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. 12 items: correspondence related to the so-called "Fallbrook Case," involving water rights ; Fallbrook Utility District ; Goodwin J. Knight (Lt. Gov., CA) ; correspondence between William F. Knowland (U.S. Senate) and Norman Chandler on water issues ; Richard Nixon (U.S. Senate) ; more.
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Approx. 50 items - letters, newsletters, clippings, a press release and one article tear sheet. Notable names and items include: Harold Kennedy (County Counsel) ; letters on salt water conversion ; materials labeled "Fallbrook Water" (1956) that reflect "feud" between LAT and Claremont Men's College history prof. W. Henry Cooke, including his article in Pacific Historical Review (2/1956), "The controversy over water rights in the Santa Marguerita River" (pp. 1 - 28 ; Arthur Breed (CA Senate) ; reprint from Congressional Record, 8/2/1955 ; Soil Conservation Society of America ; CA Atty. Gen. Edmund G. Brown ; complete issues of District News - Imperial Irrigation District, 3/1967 - 4/1967 ; Gov. Goodwin J. Knight ; more.
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Approx. 30 items. Subject include: an exchange of letters with the publisher's office at Scientific American; exchange of letters with editor Cecil Grahame of Food Service Magazine; a letter to Roger Freeman of The Hoover Institution in which Williams describes his own politics as "slightly right of the current center (1969); exchange of letters with John Freeman, British ambassador to the US; several newspaper clippings on the appointment of Freeman to assist Pres. Nixon on economic affairs; exchange of letters between Williams and John Anson Ford; "Personal and Confidential" letter from F. Daniel Frost of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher law firm on the tax reform law; angry letter from the Gen. Mgr. of the Florida Citrus Commission protesting material that appeared in LAT story (West Magazine) making reference to frozen orange juice concentrate produced in Florida. There is a clipping of the story in question.
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Approx. 35 items. Letters, memos, telegrams, newspaper clippings. Subjects include: "narcotics problem" campaign (letter from R. Nixon); Feather River water project; letter to Oregonian Editor Robert Notson, in which Williams writes of new Publisher Otis Chandler that he "will become a great one"; Times-sponsored charity football game & NAACP; correspondence with the Nieman Fellowship Committee; letter of appreciation from columnist Robert Novak, Washington, DC; 3-pp. letter in 1969 to Jack Nightscales (Vancouver Sun) on "the major challenge for [newspapers in] the '70s...will be to make them an essential part of their...audiences' daily lives"; series of letters between editor of the Picayune Item (Mississippi) and Otis C. and Williams about controversial story by LAT's staffer Ken Reich; awarding of the B-1 bomber contract; exchange of letters with Robert Neumann, US Ambassador to Afghanistan; W.'s letter to R. Nixon; exchange of letters involving misunderstanding of fee charged by EX-Times staffer who went into PR; etc.
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Approx. 45 items. Subjects include: furor over columnist Morrie Ryskind's criticisms of LAT and AP; the William Wieland case; Khrushchev visit to USA; exchange of letters with Barry Goldwater encouraging him to continue his column for the LA Times Syndicate; dropping of "Dick Tracy" comic from the Times & extended exchange with Chester Gould, creator of the comic; exchange of letters between J.J. McClellan, a V.P. of Facelle Co., and Williams, after the company accused the Times story "Grocery Shelf Psychology" of being "biased and inaccurate"; the films of John Wayne--good and bad; etc. Aug. 13, 1965 letter to Wes Gallagher notes that the LAT "is under constant and frequently outrageous attack by some elements of the extreme right."
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Approx. 65 items. Letters, memos, news clippings. Subjects include: exchange of letters with a Porterville, CA., physician, James Williams, Jr., who complains, "For the past year...your news characteristics of reporting have changed, leaning definitely...to the left." Williams implies that W. might be a communist dupe. W. replies, "My intentions are to see that the news is printed as factually as...possible."; exchange of letters on Editor & Publisher questionnaire, "...New Directions in Journalism"; exchange of letters with John Wayne related to the film, "The Alamo," Americanism, and other topics; the ups and downs of the Space program ; letter typical of early 1960s from Lee Wright (Canoga Park, 1964) complaining of LAT's shift from conservatism and canceling his subscription; ads taken by opponents of Vietnam war; exchange of letters with James Brady, editor of WWD, in which B. complains that Joyce Haber (LAT) has plagiarized from Women's Wear Daily, W. responds; LAT cookbook; popularity of various LAT segments, including advertising; phosphates in laundry detergent; letter from A. L. Wirin and response; etc. A. L. Wirin correspondence removed from Autograph File and returned to Williams Subject Files.
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