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Samuel Karnes, Sr., Johanna Karnes, Edith Karnes, and Audrey Burns sit in the courtroom during the preliminary trial for Betty Flay Hardaker, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:
Samuel Karnes, Sr., Johanna Karnes, Edith Karnes, and Audrey Burns sit in the courtroom during the preliminary trial for Betty Flay Hardaker. Betty Flay Hardaker was convicted of murdering her 5 year old daughter, Geraldine Hardaker, in a Montebello park washroom. The jury convicted her of committing the crime while of unsound mind.
Date:
February 28, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Samuel Karnes, Sr., Johanna Karnes, Edith Karnes, and Audrey Burns sit in the courtroom during the preliminary trial for Betty Flay Hardaker, Los Angeles, 1940

Screenshot from a film used by the prosecution at the DeWitt Clinton Cook murder trial of Cook re-enacting his murder of Anya Sosoyeva, Los Angeles, October 11, 1939

Description:
Screenshot from a film used by the prosecution at the murder trial of DeWitt Clinton Cook. The film showed Cook (right) re-enacting his murder of dancer Anya Sosoyeva, who he hit on the head with a 2x4. Cook willingly confessed to the murder, as well as the assaults of two other women, Delia Bogard and Myrtle Wagner. This was the first time sound motion pictures were used during a trial in California history. The trial was also considered very unusual because Cook never denied the murder, personally offer a not guilty plea, or put up any defense. Cook was sentenced to death and executed in the San Quentin gas chamber on January 31, 1941, at age 21
Date:
October 11, 1939
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Screenshot from a film used by the prosecution at the DeWitt Clinton Cook murder trial of Cook re-enacting his murder of Anya Sosoyeva, Los Angeles, October 11, 1939

Sculptor Roger Burnham Noble and another man holding a relief panel, circa 1935-1939

Description:
Sculptor Roger Burnham Noble and an unidentified man holding a relief panel with 3 classicizing nude dancing figures. Behind them is another relief panel with a man with shackles on his wrists facing a man holding a lightning bolt and an oil lamp and with the planet saturn and smoke stacks behind them.
Date:
[circa 1935-1939]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Sculptor Roger Burnham Noble and another man holding a relief panel, circa 1935-1939

Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins speaks to crowd at Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins speaks to crowd standing next to airplane during the opening of the first airplane apprentice school at the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. Perkins visited Los Angeles for two days to welcome the new class of 37 junior employees who were to begin the program.
Date:
February 15, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins speaks to crowd at Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, Los Angeles, 1940

Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins with Antoinette Jones, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins (left) with Antoinette Jones, wife of lawyer Mattison Boyd Jones, during the opening of the first airplane apprentice school at the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. Perkins visited Los Angeles for two days to welcome the new class of 37 junior employees who were to begin the program.
Date:
February 15, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins with Antoinette Jones, Los Angeles, 1940

Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins with Antoinette Jones, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins (left) with Antoinette Jones, wife of lawyer Mattison Boyd Jones, during the opening of the first airplane apprentice school at the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. Perkins visited Los Angeles for two days to welcome the new class of 37 junior employees who were to begin the program.
Date:
February 15, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins with Antoinette Jones, Los Angeles, 1940

Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins with Antoinette Jones, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins (left) with Antoinette Jones, wife of lawyer Mattison Boyd Jones, during the opening of the first airplane apprentice school at the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. Perkins visited Los Angeles for two days to welcome the new class of 37 junior employees who were to begin the program.
Date:
February 15, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins with Antoinette Jones, Los Angeles, 1940

Self-proclaimed benefactor of the elderly Robert Noble, surrounded by some of his followers in the courtroom where he is charged with several misdemeanors, Los Angeles, 1937-1938

Description:
Self-proclaimed benefactor of the elderly, Robert Noble, surrounded by some of his followers in the courtroom. Noble was a radio personality who gained loyal followers from an old age pension plan he promoted. Noble and his followers were arrested on October 17, 1937 while staging a demonstration near radio station KMTR. Noble was charged with holding a parade without permit, blocking the sidewalk and refusing to disperse on police command. After a lengthy trial, Noble spent five days in jail, he planned to use the time to prepare speeches for a gubernatorial campaign. He said he was pleased that he would have a captive audience at this time.
Date:
between November 3, 1937 and March 24, 1938
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Self-proclaimed benefactor of the elderly Robert Noble, surrounded by some of his followers in the courtroom where he is charged with several misdemeanors, Los Angeles, 1937-1938

Self-proclaimed benefactor of the elderly Robert Noble, surrounded by some of his followers in the courtroom where he is charged with several misdemeanors, Los Angeles, 1937-1938

Description:
Self-proclaimed benefactor of the elderly, Robert Noble (facing left), surrounded by some of his followers in the courtroom. Noble was a radio personality who gained loyal followers from an old age pension plan he promoted. Noble and his followers were arrested on October 17, 1937 while staging a demonstration near radio station KMTR. Noble was charged with holding a parade without permit, blocking the sidewalk and refusing to disperse on police command. After a lengthy trial, Noble spent five days in jail, he planned to use the time to prepare speeches for a gubernatorial campaign. He said he was pleased that he would have a captive audience during this time.
Date:
between November 3, 1937 and March 24, 1938
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Self-proclaimed benefactor of the elderly Robert Noble, surrounded by some of his followers in the courtroom where he is charged with several misdemeanors, Los Angeles, 1937-1938