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OBS/6/1/1/2/2/10/1/11
Title
Observer crisis and purchase by Atlantic Richfield
Date(s)
- 1975-1976 (Creation)
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1 file
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Scope and content
Internal letters and memos regarding options for the continuation of the Observer. Further correspondence relating to the purchase by Atlantic Richfield Company and subsequent reorganisation at the newspaper. Offers by other bidders to purchase the newspaper. Statements by Atlantic Richfield and Observer trustees. Letters from readers both in support of and against options relating the sale.
Correspondents include Roger Harrison, James Goldsmith, Vere Harmsworth, David Astor, Robert O Anderson, Cyril Dunn, and Lord Devlin.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Donald Trelford
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Some material in this series is closed to researchers in line with Data Protection Act
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Copyright: Mainly Guardian News & Media
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Open(part)
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- Trelford; Donald Gilchrist (1937-2023); journalist, broadcaster, and editor of The Observer (Subject)
- Harrison; Desmond Roger Wingate (1933-); managing director and chief executive of The Observer (Subject)
- Goldsmith; Sir; James Michael (1933-1997); businessman (Subject)
- Astor; Hon; Francis David Langhorne (1912-2001); editor of The Observer (Subject)
- Anderson; Robert Orville (1917-2007); chairman of Atlantic Richfield (Subject)
- Dunn; Cyril ([1909]-1988); journalist (Subject)
- Devlin; Patrick Arthur (1905-1992); Baron Devlin; judge (Subject)
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