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’ve been a staffer 32 years, but the well-reported “Battle of Los Angeles” (April 2020) revealed much I didn’t know about the 1910 bombing—and how that violence affected the future buildings and in 1956 was installed in the lobby of our last downtown office (). I walked past that statue for years. We’ve since moved to a new office in El Segundo and the eagle, at least for now, is in storage, but I’m sure it will see the light of day again. Its silhouette is the emblem of the Los Angeles Times Guild, which unionized the paper’s newsroom in 2018.

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