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Freedom of the Press - Articles and Commentary

Description: Approx. 15 items - "wire" stories, article copies, letters and other material related to LAT court case (ca. 1939 - 40) and the Pulitzer Prize in 1942. Notable names and items include: multi-page copy of segment from book, The Pulitzer Prize Story, by John Hohenberg, 1959 ; articles about the court decisions, etc., from Among Ourselves, Editor & Publisher, Collier's and Liberty ;12-pp. "Federal Bar Association - Speech notes," 11/15/1966, "J.B. speech [Jim Bassett?] handwritten ; 16-pp. copy, "CASE HISTORY" (LAT "contempt of court case) ca. 1942, source unclear ; multi-page (long, tan sheets) - "An Address by Col. Robert R. McCormick - Editor and Publisher of the Chicago Tribune, before the Chicago Bar Association," 12/10/1938.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1938 - 1942, 1958, 1966
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)

Press Freedom - Commentary (1 of 2)

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Approx. 15 items - booklets, reprints and pamphlets containing material related to LAT "contempt case" and other cases. Notable names and items include: booklet, University of Missouri Bulletin, "Missouri Honor Awards for Distinguished Service in Journalism - 1956" ; reprint booklet, "Freedom of the Press in Prospect and Retrospect," by Leon Yankwich, Southern California Law Review, 3/1942 ; booklet, "Newspapers and the Law" by Robert R. McCormick of Chicago Tribune, an address to the Chicago Bar Assn., 12/10/1938 ; complete 3/1939 issue of The Ohio Newspaper ; 39-pp. booklet, "...Criminal Court of Appeals, State of Oklahoma, Robert Wood against The State of Oklahoma..." ; three issues of Freedom of Information Center Report(s) from 1967 - 1969 (U. of Missouri at Columbia) ; 36-pp. booklet, Fair Trial vs. A Free Press (Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions), 9/1965 ; article copy, Southern California Law Review, 1/1940, "Contempt of court - interference with the administration of justice - publications" ; 26-pp. reprint, "Supreme Court of the United States - October Term, 1945... Pennekamp and The Miami Herald... vs. The State of Florida" ; 16-pp. bound speech transcript, "Guard It, Cherish It and Work for It," - address by Henry F. Pringle broadcast on Columbia network, National Newspaper Week, 10/6/1941 ; letter, 11/25/1941, to Harry Chandler from William S. Paley (President, Columbia Broadcasting) in connection with previously mentioned speech transcript. Split into two folders.

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Press Freedom - Commentary (2 of 2)

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Awards - Pulitzer Prize, 1942

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Approx. 15 items: 35-pp. printout off Lexis-Nexis, material from US Supreme Court and California Supreme Court; 3-pp. descriptions of "Awards of the Pulitzer Prizes and Traveling Scholarships"; collection of LAT stories on the lead-up to the "Contempt Trial"; collection of LAT articles related to LAT receiving a Pulitzer Prize in 1942, including the headlines "Tribute Paid 'Times' by American Press...great newspapers, wire associations and men in public life send congratulatory messages" (5/7/1942) and "Prize emblem sent to 'Times' "; teletype printout, 5/4/1942, reading in part, that LAT had earlier "instituted litigation which produced a Supreme Court opinion last December upholding the right of newspapers to publish criticism of judicial opinion, even in cases still pending, unless the comment would cause 'extremely serious' evil"; The "Contempt Case" began in 1938, and lasted nearly four years.

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Press - Freedom of - Speeches

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5 items: 105-pp. booklet, Freedom of the Press - what it is, how it was obtained, how it can be retained, Newspaper-Radio Committee, 3/1942 ; reprint, Southern California Law Review, 3/1942, "Freedom of the Press in prospect and retrospect" by Leon R. Yankwich ; 12-pp. speech notes - Federal Bar Assn. ("Bassett" added at top margin in red ink) ; 7-pp. "Statement of William F. Thomas, Editor, Los Angeles Times, before United States Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights," 2/27/1973 ; multi-;age speech notes, headed "Sigma Delta Chi Sp... - Santa Ana" - 6/3/1977.

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Freedom of the Press - Memos and Telegrams

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Approx. 20 items: memos, telegrams and other material related to the ongoing court case pitting LAT against a County Court that was later heard in the US Supreme Court. Also Approx. 25 items - memos, telegrams. Notable names and items include: memos from L.D. Hotchkiss to Harry Chandler on the subject of the best Republican to run against FDR in 1940 - Wendell Willkie and (Thomas) Dewey are both mentioned ; multi-page copy of 1941 legal document, "United States vs. Morgan" on a government order fixing rates ; collection of telegrams (1940) commenting on or seeking information on the case and the trial events.

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Awards - Pulitzer Prizes

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Approx. 10 items: original, Columbia Library Columns, 5/1957, with list of Pulitzer Prize winners; exchange of letters on LAT's John Birch Society series (1961), from John Hohenberg of the Pulitzer Prize Advisory Board, and response from the office of Norman Chandler; approx. 15-pp. stapled stack, "A complete record of Pulitzer Prize winners, 1917 - 1991"; LAT Fact Sheet, 4/18/1995, "Los Angeles Times Pulitzer Prizes"; related items.

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