Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 USC Libraries Special Collections University of Southern California specol@usc.edu
Description
8 images. Shooting in Bell, March 6 1954. Dolly Wiles (victim), injured in chest Connie Pina (nurse) Frank Brown -- 11 years (grandson of victim, watching shooting from closet bedroom) Burgess Wiles -- 58 years (husband and suspect) Deputy District Attorney A. Alexander Officer F.H. Coones W.N. Carpenter (officer) M. Silverman (officer) James Irwin (Bell Police Chief). Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Wesselmann. Date: 1954-03-06. Reporter: Turner. Assignment: Shooting in Bell. 2: Victim Dolly Wiles attended by nurse Connie Pina at emergency hospital. 72: Frank Brown, 11, grandson of victim watched shooting from closet of bedroom. 71: Bell Police Chief James Irwin examines shotgun used by suspect. 3: Suspect (Dollie's husband) Burges Wiles, at Bell police sta. 1/4: Suspect Burges Wiles, center, being interrogated by Deputy D.A. A. Alexander, left, and Detective F.H. Coones. 5/6: Bell policemen -- arresting officers of suspect -- inspect damage to bedroom by shotgun blasts and gun bullets, W.N. Carpenter, left, and M. Silverman".
Type
image
Format
8 photographs : negatives, b&w 10 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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