Manuscripts

Mills, Billy G

Description: A Western Union telegram to Otis Chandler from Billy G. Mills, Councilman 8th District, urging the Times Game at the Coliseum to be canceled due to the riot conditions.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1965
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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Stadiums - Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum

Manuscripts

Cover and 14-pp. stapled report, "Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum - Brief history & listing of Commissioners, 1933 - 1969." Also, five tickets to the December 16, 1979 Los Angeles Rams football game in the Coliseum - the final game played by the Rams in that stadium.

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Events - USA vs. USSR Track and Field Meet and Basketball Game

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items, including: ticket order form letter ; eight tickets ; "Press" ribbon ; booklet - "USA vs. USSR Basketball," 4/29/1973 ; two booklets, "(LAT) International Games," (7/23 - 24/1966) Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum." The USSR athletes canceled their appearance on July 12, 1966 to protest the U.S. bombing of Hanoi. British Commonwealth athletes took their place.

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Radio/TV Coverage - Transcripts

Manuscripts

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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Chronological File - October

Manuscripts

Approx. 75 items. Letters and memos. Subjects include: responses to readers' concerns about comic strips and the Sports section; responses to letters about columnist Paul Coates; Williams briefly explains to a reader why LAT endorsed Cranston for Senator; Matt Weinstock; urging readers to read the daily (Page 1) Column 1 story; editorial-like articles in other sections beyond the opinion section; William's critique of West magazine (issue of 10/20/1968); editorials being aimed at "the white middle class," because they are LAT's "basic audience"; addressing complaints on a "lack of 'community news'" and "too much society news"; Williams' is not thrilled about King Features Syndicate comic strip, "Boner's Ark"; note to Jim Murray on 8th anniversary of his joining LAT; editorial department heads meetings; letter to Irving Kaufman, U.S. Circuit Judge; penciled notes on "Craig St. Clair" notepaper; etc.

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Departments - Circulation - Dealers

Manuscripts

3 items, stapled: 3-pp. "Dealer's Agreement" (canceled 1950); 2-pp. "Cash Bond Agreement" (canceled 1950); 1948 letter from R.F. Marx, LAT Circulation Manager, to Ernest Barber (a dealer) informing him of a price increase for LAT copies furnished, other details.

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"The Zoot Suit Riot" by Marilyn Domer

Manuscripts

1 item: Photocopy of 193-pp. manuscript, "The Zoot Suit Riot" by Marilyn Domer, for Claremont Graduate School.

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Mills, Billy G

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