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Title
Open letter decries senseless shooting
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor
This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued
1961
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
Photograph was edited for publication purposes; Photograph also used in article dated June 15, 1961.
Photograph article dated March 2, 1961 partially reads, "A 47-year-old Pacoima man has written an open letter to the bandit who pointlessly shot him at a service station last week - and, consequently, brought his family to the point of destitution. Gilbert Lines, 47, 12861 Osborne St., sent the letter to the Valley Times TODAY, explaining from his bed in the Canoga Park Hospital he was writing 'so that I could let that bandit know the futility of his actions. All he did was to practically destroy my family.' Lines was shot a week ago Tuesday while closing Buckner's Texaco Station, 20850 Vanowen St., Canoga Park, at about 10 p.m. He told police he suddenly saw the man at the door holding a shotgun. Then, without a word spoken, the bandit fired, hitting Lines in the hip. He fled without getting any money."; See image #00127619 for additional photo in this series.
Type
Image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00127618
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d033_f8_i17
CARL0005448144
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/59276
Subject
Canoga Park Hospital (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Canoga Park Hospital (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Employees
Victims of crimes--California--Los Angeles
Gunshot wounds--California--Los Angeles
Patient monitoring--California--Los Angeles
Nurses--California--Los Angeles
Women--California--Los Angeles
Men--California--Los Angeles
Hospitals--California--Canoga Park (Los Angeles)
Canoga Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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