W. C. Buchanan delivers his testimony in court, Ontario, 1936

Item Overview

Title

W. C. Buchanan delivers his testimony in court, Ontario, 1936

Date Created

April 9, 1936

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Buchanan sits at a desk with his hands folded, looking off into the distance while another man writes on a pad of paper.
Photograph appears with the article, "No Agents," Says Blue," Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb 1936: 8.
Buchanan testified before Judge J.F. Hamilton there is only one licensed betting place in California for the horse races at the Santa Anita track, and he does not know any of the men arrested for illegal gambling.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 4653 - W.C. Buchanan, secretary California Horse- racing Board 2/26/36 [stamped:] Apr 9- 1936
Handwritten on negative: W.C. Buchanan
Text from newspaper caption: Hugh Blue, secretary of the Los Angeles Turf Club, is shown here at the left as he appeared as a prosecution witness at a hearing of three bookmaking suspects in Judge Hamilton's court yesterday in Ontario. He said Santa Anita has no outside agencies for betting. At right is W. C. Buchanan, secretary of the California Horse Racing Board, who gave the same kind of testimony.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Subjects

Witnesses--California--Ontario
Horse racing--California--Ontario

Names

Buchanan, W.C.
California Horse Racing Board

Location

Ontario (Calif.)

Resource type

still image