Manuscripts

Speeches

Description: Approx. 25 items--there are duplicate copies of some speeches. The folder contains speech manuscripts for remarks delivered at Bowdoin College, the Federal Bar Assn., The Buckley School, a speech about the Watts Riots (1965), remarks given at a panel discussion in Nashville, speeches at the Wilshire Bar Assn., Historical Society of Southern California, a short speech titled "A Five-minute History of the Los Angeles Times," etc. There are also several news clippings related to talks by Bassett.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1966 - 1976
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.

Speeches - Los Angeles Bar Association

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3 items: three copies of speech Thomas presented to Los Angeles Bar Assn., 4/27/1978.

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2 items. Speech texts. 9-pp. text on press credibility, date and audience not given; 17-pp. text on, broadly, "The Role of the Press in a Free Society," delivered on 11/21/1967, to the Wilshire Bar Assn

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Approx. 12 items. Not all of these rough drafts and speeches are dated. Among those that are dated, and / or identified by title and location: "Remarks to the New York Printing & Publishing Analysts," 6/25/1974; "Remarks of Robert F. Erburu before Annual Meeting of Independent College Funds of America -- Rancho Mirage (CA)," 3/7/1981; Speech...(4/28/1981), Ninth Annual Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, Annapolis Hilton Hotel (MD?); LAT / Times Mirror Press Conference, 6/30/1981 - "Remarks by Robert F. Erburu, President and CEO, Times Mirror"; YPO Speech (Young Presidents Organization), speech text dated 11/16/1981; "Liberal learning...the pleasures of the voyage," remarks at the Golden Circle / Trojan Assembly Dinner, The Times Mirror Co., 1/19/1988; (TM) Board of Directors' Meeting, 3/1/1989; "RFE (Bob Erburu) Remarks - Caltech Dedication," 10/19/1994.

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Speeches - Misc

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Approx. 12 items: texts of various speeches delivered by Norman Chandler during the decade of the 1940s. Notable items: 2-pp., "Speech at KTTV Inc. dedication," 1949 ; remarks made on radio between halves of the Rams - Redskins Charity Football Game, in both 1947 and 1948 ; 5-pp. speech transcript, 8/3/1948, when NC announced the future startup of The Mirror ; 11-pp. text of NC's "Christmas 1943 (message)" ; 2-pp. "Mirror" speech at 10/1948 kickoff of that newspaper.

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Press - Freedom of - Speeches

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5 items: 105-pp. booklet, Freedom of the Press - what it is, how it was obtained, how it can be retained, Newspaper-Radio Committee, 3/1942 ; reprint, Southern California Law Review, 3/1942, "Freedom of the Press in prospect and retrospect" by Leon R. Yankwich ; 12-pp. speech notes - Federal Bar Assn. ("Bassett" added at top margin in red ink) ; 7-pp. "Statement of William F. Thomas, Editor, Los Angeles Times, before United States Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights," 2/27/1973 ; multi-;age speech notes, headed "Sigma Delta Chi Sp... - Santa Ana" - 6/3/1977.

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