Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
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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Approx. 20 items: packet of material related to Justice (and ex-Calif. governor) Earl Warren includes 16-pp. transcript of Bassett interview of Warren, 7/2/1973, on memories of politics and his relations with CA newspapers ; 11-pp. transcript of "Press release, Address by Governor Earl Warren, California Newspaper Publisher's Association...(1/18/1944) on his first year as governor ; collection of letters between Bassett and Warren, 1973, one news clip copy ; packet of materials related to LAT news exec. Ted Weegar - 5-pp. transcript of interview with Weegar, 10/1/1975, memos related to Weegar and an LAT bio for Weegar ; two copies of transcript of "...off-the-record interview with Paul Weeks, formerly of the L.A. Mirror and later with The Times, now with RAND Corp." 2/13/1975 - one major subject here is LAT coverage of race relations in L.A. ; several pieces of correspondence between Bassett and Weeks ; two copies of transcript of "Taping with Alan J. Williams, former Chief Executive Asst. to former mayor Norris Poulson..." 7/2/1975, also letter from Williams to Bassett relating to the interview transcript.
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A letter from Otis Chandler to his Aunt, Mrs. Earle E. Crowe [Constance Chandler Crowe,] wishing her a speedy recovery and hoping that problems that confront her generation of the Chandler family can be ameliorated in the near future.
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Approx. 15 items: 16-pp. transcript of "taped interview with former Supervisor John Anson Ford on 2/2/1973" featuring Ford's memories and thoughts on Los Angeles history, the effect on it of Los Angeles Times and the Chandler family and related views ; 7-pp. (numbered pp. 8 - 14) of an "excerpt from (John Anson Ford's unpublished biog.) ; single-sheet (yellow) bio of John Anson Ford ; news clip copies related to F. Daniel Frost ; 1972 single-sheet bio of F. Daniel Frost ; several pieces of correspondence involving Frost, James Bassett, and in one instance, a letter dated 1/28/1977, to Frost from Otis Chandler ; two 5-pp. transcripts of "Taping with F. Daniel Frost, senior partner Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher and a member of the Times Mirror Company Board of Directors," 12/2/1976 ; 2 sheets of handwritten notes related to "John Anson Ford book ; 27-pp. booklet, 4/26/1976, TM "Notice of Annual Meeting."
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1 item: biographical information sheet headed "Earl Crowe...for reference only in The Times morgue," dated 12/4/1984.
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9 items: 25-pp. "Taping with Jack Nelson, new Chief of the Times Washington Bureau," 3/7/1975, covering Nelson's experiences covering the South during civil rights movement of 1960s, joining Los Angeles Times in 1964, etc. ; an Los Angeles Times bio and several other pieces of material related to J. Nelson ; 6-pp. speech transcript, "The challenge of '75," by Robert D. Nelson at The Management Conference," 3/18/1975 ; 7-pp. transcript of "Taping with Robert D. Nelson, Vice President and General Manager of The Times," 10/9/1975 ; two bio sheets on Robert D. Nelson, one 1974, one 1975.
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