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Title
Picket lines at the Federal Building
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1949
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Several hundred Red sympathizers picketed the Federal Building in protest against Judge Peirson M. Hall's calling of the contempt of court cases against nine recalcitrant witnesses. Pickets later went up to the corridors near Judge Hall's court, and police officers were called to keep them in order. Photo dated: March 29, 1949.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00039814
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 2309.
CARL0000043389
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/15285
Subject
Communist Party of America
Communists--California--Los Angeles
Picketing--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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