Manuscripts

Newspapers - Los Angeles Examiner/ Mirror Closing

Description: Approx. 15 items. Commentary and news from various sources on the 1962 closing of the Examiner and the Mirror. Sources include: Editor & Publisher, The Eight Ball, Clete Roberts Reports (KTLA-tv), Virgil Pinkley (KABC), The Quill, and The California Publisher..
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1962
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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The Mirror

Manuscripts

Approx. 70 items - letters, memos, bulletins. Notable names and items include: Virgil Pinkley (Editor and Publisher of The Mirror) ; James Bassett ; letter, 9/17/1954, from Virgil Pinkley to Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower, on political issues ; J. Edward Murray ; letter, 1/5/1956, to "Dick" Nixon from Virgil Pinkley on the Democrats' strategies ; memos on Mirror-News operations ; letters from readers.

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Newspapers - Los Angeles Examiner

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items: articles on strikes, journalistic practices at the paper, the final closing down of the paper, etc.

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Mirror - Correspondence

Manuscripts

8 items: correspondence involving Norman Chandler, Philip Chandler, Virgil Pinkley and others in the 1952 - 1953 period. FACSIMILES MAY NOT BE COPIED OR PUBLISHED.

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Roberts, Clete

Manuscripts

Two letters of correspondence between Otis Chandler and Clete Roberts, of KTLA-TV. Also included in this folder is a two page transcript which is one of the subjects of the letters.

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ABC-TV Series on Los Angeles Times

Manuscripts

Approx. 10 items: correspondence related to 1979 Otis Chandler interview with KABC-tv and a series of news reports on KABC focusing on LAT, not only, as John Babcock, an executive producer for the station said, "accomplishments... (but) more sensitive areas...such as conflict of interest."

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Newspapers - Los Angeles Herald-Examiner

Manuscripts

30+ items: collection of news stories, commentary, bulletins, and other items related to the operations and finally, the closing of the Herald - Examiner in 1989. Notable: full page tear sheet, Her-Ex, 12/2/1972, "ON STRIKE" is the banner headline ; a number of items are duplicated in other files ; LAT Employee Bulletin, 11/2/1989, from David Laventhol, which reads in part, "the Herald - Examiner is being closed....This...can only bring sadness to all Southern Californians, and to all of us at The Times in particular."

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