Crowd watches courtroom proceedings during murder trial of Betty Hardaker, Los Angeles, 1940
Item Overview
- Title
- Crowd watches courtroom proceedings during murder trial of Betty Hardaker, Los Angeles, 1940
- Date Created
- February 28, 1940
- Date
- 1940-02-28
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Daily News
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
- Description
- Betty Hardaker sits with her brother, Samuel Karnes, Jr., at the trial for the murder of her daughter. A group of unidentified people stand in the back of the room with others who are seated. Mrs. Hardaker was convicted of murdering her 5 year old daughter, Geraldine Hardaker, in a Montebello park washroom. The jury convicted her of committing the crime while of unsound mind.
- Caption
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Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative:Betty Hardaker.
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Hardaker, Betty - Mrs.; Karnes, Samuel - Mr.; Bailey, Bess - Dep. Sheriff; Hardaker, Charles; Tait, Lorraine; Hosking, Madge.
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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Hardaker, Betty Flay
Karnes, Samuel, Jr. - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Crime
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Legal
Disaster
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz0027zxmw
- 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 .