Charles Lummis and
the Raiders of the Southwest Museum
by Daniel Wright

Chapter One:
The Autry Museum now claims, without a shred of objective evidence to support the claim, that it is "not feasible" to continue to use the Soutwest Museum as the primary exhibition site for the very first museum in this City...

Chapter Two...
Close-up: Jackie Autry, widow of Singing Cowboy Gene Autry, inks the Merger Agreement with the Southwest Museum... The Autry Museum pays exactly ZERO to merge...

Chapter Three...
The ghost of Charles Lummis descends. He booms to Jackie Autry and John Gray...

Chapter Four...
Autry CEO John Gray tells media how gratified the Autry is that "...the preservation community is supportive of our plan for the Southwest Museum... (as some undefined cultural center and not the continued use as the building was historically used— a museum)." How is it that the Autry turns things upside down?

Chapter Five...
“A Fiddler on the Roof and a Bug’s Life in the Basement”

to be continued...

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important links:

> Promises Broken: see the crucial original 2003 letter which shows what Autry
originally committed to do in order to secure the support of the Coalition...

> download the City of Los Angeles' 2003 motion
—passed unasimously— the preserve Southwest Museum...

> download the complete Rehabilitation Study
regarding the Southwest Museum...

> read the Friends' commissioned ConsultEcon, Inc.
economic feasibility study...

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