William Focher, wounded, shortly before his death, Los Angeles, 1935
Item Overview
- Title
- William Focher, wounded, shortly before his death, Los Angeles, 1935
- Date Created
- July 1935
- Date
- 1935-07
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Similar photograph appears with the article, "Error Death to be Aired," Los Angeles Times, 12 July 1935: A1.
The legs of several men can be seen standing around William as he looks up from a bed with his mouth open, a blood pressure cuff rapped around one tattooed arm. The time the picture was taken is not given, but it is assumed to be sometime between Focher's admission to the hospital and his death.
Shortly after an altercation with wrestling promoter Lou Daro 35-year-old William Focher was shot by police officers after they had confused him for a bandit. After several hours of being treated at the hospital he died.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
- Focher, William Vincent, 1900-1935
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Deathbeds
Police shootings--California--Los Angeles
Wounds & injuries--California--Los Angeles
Victims--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_7451
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002df4sq
- 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 .