Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Language: No linguistic content / Names: Fitts, Buron, 1895-1973 and Fitts, Marion, 1893-1985 / Subject: Lawyers--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: District Attorney Buron Fitts and his sister Mrs. Berthal Gregory appear in a crowded courtroom with Mrs. Marion Fitts and their attorneys Joseph Scott and Jerry Giesler. Seated left to right is Buron Fitts, Mrs. Marion Fitts, and Berthal Gregory. Standing in the back, left to right, is Joseph Scott and Jerry Giesler.
Date:: [circa November 2, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: District Attorney Buron Fitts and his sister Mrs. Berthal Gregory appear in a crowded courtroom with his wife Marion Fitts and their attorneys. Seated, left to right, is Buron Fitts, Mrs. Marion Fitts, and Mrs. Berthal Gregory. Standing in the back, left to right, is Jerry Giesler, Joseph Scott, Roland Swaffield, Harold Judson, and Jack Gilchrist.
Date:: [circa November 2, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: On February 7, 1936, District Attorney Buron Fitts was acquitted of perjury regarding a 1931 testimony over the sale of a Claremont orange grove. Mrs. Berthall Gregory, Fitts’ sister, sold the grove to Lucien C. Wheeler. Fitts reportedly falsified the amount of money he received through the sale. The perjury trial lasted three weeks.
Date:: February 7, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Buron and Marion Fitts thank the jury after a successful trial.
Date:: February 7, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph appears with the article, "Fitts Trial in Perjury Case Opens," Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan 1936: 1.
Date:: January 21, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: On February 7, 1936, District Attorney Buron Fitts was acquitted of perjury regarding a 1931 testimony over the sale of a Claremont orange grove. Mrs. Berthall Gregory, Fitts’ sister, sold the grove to Lucien C. Wheeler. Fitts reportedly falsified the amount of money he received through the sale. The perjury trial lasted three weeks.
Date:: February 7, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: District Attorney Buron Fitts and his wife, Mrs. Marion Fitts stand smiling for a photograph as they are about to go through a door, possibly into his office.
Date:: [between 1928-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Buron Fitts gives his wife Marion a kiss to celebrate a successful trial. Fitts’ father, Worth, stands to Marion’s right.
Date:: February 7, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: District Attorney Buron Fitts with wife, Mrs. Marion Fitts, and great-niece (whom they later adopted as a daughter), Mary Lou Spear, at a polling station. Mr. & Mrs. Fitts drop their ballots into the "General Tickets" ballot box. One woman sits with records book, while another woman and man stand watching.
Date:: [between 1929-1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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