Buron Fitts at his perjury trial, Los Angeles, 1936
Item Overview
- Title
- Buron Fitts at his perjury trial, Los Angeles, 1936
- Date Created
- February 7, 1936
- Date
- 1936-02-07
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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On February 7, 1936, District Attorney Buron Fitts was acquitted of perjury regarding a 1931 testimony over the sale of a Claremont orange grove. Mrs. Berthall Gregory, Fitts’ sister, sold the grove to Lucien C. Wheeler. Fitts reportedly falsified the amount of money he received through the sale. The perjury trial lasted three weeks.
Buron Fitts leans down with a hand on his forehead. Berthall Gregory, Fitts' sister, sits on the far right. - Caption
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Handwritten on negative: Buron Fitts 2-7-36
Text from negative sleeve: 3268 --- 2/11/36 Buron Fitts, Mrs Buron Fitts, Jerry Geisler, W M Simpson, Bobby “, Mrs W M “, Roy Keane, Mrs Chas Phillips, Fits Jury Comes in with verdict 2-7-36
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
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- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_12149
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002h84w8
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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 .