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
2 items: program for Carl Greenberg's retirement dinner in 1973 (guests included Otis Chandler, former Gov. Edmund G. Brown, Gov. Ronald Reagan, Mayor Tom Bradley, Bob Hope, several senators, etc.; LAT clip, 11/14/1984, "Retired Times political writer Greenberg dies."
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Approx. 25 items. Letters, press clippings, Yorty newsletters, etc. Subjects include: discussion of a new charter for L.A.; 1970 "Yorty for Governor" press release; issues related to Indochina war; LAT gives very strong editorial endorsement to Tom Bradley for mayor, stating that Yorty's 8-yr. record as mayor was one of "bickering and weak leadership, racial divisiveness and clowning absenteeism on world-wide junkets" and more; etc.
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Seven letters comprising 23 pages, pertaining to reader's correspondence. Some of the topics include Summer Camp fund, Ronald Reagan, Editorial policy on request for sponsors for immigration and missing persons.
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Approx. 55 items: event calendars, guest lists, program notes and other material related to meetings and luncheons hosted by Anthony Day and the Editorial Pages staff of LAT, July through September, 1987. Notable names: Paul Simon (US Senate, pres. candidate) ; Benjamin Hooks (Exec. Dir., NAACP) ; Tom Bradley (Mayor, L.A.) ; Joseph Biden (US Senate) ; Pete du Pont (businessman, pres. candidate) ; Gray Davis (State Controller, CA) ; Christopher Dodd (US Senate) ; Marvin Goldberger (Pres., Cal Tech).
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1 item: 5-pp. transcript of interview of Mayor Tom Bradley by James Bassett, 7/11/1977.
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Approx. 12 items. Includes a "Confidential Questionnaire for Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Also in the file are some letters to the Editor. One handwritten letter is an angry response to Times' coverage of Governor Reagan, alleging it to be "totally unfair and unjustified," and referring to Publisher Otis Chandler as "the young character running the Times." (Mr. Chandler was 40 at the time) In the same time frame, 1967, Walter Annenberg sent a note to James Bassett calling cartoonist Conrad--the target of much controversy--"talented," and expressing "enthusiastic admiration" for him. Correspondence discussing editorial cartoons and readership in more general terms.
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