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81. Interview of Harold H. Story

Topic:
Politics and Government
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Secretary to Mayor Frank Shaw and member of the Socialist Party.

82. Interview of Norris Poulson

Topic:
Politics and Government
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Mayor of Los Angeles, 56th district California State Assembly member from 1939 to 1943, and member of the U.S. House of Representatives.

83. Interview of Ernest Gruening

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

84. 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.

85. 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.

86. 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.

87. 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.

88. Interview of Charles G. Gant

Topic:
Politics and Government
Length:
3.5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
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.

89. Interview of John Anson Ford

Topic:
Politics and Government
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors from 1934 to 1958.

90. 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.

91. Interview of John Robertson Quinn

Topic:
Politics and Government
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Chair of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors from 1933 to 1935 and Los Angeles County assessor.

93. Interview of Jack B. Tenney

Topic:
Politics and Government
Social Movements
Film and Television
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
U.S. senator from 1943 to 1955 and 38th district California State Assembly member from 1936 to 1942. Head of the California Senate Factfinding Subcommittee on Un-American Activities ("Tenney Committee") and leader of anti-communist investigations.

94. Interview of Evelle J. Younger

Topic:
Politics and Government
Length:
3 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
California attorney general from 1971 to 1979 and Los Angeles County district attorney from 1964 to 1971.

95. Interview of Helen Manz Moede

Topic:
Education
Politics and Government
Length:
5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Councilor and director of the girls’ department at Los Angeles Juvenile Hall.

96. Interview of Gilbert Lindsay

Topic:
Politics and Government
African American History
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
9th district Los Angeles City Council member from 1962 to 1990.

97. Interview of Van Griffith

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

98. Interview of Kenyon J. Scudder

Topic:
Politics and Government
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Penologist and first superintendent of the California Institution for Men.

99. Interview of Paul Ziffren

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

100. Interview of Katharane Edson Mershon

Topic:
Politics and Government
Dance
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Dancer. University of California, Berkeley ballet teacher and administrator of the Denishawn Company's dance school. Interviewed because of connection to Katherine Philips Edson, a political activist for California's Progressive Party.