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. 75 items: LAT news stories and editorials, letters, memos and other material on the Federal Military Zones created along US coast, Japanese-Americans being sent to internment camps, justifications of these, plus calls for recognition of the civil rights of Japanese-Americans.
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Approx. 45 items: LAT editorials and news stories covering the period from the early 1930s, when German and Japanese aggression against both neighbouring countries and their own citizens came to light, also material on many aspects of the lead-in to World War II for the USA.
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Approx. 30 items: correspondence and related material exchanged with Radislav Artukovic (son of accused Nazi war criminal Andrija Artukovic). Other notable names: Barney Frank (US Rep.), Paul Laxalt (US Senate).
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Telegrams, reports, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other information related to censorship of the media during World War II. Correspondents and topics include L. D. Hotchkiss; the Western Defense Command and Fourth Army; the federal Office of Censorship; the federal Office of War Information; and Japanese balloons. File of L. D. Hotchkiss.
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Approx. 20 items: LAT editorials and news stories on various wartime issues, starting with the February 1942 "air raid" on Los Angeles which turned out to be a false alarm, ending with last year of war ; LAT front page, 2/26/1942, "Army says alarm real...Roaring guns mark blackout" ; Los Angeles (mag) story about "1941," a Steven Spielberg film about the previously mentioned air raid - article ran 11/1979.
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Correspondence, ephemera, legal documents, and other items related to World War II. Subjects and correspondents include isolationism; war in Europe; Japanese invasion of China; Adolph Hitler; Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies; Harry Chandler; and Frank Knox, Secretary of the Navy. Split into two folders. File of L. D. Hotchkiss.
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