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Title: Check points, Watts Riots
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1965
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: Driver of a volkswagon is detained, while two officers search the trunk for any stolen loot from rioting in the Watts area. National Guardsmen with rifles stand in the background. Photo dated: August 16, 1965.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00036474
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1993
CARL0000039463
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/11603
Subject: Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965
Fires--California--Los Angeles
Men--California--Los Angeles
Police--California--Los Angeles
Automobiles--California--Los Angeles
Streets--California--Watts (Los Angeles)
Volkswagen Beetle automobile
Volkswagen automobiles
Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.)
United States--National Guard
Night photographs
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Time Period: 1961-1970

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