Paul A. Wright with his attorney Jerry Giesler during a trial in which Wright is accused of the double murder of his wife and best friend, Los Angeles, November 1937-February 1938

Item Overview
- Title
- Paul A. Wright with his attorney Jerry Giesler during a trial in which Wright is accused of the double murder of his wife and best friend, Los Angeles, November 1937-February 1938
- Date Created
- between November 9, 1937 and February 16, 1938
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Daily News
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
- Description
- Airline official Paul A. Wright (standing right) with his attorney Jerry Giesler. Wright confessed to the double murder of his wife, Evelyn and best friend, John Kimmel. Wright said he shot the pair after finding them in an embrace in his home. In the trial that followed, called the "White Flame" trial by the press, Wright eventually escaped the death pentalty and a prison sentence on an insanity plea
- Caption
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Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: L-R Atty Jerry Geisler & Paul A. Wright
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Wright, Paul A.; Geisler, Jerry, Att.; Hegi, W. Capt.; Nance, Frank, Coroner
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Subjects
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Lawyers--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Disaster
Legal
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Crimes of passion--California--Los Angeles - Names
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Wright, Paul A.
Giesler, Jerry, 1886-1962 - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local identifier
- uclamss_1387_16113-03
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz0025gmb9
- 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
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .