Photograph of 11-year-old murder victim Marilyn Bunker, Los Angeles, 1940
Item Overview
- Title
- Photograph of 11-year-old murder victim Marilyn Bunker, Los Angeles, 1940
- Date Created
- February 15, 1940
- Date
- 1940-02-15
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Daily News
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
- Description
- Photograph of murder victim Marilyn Bunker wearing a white dress. Marilyn was shot by 17-year-old Donald Rogers, also known as Donald Fehrenschild, while she was playing on a hill with her little brother and other children. Rogers shot at the children from the upstairs window of his home. However, Rogers insisted that he was trying to shoot doves he had seen on the hillside.
- Caption
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Text from original nitrate sleeve:Bunker, Marilyn (murder victim); Bunker, Harlan - father; Bunker, Bradley; Bunker, Donald; Bunker, Harlan Mrs.
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Marilyn Bunker.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Photographs
Crime
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Disaster
Youth
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz0027zsxm
- Manifest url
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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 .