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Title
Shooting at 817 78th Street, 1952
Date Created and/or Issued
1952-04-06
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
Los Angeles Examiner Collection, 1920-1961
Rights Information
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
4 images. Shooting at 817 78th Street, 06 April 1952. Stanley Blythe -- 25 years (shot and killed John Wilson)
Betty Blythe -- 20 years (copy) ex-wife of Blythe
Sergeant J. J. Minouge
Detective Marvin Jones
John Wilson (body) victim
Betty Blythe holding rosary in hand.
Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Parkinson. Date: 1952-04-06. Reporter: McHenry. Assignment: Shooting at 817 78th Street. Suspect - Henry Stanley Blythe and his divorced wife Betty Blythe. Sgt. J. J. Minouge (nearest camera) lifting Betty Blythe who had just collapsed near body of man her ex-husband shot. Detective Marvin Jones and body of John Wilson".
Type
image
Format
4 photographs : negative, b&w
10 x 13 cm
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
examiner-m10285
EXM-N-9532-027~1...~4
http://doi.org/10.25549/examiner-m10285
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/EXM-N-9532-027~1.jpg
Language
English
Time Period
1952-04-06
Place
817 78th Street
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
9532-027 [Sleeve Number]
University of Southern California [Contributing entity]
Relation
Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961
Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961
examiner-m1663

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