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Chronological File - June
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Chronological File - June
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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 - July
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Approx. 75 items. Letters and memos. Subjects and correspondents included: (7/28/1970) letter to William Buckley, Jr. on his speech at Riverside (CA) and issues related to printing it in LAT; letter to John Volpe, Sec. of Transportation; letter to W. Averell Harriman on the issue of LAT's defense of H. when VP Agnew publicly criticised him (7/27/1970); letter to Emmett Dedmon, VP & Editorial Director, Chicago Sun Times; letter to Armand Hammer, Chairman of Occidental Petroleum; letter (7/17/1970) to Clifford Schlegel on LAT effort to find a conservative-leaning cartoonist to "counterbalance" the views of Conrad; again, as always, the "Conrad serves a useful purpose" letters; etc.
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Chronological File - August
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Approx. 75 items. Letters and memos. Subjects include: some brief letters to persons W. had met socially; note to Bill Thomas on the "recurrent rumor" that some LAPD officers were purchasing and carrying on duty "machine guns and automatic rifles"; letter to A.S. "Doc" Young, Editor of L.A. Sentinel, trading thoughts on the role of newspapers and editors; memo to Otis Chandler on how "close to home" the L.A. Times Syndicate should sell the Times-Post newsservice, for example--Fresno? San Diego??; increasing the number of "articles of a current sociological nature"; W. suggests to Almena Lomax (African-American journalist) that she collect her writings into a book and also contacts Edward Kuhn, Exec. VP of New American Library, that it should be considered for publication, and puts Lomax in touch with Kuhn; long (4+ pp.) memo to Frank Haven on "extensive reorientation of the thinking and the methods of many of our reporters..." (8/16/1968); "new directions" memo to Otis C. (8/16/1968); letter to Editor of San Gabriel Valley Daily Tribune-- "I...go along with the idea of newspapers not attacking each other [without] direst necessity" (8/16/1968); still another answer to the charge that LAT is "completely leftish"--W. writes of his own political stance, "I consider myself a political moderate, a little right of center, a Republican since Truman..."; more on Conrad as a great cartoonist that W. does not always agree with;
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Chronological File - February
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Approx. 55 items. Williams' letters and memos. Recipients include: J. Edward Murray (Managing Editor, Arizona Republic); Lawrence Dietz (Editor, Cheetah); James Loper (VP, GM, KCET); responses to readers complaints regarding missing comic strips or anger at Conrad; Robert T. Hood (LACMA); Veikko Huttunen (Consul Gen. of Finland in L.A.); James Boylan (Editor, Columbia Journalism Review); many memos to Frank Haven (LAT);etc.
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NFL Pro Bowl Chronological File
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Approx. 45 items: letters, memos, reports and other materials related to Pro Bowl game. Names in the correspondence: National Broadcasting Company ; Pete Rozelle (Commissioner, National Football League) ; Glenn Davis (LAT) ; William MacPhail (VP, Sports, CBS Television Network) ; more.
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