Manuscripts
Communism
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Approx. 20 items: news stories, editorials and letters to the editor, LAT and Santa Monica Evening Outlook, on the career of controversial Chief of Police Ed Davis.
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Race Relations - Ku Klux Klan
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Approx. 15 items: LAT editorials (strongly anti-Klan) and news stories from the 1920s on the arrival of the Klan in Los Angeles area ; LAT news stories from the 1960s on the Klan.
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Crime - Los Angeles
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Approx. 20 items: LAT news stories and editorials , 1924 - 1933, on gangsters, gambling, etc., in Los Angeles and nationwide; copied booklet, Ghouls Guide to Los Angeles, date unknown (1954>); 17-pp. copied From a Reporter's Notebook, "The Black Dahlia...1947 - 1987," by Will Fowler.
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Eisenhower, Dwight D
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Approx. 25 items. LAT news stories and many editorials, 1947 - 1969 and obituary, plus 2 legal-size sheets, dated 8/2/1976, comprised of a chronological listing of news stories and editorials about Eisenhower.
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World War II
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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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Morality
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Approx. 12 items: LAT editorials and "news" stories on subjects such as graft, the Charleston (dance craze), smut, "the exploitation of nudity," etc.
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