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Title
Police Department employees take loyalty oaths
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1948
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
President Truman took up where Churchill left off and by executive action ordered that all government employees be forced to take loyalty oaths and declare they were not, nor ever had, been Communists. Group photo taken outside City Hall. Loyalty oaths are taken by every employee of the Police Department. Photo dated: December 13, 1948.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00041044
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 2194
CARL0000045314
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/13477
Subject
Los Angeles City Hall (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Loyalty oaths--California--Los Angeles
Anti-communist movements--United States
Police--California--Los Angeles
Motorcycle police--California--Los Angeles
Motorcycles--California--Los Angeles
City halls--California--Los Angeles
Streets--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Time Period
1941-1950

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