Detectives Thad Brown and Joe Filkas inspect fake bomb, Los Angeles, 1934

Title: Detectives Thad Brown and Joe Filkas inspect fake bomb, Los Angeles, 1934
Date Created: July 24, 1934
Date: 1934-07-24
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Thad Brown (left) and J. P. Filkas (right) hold a package with its contents arranged on a flat surface.
Different photographs taken on the same occasion appear with the article, “Fake Bomb Sent to M’Adoo Causes Downtown Furor,” Los Angeles Times, 25 Jul 1934: 1.
A suspicious package was sent to William Gibbs McAdoo, junior Senator, at the Trans-America Building on July 24, 1934. It was moved to a vacant lot near 2nd and Flower streets by Det. Lt. Thad F. Brown and Det. Lt. Joe P. Filkas, where they discovered it was harmless though “it certainly looked genuine.”
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Brown, Thad F. Chief of Dect.?
Handwritten on negative: Thad F. Brown J. P. Filkas

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_1280
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