Manuscripts

History - Interviews Regarding

Description: 5 items. 3 broadcast interviews on L.A. area TV stations (10/21/1975), with Otis Chandler, with Robert Gottlieb (later authored Thinking Big, a history of LAT, and with a group of independent newspaper dealers angry at LAT; interview of LAT staffer Art Seidenbaum (misspelled on transcript) by Michael Jackson of KABC-radio (10/16/1975); Tom Brokaw interview of David Halberstam on KNBC-tv (5-3-1979).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1975, 1979
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.

History - Publications - "The Powers That Be" - Interviews

Manuscripts

3 items. Three interviews with David Halberstam, author of the 1979 book, The Powers that Be, which deals, in part, with the history of the Los Angeles Times. 1) Transcript of Jess Marlow (KNBC-tv) interview of Halberstam. 2) Transcript of Michael Jackson (KABC radio) interview of Halberstam. 3) Transcript of Merv Griffin (KTTV-tv) interview of Halberstam.

mssLAT

Image not available

Radio/TV Coverage - Transcripts

Manuscripts

Approx. 25 items. 3 examples of 60-sec. LAT "Radio Continuity" (ads); Transcripts on various subjects, including: failed talks between USA and Mexico on sale of natural gas to USA; Michael Jackson (KABC-radio) interview with LAT staffer David Shaw, in part on Shaw's articles on LAT errors in coverage; about a dozen transcripts reporting LAT's refusal to run comic strip "Doonesbury"; Jess Marlow (KNBC-tv) interview of David Halberstam, author of The Powers that Be, a book which generally praised (Otis C.-era) LAT;KABC-tv reporters comment on Howard Rosenberg's LAT article criticizing the station's coverage of the Guyana People's Temple tragedy (2 copies).

mssLAT

Image not available

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).

mssLAT

Image not available

Radio/TV Coverage - Transcripts

Manuscripts

Approx. 12 items, some duplicates. Several examples of LAT 30-second "radio continuity" (ads). Several transcripts on various subjects: the firing of Joyce Haber (Charles Champlin is mentioned) reported on KNBC-tv; a gay protest at LAT building, reported by KFWB-radio (multi-page stack, dated 10/22-- Reverend Robert Serico/Sirocco interviewed several times; 2 copies of KNBC-tv interview (12/26) of Jean Sharley Taylor, new Associate Editor of LAT; transcript of KFI "Talk Radio" from 8/1 of "caller" criticizing Dorothy Chandler and the County Supervisors--"she got the supervisors to award her $100,000 of taxpayers' money to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion."

mssLAT

Image not available

Radio/TV Coverage - Transcripts

Manuscripts

5 items. Transcripts on the following subjects: Sky Valley Airlines (KNBC-tv report); KABC-tv's Bruce Herschenson comments on LAT's, specifically TV critic Howard Rosenberg's, "disregard of accuracy"; blurry or faint print in LAT; problems between LAT and Chicano Studies profs at CSULA (2 items).

mssLAT

Image not available

Joseph Benti Interview

Manuscripts

Transcripts of a long week television interview of Otis Chandler on At Ease by Joseph Benti. The interview was aired the week of October 13, 1975, concluding Friday, October 17, 1975 on Channel 2 KNXT TV. Five transcripts total.

mssLAT

History - Interviews Regarding

Opening Hours

Admission Info and Tickets

You might also be interested in

History - Publications - "The Powers That Be" - Interviews

Radio/TV Coverage - Transcripts

Radio/TV Coverage - Transcripts

Radio/TV Coverage - Transcripts

Radio/TV Coverage - Transcripts

Joseph Benti Interview