Author of books on California history and owner of the LaCal Stamp Company, a philatelic business. Interviewed because of connection to Robert E. Cowan, publisher of bibliographies and works on early California history.
Interviews in this series preserve the recollections of selected individuals in Los Angeles who were affected by the Hollywood blacklist during the Joseph R. McCarthy-J. Edgar Hoover era.
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Screenwriter and film producer who was blacklisted in the post-World War II Hollywood blacklist.
The interviews in the series Art History - Oral Documentation Project are part of a cooperative venture between the Oral History Program and the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, documents a generation of scholars who developed and elaborated paradigms of art history establi...
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Yale University art historian and professor with a focus on Pre-Columbian American and Ibero-American art.
Interviews in this series preserve the recollections of selected individuals in Los Angeles who were affected by the Hollywood blacklist during the Joseph R. McCarthy-J. Edgar Hoover era.
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Film and television producer. Known for breaking the post-World War II Hollywood blacklist with the production of Spartacus.
Interviews in this series preserve the recollections of selected individuals in Los Angeles who were affected by the Hollywood blacklist during the Joseph R. McCarthy-J. Edgar Hoover era.
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Screenwriter who was blacklisted in the post-World War II Hollywood blacklist.
Interviews in this series preserve the recollections of selected individuals in Los Angeles who were affected by the Hollywood blacklist during the Joseph R. McCarthy-J. Edgar Hoover era.
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Son of the screen and television writer Dalton Trumbo, who was one of the Hollywood Ten, who were imprisoned and blacklisted in the post-World War II Hollywood blacklist.
The interviews in the series Art History - Oral Documentation Project are part of a cooperative venture between the Oral History Program and the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, documents a generation of scholars who developed and elaborated paradigms of art history establi...
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Collector of contemporary art and archival materials relating to the Dada and Surrealist movements. Organizer of the Jean Brown Archives at Shaker Seed House in Tyringham, Massachusetts.
Interviews in this series preserve the recollections of selected individuals in Los Angeles who were affected by the Hollywood blacklist during the Joseph R. McCarthy-J. Edgar Hoover era.
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Journalist who wrote articles exposing the post-World War II Hollywood blacklist.
Interviews in this series preserve the recollections of selected individuals in Los Angeles who were affected by the Hollywood blacklist during the Joseph R. McCarthy-J. Edgar Hoover era.
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Story editor who was blacklisted in the post-World War II Hollywood blacklist.
Interviews in this series preserve the recollections of selected individuals in Los Angeles who were affected by the Hollywood blacklist during the Joseph R. McCarthy-J. Edgar Hoover era.
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Actor and acting teacher who was blacklisted in the post-World War II Hollywood blacklist.
This series includes interviews with prominent Los Angeles-based visual artists and other members of the art establishment whose careers span the period from the 1920s through the 1970s. It documents the art community of the pre-World War II period and the rise of Los Angeles as a nationally rec...
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Artist and educator at Pasadena City College, Otis College of Art and Design, and California State University, Los Angeles.
This series includes interviews with prominent Los Angeles-based visual artists and other members of the art establishment whose careers span the period from the 1920s through the 1970s. It documents the art community of the pre-World War II period and the rise of Los Angeles as a nationally rec...
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Artist, designer and educator at the Immaculate Heart College.
This series includes interviews with prominent Los Angeles-based visual artists and other members of the art establishment whose careers span the period from the 1920s through the 1970s. It documents the art community of the pre-World War II period and the rise of Los Angeles as a nationally rec...
This series includes interviews with prominent Los Angeles-based visual artists and other members of the art establishment whose careers span the period from the 1920s through the 1970s. It documents the art community of the pre-World War II period and the rise of Los Angeles as a nationally rec...
This series includes interviews with prominent Los Angeles-based visual artists and other members of the art establishment whose careers span the period from the 1920s through the 1970s. It documents the art community of the pre-World War II period and the rise of Los Angeles as a nationally rec...
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Artist, educator, and chair of the graphics department at Chouinard Art Institute.
This series includes interviews with prominent Los Angeles-based visual artists and other members of the art establishment whose careers span the period from the 1920s through the 1970s. It documents the art community of the pre-World War II period and the rise of Los Angeles as a nationally rec...
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Artist and University of California, Santa Barbara professor of art.
This series includes interviews with prominent Los Angeles-based visual artists and other members of the art establishment whose careers span the period from the 1920s through the 1970s. It documents the art community of the pre-World War II period and the rise of Los Angeles as a nationally rec...
