Manuscripts

Politics - Analyses

Description: Approx. 12 items: Editor & Publisher articles on press support for presidential candidates for 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964 and 1968 ; articles discussing stance of some editors relating to candidates.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1952 - 1968
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.

Employees - Hotchkiss, L.D. - Editorials - Politics

Manuscripts

Approx. 12 items: Hotchkiss articles on the subjects listed above, between the years 1952 and 1960. In addition, there is one article copy from ASNE Bulletin, 1/1952, "Are we being shouted into a war?' features several Editors-in-Chief responding to the title question, one is Hotchkiss.

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John Birch Society - Newspaper Industry Correspondence

Manuscripts

Approx. 30 items. Subjects include: correspondence between Williams and other U.S. editors; memo (June 15, 1964) describing tactics of John Rousselot in dealing with anti-JBS members of a Monrovia audience; Robert Notson, Editor of The Oregonian, wrote to Williams, "Otis Chandler's statement (condemning JBS) was forthright and courageous....I thought I would not see the day when conservatives attacked the Times." The letters filed here show strong support for The Times stance.

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Taft, Robert

Manuscripts

Approx. 40 items: collection of LAT news stories and editorial article copies on Sen. Robert A. Taft, his activities and his prospects for the Republican presidential nomination in 1952. Includes a selection of the "By the Way...with Bill Henry" columns.

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Politics - Los Angeles City - Clippings

Manuscripts

Approx. 60 items: selection of LAT news stories and editorials on city politics, 1920 - 1933, focusing on elections, mayors, mayoral candidates, and other city officeholders.

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Politics - National - Nick Williams Editorials

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items: the bulk of these clips are related to the 1960 presidential campaign. One clip, from 1964, deals with the Republican National Convention of that year.

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Chronological File - August

Manuscripts

Approx. 75 items. Letters and memos. Subjects include: some brief letters to persons W. had met socially; note to Bill Thomas on the "recurrent rumor" that some LAPD officers were purchasing and carrying on duty "machine guns and automatic rifles"; letter to A.S. "Doc" Young, Editor of L.A. Sentinel, trading thoughts on the role of newspapers and editors; memo to Otis Chandler on how "close to home" the L.A. Times Syndicate should sell the Times-Post newsservice, for example--Fresno? San Diego??; increasing the number of "articles of a current sociological nature"; W. suggests to Almena Lomax (African-American journalist) that she collect her writings into a book and also contacts Edward Kuhn, Exec. VP of New American Library, that it should be considered for publication, and puts Lomax in touch with Kuhn; long (4+ pp.) memo to Frank Haven on "extensive reorientation of the thinking and the methods of many of our reporters..." (8/16/1968); "new directions" memo to Otis C. (8/16/1968); letter to Editor of San Gabriel Valley Daily Tribune-- "I...go along with the idea of newspapers not attacking each other [without] direst necessity" (8/16/1968); still another answer to the charge that LAT is "completely leftish"--W. writes of his own political stance, "I consider myself a political moderate, a little right of center, a Republican since Truman..."; more on Conrad as a great cartoonist that W. does not always agree with;

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