LAT Editor Spotlights Famous Pair of Spring Street Scissors
Shelby Coffey III, currently the vice chairman of the Newseum in Washington, D.C., has cranked out a terrific piece for The Daily Beast to mark the 20th anniversary of the LA riots. At the time of the civil unrest, the executive editor of the LA Times became immediately concerned when a rock crashed through the window of his downtown office.
After trying without success to contact the LAPD and conversing briefly with the paper’s trapped security staff, Coffey headed down to his building’s entrance with a fellow staffer after being told looters had come into the LAT lobby.
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