William A. Dessert, juror at the murder trial of Paul A. Wright, Los Angeles, 1938
Item Overview
- Title
- William A. Dessert, juror at the murder trial of Paul A. Wright, Los Angeles, 1938
- Date Created
- between January 13 and February 17, 1938
- Date
- 1938-01-13/1938-02-17
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Daily News
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
- Description
- William A. Dessert, juror at the Paul A. Wright "white flame" double murder trial. Wright is accused of shooting his wife, Evelyn, and best friend, John B. Kimmel, after allegedly finding the two in an embrace on a piano bench in his home. Wright was ultimately found not guilty by reason of temporary insanity.
- Caption
- Text from original nitrate sleeve: Dessert, William A.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
- Dessert, William A.
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Crimes of passion--California--Los Angeles
Juries--California--Los Angeles
Legal
Disaster
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz0027z2vf
- 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
- 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 .