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Description:: Actor Ben Lyon on the witness stand during a trial for 36-year-old war veteran Albert F. Holland. Holland's sanity was questioned after he wrote more than 150 love letters to Lyon's wife, actress Bebe Daniels, and claimed to have married her in Mexico. During the case, Holland ran most of his own defense, including a lengthy cross-examination of Lyon. The jury ultimately found Holland to be insane and committed him to the state hospital.
Date:: January 4, 1933
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Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: An extortion letter received by actress Anna May Wong threatening members of her family and demanding immediate payment. Several other celebrities were targeted as well, such as Dr. A.M. Foote and producer David O. Selznick.
Date:: [circa March 25, 1937]
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Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Photographed left to right are Karl Holton, Director of the California Youth Authority Robert W. Kenny, California Attorney General and Everett Mattoon, Assistant Attorney General.
Date:: 1943
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Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Undocumented Mexican workers (identified as "wetbacks" in a handwritten notation on the negative) are discovered and arrested by a Los Angeles police officer in a Southern Pacific rail yard.
Date:: 1953
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Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: FBI agents arrest Japanese males, including many community and religious leaders, in the first round of forced evacuations from Terminal Island following the Japanese attack on Pearl Habor.
Date:: December 7, 1941
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Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Little Tokyo in Los Angeles was dubbed "Bronzeville" during World War Two, as African American families and workers moved into the empty homes and businesses of the relocated Japanese American community.
Date:: 1943
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: A police officer inspects the home or office of Ino Shigeo, a Japanese resident of Palos Verdes.
Date:: 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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