Manuscripts
I - Miscellaneous Correspondence
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Correspondence & Miscellaneous - January - August
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Approx. 75 items. The folder contains a wide array of personal and business correspondence. In addition, there are programs, business cards, news clippings, a 1968 membership list for the International Press Institute, etc. There are two smaller folders inside. They contains material related to Bassett's 1968 Far East trip and a planned trip to Israel which was canceled. Notable names and items include: William F. Buckley, Jr. ; (CA Lieut. Gov.) Robert Finch ; "International Press Institute Membership List, " 7/1/1968 ; Bassett's International vaccination booklet ; materials related to Bassett trip to Far East, contains letters, maps and travel guides related to the Pacific, Australia, the Philippines, etc. ; materials related to canceled trip to Israel - containing informational material. Split into two folders.
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Correspondence & Miscellaneous - August - December
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Approx. 75 items. The folder contains a wide array of personal and business correspondence. In addition, there are programs, business cards, news clippings, a 1968 membership list for the International Press Institute, etc. There are two smaller folders inside. They contains material related to Bassett's 1968 Far East trip and a planned trip to Israel which was canceled. Notable names and items include: William F. Buckley, Jr. ; (CA Lieut. Gov.) Robert Finch ; "International Press Institute Membership List, " 7/1/1968 ; Bassett's International vaccination booklet ; materials related to Bassett trip to Far East, contains letters, maps and travel guides related to the Pacific, Australia, the Philippines, etc. ; materials related to canceled trip to Israel - containing informational material. Split into two folders.
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D - Miscellaneous Correspondence
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Approx. 70 items. Subjects include: a contract with Dow Jones News Service; Spiro Agnew; California Redwoods; hiring and relocation of Anthony Day from Philadelphia Bulletin; coverage of the Reagan vs. Unruh gubernatorial election; singer/actor Bobby Darin in war of words with LAT columnist Joyce Haber, including a letter by Darin to Williams (Israel and two bottles of scotch were involved); preparation (business and private) for a NYC visit by Williams and his wife; letter from Walt Disney regarding Disneyland; letter from Everett McKinley Dirksen; etc. Disney and Dirksen letters removed from Autograph File and returned to Williams Subject File.
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B - Miscellaneous Correspondence
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Approx. 80 items. Includes correspondence with other newspaper execs, inter-office memos, letters to the editor, etc. Subjects include: the relationship between the editorial and advertising departments; the issue if morality in cinema; reporting of Errol Flynn's lifestyle; L.A. Philharmonic concerts for young people; controversy surrounding boxer Muhammed Ali; anti-Communists; the John Birch Society.
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P - Miscellaneous Correspondence
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Approx. 30 items. Letters, memos, newspaper clippings. Subjects include: "Hollywood" celebrity coverage; Mayor Norris Poulson; moving expenses for Arch Parsons (1964); Don Bruckner reprints; controversy over an illustration depicting Cain and Abel seen by some as demeaning to Negros; the future of the UC and State College systems; John L. Perry--public opinion pollster; tension and war in the Middle East and Vietnam; etc.
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Correspondence & Miscellaneous - Editorial cartoons
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8 items: letter, 9/19/1967, to Bassett from Walter Annenberg (publisher, ambassador) praising editorial cartoonist Paul Conrad ; 4/29/1969, Bassett to Douglas T. Moore, responding to complaint about a specific Conrad cartoon ; letter, 5/17/1969, to Bassett from Douglas T. Moore, critical of Conrad and LAT and attached handwritten letter, 4/21/1969, from Moore to Franklin Murphy (Chair, TM Board) ; letter, 6/2/1970, from Bassett to Allen Mansfield (Pacific Western Securities), responding to Mansfield's criticism of Conrad cartoons and attached letter from Mansfield to Frank Haven, Managing Editor, LAT, attached are two Conrad cartoons about Nixon.
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