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Title
Addict tells all in interview of tragedy
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1958
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 was edited for publication purposes.
Barbara Burns was the daughter of famed American comedian Robin "Bob" Burns. He was a musical comedian appearing on radio and in movies in the 1930s and 1940s, and also wrote a homey newspaper column from 1936-1940. Burns invented a novelty musical instrument which he called a "bazooka." During World War II, the Army's handheld anti-tank rocket launcher, also known as "stovepipe" was nicknamed the "bazooka." He had four children and died in 1956. Barbara Burns was a troubled teenager who began using hard drugs by the time she was eighteen. She attempted suicide several times and finally died of an overdose in January 1962.
Photograph caption dated January 9, 1958 reads "Only 19, she tells of being 'hooked' by heroin." She is pictured in prison clothes, smoking a cigarette. She was held at the Los Angeles City Jail for Women in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00110851
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 5139
CARL0005358976
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/32399
Subject
Burns, Bob,--1890-1956--Family
Burns, Bob,--1890-1956--Family--Trials, litigation, etc
Los Angeles City Jail (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Children of celebrities--United States
Crime--California--Los Angeles
Criminals--California--Los Angeles
Narcotic habit--California--Los Angeles
Drug abuse--California--Los Angeles
Smoking--California--Los Angeles
Cigarettes--California--Los Angeles
Women--California--Los Angeles
Jails--California--Lincoln Heights (Los Angeles)
Lincoln Heights (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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