Image / Henry Leyvas and Mrs. Celia Castillo

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Title: Henry Leyvas and Mrs. Celia Castillo
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1944
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Henry Leyvas was one of the eight youths who was convicted and later released, with all charges dismissed, after serving two years on a conviction in the "Sleepy Lagoon" murder. He is shown here comforting Mrs. Celia Castillo. Photograph dated October 23, 1944.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00019372
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 9710
CARL0000022897
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/8699
Subject: Leyvas, Henry
Castillo, Celia
Mexican Americans--California--Los Angeles
Murder--California--Los Angeles
Gangs--California--Los Angeles
Sleepy Lagoon Trial, Los Angeles, Calif., 1942-1943
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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