Myrtle Takaoka, sister of slain dancer, testifies in court with Judge Irvin Taplin presiding, Los Angeles, 1936

Title: Myrtle Takaoka, sister of slain dancer, testifies in court with Judge Irvin Taplin presiding, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created: [circa August 19, 1936]
Date: 1936-08-19
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: Myrtle Takaoka testifying on the witness stand about the murder of her sister, dancer Midi Takaoka. Judge Irvin Taplin was presiding. The dancer's throat was cut by her jilted lover, waiter Raymond Johnson. Johnson later was sentenced to life in prison.
Caption: Text from original nitrate sleeve: Takaoka, Myrtle; Taplin, Irvin, Judge; Takaoka, Hal; Takaoka, Mary.

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: Takaoka, Myrtle
Taplin, Irvin, 1897-1978
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Judges--California--Beverly Hills
Arts
Legal
Witnesses--California--Los Angeles
Disaster

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
ARK: ark:/21198/zz0027xb61
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