Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Names: Fitts, Buron, 1895-1973 / Subject: Courtrooms--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Fitts was Los Angeles County District Attorney between 1928-1940. He was also Lt. Governor of California 1927-1928. Court case in photo unknown.
Date:: [1935?]
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
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Photograph appears with the article, "Buron Fitts Trial Opens on Charge of Perjury," Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan 1936: 2.
Date:: January 15, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Kendall and Garland sit and stare intently forward. Spike O'Donnell stands close to Buron Fitts and holds his hat and jacket in his arms.
Date:: [April 18, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

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:: 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:: Another photograph of Fitts at the witness stand taken on the same day 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, 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:: Winthrop O. Gordon, far left, at the counsel table with other attorneys. Buron Fitts sits at the far right, leaned back in his chair.
Date:: January 20, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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