Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 USC Libraries Special Collections University of Southern California specol@usc.edu
Description
7 images. Officer shot and killed in line of duty, 20 June 1958. Thomas Scebbi (officer) (shot and killed by ex-convict James Eugene Hooton) Raymon Espinosa (wounded officer called for help) James Hooten (ex-convict who shot officers) Detective Sergeant Eugene Danforth Wini Gronvold (nurse). Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Wesselmann. Date: 1958-06-20. Reporter: Alone. Assignment: Cops shot. 10: Scene in street in front of 332 S. Kingsley Dr. Dicks are leaning over car at center in which cops were riding. Leg of daed [sic] cop is seen hanging out. 2: Feet of dead policeman, Thomas Scebbi, are seen hanging from car where he ied after he made it back in and called for help on microphone seen where he dropped it as he died. 4: Part of face of dead policeman his badge and bullet hole in his shirt can be seen in this bird's-eye view from up a pole. 3: Gordon Leaf points out bullet hole in front window curtain to his son, Earl, 9, who was in second-floor bedroom with him asleep at 332 S. Kingsley when shooting took place in street below. 16: Copy shots from Police Dep't show Thomas Scebbi, left, dead Raymon Espinoza, rt., wounded. 7/24: Central receiving hospital crew attending wounded cop Raymon Espinoza as he is moved from emergency treatment room to surgery. 7/8: Murder suspect James Hooten, 26 is delivered to central rec. hosp. by ambulance attendants. 57: Suspect screams in pain as Nurse Wini Gronvold cleans left leg shattered by police bullet. Detective Sgt. Eugene Danforth stands by to question Hooten as soon as he can talk after treatment".
Type
image
Format
7 photographs : negatives, b&w 10 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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