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8 items. Material includes clipping of LAT San Fernando Valley (Sect. K) for 9/20/1962. Story title is "Twin Lakes Holds Firm Against Modernization." Also letter of complaint about the article and in-house memos related to the situation, and a memo to Williams from Richard Adams recommending "that the newspaper...not publish a retraction..."
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6 items. Material in file deals with demand by an attorney for Wesley A. Swift of Lancaster, that LAT retract statements made about Swift by columnist Paul Coates (5/13/1962). The Times investigated Swift further and obtained a Sheriff's Dept. memo linking "Rev. Smith" to "anti-Jew, anti-Commie, anti-Negro propaganda," and past involvement with the KKK. The last dated item in the file is a memo from 6/4/1962. It is to Frank McCulloch from Richard G. Adams (presumably of LAT Legal Dept.) and states that "since Swift is a hatemonger, The Times will not retract. The demand is to be ignored."
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Approx. 15 items. Subjects include: the "death" of Wyndham Mooring; quoting testimony in depositions; reference to Whitcomb Motor Hotel as "dreary, run-down"; demand for correction from attorney for O.H. English (bookmaking raid); material defining and discussing libel; correspondence from Mae Murray; etc. Mae Murray correspondence removed from Autograph File and returned to Williams Subject files.
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Approx. 12 items. The material deals with a line in a LAT story that "the venerable Detroit Free Press is due for closing one day soon." Following a letter from Lee Hills, VP and Executive Editor of The Free Press, Nick Williams responded, "Herewith the apology and retraction which we ran last Sunday. I want to repeat that I am personally embarrassed that the rumor ever appeared in The Times."
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8 items. Material includes; a copy of the article which drew unhappy response from the owner of a home featured in a Home magazine article, Dr. Charles Wahl, a psychiatrist; a series of letters from Wahl to LAT; the response to Wahl from Williams; advisory memos to Williams (interoffice); a memo to Williams from Bob Sirois of Legal Dept., reading in part, "the doctor has no cause of action against The Times."
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Approx. 15 items. Material includes: a small, spiral-bound notebook with notes & quotes; newspaper clippings; memos and letters; an Oct. 15, 1962, news release from Committee to Re-elect Governor Brown. A representative of the John Birch Society demanded a retraction for publication by LAT of a statement of Gov. Edmund. Brown regarding the JBS. There seems to be at least two Greenberg stories mentioned here that JBS took exception to.
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