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Title: Watts Writers' Workshop
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1968
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 crowd of 5,000 has gathered to hear Senator Kennedy at the Watts Writers' Workshop on March 26, 1968. The creative workshop rose from the ashes of the 1965 Watts Riots. Kennedy proclaimed he wanted "violence and hatred replaced by jobs. I want bitterness replaced in this county."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00128072
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 2098
CARL0005503015
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/34389
Subject: Kennedy, Robert F.,--1925-1968
Legislators--United States
Public speaking--California--Los Angeles
Political campaigns--California--Los Angeles
Podiums--California--Los Angeles
Microphones
Men--California--Los Angeles
Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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