Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives / Names: Wright, Paul A. and Wright, J.J. / Subject: Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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Description:: Dentist J.J. Wright (left) arrives to support his son Paul A. Wright, who is on trial for the double murder of his wife, Evelyn Wright and best friend John B. Kimmel. Paul A. Wright confessed to shooting the pair when he found them in an embrace in his home. The trial was named the "white flame" trial by the press. Wright was eventually let off on an insanity plea, thanks to his attorney Jerry Giesler
Date:: November 11, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives