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61. Interview of Paul Ziffren

Topic:
Politics and Government
Length:
7 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Lawyer and California Democratic National Committee member.

62. Interview of Oscar Lawler

Topic:
Politics and Government
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Assistant United States attorney general.

63. Interview of William Jarvis Carr

Topic:
Politics and Government
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
California senator from 1913 to 1923 and city attorney for Pasadena.

64. Interview of Joseph L. Wyatt

Topic:
Politics and Government
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Lawyer and president of the California Democratic Council (CDC). Director of the Los Angeles Junior Chamber of Commerce.

65. Interview of John Gee Clark

Topic:
Politics and Government
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
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.

66. Interview of Rhea C. Ackerman

Topic:
Politics and Government
Length:
7.5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Assistant superintendent at Los Angeles Juvenile Hall and assistant administrator at Children’s Hospital.

67. Interview of Reuben W. Borough

Topic:
Politics and Government
Social Movements
Journalism
Length:
15.25 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
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.

68. Interview of John F. Aiso

Topic:
Asian American History
Politics and Government
Length:
3 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Lawyer and judge. Director and head instructor of the Military Intelligence Service Language School. Justice of the 2nd District Court of Appeals.

69. Interview of Arthur E. Briggs

Topic:
Politics and Government
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Dean of the UCLA School of Law. 5th District Los Angeles City Council member from 1939 to 1943.

70. Interview of Ernest Gruening

Topic:
Politics and Government
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Journalist, governor of Alaska, and U.S. senator.

71. Interview of Ethel G. H. Conant

Topic:
Politics and Government
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Secretary for Katherine Duer Mackay, founder of the Equal Franchise Society, a woman’s suffrage organization. Wife of Harry Hopkins, member of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration.

72. Interview of John C. Cuneo

Topic:
Politics and Government
Length:
4 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
California state director for the Townsend Plan, a state-sponsored pension plan proposal. Appointee to the California State Social Welfare Board.

73. Interview of William Rosenthal

Topic:
Politics and Government
Length:
1.5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Los Angeles Superior Court judge from 1961 to 1977 and 40th district California State Assembly member from 1943 to 1953.

74. Interview of Margarete Clark

Topic:
Politics and Government
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Member of the Los Angeles City Board of Education and president of the Business and Professional Women's Club of Los Angeles.

75. Interview of Samuel W. Yorty

Topic:
Politics and Government
Length:
5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Mayor of Los Angeles from 1961 to 1973 and member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1951 to 1955.

76. Interview of Robert W. Kenny

Topic:
Politics and Government
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Attorney general of California from 1943 to 1947 and California senator from 1939 to 1943.

77. Interview of Ellis E. Patterson

Topic:
Politics and Government
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Lieutenant governor of California from 1939 to 1943 and member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1945 to 1947.

78. Interview of Charles Farwell Edson Jr.

Topic:
Politics and Government
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of history. Son of social activist and feminist Katherine Philips Edson.

79. Interview of James R. Wrightson

Topic:
Politics and Government
Journalism
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
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:
Journalist from 1950 to 1985 with a focus on politics in California at local and state levels.

80. Interview of Allen Miller

Topic:
Politics and Government
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
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 1957 to 1959 and Los Angeles County Superior Court judge from 1959 to 1973.