Buron Fitts and wife Marion at his trial for perjury, Los Angeles, 1936

Item Overview

Title

Buron Fitts and wife Marion at his trial for perjury, Los Angeles, 1936

Date Created

January 21, 1936

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Mrs. Fitts rests a hand on her husband's shoulder as she leans in to speak to him at the prosecutor's table.
Photograph appears with the article, "Fitts Trial in Perjury Case Opens," Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan 1936: 1.
Selections are made for the twelve jurors that will judge District Attorney Buron Fitts for false testimony in front of a grand jury in 1931 for a financial transaction of the sale of an orange grove and dismissal of a morals charge against real estate broker John P. Mills.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 3268 - Mr. + Mrs Buron Fitts Perjury Trial [stamped:] Jan 21 1936
Handwritten on negative: Mr. + Mrs. Buron Fitts
Text from newspaper caption: Buron Fitts, District Attorney, and Mrs. Fitts shown in court where the prosecutor faces trial on a perjury charge.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Subjects

Spouses--California--Los Angeles
Lawyers--California--Los Angeles
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles

Names

Fitts, Buron, 1895-1973
Fitts, Marion, 1893-1985

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image