Perspectives on the Alameda County District Attorney's Office
Subtitle: and related material
By: tape recorded interviews conducted 1963-1973 by Amelia R. Fry, Joyce Henderson, June Hogan and Miriam Feingold. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1974 :
Contributors: Sherry, Arthur H.; Feingold, Miriam.; Fry, Amelia R.; Mullins, John F., d. 1967.; Balaban, Edith.; Hamlin, Oliver D.; Shaw, Mary.; Shea, Willard W.; Spence, Homer R.; Chamberlain, Richard H.; Severin, Clarence E.; Jester, Lloyd.; Bruce, John.; Daly, E. A.; Oakley, James Hobby, 1899-1970.; Coakley, James Frank, 1897-; Heinrichs, Beverly.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.; Earl Warren Oral History Project (Bancroft Library)
Published: 1963
Subjects: Warren, Earl, 1891-1974; Miller, Nathan Harry, d. 1945; California. District Attorney (Alameda County); Alameda County (Calif.). Public Defender's Office; California -- Politics and government -- 1850-1950
Description: Interviews with friends and associates of Earl Warren relating to his professional and political career in the District Attorney's Office in Alameda County.

John F. Mullins: How Earl Warren became District Attorney; Edith Balaban: Reminiscences about Nathan Harry Miller, Deputy District Attorney, Alameda County; Oliver D. Hamlin: Reminiscences about the Alameda County District Attorney's Office in the 1920's and 30's; Mary Shaw: Perspectives of a newspaperwoman; Willard W. Shea: Recollection of Alameda County's first Public Defender. Photographs inserted.

Richard H. Chamberlain: Reminiscences about the Alameda Co District Attorney's Office: Lloyd Jester: Reminiscences of an Inspector in the District Attorney's Office; Beverley Heinrichs: Reminiscences of a secretary in the District Attorney's Office; Clarence E. Severin: Chief Clerk in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office; Homer R. Spence: attorney, legislator and judge; E. A. Daly: Alameda County political leader and journalist; John Bruce: a reporter remembers Earl Warren. Photographs of some prohibition era activities of the Office and a box of newspaper clippings are included.

J. Frank Coakley: A career in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office; Albert E. Hederman, Jr.: Office Boy to Assistant District Attorney; Lowell Jensen: Reflections of the Alameda County District Attorney; James H. Oakley: Early life of a Warren assistant. Photographs inserted.
Table of contents: title: Daly, partial interview. Reel 1: June 21, 1971, track 1: 1022 ft., track 2: 426 ft.; title: Reel 2: June 28, 1971, track 1: 1079 ft., track 2: 456 ft.; title: Phonotape 540 A :; title: Balaban, complete interview, Mar. 13, 1970. Reel 1: track 1: 1030 ft., track 2: 111 ft.; title: Hamlin, complete interview, July 9, 1970, Reel 2: track 1: 1040 ft., track 2: 251 ft.; title: Shaw, complete interview, June 5, 1970. Reel 3: track 1: 1038 ft., track 2: 1047 ft. Reel 4: track 1: 1038 ft., track 2: blank; title: Shea, partial interview, Jan. 16-Mar. 18, 1970. Reel 5: track 1: 749 ft., track 2: blank. Reel 6: track 1: 734 ft., track 2: blank. Reel 7: track 1: 1026 ft, track 2: 188 ft. Reel 8: track 1: 754 ft., track 2: blank; title: Chamberlain, complete interview, Mar. 8, 1971. Reel 9: track 1: 1052 ft., track 2: 726 ft.; title: Jester, complete interview, Nov. 20, 1970. Reel 10: track 1: 1033 ft., track 2: 1036 ft. Reel 11: track 1: 1063 ft., track 2: 496 ft.; title: Beverly Heinrichs, complete interview, Apr. 24, 1972. Reel 12: track 1: 819 ft., track 2: blank; title: Severin, complete interview, Aug. 30, 1972. Reel 13: track 1: 1033 ft., track 2: 1034 ft.; title: Spence, complete interview, Jan. 5 & 10, 1972. Reel 14: track 1: 1038 ft., track 2: 851 ft. Reel 15: track 1: 1038 ft., track 2: 1038 ft.; title: Phonotape 927 A,B :; title: Bruce, complete interview, Sep. 3 1969. Reel 16: track 1: 686 ft., track 2: 686 ft.; title: Coakley, complete interview, Sep. 12, 1969-Nov. 11, 1972. Reel 17: (not on transcript) track 1: 1038 ft., track 2: blank. Reel 18: track 1: 1035 ft., track 2: 988 ft. Reel 19: track 1: 1045 ft., track 2: 1045 ft. Reel 20: track 1: 832 ft., track 2: blank. Reel 21: track 1: 403 ft., track 2: blank; title: Hederman, complete interview, Nov. 21, 1972. Reel 22: track 1: 1004 ft., track 2: 835 ft.; title: Jensen, complete interview, Nov. 24, 1972. Reel 23: track 1 : 726 ft., track 2: blank; title: Oakley, complete interview, July 9, 1970. Reel 24: track 1: 1028 ft., track 2: 397 ft.; title: Mullins, Dec. 3, 1963. Reel 25: track 1: 880 ft., track 2: blank. Reels 1-24 are 5 in., Reel 25 is 7 in.; title: Phonotape 927 A,B :