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Title
Barbara Graham, the gangster moll
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1953
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
After a series of delays, the gangster moll was executed June 3, 1955.
Defendant Barbara Graham sat with icy calm as True testified. The prosecution charged that it was Mrs. Graham who beat Mrs. Monohan in the face with a pistol and then pulled a pillow case over her head during the brutal murder.
Type
Image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00030061
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 732-Graham, Barbara.
CARL0000033783
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/10686
Subject
Graham, Barbara E
Graham, Barbara E.--Trials, litigation, etc
Monohan, Mabel--Death and burial
Trials (Murder)--California--Los Angeles
Murderers--California--Los Angeles
Female offenders--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Portrait photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Time Period
1951-1960

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