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Chandler, Otis


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    Chandler, Otis - With others

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    4 items, all dated 8/15/1980: 11-pp. transcript of interview with Otis Chandler that deals with race cars and driving them ; 3-pp. transcript of interview with Bettina Whittaker (future wife) about his activities and personality ; another 3-pp. transcript with Bettina Whittaker, same subjects ; 13-pp. transcript of interview with Ron Bishop, a friend of Otis' at Stanford University and thereafter - subjects are Otis activities and personality traits.

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    Chandler, Otis

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    Approx. 5 items: approx. 80-pp. of transcripts of interviews, likely by Marshall Berges, with Otis Chandler. The interviews were conducted on several days between 8/1980 and 2/1981. The remarks range across many topics: race car driving ; a four-day visit to the Lyndon B. Johnson Ranch in the 1960s ; other Times Mirror business ventures in broadcast media. Part of this material is a 25-pp. transcript of an interview of Otis Chandler by Michael Jackson of KABC (radio). Segments of the 1980 interviews deal with corrections Otis wished to make to comments made earlier.

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    Chandler, Otis - Tape # 1

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    Approx. 10 items: 18-pp. transcript of Bassett interview of Otis Chandler, 7/29/1975, wide range of subjects - youth, Stanford, his personality, social & political opinions of his wife, "Missy," The Mirror, etc ; 2-pp. bio on Otis Chandler ; 5-pp. "Add Tape 1, 8/18/1975 ; 35-pp. interview transcript sent by Jack Hart of Cal State Northridge, 7/1/1973 - subjects are handwritten on cover sheet ; 3-pp. transcript of interview on KNXT (TV), 10/13/1975, of Otis Chandler by newsman Joseph Benti on Chandler's feelings about power vs. opportunity, about his leadership style, women in journalism, etc ; several more installments of the Benti interview ; 26-pp. transcript of interview (prob. KABC radio) with Michael Jackson as host (no date, no other info on transcript).

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    Chandler, Otis

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    1 item: 73-pp. transcript of interview by Marshall Berges with Otis Chandler, 3/12/1980. Chandler spoke about a hunting trip to Afghanistan in 1977 and traveling in the region of the Himalayas. Later in the tape Chandler discusses the Watts Riots and the aftermath, plus 1964 political endorsements, more.

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    Chandler, Otis

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    1 item: 54-pp. transcript of interview of Otis Chandler by Marshall Berges, 12/10/1980. Subjects include: the John Kennedy assassination ; Otis' relationship with Robert Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy's assassination ; more "fine-tuning" of his comments on previous interviews ; memories of his Los Angeles Times apprenticeship ; more.

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    Chandler, Harry B

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    3 items: 59-pp. transcript of interview with Harry Chandler (2nd son of Otis Chandler), 4/22/1980 ; 25-pp. transcript of interview with Harry Chandler, 4/22/1980 ; 20-pp. transcript of interview with Harry Chandler, 4/22/1980. Harry speaks of his childhood, his teen years and his education at Pasadena Polytechnic, Andover and Stanford. He also recounts his interest in art and his working life at Twentieth Century-Fox.

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