David Herrera Jordan and Joseph Friedkin at the Monument to Benito Juarez, Ciudad Juárez (Mexico), circa 1966

Title: David Herrera Jordan and Joseph Friedkin at the Monument to Benito Juarez, Ciudad Juárez (Mexico), circa 1966
Date Created: [circa 1966]
Date: 1966
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: David Herrera Jordan (left) and Joseph Friedkin at the Monument of Benito Juarez in Chamizal Federal Public Park. The monument has a relief sculpture portrait of Benito Juarez and a quote reading "La ley ha sido siempre mi espada y mi escudo."
Commissioners of the International Boundary and Water Commission, Joseph Friedkin (for the U.S), and David Herrera Jordan (for Mexico) developed a solution to the Chamizal border dispute in 1962-1963.

Genre: black-and-white photographs
news photographs
Names: Jordan, David Herrera, 1912-1982
International Boundary & Water Commission, United States & Mexico
Friedkin, Joseph, 1909-2008
Location: Ciudad Juárez (Mexico)
Longitude: 31.758743
Latitude: -106.453806
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Boundary disputes--Texas--El Paso
Chamizal Federal Public Park (El Paso, Tex.)

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: C1429_b738_278828_Herrera_and_Friedkin
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hj9sq
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