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Gregory Freeman Stone collection on the Robert F. Kennedy assassination
Collection
Identifier: 0241
Abstract
The collection includes files accumulated by Gregory Freemen Stone during his investigation into the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
Dates:
1944 - 1992
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Glenn Tindall scrapbooks
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 7048
Abstract
2 scrapbooks documenting Glenn Tindall's work with the Department of Parks and Recreation and the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles as music director. Tindall was born in Indiana in 1894, graduated from Northwestern University, and embarked on a career in music education. He served as superintendent of the music program for the Kokomo, Indiana school stystem before World War I, and after serving in the Army, moved to Glen Cove, NY to be superintendent of music for the Glen Cove school system. ...
Dates:
1926-1929
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Watts Riots records
Collection
Identifier: 0084
Abstract
Final report (1965) of the Governor's Commission on the Watts Riots.
Dates:
1965
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
George Harrison Whitney collection on Winston Churchill and Los Angeles
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 7026
Abstract
George Harrison Whitney's research and correspondence regarding a visit made by Winston Churchill to Los Angeles in 1929. The collection includes newspaper clippings, mostly from the Los Angeles Times, that range from the 1920s to the 1980s. Winston Churchill spent three weeks in California in September of 1929, his only visit to the American West. He arrived in Los Angeles on September 17th, spending nine nights in the Los Angeles area. The purpose of the trip, which started in Seattle and...
Dates:
1920s-1980s
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
William Yee films of Watts and East Los Angeles
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 7132
Abstract
The William Yee films of Watts and East Los Angeles consist of four 16mm films and one U-matic videotape of neighborhood footage of Watts and East Los Angeles, recorded by Dr. William Yee in the 1960s and 1970s. The videotape of Watts focuses on street scenes circa 1963, just prior to the Watts Riots of 1965, including footage of the Watts Towers. The East Los Angeles footage, which Yee titled "East LA Estrada," was filmed circa 1970-1971. The East Los Angeles footage shows Chicano murals in...
Dates:
1963 - 1971
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections