Manuscripts

Chandler, Otis

Description: 1 item: 55-pp. transcript of Otis Chandler interview by Marshall Berges, around 12/1980. Subjects include: more memories of Bobby Kennedy ; the Los Angeles Times - Washington Post News Service ; Katherine Graham and Philip Graham of the Washington Post ; wild story about Phil Graham's mental deterioration ; memories of Ben Bradlee ; rejection of porno ads and x-rated movie ads ; door-to-door circulation sales - "boy crews" ; Circulation Department ; Advertising Department ; more.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1980
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.

Otis Chandler

Manuscripts

Approx. 85 items: correspondence between Otis Chandler and business associates, principally Editor Nick Williams. Includes one long letter to Katherine Graham of the Washington Post (3/25/1965). Complete issue of Michigan Business Review of 3/1965, which features an article by Otis Chandler titled "The Outlook for Newspapers."

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Chandler, Otis

Manuscripts

1 item: 54-pp. transcript of interview of Otis Chandler by Marshall Berges, 12/10/1980. Subjects include: the John Kennedy assassination ; Otis' relationship with Robert Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy's assassination ; more "fine-tuning" of his comments on previous interviews ; memories of his Los Angeles Times apprenticeship ; more.

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Chandler, Otis - Tape # 5

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1 item: 15-pp. transcript of "Fifth taping with Otis Chandler," 8/5/1975. Subjects include: production, circulation, advertising issues (pp. 1 - 2) ; innovations in electronic transmission processes (pp. 4) ; automation and computerization (pp. 5) ; "sending the paper out of town" and circulation areas within California - S. Francisco, Fresno, Modesto, etc. (pp. 6 - 7) ; Los Angeles Times and continuing antipathy to labor in 1970s ; Otis Chandler relationships with various politicians and his thought about them (pp. 11 - 12) ; Otis Chandler thoughts on Sam Yorty, "a small-town buffoon, right out of the movies" (pp. 14).

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Correspondence - Otis Chandler (2 of 2)

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120+ items: letters, memos, reports, charts and other material, much of it to or from the office of Otis Chandler in the period 1957 - 1971 and dealing with aspects of circulation. Correspondents include John Popham and Ray Marx. Split into two folders.

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Correspondence - Otis Chandler (1 of 2)

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Chandler, Otis - by Michael Jackson

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1 item: 35-pp. transcript of Otis Chandler being interviewed by KABC radio host Michael Jackson, 2/4/1981. Subjects include: Otis Chandler's title of "Editor-in-Chief," and what that means ; Otis' admiration for Henry Luce ; the 7-year "executive training program" he completed at The Times ; high and lower quality newspapers - Times of London, National Enquirer ; other Times Mirror papers - Hartford Courant, Newsday, Dallas Times Herald ; morning newspapers and afternoon newspapers ; the growing cable television market ; broadcasting vs. "narrowcasting" ; Otis' departure from the Publisher's post in 1980 ; more.

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