Manuscripts

Chandler, Otis

Description: Approx. 80 pages of transcripts from tapings with Otis Chandler, 7/1975 and 8/1975. Subjects include years at Stanford, duty in U.S. Air Force, apprenticeships in Los Angeles Times departments and early years as Publisher. Copies of these transcripts with notations and additional material are in this collection, box 577, folders 3 through 8.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1975
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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Chandler, Otis - Tape # 3

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1 item: 16-pp. transcript - "Third taping with Otis Chandler," 7/31/1975. Subjects include: the Mirror-News (pp. 1 - 4) ; Los Angeles Times' improvements and improved profitability during the 1960s (pp. 6 - 7) ; "the next eight or ten years" from 1975 - (pp. 7) ; early 1970s recession (pp. 8) ; Nick Williams (pp. 10 - 12) ; top Editor candidates (Robert) Donovan, William Thomas, Anthony Day, Ed Guthman (pp. 13) ; selection of William Thomas as Editor (pp. 15).

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Chandler, Otis

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Approx. 5 items: approx. 80-pp. of transcripts of interviews, likely by Marshall Berges, with Otis Chandler. The interviews were conducted on several days between 8/1980 and 2/1981. The remarks range across many topics: race car driving ; a four-day visit to the Lyndon B. Johnson Ranch in the 1960s ; other Times Mirror business ventures in broadcast media. Part of this material is a 25-pp. transcript of an interview of Otis Chandler by Michael Jackson of KABC (radio). Segments of the 1980 interviews deal with corrections Otis wished to make to comments made earlier.

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Chandler, Otis

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Approx. 30 items - memos, letters, speech transcripts. Notable names and items: material related to Otis Chandler profile on Cable News Network, 5/1985 ; material related to OC as guest on Michael Jackson radio show, 2/1981 ; Los Angeles Rotary (#5 Chapter) ; "Confidential" memo, 1/28/1972, Stickell to OC, with suggestions about how to woo the owners of another paper that may be going up for sale ; 10-pp. packet, under cover note with large, handwritten word "GULP," contains transcripts of remarks, 4/28/1977, at "The Morton Newspaper Forum," by Otis Chandler (Publisher), Robert D. Nelson (Vice Pres.) and Phillip Williams (Group VP, Newspapers & Television) ; 6-pp. report, 8/25/1959, "Observations discussed by Otis Chandler, E.A. Hartford and Vance Stickell... Advantages of Los Angeles Times - New York Times sales combination."

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Chandler, Otis - Tape # 6

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2 items: 4-pp. Los Angeles Times "Conflict of interest policy guide," no date ; 10-pp. transcript of "Sixth taping with Otis Chandler," 8/6/1975. Subjects discussed include: Times Mirror expansion from the 1950s to the 1970s, antitrust issues involving print and broadcast news outlets being owned by the same entity (pp. 1 - 2) ; on getting out of Vietnam (pp. 5 - 6) ; Geotek scandal (pp. 8) ; security threats to Otis and his family (pp. 9 - 10).

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Chandler, Otis - Tape # 4

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1 item: 14-pp. transcript - "Fourth taping with Otis Chandler," 8/4/1975. Subjects include: Otis Chandler's thoughts on the Watts riots and the aftermath (pp. 1 - 2) ; "foreign travel trips that the publisher, the editor and the editorial page director began (to take) in about 1963" (pp. 4) ; bringing "top-level governmental and business leaders into luncheons and conferences" (pp. 5) ; "big flap with Bill Moyers (who) blamed me for his having lost his job" at Newsday (pp. 6) ; thoughts on newspapers owned by Times Mirror, including Newsday and Dallas Times-Herald (pp. 6 - 8) ; Los Angeles Times' daily editorial board meetings (pp. 9 - 10) ; Los Angeles Times vs. N.Y. Times (pp. 12 - 14).

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Chandler, Otis - Tape # 1

Manuscripts

Approx. 10 items: 18-pp. transcript of Bassett interview of Otis Chandler, 7/29/1975, wide range of subjects - youth, Stanford, his personality, social & political opinions of his wife, "Missy," The Mirror, etc ; 2-pp. bio on Otis Chandler ; 5-pp. "Add Tape 1, 8/18/1975 ; 35-pp. interview transcript sent by Jack Hart of Cal State Northridge, 7/1/1973 - subjects are handwritten on cover sheet ; 3-pp. transcript of interview on KNXT (TV), 10/13/1975, of Otis Chandler by newsman Joseph Benti on Chandler's feelings about power vs. opportunity, about his leadership style, women in journalism, etc ; several more installments of the Benti interview ; 26-pp. transcript of interview (prob. KABC radio) with Michael Jackson as host (no date, no other info on transcript).

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