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Title: City Hall listening post
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1941
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: A closeup view of the recording device found in the room of mystery at City Hall on April 24, 1941. Mayor Fletcher Bowron said the room had been used by district attorney's investigators and by Wallace N. Jamie, his own investigator.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00046243
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 9073
CARL0000050181
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/16277
Subject: Hampton, Roy
Bowron, Fletcher,--1887-1968
Jamie, Wallace N
Governmental investigation--California--Los Angeles
Wiretapping--California--Los Angeles
Eavesdropping--California--Los Angeles
City council members--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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