This series includes interviews with prominent Los Angeles-based visual artists and other members of the art establishment whose careers span the period from the 1920s through the 1970s. It documents the art community of the pre-World War II period and the rise of Los Angeles as a nationally rec...
This series includes interviews with prominent Los Angeles-based visual artists and other members of the art establishment whose careers span the period from the 1920s through the 1970s. It documents the art community of the pre-World War II period and the rise of Los Angeles as a nationally rec...
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Printmaker, tapestry designer, and painter. Founder of the Tamarind Lithography Workshop.
This series includes interviews with prominent Los Angeles-based visual artists and other members of the art establishment whose careers span the period from the 1920s through the 1970s. It documents the art community of the pre-World War II period and the rise of Los Angeles as a nationally rec...
Author, manager of the Pasadena news bureau, and editor for the Los Angeles Times. Founder of the Brentwood, New York Bulletin, and the Walt Whitman Quarterly.
Dean of the UCLA School of Medicine and UCLA vice-chancellor of health services. Chief of the Medical Section of the Manhattan Engineering District. Chief of the Radiological Safety Section of the Joint Task Force for Operation Crossroads.
Dean of the UCLA College of Letters and Science and UCLA professor of economics. Director of the UCLA Institute of Industrial Relations and chair of the President's Emergency Railway Labor Board.
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.
Trade union leader and international representative for the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE). President of the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals and vice-chairman of the Council Against Communist Aggression.
Reporter for the Chicago Evening Post and New York Daily News. Hosted Hollywood salon that brought together literary and artistic personalities, including many American expatriates.
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...
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Staff and senior attorney for the Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice from 1973 to 1975. Helped establish legal precedents for victims' rights to restitution and for discovery rights in police abuse cases.
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...
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Chicano activist. Vice president of the Congress of Mexican-American Unity from 1969 to 1971. Raul Ruiz's campaign manager in La Raza Unida party's campaign in 1972.
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...
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California assembly member from 1943 to 1953. Legislative secretary for Governor Edmund G. Brown, Sr. in 1958. Appointee to the Superior Court bench in San Fernando from 1959 to 1975.
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...
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Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California from 1976 to 1986. Senior judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California from 1988 to 2002.
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...
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...
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Lobbyist for the California Common Cause from 1978 to 1989.
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...
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California senator from 1977 to 1982. California assembly member from 1967 to 1977.
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...
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Los Angeles Times journalist from 1964 to 1992. Writer of higher education and the U.C. Board of Regents.
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...
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California assembly member from 1973 to 1985. 14th district Los Angeles city council member from 1985 to 1999.
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...
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California assembly member from 1935 to 1963. Member of the U.S. House of Representatives in California from 1963 to 1991.
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...
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Member of the University of California Board of Regents from 1965 to 1968. White House chief of staff under President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973.
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...
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Member of the University of California Board of Regents from 1961 to 1977. Owner of the Southern California Music Co. Chair of the Regents' Special Forbes Committee that prepared the Byrne Report in 1965.
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...
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Ex officio member of the University of California Board of Regents. President of the California State Board of Agriculture from 1967 to 1974.
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...
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California assembly member from 1939 to 1949. Los Angeles Municipal Court judge from 1952 to 1966. California senator from 1967 to 1998.
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...
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Assistant director of the California State Department of Housing and CommunityDevelopment from 1968 to 1969. Chief ofstaff for Speaker of the Assembly Robert Morett from 1970 to 1974. Executive director of U.S. Senator John V. Tunney's staff from 1974 to 1976.
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...
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California assembly member from 1967 to 1972. County supervisor for the 4th district of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors from 1972 to 1979.
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...
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Pamona city council member from 1987 to 1998. California assembly member from 1998 to 2000 and 2006 to 2008. California senator from 2000 to 2006.
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...
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Press secretary and campaign specialist from 1961 to 1984.
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...
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Deputy assistant and United States attorney general for civil rights in the administration of President James E. Carter in 1977. Executive director of the Southern California office of the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund from 1980 to 1985. General counsel to a coalition dedicate...
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...
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Member of the University of California Board of Regents from 1966 to 1982.
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...
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Consultant and counsel for the California Assembly Committee on Ways and Means from 1959 to 1961.
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...
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Chief of the Los Angeles bureau of the New York Times from 1946 to 1968. National environmental correspondent from 1969 to 1971.
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...
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...
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Member of the Commission on California StateGovernment Organization and Economy from 1961 to 1982. Member of the management team for multiple politicians from 1948 to 1984.
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...
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Chicano activist and advocate for the Mexican-American community. Director of the Chicano Reapportionment Project for the Rose Institute of State and Local Government at Claremont McKenna College in 1981.