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Archive Home > 2008 > June > 18 > Franklin Otis Booth Jr. was L.A. newspaperman

Franklin Otis Booth Jr. was L.A. newspaperman

By Jocelyn Y. Stewart / The Bulletin
June 18, 2008

LOS ANGELES — Franklin Otis Booth Jr., a former Los Angeles Times executive and businessman whose early investment in a venture headed by a young Warren Buffett earned him a fortune and a title as one of the nation’s richest men, has died. He was 84.

Booth, a philanthropist....

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