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Description:: John Frank Reavis, 26-year-old trombone player and candy salesman, in the court anteroom awaiting the jury’s decision to indict him in the murder of 17-year-old B-girl Alice “Jerry” Burns. Case investigating officers Det. Lt. Miles Ledbetter and Det. Lt. Lloyd Hurst are in the background. Reavis was indicted and after trial received a second-degree sentence of five years to life in San Quentin. His eye and left hand are bandaged as the result of a fight he had prior to his arrest
Date:: February 28, 1940
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Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: John Frank Reavis, 26-year-old trombone player and candy salesman, in the court anteroom awaiting the jury's decision to indict him in the murder of 17-year-old B-girl Alice “Jerry” Burns. Reavis was indicted and after trial received a second-degree sentence of five years to life in San Quentin. His eye and left hand are bandaged as the result of a fight he had prior to his arrest
Date:: February 28, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Musician Richard Candreva in court with his wife Jacqueline. They are in court because Candreva brought a $76,442 damage suit against actor Victor McLaglen. Candreva claimed he had been struck by the actor during at fight at the McLaglen Sports Center. McLaglen denied the charges and won the suit.
Date:: March 4, 1940
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Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Mrs. Elsie Hinman Bush entering court during a divorce battle with her ex-husband, former Superior Court Judge Guy F. Bush. The couple was married on Christmas Day 1939 in Las Vegas then separated three days later. Judge Bush filed for divorce against his wife citing a charge of cruelty then Mrs. Bush counter-filed with the same charge; neither party described their charge. It was the 3rd marriage for Mrs. Bush and the 4th for Judge Bush.
Date:: March 4, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Betty Flay Hardaker sits during questioning done by Dr. Paul De River, police psychiatrist, at the Los Angeles County Jail. Mrs. Hardaker was convicted of murdering her 5 year old daugher, Geraldine Hardaker, in a Montebello park washroom. The jury convicted her of committing the crime while of unsound mind.
Date:: February 23, 1940
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Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Civil rights activist and accomplished actor and singer Paul Robeson awaits testimony before the Committee of Un-American Activities.
Date:: circa 1949
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Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Los Angeles resident Luis Verdusco points to his head, where he sustained a personal injury during the Zoot Suit Riots.
Date:: 1942
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Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: A.L. Wirin and Saburo Kido filed a brief together in 1944 representing the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), in Korematsu v. United States. Ochikubo, a dentist, was the plaintiff in Ochikubo v. Bonesteel, a 1944 federal lawsuit challenging the Western Defense Command's continued exclusion of Japanese Americans from the West Coast. Kido was an attorney and the wartime president of the JACL. Wirin was an ACLU attorney and chief counsel for the JACL during and after World War II.
Date:: ca. 1944
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Professional football player and UCLA alum Kenny Washington recieves an award from his team, the Los Angeles Rams.
Date:: ca. 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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