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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
3 items: sheet with "DK/8/78" at top, with info about the other items; 50-pp. (89-138) transcription from Oscar Lawler Oral History. labeled "Chapter X: McNamara and Clarence Darrow Trials" (according to the UCLA online catalog, the oral history with Oscar Lawler was taped in 1959 and 1960); newspaper clipping of 1/4/1966, obituary of "Oscar Lawler, 90...Played prominent role in Investigation of 1910 Bombing of The Times Building."
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Approx. 20 items. News clippings from LAT on persons involved in bombing trial:McNamara, Darrow, Schmidt, McManigal, Clancy, Ironworkers union, Gompers, etc.
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Approx. 30 items. Subjects relate to the 1910 bombing of LAT building: 14-pp. report on the bombing and the circumstances surrounding it (with covering note by Durham J. "Durrie" Monsma; 3-pp. letter (7/8/1957) to LAT "Editor" from "Ernest Rhoads, Ex-Battalion Chief," L.A. Fire Dept., who not only fought the fire caused by the bombing, but spoke in person to "Tom [J.B.] McNamara" decades later in prison, and asked him, "Would you do it again?" The letter provides the answer and more details; several accounts of the bombing written in later years; lists of news clippings and editorials related to the bombing and trial; 12+ pp. headed "James B. and John J. McNamara - Papers, 1905-1961"; 30-pp. "Special Report," by "H.G. Otis," dated 10/31/1910 (30 days after bombing), "Our Sad Misfortune: the dynamiting and destruction of the Times Building."
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Approx. 30 items. Articles about the bombing and the resulting trial, photocopied or clipped from: LAT; Oakland Tribune; The Pacific Printer; L.A. Examiner. Also LAT prepared chronologies included.
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Approx. 38 items. Clips of news stories related to the trial of David Caplan, "charged with murder in connection with the bombing of the original Times building."
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7 items. Some of the items in this folder are quite yellowed and beginning to crumble, especially a stapled copy of "Plea and answer of J.J. McNamara." Also "People vs. M.A. Schmidt," material related to the trial from County Archives, including "Report of the Mayor's Committee," copy of J.B. McNamara's handwritten confession, letter from General Secretary of the United Shoeworkers of America to Gov. Hyram Johnson, General (Harrison Gray) Otis, and to the McNamara brothers. The letter refers to "the unspeakable General Otis of Los Angeles." A 1967 cover letter from C.J. Hyans to Carl Greenberg of LAT, attached to a 1950 letter from attorney Joseph Scott to Hyans. The older letter deals with the bombing and trial.
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