Names: Fitts, Buron, 1895-1973 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Buron Fitts gives his wife Marion a kiss to celebrate a successful trial. Fitts’ father, Worth, stands to Marion’s right.
Date:: February 7, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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:: 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:: Photo appears with the article "JURY TAMPERING CHARGED AT KEYES TRIAL OPENING: Judge Declares Woman ...," Los Angeles Times , 8 Jan. 1929: A1.
Date:: January 7, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: From left to right: Thornwell Rogers, Attorney Jerry Giesler, and District Attorney Buron Fitts.
Date:: [circa 1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Thornwell, left, and Fitts, right, sit at a desk with scattered papers on it.
Date:: [circa 1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Names spelled incorrectly on negative and negative sleeve. Correct names are Philip Toll Hill and Buron Fitts.
Date:: August 1, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: This photograph appears with the article, "Perjury Charge on Fitts's Sister Will Be Dropped," 9 Feb 1936: 1, 4.
Date:: February 8, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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

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