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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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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:: Buron Fitts (seated, left) discusses a document with Ray L. chesebro (seated, right), Eugene Williams (standing, left), and John W. Hart (standing, right)
Date:: November 28, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Buron Fitts standing in a courtroom, holding pieces of paper and looking towards one side of the courtroom with his fist clenched up.
Date:: 1920-1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: California Leiutenant Governor Buron Fitts speaking at an outdoor event.
Date:: 1927-1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The photograph is possibly related to the article, "Fitts Trial Jury Picked. Panel to Be Kept Under Guard," Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 1936: 1, 3.
Date:: February 17, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Buron Fitts, center, smiles and greets his friends after a successful trial.
Date:: February 7, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: From left, district attorneys Buron Fitts and William Simpson, special prosecutor William J. Clark (standing) and district attorney Robert P. Stewart in a courtroom during the trial of former attorney Asa Keyes, charged with accepting a bribe from the Julian Petroleum Corporation. The courtroom appears to be relatively empty, with only five other people near the public gallery in the courtroom.
Date:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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