Manuscripts

Rude Awakening - Notes

Description: Approx. 12 items: article copies, typed and handwritten notes. Notable items include: one faded photo of young man (prob. Bassett) and young woman on a boat ; multi-page copy of article, New York Times Magazine, 1/4/1959, "Nine tests for the Presidential hopeful."
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1978
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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Rude Awakening - Notes

Manuscripts

Approx. 25 items: notes, clippings and other material. Notable items include: 6-pp. booklet, "What The Times stands for," 1969 ; multi-page satiric booklet, "The People's Choice, or, Mix your own candidate" by Andre Dugo ; newspaper and magazine article copies on various subjects - Mormonism, the First Amendment, Alexander Solzhenitsyn's thoughts on American hedonism, etc. ; notes, both typed and handwritten.

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Rude Awakening - Notes (1 of 2)

Manuscripts

Approx. 60 items: clippings, handwritten and typed notes and other material, including a large number of notes on small pieces of paper. Notable items include: 50-pp. of a handwritten journal Bassett wrote at Bowdoin College in 1933 (pp.1 mentions the death of Calvin Coolidge). Split into two folders.

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Rude Awakening - Notes (2 of 2)

Manuscripts

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Rude Awakening - Synopsis

Manuscripts

1 item: 81-pp. manuscript - "Rude Awakening," synopsis of a novel by James Bassett.

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Freedom of the Press - Articles and Commentary

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items - "wire" stories, article copies, letters and other material related to LAT court case (ca. 1939 - 40) and the Pulitzer Prize in 1942. Notable names and items include: multi-page copy of segment from book, The Pulitzer Prize Story, by John Hohenberg, 1959 ; articles about the court decisions, etc., from Among Ourselves, Editor & Publisher, Collier's and Liberty ;12-pp. "Federal Bar Association - Speech notes," 11/15/1966, "J.B. speech [Jim Bassett?] handwritten ; 16-pp. copy, "CASE HISTORY" (LAT "contempt of court case) ca. 1942, source unclear ; multi-page (long, tan sheets) - "An Address by Col. Robert R. McCormick - Editor and Publisher of the Chicago Tribune, before the Chicago Bar Association," 12/10/1938.

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Rude Awakening - Manuscript

Manuscripts

1 item: 77-pp. manuscript, with numerous cross outs, additions and other editing marks.

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