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: 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
Date: 1940-02-05
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: (Left to Right) Assemblymen Lee T. Bashore, Jack B. Tenney, Sam Yorty, Seth Millington, and Harrison W. Call, the "little Dies committee" which questioned members of the Los Angeles Country 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: L - R Lee Bashore - Jack Tenney - Sam Yorty - Seth Millington - Harrison Call

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: Bashore, Lee T.
Tenney, Jack B. (Jack Breckinridge), 1898-1970
Call, Harrison W.
California. State Relief Administration
Yorty, Sam, 1909-1998
Millington, Seth
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Governmental investigations--California--Los Angeles
Anti-communism--California--Los Angeles
Legislators--California
Crime
Communism--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
ARK: ark:/21198/zz0025gv11
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