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- Known for being anti-communist, anti-Equal Rights Amendment and anti-busing, Yorty was a gravely-voiced maverick who lost more campaigns than he won, and he ran in about 20 different political races over 45 years. His biggest splash came in 1961, when he became mayor of Los Angeles.
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Jun 6, 1998 · Samuel W. Yorty, who served three contentious terms as Los Angeles’ mayor during the turbulent 1960s, died Friday at the age of 88.
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Sam Yorty, the blunt-talking, self-promoting Mayor of Los Angeles who took credit for building up the city yet denied any responsibility for the Watts riots in 1965, died today. He...
Jun 5, 1998 · Known for being anti-communist, anti-Equal Rights Amendment and anti-busing, Yorty was a gravely-voiced maverick who lost more campaigns than he won, and he ran in about 20 different...
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wally george sam yorty blog tom bradley Jun 7, 1998 · Sam Yorty, 88, the colorfully cantankerous California politician who gained fame as the combative mayor of Los Angeles in the whirlwind years of the 1960s, died of pneumonia June 5 at his home...
Jun 6, 1998 · Politics: He helped shape the city's skyline, but his divisive appeals to racial anxieties left a bitter legacy.
I think Mr. Yorty's going to be a very exciting person to interview because he's looked at politics from a point of view where in some of the cases, he's probably been way ahead of his time. Someone told me today about the fact that he was talking energy crises back in the sixties.
Feb 26, 2015 · One of those colorful figures was Sam Yorty. As Mayor from 1961-1973, during a time of great social upheaval but also a time when the city had its fair share of growing pains, Yorty held sway over a city rapidly on the rise.
