Photograph caption dated December 16, 1988 reads, "LAPD Chief Daryl Gates, center, delivers a eulogy for three officers killed in a head-on collision Monday, during a ceremony today at the Scottish Rite Temple, . The accident, called the worst single tragedy in LAPD history, occurred when the officers' patrol cars collided at a downtown intersection. One of the vehicles was going the wrong way on a one-way street."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;29 x 36 cm. Photographic prints
Gates, Daryl F.,--1926-2010 Los Angeles (Calif.).--Police Department Scottish Rite Temple (Los Angeles, Calif.) Eulogies--California--Los Angeles Funeral rites and ceremonies--California--Los Angeles Coffins--California--Los Angeles Police chiefs--California--Los Angeles Traffic accident victims--California--Los Angeles Traffic fatalities--California--Los Angeles Police--California--Los Angeles Portrait photographs--1981-1990 Masonic buildings--California--Los Angeles Flower arrangements Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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