Crowds near the Courthouse during the Hickman kidnapping and murder trial, Los Angeles, 1927 or 28

Title: Crowds near the Courthouse during the Hickman kidnapping and murder trial, Los Angeles, 1927 or 28
Date Created: [1927-1928]
Date: 1927/1928
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Crowds of men and women line pathways adjacent to the Los Angeles County Courthouse (stairs and walkway seen in foreground) during the arraignment or trial of William Edward Hickman, kidnapper and murderer of Marion Parker, age 12. Also present in the photo are lines of parked and moving vehicles. The vehicle at foreground left has a driver at the wheel. The acronym "L.A.F.D" is printed on the driver's side door.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Hickman, William Edward.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Los Angeles County Courthouse (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Parker, Marion, 1915-1927
Hickman, William Edward, 1908-1928
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.056259
Latitude: -118.243442
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Crowds--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_10473
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hbfnw
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Rights Country: US
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