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Title
Housing hearing
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1953
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
The hearing room was jammed with spectators on May 19, 1953, when a subcommittee of the House Committee on Government Operations opened its televised hearings probing infiltration of Communists into CHA. Arrow points to Congressman Clare Hoffman, chairman of the subcommittee. First witness was Charles R. Drake (at right background), aircraft mechanic. CHA stands for City Housing Authority.
Type
Image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00041366
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 10235.
CARL0000045187
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/12991
Subject
House Committee on Government Operations
Housing--California--Los Angeles
Anti-communist movements--California--Los Angeles
Television broadcasting of news--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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