Cowboy film extra Tex Driscoll at hearing of Jerome (Blackjack) Ward, charged with the murder of Johnny Tyke, Los Angeles, February 27, 1940
Item Overview
- Title
- Cowboy film extra Tex Driscoll at hearing of Jerome (Blackjack) Ward, charged with the murder of Johnny Tyke, Los Angeles, February 27, 1940
- Date Created
- February 27, 1940
- Date
- 1940-02-27
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Daily News
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
- Description
- Cowboy extra Tex Driscoll at an inquest for Jerome (Blackjack) Ward, who is charged with the murder of Johnny Tyke in “Gower Gulch.” Gower Gulch is the name given to the area near the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street where film extras hang out waiting for work; many of the nearby studios produce westerns so often actual working cowboys come here to break into the film business. Allegedly, Blackjack shot Tyke with a .45, but many of the hundreds of Gower Gulch extras who came to the inquest testified that Tyke had started the fight and was “doped up” at the time.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
- Driscoll, Tex, 1889-1970
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Investigation--California--Los Angeles
Entertainment
Motion picture industry--California--Los Angeles
Cowboys--California--Los Angeles
Crime
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Legal
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- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002802s8
- Manifest url
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 .