17-year-old Donald Rogers with his foster mother Bertha Fehrenschild, Los Angeles, 1940
Item Overview
- Title
- 17-year-old Donald Rogers with his foster mother Bertha Fehrenschild, Los Angeles, 1940
- Date Created
- February 20, 1940
- Date
- 1940-02-20
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Daily News
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
- Description
- 17-year-old Donald Rogers, also known as Donald Fehrenschild, with his foster mother Mrs. Bertha Fehrenschild at an inquest into the murder of 11-year-old Marilyn Bunker. Rogers was charged with the crime. Although he insisted that he was shooting at doves on the hillside, Rogers's bullets fell near Marilyn, her two brothers, and several other children playing in the grass. When she started to run home for help, Marilyn was shot under the eye and died immediately.
- Caption
- Text from original nitrate sleeve: Fehrenschild, Donald Rogers (held for murder of Marilyn Bunker)l; Trosper, - - (officer)
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
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Rogers, Donald
Fehrenschild, Bertha - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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People
Mothers--California--Los Angeles
Teenagers
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz0027zsng
- 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 .