ; hired as copyreader at Salt Lake Tribune (pp. 64) ; after one month at Tribune, accepts news editor post in Pendleton, OR, that he had applied for previously (pp. 66) ; after 2 and a half years in Pendleton, he goes to The Oregonian in Portland ; hired at LAT (pp. 73) ; described Editor Frank Haven - "he acted like an oaf in (some) ways" - apparently he had a gutter mouth (pp.75) ; discusses David Shaw and Robert Scheer, two talented but controversial writers at LAT (pp. 91 - 93) ; more.
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Approx. 20 items. Much of this file consists of the texts of Yorty remarks at public functions or on radio or TV. Subjects include: more of Yorty's war of words with LAT, i.e., text of "Big News" broadcast on KNXT-TV, title "Another Episode in the Times-Yorty Dispute," etc.
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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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