Los Angeles District Attorney Buron Fitts and Special Prosecutor Clyde Shoemaker, at Fitts' 1936 perjury trial.

Title: Los Angeles District Attorney Buron Fitts and Special Prosecutor Clyde Shoemaker, at Fitts' 1936 perjury trial.
Date Created: [circa January, 1936]
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: Los Angeles District Attorney Buron Fitts and Special Prosecutor Clyde Shoemaker, pictured at Fitts' perjury trial, circa January 1936. Dist. Atty Fitts was charged with perjuring himself during testimony to a 1931 grand jury, in regards to real estate transactions carried out by his family. His sister and secretary, Mrs. Berthal Gregory, was also a defendant in this case.
Caption: Text from original nitrate sleeve: Fitts, Buron, Mrs.; Blalock, Eugene, Mrs.; Fitts, Ardell, Mrs.Note: notation from nitrate sleeve appears to refer to only picture 4 in the 12645 sleeve series.

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Subjects: People
Legal
Crimes--California--Los Angeles
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Names: Fitts, Buron, 1895-1973
Shoemaker, Clyde C., 1886-1965
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier: uclamss_1387_12645-03
ARK: ark:/21198/zz0025fpvk
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