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Title: Fake bomb at City of Commerce
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Ober, Jim
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1970
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Photograph caption reads: "Sgt. Walter Johnston stands over empty threat". Additional note on photograph verso reads: "A fake bomb, a wrapping of La Raza newspapers and wire was found on the front steps of the City of Commerce City Hall this evening, Sgt. Walter Johnston, from the sherriff's arson and explosives detail, found that the bomb was harmless". Photograph dated: Sept. 4, 1970.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00079281
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b006_f5_i12
CARL0000080045
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/24773
Subject: City halls--California--Commerce
Bomb threats--California--Commerce
Protest movements--California--Commerce
Commerce (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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