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Title: Victim in blast, fire pleads, 'just kill me
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1963
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: Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
Photograph caption dated April 21, 1963 reads, "Arrow Shows Where Louis Selgado Was Found In Ruble Of Blast-Torn Apartment - The explosion turned him into ablazing [sic] human torch, screaming in his anguish."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;32 x 27 cm. on sheet 36 x 29 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00099413
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 41
CARL0005112194
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/30389
Subject: Explosions--California--Pico Rivera
Debris--California--Pico Rivera
Natural gas--California--Pico Rivera
Apartments--California--Pico Rivera
Dwellings--California--Pico Rivera
Lost architecture--California--Pico Rivera
Pico Rivera (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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