Manuscripts

Press Freedom - Clippings

Description: Approx. 15 items - clippings and tear sheets from various sources relating to law suit against LAT. Article clippings/copies come from such publications as L.A. Herald and Express, Kansas City Star, Sacramento Bee (McClatchy Newspapers), St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Editor & Publisher, Berkeley Daily Gazette, and more. Included is a brad-bound booklet, titled "Newspaper clippings... L.A. Bar Assoc. vs. Times..." (deteriorating).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1938 - 1942, 1972
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.

Press - Freedom of - Clippings

Manuscripts

Approx. 50 items: LAT clips and reprints plus tear sheets from Time and Wall St. Journal on press freedom. Notable items: complete issue, The Review of Southern California Journalism, 12/1972, lead story - "It can happen here - ask Bill Farr" (the LAT reporter jailed for refusing to reveal a source to a judge) ; reprint, Time, 7/8/1974, "The Press..fair of foul" ; LAT, bound reprints, 4/1976, series title, "Free trial and free press...on a collision course."

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Approx. 15 items: correspondence and related material with "M" individuals and organizations. Notable names: James McClatchy (Sacramento Bee, McClatchy Newspapers), Franklin D. Murphy, Archbishop Roger Mahoney.

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Employees - Bellows, James

Manuscripts

7 items: article, Among Ourselves, 10/1966, "James Bellows joins Times (as Associate Editor)"; 10/28/1966, Otis Chandler's memo on appointment of Bellows as LAT Associate Editor; article copy, New West, 1/16/1978, "What's black and blue...", on Jim Bellow's becoming editor of L.A. Herald-Examiner ; tear sheet, 8/1/1978, Esquire, "Can Jim Bellows Save...(Herald-Exam.)"; tear sheet, LAT, 11/20/1981, "Editor of Herald Examiner resigns..."; tear sheet, LAT, 7/13/1983, "Bellows will develop a TV magazine for ABC"; tear sheet, LAT, 10/13/1988, "USA Today TV sets different direction";

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Manuscripts

Approx. 85 items: letters, tear sheets, clips and other material related to Anthony Day's correspondence. Notable correspondents and items include: Price Day (Editor-in-Chief, Baltimore Sun, Tony's father) ; Jane Wyman (Campaign Chairman, Arthritis Foundation) ; Norman Panama (screenwriter/director) ; A. Andrew Hauk (U.S. District Judge) ; brief notes from Will and Ariel Durant (historians) ; Donald R. Wright (Chief Justice, Cal. Supreme Ct.) ; complete issue of The Bulletin (of ASNE), 9/1975, containing Anthony Day article, pp. 7-9 ; Thomas Plate (Assoc. Edit., Herald-Examiner) ; John Mack (L.A. Urban League) ; David Rockefeller, Jr. ; Edmund G. Brown (ex-Gov.) ; William F. Buckley, Jr. (Editor, National Review) ; more.

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Architecture and Historic Preservation - Los Angeles

Manuscripts

Approx. 40 items: article tear sheets and copies from LAT, Sunset, Westways, L.A. Herald-Examiner, Downtown News, Los Angeles (mag), and others. Material mostly written between 1960s and 1990s but examining the Los Angeles lifestyles of earlier decades. Highlights: original of house sales booklet, The New Spanish Bungalow, 1923; multi-page tear sheet, L.A. Herald-Examiner, 12/31/1967, "The Los Angeles that Was"; typed list (7-pp.) of 145 "Historic-Cultural Monuments" in City of Los Angeles, as of 1975; 2 copies of a postcard featuring Dominguez Adobe Rancho San Pedro labeled "Historic Preservation" postmarked "first day of issue Sep 16, 1984".

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Employees - Coffey, Shelby

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items: tear sheet, Herald-Examiner, 4/5/1988, "L.A.Times appoints Shelby Coffey to new executive editor post"; tear sheet, NY Times, 4/6/1988, "Los Angeles Times names heir apparent to the Editor's job"; Employee Bulletin, 4/5/1988, with Tom Johnson's announcement of Coffey selection; various publications' reporting on above appointment and other career moves, incl. L.A. Weekly, The American Editor, etc; multi-page tear sheet, Esquire, 12/1988, "Shelby Coffey, Oozing Charm"; approx. 25 -pp. transcript of Coffey's remarks, including Q&A, at LAT Washington Bureau, 6/10/1988;

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