Robert Gottlieb and Irene Wolt Thinking Big: The Story of the Los Angeles Times, Its Publishers and Their Influence on Southern California, G.P. Putnam's Sons: NY, 1977. 603 pp., 1970
6. "A Threat to Public Safety"
"Problems with the police were not limited to the black community. As the Vietnam war escalated, university protests mounted, and Times reporters were frequently dispatched to cover campus demonstrations. After the Cambodian invasion and the Kent State shootings in May 1970, massive, spontaneous demonstrations broke out at UCLA and scores of other schools throughout the country. After a state of emergency was called, hundreds of police entered UCLA and made sweeps up and down the campus. One of the Times reporters, Stan Williford, witnessed an incident in which a student walking across the quad with books in his hands was caught in a sweep and beaten savagely by two police, who took the student behind some bushes. . . .
" . . . . [Noel] Greenwood [Times rewriteman] received a list of civilian and police casualties from the UCLA Medical Center, compiled other eyewitness accounts of beatings and arrests, and . . . UCLA Chancellor Young's statement, " very serious instances of excessive overreaction and overuse of force on the part of individual policemen." He produced follow-up stories that indicated that police used unnecessary force and arrested persons indiscriminately" . . ." p. 395
[Peter Ladefoged and Talmy Givon were two beaten on the UCLA campus: KR]