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Description:: Buron Fitts standing in position, leaning over with one fist by his chest and the other in the bottom. He wears a necktie with a small dot pattern.
Date:: 1920-1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: From left to right: Thornwell Rogers, Attorney Jerry Giesler, and District Attorney Buron Fitts.
Date:: [circa 1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Related to the article, "Fitts and Sister Indicted on Charges of Perjury. Judge Rules Bail Bonds Needless. Hearing for Pair Next Friday." Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 1934: 1.
Date:: December 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: From left to right, District Attorney Buron Fitts sits with his attorneys, Jerry Giesler, Joseph Scott, and Jack Gilchrist, during his perjury trial before the grand jury.
Date:: [circa November 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: District Attorney Buron Fitts stands next to his sister, Mrs. Berthal Gregory, both of which were facing an indictment for perjury by the county grand jury.
Date:: [circa November 1934]
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:: This photograph appears with the article, "Threat Made by Fitts to Attack Prosecutor," Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 1936: 1.
Date:: February 4, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Buron Fitts, holding a paper, stands in front of the jury box to address the jury during the trial of former district attorney Asa Keyes. Keyes was charged with accepting a bribe from the Julian Petroleum Corporation.
Date:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: In January 1936, District Attorney Buron Fitts was charged with 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. He was prosecuted by Clyde C. Shoemaker and defended by Jerry Giesler, Joseph Scott, and William E. Scott with Winthrop O. Gordon as the attorney aid.
Date:: February 7, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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