Assemblymen Jack Tenney and Sam Yorty at hearings for charges of Communist activity against members of the Los Angeles County S.R.A., Feb. 5, 1940
Item Overview
- Title
- Assemblymen Jack Tenney and Sam Yorty at hearings for charges of Communist activity against members of the Los Angeles County S.R.A., Feb. 5, 1940
- Date Created
- February 5, 1940
- Date
- 1940-02-05
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Daily News
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
- Description
- Assemblymen Jack Tenney (left) and Sam Yorty at the hearings for charges of Communist activity in the Los Angeles County State Relief Administration (S.R.A.). Both were on the "little Dies committee" which questioned various members of the S.R.A. The hearings lasted only one day and ended with a recommendation that action be taken against some of the witnesses for perjury, but no one was immediately fired.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
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Tenney, Jack B. (Jack Breckinridge), 1898-1970
California. State Relief Administration
Yorty, Sam, 1909-1998 - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Governmental investigations--California--Los Angeles
Anti-communism--California--Los Angeles
Legislators--California
Crime
Communism--California--Los Angeles
Legal
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- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
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- 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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