Mayor Fletcher Bowron (right) and retired Navy Rear Adm. Robert W. Berry, the Director of Civil Defense for the City of Los Angeles examine mannequins damaged during the Yucca Flats (Nevada) atomic bomb tests. The display, which was installed at Pershing Square, was sponsored by the Office of Civil Defense to inform citizens of the extent to which unleashed atomic weapons cause severe damage, as if to say, "if mannequins can be destroyed in such a way, imagine what could happen to people."
Berry, Robert W Bowron, Fletcher,--1887-1968 Los Angeles (Calif.).--Office of Civil Defense--Officials and employees Mayors--California--Los Angeles Men--California--Los Angeles Mannequins (Figures)--California--Los Angeles Pershing Square (Los Angeles, Calif.) Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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