Joseph B. Keenan, Ernest R. Utley, Peirson Hall, and William Fleet Palmer discuss upcoming trial, Los Angeles, 1934-1935

Item Overview

Title

Joseph B. Keenan, Ernest R. Utley, Peirson Hall, and William Fleet Palmer discuss upcoming trial, Los Angeles, 1934-1935

Date Created

1934-1935

Date

1934/1935

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

The trial of several former C.W.A. and F.E.R.A officials will be before United States District Judge McCormick.
The men closely examine a folder of paperwork opened before Peirson Hall.
Photograph appears with the article, "C.W.A. Trial Plans Laid," Los Angeles Times, 06 Nov 1934: A1.
Peirson Hall spelled Pearson Hall and Pierson Hall in the LA Times.
Left to right is actually: Joseph B. Keenan, Ernest R. Utley, Peirson Hall, and William Fleet Palmer.

Caption

Handwritten on negative: Wm Fleet Palmer Pearson Hall Ernest R. Utley Joseph B Keenan
Text from newspaper caption: With the arrival of L. R. Joseph B. Keenan, dispatched here from Washington, local Federal prosecutors went into a legal huddle behind closed doors yesterday. Here is an inside peek at the attorney array. Left to right, Keenan, Pearson Hall, Ernest R. Utley and William Fleet Palmer.
Text from negative sleeve: PALMER, WILLIAM FLEET U.S. ATTY. , 1935

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Names

Hall, Peirson M. (Peirson Mitchell), 1894-1979
Utley, Ernest R., 1894-1973
Palmer, William Fleet, 1862-1942
Keenan, Joseph Berry, 1888-1954

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Lawyers--California--Los Angeles
Government employees