Superior court judge and California state chair for the Democratic Central Committee. Chair of the Board of Prison Terms and Paroles and director of penology.
59th District California State Assembly member from 1963 to 1967. California senator from 1967 to 1976. Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1977 to 1997.
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1973 to 1979. Member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors from 1979 to 1980 and 1992 to 2008.
University of California, Berkeley professor of citriculture and superintendent of the Citrus Experiment Station. Founder of Coit Agricultural Service.
Producer and entertainment lawyer. Director of business affairs for 20th Century Fox Television and vice president of business affairs for Paramount Television. Founder of Emmet G. Lavery Jr. Productions and vice president of business affairs for DLT Entertainment.
Union organizer for the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE), Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers International Union, and Federation of Retired Union Members (FORUM).
Actor, producer, and activist. Co-founder of the Art Against Apartheid Movement, the Negro Arts Theatre, and the Los Angeles Paul Robeson Community Center.
Reporter, editorial writer, and editor for the Los Angeles Times. Founder of the political journal Frontier and Pulitzer Prize winner for editorials against government secrecy and judicial censorship.
Member of the Rounce and Coffin Club, a group of hobby printers and librarians. Los Angeles City College professor in journalism and graphic arts and Los Angeles State College professor in applied arts and sciences.
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.
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.