File photo of Francis Read "Speed" Kendall, Times Reporter, Los Angeles, 1928-1939

Title: File photo of Francis Read "Speed" Kendall, Times Reporter, Los Angeles, 1928-1939
Date Created: [Between 1928 and 1939]
Date: 1928/1939
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Photograph of Francis Read "Speed" Kendall, a reporter for The Times. He began his career as the youngest police beat reporter for the Los Angeles Record. After working for some other newspapers briefly, he returned to The Times in 1928, where he worked until 1942. He was noted primarily for his coverage of Hollywood both as a feature writer and in his column "Around and About Hollywood."
Caption: Handwritten on negative: Speed Kendall
Text from negative sleeve: Kendall, Speed; Times Reporter (mostly on movies)

Genre: news photographs
Portrait photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: Kendall, Francis Read, 1901-1952
Los Angeles Times (Firm) Employees
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Newspaper employees--California--Los Angeles
Reporters--American--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dhxw8
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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.
License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .