Manuscripts

Nelson, Jack

Description: Approx. 15 items. Memos and letters. Subjects include: LAT hiring of Jack Nelson (who had been with Atlanta Constitution; LAT plans to open Atlanta bureau; letter and personal bio from Nelson to Frank Haven, LAT Managing Editor); several Nelson clips from Atlanta Constitution; correspondence related to a racially-charged story (1969); Nelson letter in which he writes "I stand by the [aforementioned] story as it was written;
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1964 - 1965, 1969
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Nelson, Jack

Manuscripts

2 items: 52-pp. transcript of interview by Marshall Berges with Jack Nelson, Washington DC Bureau Chief, 8/1/1980. A second transcript of the same material, with mark-outs and corrections is on tan sheets. Notable names and subjects include: Nelson describes his typical day and week (pp. 1 - 10) ; he comments on the new respect given in the 1970s to Los Angeles Times in Washington (pp. 17) ; Nelson recalls his childhood, youth and military service (pp. 19 - 20) ; hired by Atlanta Constitution in 1952 ; winner of a Pulitzer Prize in 1959 and applies for a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard (for 1962) ; Nelson is hired in 1965 to open the Atlanta Bureau of Los Angeles Times (pp. 21 - 22) ; more about his youth (pp. 24 - 26) ; "the Los Angeles Times as an institution is...very open and candid" (pp. 30) ; relations between home office of Los Angeles Times and DC Bureau (pp. 37) ; Los Angeles Times top brass wanted Nelson to be a "writing bureau chief," and that was the way he wanted it, too ; discusses strengths and weaknesses of colleagues. (There are gaps in the transcript from pp. 49 on but it is not clear if they are recording flaws or something taken out in editing.

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Employees - Nelson, Harry

Manuscripts

2 items: undated, single-sheet bio for Harry Nelson, beginning "Nelson has been medical editor of the Los Angeles Times since December 1958..."; LAT tear sheet, 9/5/1977, promotional ad for LAT headed "Signs of The Times," with text segment mentioning "Times medical writer Harry Nelson..."

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Sports Department

Manuscripts

5 items. Letters and a memo. Subjects: civility or lack of it in Sports Dept.; letter from U.S. Forest Service congratulating LAT on the hiring of outdoor writer Lupi Saldana; courteous reply to the Forest Service letter; letter from reader praising the sports writing of Mal Florence; reply to aforementioned letter.

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Employees - Scheuer, Philip

Manuscripts

4 items: 5-pp. bio packet, incl. photos, copies of clips by and about Scheuer, dated 3/2/1950; 2-pp. bio info, headed "Philip K. Scheuer - Assistant Editor, Drama Department," undated, written in first-person;LAT obit tear sheet, 2/19/1985, "Philip Scheuer, ex-Times film critic, dies"; LAT tear sheet, 2/23/1985, "Scheuer...aisle seat on history" (an appreciation by Charles Champlin).

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Employees - Nelson, Jack

Manuscripts

5 items: single yellow sheet, undated, headed "Jack Nelson questions," related to Watergate and coverage of Wash., DC in general since 1970; article copy, 11/20/1974, on Nelson taking charge at DC bureau; tear sheet, "Keeping up with The Times, 3/7/1975, on addition of Oswald Johnson, Jr., and Gaylord Shaw to the DC bureau staff; tear sheet, Newsweek, 1/24/1977, "Media insiders," which is, in part, about Nelson; 1982 tear sheet, publ. unknwn, "Movers & shakers" column brief on Nelson.

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Nelson, Jack

Manuscripts

Memos and letters pertaining to Jack Nelson. Also included is a tote bag.

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Nelson, Jack

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