Gettle children posing for photographers on the lawn of their home, Beverly Hills, 1934

Title: Gettle children posing for photographers on the lawn of their home, Beverly Hills, 1934
Date Created: May 1934
Date: 1934-05
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description: Photograph related to article, "Pathos Reigns in Gettle Home," Los Angeles Times, 13 May 1934: 2.
Gettle was kidnapped from his ranch home in Arcadia on the night of May 9th during a housewarming party, then held in a La Crescenta house by a gang consisting of three men and two women. Police foiled their ransom plot and rescued Gettle on May 14th, following clues recorded on a dictagraph placed on the telephone conversations of a suspected bank robber.
The Gettle children (8-year-olds Billy and Betty, 6-year-old Bobby, and 5-year-old Jimmy) pose for photographers on the lawn of their Beverly Hills home, after their father William was kidnapped.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Gettle, William F. Kidnap case.

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: Gettle, Betty
Gettle, Robert Girten, 1927-1969
Gettle, Jimmy
Gettle, William Frank, Jr., 1926-2002
Location: Beverly Hills (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.072519
Latitude: -118.416634
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Children--California--Beverly Hills

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_4875
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002ctsqc
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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.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .