California Legislative Leaders
Subtitle: and related material
By: tape recorded interview conducted 1977-1980 by Gabrielle Morris for the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1981 :
Contributors: Morris, Gabrielle S.; Caldecott, Thomas W.; Fisher, Hugo, 1921-; Lanterman, Frank D.; Richards, Richard, 1916-; Allan, Bruce F.; Burns, Hugh M., 1902-; Lincoln, Luther H., 1914-; Rattigan, Joseph A.; Sumner, Bruce W. 1924-; Combs, Richard E.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.; Goodwin Knight-Edmond G. Brown, Sr. Era Oral History Project.
Published: 1977
Subjects: Brown, Edmund G. 1905-1996; Knight, Goodwin, 1896-1970; California. Legislature; Republican Party (Calif.); Democratic Party (Calif.); Apportionment (Election law) -- California; Capital punishment -- California; Water resources development -- California; California -- Politics and government
Other titles: Government history documentation oral history series.
Description: Interviews with legislative leaders during the Knight/Brown administrations. Copies of photographs and of supporting documentary material inserted. Issues discussed include party organization and campaigns; California water plan; legislative reapportionment; capital punishment and the Caryl Chessman case; mental health; civil rights; oil industry and politics; education; government reorganization; etc. Interviewees, and titles of interviews, v. 1; Thomas W. Caldecott. Perspectives on the Republican Party and the Legislature: A Prominent Assemblyman Reviews the Goodwin Knight Era. Hugo Fisher. State Senator from San Diego, 1958-1962. Frank D. Lanterman. Crusades of a Republican Legislative Leader, 1951-1978; Water, Mental Health, Education, Ways and Means. Richard Richards. South of the Tehachapis: A Southern California Senator Comments on the 1953-1966 era. Interviewees, and titles of interviews, v. 2; Bruce F. Allan. California Oil and Water, and the Politics of Reform, 1953-1960. Hugh M. Burns. Legislative and Political Concerns of the Senate Pro Tem, 1957-1970. With an introduction by Richard E. Combs. Luther H. Lincoln. Young Turk to Speaker of the California Assembly, 1948-1958. Joseph A. Rattigan. A Judicial Look at Civil Rights, Education, and

Reapportionment in the State Senate, 1959-1966. Bruce W. Sumner. California State Assemblyman and Chairman of the Constitution Revision Commission, 1964-1970. With these, 1 portfolio: copies of documentary material supporting Richards interview.
Table of contents: title: Reel 1: T. Caldecott, June 5, 1979. Track 1: 499 ft., track 2: 498 ft.; title: Reel 2: Caldecott, cont. Track 1: 495 ft., track 2: 494 ft.; title: Reel 3: Caldecott, June 29, 1979. Track 1: 488 ft., track 2: 8-488 ft.; title: Reel 4: Caldecott, cont. Track 1: 499 ft., track 2: 498 ft.; title: Reel 5: Caldecott, cont. Track 1: 245 ft., track 2: blank; title: Reel 6: H. Fisher, Nov.20 , 1978. Track 1: 489 ft., track 2: 490 ft.; title: Reel 7: Fisher, cont. Track 1: 495 ft., track 2: 497 ft.; title: Reel 8: Fisher, cont. Track 1: 493 ft., track 2: 492 ft.; title: Reel 9: Fisher, cont. Track 1: 219 ft., track 2: blank; title: Reel 10: F. Lanterman, May 2, 1977. Track 1: 498 ft., track 2: 423 ft.; title: Reel 11: Lanterman, Feb.14, 1978. Track 1: 970 ft., (low volume), track 2: blank; title: Reel 12: Lanterman, cont., 970 ft. (noisy); title: Reel 13: Lanterman, Apr.3, 1978. Track 1: 981 ft., track 2: blank; title: Reel 14: R. Richards, Dec.5, 1978. Track 1: 495 ft., track 2: 493 ft.; title: Reel 15: Ricahrds, cont. Track 1: 502 ft., track 2: 271 ft.; title: Reel 16: Richards, Dec.22, 1978. Track 1: 472 ft., track 2: 16-501 ft.; title: Reel 17: Richards, cont. Track 1: 502 ft., track 2: 91 ft.; title: Reel 18: Richards, Feb.5, 1979. Track 1: 495 ft., track 2: 493 ft.; title: Reel 19: Richards, cont. Track 1: 64 ft., track 2: blank; title: Reel 20: Richards, Apr.6, 1979. Track 1: 413 ft., track 2: blank.; title: Phonotape 1365:; title: Reel 21: B. Allen, Feb.20, 1980. Track 1: 492 ft., track 2: 494 ft.; title: Reel 22: Allen, cont. Track 1: 384 ft., track 2: blank; title: Reel 23: H. Burns, Apr.3, 1978. Track 1: 995 ft., track 2: 1003 ft.; title: Reel 24: Burns, Apr.5, 1977. Track 1: 494 ft., track 2: 494 ft.; title: Reel 25: Burns, cont. Track 1: 188 ft., track 2: blank; title: Reel 26: Burns, Aug.16, 1977. Track 1: 730 ft., track 2: 102 ft.; title: Reel 27: Burns, Sep.26, 1977. Track 1: 490 ft., track 2: 421 ft.; title: Reel 28: Burns, June 20, 1978. Track 1: 108 ft., track 2: blank (interview notes available); title: Reel 29: L. Lincoln, Feb.14, 1980. Track 1: 498 ft., track 2: 600 ft.; title: Reel 30: Lincoln, cont. Track 1: 496 ft., track 2: 133 ft.; title: Reel 31: Lincoln, Feb.28, 1980. Track 1: 496 ft., track 2: 497 ft.; title: Reel 32: Lincoln, cont. Track 1: 17 ft., track 2: blank; title: Reel 33: J. Rattigan, Oct.4, 1978. Track 1: 497 ft., track 2: 494 ft.; title: Reel 34: Rattigan, cont. Track 1: 434 ft., track 2: 434 ft.; title: Reel 35: Rattigan, Oct.20, 1978. Track 1: 498 ft., track 2: 476 ft.; title: Reel 36: Rattigan, cont. Track 1: 495 ft., track 2: 493 ft.; title: Reel 37: B. Sumner, Oct.25, 1979. Track 1: 498 ft., track 2: 496 ft.; title: Reel 38: Sumner, cont. Track 1: 468 ft., track 2: 15-174 ft.; title: Reel 39: Sumner, Oct.26, 1979. Track 1: 494 ft., track 2: 481 ft.; title: Reel 40: Sumner, cont. Track 1: 233 ft., track 2: blank.; title: Phonotape 1365, cont.: