Dr. Frank M. Mikels, psychiatrist for the prosecution in the Hickman kidnap and murder trial, Los Angeles, 1928

Title: Dr. Frank M. Mikels, psychiatrist for the prosecution in the Hickman kidnap and murder trial, Los Angeles, 1928
Date Created: 1928
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Collection: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Photograph of Dr. Frank Mikels, seated on the witness stand, holding an open notebook. An empty judge's seat is viewed in the background.
Mikels was one of several psychiatrists working for the prosecution against William Edward Hickman, who confessed to the kidnap and murder of Marion Parker, age 12. Hickman was sentenced to death after a 13-day trial. He was executed at San Quentin, October 19, 1928.
Caption: Handwritten on negative: Dr Frank Mikels MD
Text from negative sleeve: Hickman, William Edward.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Subjects: Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Witnesses--California--Los Angeles
Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles
Psychiatrists--American--California--Los Angeles
Names: Mikels, Frank M., 1880-1941
Hickman, William Edward, 1908-1928
Parker, Marion, 1915-1927
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier: uclamss_1429_10454
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hbf02
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