Judge and jury examine an automobile crash site on the Pacific Coast Highway, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Judge and jury examine an automobile crash site on the Pacific Coast Highway, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

December 24, 1935

Date

1935-12-24

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

A large group of men walk across the Highway with cars parked on the shoulder of the road.
The jury was taken to the home of William Koenig then followed the route suspect Busby Berkeley had taken the night of the accident, stopping at the site near the Lighthouse Café, just south of Portero Canyon, at Will Rogers State Beach on Roosevelt Highway.
Photograph appears with the article, "Trial Moves To Bedsides," Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec 1935: 3.

Caption

Handwritten on negative: Bus Berkeley Crash scene + jury
Text from negative sleeve: 2004 - 12/24/35 Bus Berkeley Jury at crash scene
Text from newspaper caption: Judge and jury inspect the site of the Berkeley-Von Brieson automobile crash which occurred on the Roosevelt Highway last September 8. Berkeley, Hollywood dance director, is being tried on a charge of second-degree murder.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

34.029733

Latitude

-118.521853

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Will Rogers State Beach (Los Angeles, Calif.)
California Highway 1 (Calif.)
Juries--California--Los Angeles
Automobiles--American--California--Los Angeles
Roads--California
Beaches--California--Los Angeles
Utility poles--California--Los Angeles