Writer, director and producer, 'Inventing LA: The Chandlers and Their Times'
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Peter Jones
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FROM Peter Jones
Which Way, L.A.?
Documentary on the Chandlers Airs Tonight The Chandler family owned the Los Angeles Times through four generations. They used it to help turn a tiny western outpost into a world metropolis and to make the Chandler family very rich. That story unfolds tonight at 9pm on KCET-TV in a documentary called Inventing LA : The Chandlers and their Times. Native Angeleno Peter Jones is the writer, producer and director.
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