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Description:: Police Captain J.H. Carter inspects the room in which Evelyn Wright and John B. Kimmel were sitting before they were fatally shot by Evelyn's husband, Paul A. Wright. Wright confessed to shooting his wife and best friend, John Kimmel, after finding the two in an embrace on the piano bench in his home. The trial that followed was named the "white flame" trial by the press and Wright was eventually let off on an insanity plea, thanks to his lawyer, Jerry Giesler
Date:: November 10, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Peggy McDonald attends the funeral of actress Jean Harlow, who died of uremic poisoning at the age of 26. The funeral was held in the "Wee Kirk O' the Heather" chapel in the Forest Lawn Memorial cemetary in Glendale, California.Ms. McDonald befriended Harlow when they met on set, where McDonald worked as a hairdresser. She, along with three other women close to Harlow, dressed and styled the deceased actress for her funeral and subsequent burial.
Date:: June 9, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: George Burns (on left?) arriving at Grand Central Air Terminal with his brother Willie Bernstein.
Date:: December 13, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A similar photograph appears in the Los Angeles Times, 8/23/1935, with the caption: "World Pays Solemn Homage to Will Rogers in Final Rites at Forest Lawn; Thousands, in silent reverence, filed past the bier where Will Rogers lay beneath a flag of flowers to pay him final honor."
Date:: August 22, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A column of mourners lined up behind a rope guideline to pay tribute to Will Rogers at the entrance to Forest Lawn with the duck pond, heron fountain and Red Cross first aid tent in the background on the right.
Date:: August 22, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Senator Samuel M. Shortridge, in suit, tie, and hat, holding cigar, standing at entrance to train car
Date:: [1926?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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