Witness Elsie Fletcher testifies in Busby Berkeley auto accident, Los Angeles, 1936

Title: Witness Elsie Fletcher testifies in Busby Berkeley auto accident, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created: April 9, 1936
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Elsie sits cross-legged on what looks like the witness stand. She has light blonde hair and wears a dark hat with a wide brim and holds her hands in her lap over a black clutch purse.
Busby Berkeley is on trial for three counts of second-degree murder arising out of an automobile accident where he was travelling more than sixty miles an hour shortly before the accident. Elsie Fletcher and her husband J. H. Fletcher were witnesses to the crash.
Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Berkeley's Speed Told," Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr 1936: A1.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 2004 - Mrs. Elsie Fletcher witness Berkley case 4-9-36 [stamped:] Apr 14 1936
Handwritten on negative: Mrs x Elsie Fletcher

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Subjects: Witnesses--California--Los Angeles
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Names: Fletcher, Elsie
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier: uclamss_1429_8349
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dg6rm
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Rights Country: US
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