Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
5 items. 3 broadcast interviews on L.A. area TV stations (10/21/1975), with Otis Chandler, with Robert Gottlieb (later authored Thinking Big, a history of LAT, and with a group of independent newspaper dealers angry at LAT; interview of LAT staffer Art Seidenbaum (misspelled on transcript) by Michael Jackson of KABC-radio (10/16/1975); Tom Brokaw interview of David Halberstam on KNBC-tv (5-3-1979).
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Approx. 25 items. 3 examples of 60-sec. LAT "Radio Continuity" (ads); Transcripts on various subjects, including: failed talks between USA and Mexico on sale of natural gas to USA; Michael Jackson (KABC-radio) interview with LAT staffer David Shaw, in part on Shaw's articles on LAT errors in coverage; about a dozen transcripts reporting LAT's refusal to run comic strip "Doonesbury"; Jess Marlow (KNBC-tv) interview of David Halberstam, author of The Powers that Be, a book which generally praised (Otis C.-era) LAT;KABC-tv reporters comment on Howard Rosenberg's LAT article criticizing the station's coverage of the Guyana People's Temple tragedy (2 copies).
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5 items. Transcripts from various broadcast media outlets: KFWB-radio; KNBC-tv; KNXT-tv; KPOL-radio. Subjects included: new Times security system penetrated by LAPD officer (implied that Chief Ed Davis sent him to do it); interview with Lowell Thomas, Jr., Lt. Governor of Alaska; excerpt of Warren Olney and Jess Marlow interview with Police Chief Ed Davis; news brief on Los Angeles Magazine publishing a story on Marilyn Chandler (Otis' wife) and the fact that she was on the payroll of Howard Hughes' Summa Corp.
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Memos and notes regarding Otis Chandler's interview by Michael Jackson of KABC-TV.
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1 item. 3-pp. transcript of Radio TV Reports, Inc., from a KNBC-tv "Sunday" (news) program of 7/8/1973. Kelly Lange and Tom Snyder interview of Robert Thorn, an official of the Atomic Energy Commission, dealing in part with AEC defense against allegations made in LAT article by Lee Dye.
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Approx. 25 items. Reports from various broadcast media outlets (KNXT-tv, KNBC-tv, KHJ-tv, KNX-radio) on topics including: the LAT Charity Game; 4-part interview of Otis Chandler (2 sets) by Joseph Benti (10/13-10/17); Benti interview with Robert Gottlieb, author of Thinking Big, a book critical of LAT; Michael Jackson radio interview of Art Seidenbaum (spelled Sidenbaum in transcript); Councilman Joel Wachs guests on "The Tommy Hawkins Show" (KHJ-tv).
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