Manuscripts

Employees - Salazar, Ruben

Description: Approx. 60 items: a large selection (some duplication) of the writings of Salazar and writings about him following his death at 42 during a protest of the Vietnam War in East Los Angeles in 1970; 1985 tribute to Salazar by Frank Del Olmo. Two stapled-bound booklets are in the folder: "Ruben Salazar - a selection of columns reprinted from the Los Angeles Times" (1970), program and booklet for 19th Annual Ruben Salazar Memorial Scholarship Awards Dinner, 5/4/1989.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1962 - 1970
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.

Salazar, Ruben

Manuscripts

Twelve items which consist of letters and a copy of the eulogy that Otis Chandler gave at Ruben Salazar's funeral. Most of the letters are regarding the death of Ruben Salazar.

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Correspondence - Former Employees

Manuscripts

Approx. 80 items: examples of correspondence with former (and retired )employees, including Robert J. Donovan, Wayne Warga, William Stall, Edwin Guthman, more. Also in the folder is a 40-pp. booklet, "Ruben Salazar: a selection of columns...(LAT)."

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Editorials & Articles - September - December

Manuscripts

Reprints of editorials, articles, and reports originally published in the Los Angeles Times, including "Ruben Salazar - a selection of columns..."

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Employees - Williams, Nick B

Manuscripts

Approx. 35 items: in "Tribute to a renown...Editor, Nick B. Williams," at the time of his death, LAT columnist Jack Smith wrote that, "turned the Los Angeles Times from a biased, provincial, Republican newspaper, into one of the country's two or three best"; program booklet for "The Nick B. Williams Luncheon Party," Levy's Grill, 2/20/1959; 3-pp. transcript of speech at Women's Lawyers Club (1959), titled "Court News Policy," on the topic of a free press; selection of Williams' writings for a variety of publications--California Publisher, The Quill, California Parent -Teacher, etc. ;brief copy, Among Ourselves, 7/1948, on W's career, mentioning his fiction writing; single-page bio ; W's tear sheets, 1959 - 1971, from LAT; LAT clip, 10/28/1981, "Ex-Editor of Times receives press award": LAT Editorial, 7/2/1992, "In Memory of Nick B. Williams," which closes, "Nick Williams mark on The Times is indelible." Williams was with LAT for forty years, retiring in 1971, and after that working as a consultant for Otis Chandler.

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Employees - Jordan - Smith, Paul

Manuscripts

13 item: Selection of material by and about Jordan-Smith; news article copy, 8/14/1927, "Pavel Jerdanowitch is Paul Jordan Smith"; other material on "art hoax" (a prank) of 1927 in which Jordan-Smith was a key player; rough draft of obit, 7/23/1970; LAT obit copy, "Ex-Times book editor Paul Jordan-Smith dies"; etc.

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Chronological File - April

Manuscripts

Approx. 70 items. Letters, memos. Partial list of addressees and subjects: college board meeting; outside writing and television appearances by staffers; Mervin Field, Field Research; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Memphis riot; Panama reportage of Ruben Salazar; Vietnam war; to Walter Annenberg on Joyce Haber; Al Neuharth (Gannett Newspapers); John J. Goldman, LAT NY Bureau; MLK assassination; etc.

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Employees - Salazar, Ruben

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