Category Archives: Front Pages

Paul Coates

Posted on June 7, 2008 by lmharnisch

 

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June 6-7, 1908

Posted on June 7, 2008 by lmharnisch

Photograph by the U.S. Navy Four men are scalded to death and 10 are badly burned when a steam pipe bursts on  the Navy cruiser Tennessee during tests of ship’s top speed off Port Hueneme. The most seriously injured are … Continue reading →

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June, 7, 1958

Posted on June 7, 2008 by lmharnisch

Above and at left, what do you do with an African American professor who is a faculty member at an African American school, Alcorn A&M College, and attempts to enroll at an all-white campus, the University of Mississippi at Oxford? … Continue reading →

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June 7, 1938

Posted on June 7, 2008 by lmharnisch

New Chinatown opens, 1938. Above and at right, a special feature of New Chinatown is a dragon salvaged from the old Times Building, presumably the one built at 1st Street and Broadway after the 1910 bombing. The metal dragon was … Continue reading →

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Home of the week

Posted on June 7, 2008 by lmharnisch

June 7, 1908 Above, the home of J. de Barth Shorb (1842-1896) in San Marino, which Henry Huntington has torn down to make way for his cozy little cottage.  True confession: I have been a member of the Huntington for … Continue reading →

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June 6, 1958

Posted on June 6, 2008 by lmharnisch

A couple of odd, sad stories… A Spanish American War veteran’s widow dies while donating the flag from his casket to a junior high … A student with polio graduates as valedictorian from Washington and Lee University … And the … Continue reading →

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RFK-postscripts

Posted on June 6, 2008 by lmharnisch

Los Angeles Times file photo Antiwar demonstrators fight with Chicago police during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. At left, former Vice President Richard M. Nixon wins the Republican nomination for the 1968 presidential race. He selects Maryland Gov. Spiro T. … Continue reading →

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June 6, 1968

Posted on June 6, 2008 by lmharnisch

Drawing by Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times A heavy news day at the Los Angeles Times. Nearly every section carried a story about the death of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, whether it was the mainbar, various sidebars, sports columnists … Continue reading →

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June 6, 1938

Posted on June 6, 2008 by lmharnisch

Above and at left, Rabbi Edgar F. Magnin poses with Jewish ceremonial items brought from Europe by Henry Weinberger and his wife and presented to Wilshire Boulevard Temple. The Times says the donations include Paroches (hangings for the Ark) from … Continue reading →

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Voices–Eric Malnic

Posted on June 5, 2008 by lmharnisch

Above, one of the more curious aspects of the Robert F. Kennedy shooting: The search for the "Girl in the Polka Dot Dress." By Eric MalnicSpecial to The Times Things were busy in the Times newsroom on primary election night … Continue reading →

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June 5, 1968

Posted on June 5, 2008 by lmharnisch

"Oh no! No! Don’t. . . !" –Robert F. Kennedy, on being put into an ambulance "Get a doctor! Get a doctor!What is America coming to?" "Some people beat the guy’s head and began tearing at his hair." –Paul Houston, … Continue reading →

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June 4, 1968

Posted on June 4, 2008 by lmharnisch

        Literature: William Styron’s "The Confessions of Nat Turner" wins the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. At left, the late Times staff writer Richard Bergholz says that a large voter turnout will probably favor Sen. Eugene McCarthy … Continue reading →

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Sirhan

Posted on June 4, 2008 by lmharnisch

Sirhan was a "taciturn individual who didn’t say very much; friendly, really pleasant  but hard to get to know. He was brilliant. He was studying Russian when everyone else was barely getting by in Spanish and English."  –William Spaniard, high … Continue reading →

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Paul Coates

Posted on June 3, 2008 by lmharnisch

June 3, 1958  

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Matt Weinstock

Posted on June 3, 2008 by lmharnisch

June 3, 1958  

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June 3, 1968

Posted on June 3, 2008 by lmharnisch

Above, the cover of The Times, June 3, 1968: Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (D-N.Y.) is leading in the State Poll, over Sen. Eugene McCarthy (D-Minn.) Perhaps the most interesting projection  is 67% turnout in the June 4 primary. Now playing: … Continue reading →

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Babe Ruth

Posted on June 2, 2008 by lmharnisch

Nov. 1, 1924

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June 2, 1968

Posted on June 2, 2008 by lmharnisch

  In The Times: A Gallup Poll finds Sen. Robert F. Kennedy a distant second among the Democratic Party’s county leaders, with 16% support compared with 70% for Vice President Hubert Humphrey and 6% for Sen. Eugene McCarthy. In San … Continue reading →

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June 2, 1908

Posted on June 2, 2008 by lmharnisch

  Above, a dramatic story from Central Avenue … Mayor Harper reacts to a Times expose on illegal gambling in the city … Robert T. Hale of the Anti-Fakers Society of Los Angeles County tells county supervisors that granting exemptions … Continue reading →

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June 1, 1968

Posted on June 1, 2008 by lmharnisch

Johnson’s announcement throws the spotlight on Democratic Vice President Hubert Humphrey. Humphrey avoids the nation’s primaries, leaving them to Sens. Eugene McCarthy (D-Minn.), a vocal critic of the war who was the first to announce his candidacy, and Robert F. … Continue reading →

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