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Cannon (Lou) Rodney King papers
Mss 258
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Description
The collection mainly contains materials relating to Lou Cannon's book Official Negligence: How Rodney King and the Riots
Changed Los Angeles and the LAPD (1997). Some files are closed, pending review for confidential materials.
Background
Lou (Louis S.) Cannon was born in New York City on June 3, 1933. He is an American journalist and, non-fiction author, best
known for his several works on Ronald Reagan. He was raised in Reno, Nevada and attended the University of Nevada, Reno, and
San Francisco State College. He was state bureau chief for the San Jose Mercury News in the later 1960s, while Reagan was Governor of California. In 1972 he began working for the Washington Post as a political reporter. He became senior White House correspondent for the Washington Post during the Reagan administration and also wrote a weekly syndicated column. In addition, he is the author of Official Negligence: How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAPD (1997).
Extent
33 linear feet
(24 cartons, 3 document boxes, 1 oversize box, 116 audiocassettes, and 1 DVD)
Restrictions
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Research Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish
or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Research Collections. Permission for publication
is given on behalf of the Department of Special Research Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended
to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Availability
A portion of the collection is stored offsite. Advance notice is required for retrieval. Some portions of the collection are
closed, pending release by donor, as noted in the container list.