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Title: National Guardsman injured, 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: Pvt. James L. Koepnick is taken to an ambulance after he was critically injured by a hit-and-run driver. He and another National Guardsman were run down at Vernon and Hooper Avenues. Nurse Pat Harrison holds Koepnick's rifle. He suffered a skull fracture. Photo dated: August 17, 1965.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00036462
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1993.
CARL0000039451
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/11590
Subject: Koepnick, James L
Harrison, Pat
Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965
Fires--California--Watts (Los Angeles)
Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.)
United States--National Guard
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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