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Title
Arraignment of "Sleepy Lagoon" murder suspects
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1942
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption dated August 10, 1942 reads, "In an unusual procedure, 23 youths were indicted by the County Grand Jury for the gang murder of Jose Diaz, 22, near 'Sleepy Lagoon,' today were arraigned in Superior Judge E. R. Brand's court."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00019388
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 9710; HE-001-290 4x5
CARL0000022690
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/8625
Subject
Sleepy Lagoon Trial, Los Angeles, Calif., 1942-1943
Young men--California--Los Angeles
Trials (Murder)--California--Los Angeles
Criminals--California--Los Angeles
Gangs--California--Los Angeles
Arraignment--California--Los Angeles
Courtrooms--California--Los Angeles
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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