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

Description:: Buron Fitts, Los Angeles County District Attorney, seated at a table and holding a typescript, probably during the trial of Thomas Edward Dugger.
Date:: [between 1935-1936]
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
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Description:: Buron Fitts and his legal team at his perjury trial. From left to right, William E. Simpson, Joe Scott, Fitts, Jerry Giesler.
Date:: January 20, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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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:: From left to right, A. J. Wallace, Friend W. Richardson, C. C. Young, William D. Stephens and Buron Fitts pose during a party rally for Herbert Hoover's Presidential campaign. The men stand in a row and look forward. Governor Young and Lieutenant Governor Fitts both wear "DELEGATE" ribbons on their lapels. The group appears to stand in a hallway. Behind them, a wall stretches across the background and a door stands, off-center to the left.
Date:: [circa April 4, 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Buron Fitts and his legal team. From left to right: Fitts, William Simpson, Joe Scott, Jerry Giesler.
Date:: January 27, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Charlotte Shelby, in fur-trimmed coat and hat, seated in Buron Fitts' office, with Buron Fitts, seated at desk, and Hewlings Mumper, Robert P. Stewart, and Percy V. Hammon, standing
Date:: 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph appears with the article "Nineteen New Inquisitors Assume Duties of 1926 County Grand Jury: NEW GRAND JURY TO SIFT ESCAPES AT COUNTY JAIL Coroner's Verdict Puts Onus of Youth's Death on Faulty Construction GRAND JURY TO SIT ON ESCAPES," Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 1926: A1.
Date:: March 9, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: A similar photograph taken on the same occasion appears with the article, "Race 'Mobs' to be Banned," Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov 1934: A1.
Date:: November 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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