Manuscripts
Chronological File - June
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Chronological File - June
Manuscripts
100 + items. Letters and memo. LAT opposition to Yorty's reelection in 1969 was a major issue that year, including many threatened cancellations (see below). Subjects and well-known correspondents include:LAT orders 10 articles by James Simon Kunen (author of The Strawberry Statement) from Sterling Lord Agency; Williams' answer to Mrs. Madigan, (6/3/1969) who had criticized LAT coverage of Mayor Yorty, is typical of many such letters--"When Sam Yorty was first elected...executives of The Times...informed him we would support him when we believed he was right and oppose him when we believed he was wrong," and W. also stated that this is the obligation of a newspaper; letter to J. Edward Murray of The Arizona Republic; letter to Edmund Dooley, Editor at San Francisco Chronicle;letter to Reuters (6/4/1969) praising their coverage but trying to get them to lower their price for LAT; letter of 6/6/1969 to a Mr. James mentioning various LAT endorsements over recent years and going into some detail on support for Barry Goldwater, Sr., in 1964 Pres. race; Rudy Vallee is once again offering to write a regular column for LAT; letter to Edward Kuhn, Jr., Exec. VP and Publisher, The World Publishing Co.; letter explaining LAT coverage of Israeli-Arab rift; letter to James F. Chambers, Jr. Publisher, Dallas Times Herald; letters to U. S. Senator George Murphy; editorial expansion (and costs); letter to Herbert Bruckner, Stanford Professional Journalism Fellowships; a 2-pp. memo to Dick Robinson on "the coffee situation in editorial"; etc.
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Chronological File - April
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Approx. 75 items. Letters and memos. Subjects include: letter to Herbert Brucker, Stanford Prof. Journalism Fellowships; bad reactions to Feiffer cartoons; to Robert Work, Publisher, L.A. Daily Journal; deal for new Barry Goldwater column; more "range of (editorial) opinion" responses to reader complaints; to Edward Chase (VP, New American Library); number of editorial employees takes a leap (up) and Williams is concerned (4/7/1969); 2-pp. letter (4/7/1969) to Celia Zager, Exec. Dir. Fair Housing Council of the SFV; letter (4/7/1969) responding to criticisms of LAT by Hyman Haves, Exec. Dir. Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A.; more defense of LAT coverage of Nixon administration and Gov. Reagan; Williams assures yet another reader that LAT "firmly believes in our democratic institutions" but that "the way to preserve them is to perfect them" (4/14/1967); Advertising Department and West magazine; etc.
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Chronological File - August
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Approx. 25 items. Letters and memos. Subjects and correspondents include: (8/16) letter to Howard Hays, Editor, Riverside Press-Enterprise, attached to ASNE forms for William Thomas' membership, and praising Hays for his work as Editor; (8/13) reply to a reader who praised cartoonist Conrad (the majority who wrote in criticized him) ; (8/13) letter to Stuart Loory on "theme issues" of West mag., which NBW does not like; (8/4) 2-pp. letter to Frank Tremaine, VP, United Press International, reacting negatively to notice of a 10% price increase to LAT for the UPI service; (8/4) letter to J. Edw. Murray of Detroit Free Press, in which NBW says that positive reaction to "Doonesbury" is word-of-mouth, negative is in letters; etc.
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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.
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Chronological File - January
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Approx. 65 items. Letters and memos. Subjects include: notepad sheet with printed name "Craig St. Clair" has penciled notes about content; reassures a reader that "Brenda Starr" (comic strip) is still around; letter to Harry Rowan, Pres. of Rand Corp.; letter to Herbert Brucker, Dir. of Professional Journalism Fellowships at Stanford; brief letter to Wadih Dib, Consul of Lebanon in L.A.; response to a Mr. Hershberg on his claim that LAT coverage of military action along the Israel-Jordan border was biased or "color(ed)"; many notes related to business/social relations with other journalists and business or academic persons; response to a reader who objected to seeing an ad soliciting funds for politico Edward Kennedy; Williams places an order with The New Republic to use that publication's "TRB" column; the Sirhan Sirhan trial; yet again a reader condemns Paul Conrad, and Williams replies that Conrad is "a loveable Iowan, a proud father...and (is) kind to old ladies" and more (1/24/1969); full-page response (1/24/1969) to Rabbi Stephen Weisberg assuring him LAT has no bias in the Israeli-Arab conflict; letter to Cober Gallery NYC purchasing a painting; Otis Chandler and other publishers appear on (David) Susskind's TV program; etc.
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Chronological File - June
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Approx. 180 items. Letters, memos. Subjects include: letter to Chester Gould, "Dick Tracy" cartoonist, a 2nd follow-up (at least) to correspondence from him on strip's cancellation (6/29/1970); as always, more "Conrad serves a useful purpose" letters; letters to readers on Black activist Angela Davis, reading in part, "It's not her avowed communism that bugs me...it is the racial hatred which she preaches (6/29/1970, et al); letters to readers who sided with Spiro Agnew against The Press; classic letter (6/29/1970) to abusive reader diplomatically putting him in his place; response to reader who felt Conrad and Interlandi were un-patriotic (or whatever) -- "(both) are veterans of World War II and fought overseas"; letter (6/25/1970) to reader who complained that LAT had run a series on lesbians--"Homosexuality has occurred throughout the history of civilization...ignoring it...has not lessened its prevalence"; letter (6/25/'70) to James Thorpe, Director, Huntington Library & Art Gallery; classic letter responding to criticisms of Conrad--"(he) grew up in the Midwest, attended a Midwestern university, served this country overseas during World War II, married and is the father of four children...." (6/25/1970); letter to Editor of Oroville (CA) Mercury-Register criticizing their editorial that held LAT had dropped two comic strips because of the "political philosophy" contained in them (6/25/1970); letter on Nixon's "Guam Doctrine," and on Vietnam policy generally; letter to Katherine Graham, Pres., Washington Post (6/22/1970); operations at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Livermore; storage of bound volumes of LAT "since its inception," includes discussion of microfilm material and costs; the 1970 budget; (6/16/'70) the objectivity of U.S. News & World Report and The Media and the Vietnam War; 3-pp. letter to reader in which NBW states-"I (now) believe the Vietnam war was a tragic mistake..." (6/12/1970); further explanations on low readership being the reason for canceling "Lil Abner" and "Dick Tracy," not politics; "The Times believes that in addition to private enterprise, there is such a thing as the public interest (6/12/1970); more "Paul Conrad is a social critic...serves a useful purpose" letters; LAT supports Nixon on some issues, not on others; many responses to readers who believed LAT was trying to undermine the Nixon administration; to a subscriber who cancelled - "(LAT) could now best be described as middle-of-the-road" (6/3/'70); several responses to readers who believed that LAT condoned student rioting; personal letter to Walter O'Malley, Chairman of Dodgers; response to reader who felt LAT was promoting Sen. Edward Kennedy and burying negative stories about him; (6/2/1970) response to reader who alleges that journalists are "almost 100% far left liberals"; etc.
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