Manuscripts

Buildings - Second - Bombing - Publications

Description: Approx. 22 items. Articles related to the 1910 bombing of the Los Angeles Times building. Articles copied or clipped from the following magazines: Westways; American History Illustrated; Southern California Quarterly (Spring 1988) - 2 articles, "The McNamara Case: A Window on Class Antagonism in the Progressive Era," and "The Fall of Job Harriman's Socialist Party: Violence, Gender and Politics in Los Angeles, 1911"; Labor History; Time; Sunday News; True-The Men's Magazine; Saturday Evening Post; Hampton's Magazine; L.A. Times; San Francisco Examiner; others.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1911 - 1994
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.

Buildings - Second - Bombing - Clippings

Manuscripts

Approx. 30 items. Articles about the bombing and the resulting trial, photocopied or clipped from: LAT; Oakland Tribune; The Pacific Printer; L.A. Examiner. Also LAT prepared chronologies included.

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Buildings - Second - Bombing - Darrow, Clarence

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8 items. Material related to attorney Clarence Darrow and his involvement in the LAT bombing trial in 1911. Items include: sheet headed "DK/8/78 - Los Angeles Times, Bombing of: - Clarence Darrow 1) Los Angeles Times Clippings"; 61-pp. booklet, "The Darrow Bribery Trial" (1956); 1987 Reference Request form, LAT Archives, for two clippings; "Portion of Henry Fonda performance of 'Clarence Darrow' - 1975"; various newspaper clippings mentioning Darrow;etc.

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Buildings - Second - Bombing - Lawler, Oscar

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3 items: sheet with "DK/8/78" at top, with info about the other items; 50-pp. (89-138) transcription from Oscar Lawler Oral History. labeled "Chapter X: McNamara and Clarence Darrow Trials" (according to the UCLA online catalog, the oral history with Oscar Lawler was taped in 1959 and 1960); newspaper clipping of 1/4/1966, obituary of "Oscar Lawler, 90...Played prominent role in Investigation of 1910 Bombing of The Times Building."

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Buildings - Second

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items. Articles on the new Times building constructed in 1887. Articles have been copied from LAT and Among Ourselves. One additional article is from Civic Center News (11/13/1979), and is an interview with Ernest Lindner, "descended from a family closely identified with the history of printing and typesetting in Los Angeles."

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Buildings - Second - Bombing - Caplan, David Trial

Manuscripts

Approx. 38 items. Clips of news stories related to the trial of David Caplan, "charged with murder in connection with the bombing of the original Times building."

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Buildings - Second - Bombing - Accounts

Manuscripts

Approx. 30 items. Subjects relate to the 1910 bombing of LAT building: 14-pp. report on the bombing and the circumstances surrounding it (with covering note by Durham J. "Durrie" Monsma; 3-pp. letter (7/8/1957) to LAT "Editor" from "Ernest Rhoads, Ex-Battalion Chief," L.A. Fire Dept., who not only fought the fire caused by the bombing, but spoke in person to "Tom [J.B.] McNamara" decades later in prison, and asked him, "Would you do it again?" The letter provides the answer and more details; several accounts of the bombing written in later years; lists of news clippings and editorials related to the bombing and trial; 12+ pp. headed "James B. and John J. McNamara - Papers, 1905-1961"; 30-pp. "Special Report," by "H.G. Otis," dated 10/31/1910 (30 days after bombing), "Our Sad Misfortune: the dynamiting and destruction of the Times Building."

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