Manuscripts

Foreign Countries - Vietnam

Description: Approx. 60 items: copies, tear sheets and reprints of LAT news stories and editorials on the Vietnam conflict. They trace the evolution of U.S. involvement from a scattering of advisors in the early 1960s, through the negotiations, to the pullout of the mid 1970s. A sampling of headlines: 12/18/1961, "The deepening war in Vietnam"; 2/20/1966, "Vietnam... a complicated crisis"; 6/7/1970, "Get out of Vietnam NOW."
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1961 - 1974
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.

Vietnam

Manuscripts

Three items consisting of ten pages of photocopies of correspondence regarding Vietnam between Otis Chandler and the Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon, V.H. Krulak, and Bob Gibson.

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Correspondence regarding a Los Angeles Times editorial entitled "Get out of Vietnam NOW." Many of the letters are from other newspapers across the United States that reprinted the editorial in their own papers. Some letters have attached a response letter from Otis Chandler.

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Business Executives for Vietnam Peace

Manuscripts

Two items comprising five letters pertaining to the Business Executives for Vietnam Peace.

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Editorials & Articles - January - June

Manuscripts

Reprints of editorials, articles, and reports originally published in the Los Angeles Times. Subjects include illiteracy, Editorial Pages, the health care crisis, mental case law, stress pensions at LAPD, and "Vietnam - a decade later."

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Departments - Editorial - Mirror Newsletter

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6 items: six examples of LAT Hiring & Development Newsletter, "Mirror." Headlines/subjects: 8/1994, "The Voices of Unity '94," on diversity in the newsroom and coverage of people of color; 11/1994, "A challenge for news editors," pagination; 1/1995, "A Team Effort," on coverage of the Orange County fiscal crisis; 3/1995, "Foreign put to test by quake," on earthquake in Japan; 4/1995, "The MetPro Experience; 5/1995, "Loosening Lips - the art of the interview."

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Shuler, Robert

Manuscripts

Approx. 25 items. A sampling of headlines from LAT news stories and editorials: 9/19/1929, "Shuler radio gossiping scored by grand jury...charges (made) based on mere hearsay injuring innocent persons" ; 12/28/1930, "Shuler radio battle opens here on January 8...Radio Commission to decide if pastor must get off the air" ; 6/22/1953, "Dr. Bob Shuler Sr. ends pastorate...veteran fundamentalist gives farewell sermon at Trinity Methodist Church" ; 9/12/1965, "Rev. Shuler dies...former prohibitionist."

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