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Weegar, Ted Scrapbook

Description: Edward "Ted' Weegar (1921-1986) was a long-time editor at the Times, establishing the Opinion section in 1960 and being the founding editor of the Orange County Edition. This scrapbook is his and contains clippings and inserts he compiled on the case between the Times and the Los Angeles County Superior Court, which won the Times the Pulitzer Prize from 1939-1942.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1939-1942
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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One oversize scrapbook containing many clippings and inserts compiled by Ted Weegar on the landmark court battle between LAT and Los Angeles County Superior Court leading to Pulitzer Prize.

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Editorials & Articles - July - December

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Reprints of editorials, articles, and reports originally published in the Los Angeles Times. Includes "Southern California's Latino Community," series which won a 1984 Pulitzer Prize.

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Awards - Pulitzer Prize 1976 - Phil Kerby

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9 items: Management Bulletin, 5/3/1976, announces Phil Kerby's being awarded a Pulitzer Prize for distinguished editorial writing; LAT article copy, 5/4/1976, "Times editorial writer awarded Pulitzer Prize"; LAT article copy, 5/4/1976, "Kerby's Pulitzer caps a career to be prized"; dupes of previous stories; tear sheet and copy, Among Ourselves, 6/1976, "Phil Kerby's Pulitzer - coveted award caps 45-year news career"; sturdy folder containing 8 editorials by Kerby from LAT during 1975 (for which he won Prize), with an introduction by Otis Chandler; flyer from same time frame, "Phil Kerby worries about freedom. Everybody's."

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Awards - Pulitzer Prize 1955 - John L. Gaunt

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7 items: two photocopies (in two sizes) of the certificate for John Gaunt's Pulitzer Prize for News Photography; three LAT article copies--4/4/, 5/3, 5/10/1955--on various prizes Gaunt won for "Tragedy in the Surf (a.k.a. "Tragedy in the Sea"); two copies, Among Ourselves article, 6/1955, "Gaunt wins third Pulitzer for Times";

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Employees - Weegar, Ted

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2 items: LAT obit clip, 9/2/1986, "Edwin (Ted) Weegar, Asst. Managing Editor of Times, dies" (65); 2-pp. News from the Los Angeles Times, 9/2/1986, slightly modified version of previous obit.

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Weegar, Ted

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1 item: 76-pp. transcript of interview with Ted Weegar, an LAT editor involved with the electronic editing system, etc. Notable names and subjects include: Weegar and interviewer Berges jump around a bit but much of the interview has to do with the electronic editing system ; Cecily Surace comes from RAND to be LAT Library Director and modernizes that department (pp. 18 - 20) ; description of the emerging electronic system of feeding stories between writers, editors and the data bank in the Editorial Library (around pp. 29) ; pagination (pp. 33) ; Weegar's childhood and youth (pp. 35 - 37) ; what led him into journalism (pp. 50) ; Richard Nixon (pp. 52 - 53) ; around 1960, Weegar was chosen to start up the LAT Opinion section (pp. 57 - 59) ; "those early years (with) Otis (as) publisher were terribly fun" (pp. 62 - 63).

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