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Haven, Frank
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Haven, Frank
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Approx. 15 items: collection of news clip copies, news releases, a "top ten news stories" list for 1960, many of them relating to Frank Haven ; 8-pp. speech transcript, "New roles and hazards for today's newspaper," "1969" is written in at top margin of pp. 1 - presumably Haven delivered this speech somewhere that year ; single sheet, "Frank P. Haven - biography," 3/20/1974 ; 15-pp. transcript, "This is a taping with Frank Haven, Managing Editor of The Times, on 11/3/(19)74" - subjects include: Haven describes his first weeks on the job by saying "the paper was not all I had dreamed it would be," which is rare negativity in these interviews ; Haven's memories of Pearl Harbor attack & coverage ; more memories. 19-pp. transcript, "This is a second taping with Frank Haven...(1/23/1975). Subjects include: by mid-1960s Los Angeles Times had made great strides in foreign coverage but needed to beef up local "beats" ; memories of Watts riot coverage (pp. 5) ; improving an often "dull and insular" paper of the 1950s (pp. 9) ; NOTE - this transcript has a great amount of cross-outs and editing marks all over it ; 18-pp. speech text, opening with "Thank you, Mrs. Johnstone," n.d., no other info.
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Employees - Haven, Frank
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Approx. 10 items: article clip, Among Ourselves, 11/1963, "Frank Haven named Times managing editor"; bio sheet, 7/21/1964; bio sheet, 3/20/1974; several rough, undated bio sheets; 1-pp., official, Biography from the Los Angeles Times - Frank P. Haven (undated); tear sheet and one copy, LAT obit, 2/28/1995, "Frank P. Haven, ex-Times managing editor [dies]."
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Chandler, Otis - Tape # 2
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1 item: 19-pp. transcript of "Second taping with Otis Chandler," by Bassett, 7/30/1975. Subjects include: the "Jack Hart thesis" that the years when NC was publisher was an "Era of Mediocrity at Los Angeles Times was challenged by Otis Chandler (pp. 1 - 2) ; Editor Nick Williams and his Managing Editors, Frank Haven and Frank McCulloch (pp. 3 - 5) ; political "kingmaker" Kyle Palmer (pp. 6) ; Otis Chandler - in 1960s "I wanted to move The Times into a position of political independence..." (pp. 6) ; ending Los Angeles Times endorsements for President, Governor and U.S. Senate (pp. 7) ; Otis Chandler comments on those who, after the relative liberalization of Los Angeles Times editorial policies, wished for "The Times of old" (pp. 9 - 10) ; comments on the John Birch Society series and the editorial, signed by Otis, that accompanied it (pp. 10 - 11) ; the Geotek affair (pp. 17+).
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LA Times Executive Conference
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1 item: transcript, approx. 130-pp (headed "Tape I," "Tape II," "Tape III"), of "Los Angeles Times Executive Conference - 'Editorial Excellence' (5/17/1969), CONFIDENTIAL. This copy was issued to Vance Stickell. Those whose comments are seen on the transcript: Otis Chandler ; Nick Williams ; Frank Haven ; Robert Lobdell ; William Thomas ; Ed Guthman ; Robert Flannes.
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Haven, Frank
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Approx. 55 items, including: memos, letters and reports to and from Frank Haven in the 1966 - 1971 time frame. Haven was a managing editor with LAT circa 1960s. (He started as a copy editor in 1941.)
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Chandler, Otis
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1 item: 54-pp. transcript of interview of Otis Chandler by Marshall Berges, 12/10/1980. Subjects include: the John Kennedy assassination ; Otis' relationship with Robert Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy's assassination ; more "fine-tuning" of his comments on previous interviews ; memories of his Los Angeles Times apprenticeship ; more.
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