Witness Elsie Fletcher testifies in Busby Berkeley auto accident, Los Angeles, 1936
Item Overview
- Title
- Witness Elsie Fletcher testifies in Busby Berkeley auto accident, Los Angeles, 1936
- Date Created
- April 9, 1936
- Date
- 1936-04-09
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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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.
Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Berkeley's Speed Told," Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr 1936: A1.
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.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
- Fletcher, Elsie
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Witnesses--California--Los Angeles
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_8349
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002dg6rm
- 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 .