Assemblyman Sam Yorty, chairman of the "little Dies committee" at hearings for charges of Communist activity against members of the Los Angeles County S.R.A., Feb. 5, 1940

Title: Assemblyman Sam Yorty, chairman of the "little Dies committee" at hearings for charges of Communist activity against members of the Los Angeles County S.R.A., Feb. 5, 1940
Date Created: February 5, 1940
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: Assemblyman Sam Yorty, chairman of the "little Dies committee" which questioned members of the Los Angeles County State Relief Administration (S.R.A.) on charges of Communist activity. The hearings lasted only one day and ended with a recommendation that action be taken against some of the witnesses for perjury, but no one was immediately fired.
Caption: Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Sam Yorty

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Subjects: Communism--California--Los Angeles
People
Legal
Anti-communism--California--Los Angeles
Legislators--California
Governmental investigations--California--Los Angeles
Names: Yorty, Sam, 1909-1998
California. State Relief Administration
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier: uclamss_1387_22658-09
ARK: ark:/21198/zz0025gv0h
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