Interviews in this series were undertaken by the UCLA Oral History Program under the auspices of the California State Archives and in conjunction with the California State University, Fullerton, Oral History Program; California State University, Sacramento, Center for California Studies Oral Hist...
Biographical Note:
California assembly member from 1973 to 1985. 14th district Los Angeles city council member from 1985 to 1999.
Member of the Socialist Party and active in the Populist movement. Reporter for the Los Angeles Record, editor of EPIC News, and a commissioner on the Los Angeles Board of Public Works.
Member of the Democratic County Central Committee of Orange County, president of the Santa Ana Democratic Club, and director of the California Democratic Council for the Thirty-fifth Congressional District.
Son of Griffith park founder Griffith Jenkins Griffith. President of the Los Angeles Park Board and was manager of the Griffith Park Transportation Company. Member of the Los Angeles Police Commission.