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Title: Gladys Towles Root, attorney
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1962
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: Famed criminal attorney Gladys Towles Root on February 15, 1962, examining some of the evidence as she defends John W. Reilly in the "voodoo" trial. She has been referred to as the "Defender of the damned."
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00050751
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 2005.
CARL0000054853
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/23021
Subject: Root, Gladys Towles,--1905-
Reilly, John W
Crime--California--Los Angeles
Lawyers--California--Los Angeles
Women--California--Los Angeles

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