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Chronological File - May

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Approx. 80 items. Letters and memos. Subjects include: renewal (with United Feature Syndicate) of comic strip "Peanuts"; business/social letter to Harry Brand of 20th Century Fox Film Corp. (5/9/1969; reactions to writer Eric Hoffer; black reporters and editors (5/12/1969); business/social letter to George C.S. Benson, Pres., Claremont Men's College; to Celia Zager, Exec. Dir. Fair Housing Council of the SFV; to Edmonde Haddad, KPOL-radio; to Kanji Takasugi, Consul Gen. of Japan in L.A.; to J.G. McEntyre, Consul Gen. of Canada in L.A.; to Raul Gonzalez Galarza, Consul Gen. of Mexico in L.A.; response to a reader who told Williams which comic strips she liked AND had given some kind of suggestion related to both William Buckley and editorial cartoonist Conrad; to John Anson Ford; another defense of Conrad as "serving a useful [social] purpose; to David Packard, Asst. Sec. of Defense (5/29/1969); assures reader (5/29/1969) that LAT would support Yorty, Reagan and Nixon, or any official, "when we agree with what they have proposed"; etc.

Type
Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date
1969
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.
Rights
The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.
Associated people
Bassett, James E., (1912-1978.)
Chandler, Norman, (1899-1973.)
Chandler, Otis, (1927-2006.)
Conrad, Paul, (1924-2010.)
Johnson, W. Thomas, (1941-)
Owens, Charles H.
Associated organizations
Los Angeles Times (Firm).
Los Angeles Times History Center.
Times Mirror Company.
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