William A. Hudson testifies before the coroner's jury for murder charges brought against Busby Berkeley for drunk driving, Los Angeles, 1935

Title: William A. Hudson testifies before the coroner's jury for murder charges brought against Busby Berkeley for drunk driving, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created: [circa December 11, 1935]
Date: 1935-12-11
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: William A. Hudson testifies before a coroner's jury for the murder charges against Busby Berkeley. Berkeley had been the cause for a three-car-collision that resulted in two deaths, possibly due to alcohol he had reportedly imbibed at a cocktail party beforehand. Hudson was a student injured in the crash who testified that he had smelled liquor on Berkeley's breath while speaking to him after the crash.
Caption: Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: William A. Hudson, coroner's jury
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Silverstone, J.H.; Hudson, William; Jury in triple crash; Holtslander, Edward T.

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: Hudson, William A., 1915
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: People
Victims of crimes--California--Los Angeles
Crime
Legal
Juries--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
ARK: ark:/21198/zz00254qb8
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