Sleepy Lagoon murder case acquittal
Item Overview
- Title
- Sleepy Lagoon murder case acquittal
- Date Created
- Oct 1944
- Date
- 1944-10
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Daily News
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
- Description
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Defendants in the Sleepy Lagoon murder trial are reunited with family and friends in the Los Angeles Hall of Justice following their acquittal.
After the murder and assault convictions of 17 Mexican American youths in the Sleepy Lagoon murder case, the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee advocated for the defendants until the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the convictions as a miscarriage of justice.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
Keywords
- Genre
- news photographs
- Names
- Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Events
Sleepy Lagoon Trial, Los Angeles, 1942-1943
Mexican Americans--California--Los Angeles
Legal
Media
Hall of Justice (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
- ark:/13030/hb158003tz
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .