Subject: Handguns - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Police officer Robert W. Trowbridge inspects the handgun used by Paul A. Wright to fatally shoot his wife, Evelyn, and best friend, John B. Kimmel. The gun is a Luger automatic, a German war relic. Wright confessed to shooting the pair after finding them in an embrace on the piano bench in his home. The trial that followed was named the "white flame" trial by the press and Wright was eventually let off on an insanity plea, thanks to his lawyer, Jerry Giesler
Date:: November 10, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: A sports official firing a starter pistol at a track meet between UCLA and USC. UCLA and USC varsity and freshmen track teams both held events at the Coliseum, providing for a twin bill.
Date:: [circa April 24, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: A number of weapons, guns and a sword, are arranged on a white cloth with police tags.
Date:: February 1, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Possibly related to Los Angeles Times article, June 21, 1935, “Pistol Champions Show Skill, Ontario Dedicates Range, Police Pistol Grounds Opening Attracts Marksmen of Southland for Carnival of Skill.” … Teams of the valley competing … Alhambra Team No. 1 … Alhambra No. 2 …
Date:: April 11, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Possibly related to Los Angeles Times article, June 21, 1935, “Pistol Champions Show Skill, Ontario Dedicates Range, Police Pistol Grounds Opening Attracts Marksmen of Southland for Carnival of Skill.” … Teams of the valley competing … Alhambra Team No. 1 … Alhambra No. 2 …
Date:: April 11, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Los Angeles and Pasadena are both mentioned in the Los Angeles Times article
Date:: 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A similar photograph appears with the article “Judges Take Lesson on Cutting Traffic Deaths, State Patrol ‘On Parade,’ Visiting Officials Learn How Rosemead Area’s Officers Have Reduced Fatalities,” Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 1935. Caption reads: Inspector Cannon of the California Highway Patrol inspecting six-shooter of officer Wayne A. Farrington at Rosemead yesterday. Capt. Moffitt, in charge of the patrol district, is in the background. Visiting judges learned how the patrol is reducing highway fatalities
Date:: April 19, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Negative misfiled. Text from a different negative sleeve describes the image. Text reads:
Date:: August 23, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Mexican consul Ricardo Hill attends as General Saturnino Cedillo presents dueling pistols to Sherriff James E. Davis at a luncheon at the police pistol range in Elysian Park (now the Los Angeles Police Revolver and Athletic Club).
Date:: Decmber 4, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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