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Title: May Day march melee, 1980
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Gulker, Chris
Date Created and/or Issued: 1980
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
The LAPD is reviewing reports that some officers overreacted during the May Day march through downtown by members of the Revolutionary Communist Party, which developed into a violent confrontation. This photograph shows the start of the conflict between police and demonstrators along Wilshire near Whitmer. Photograph dated March 1, 1980.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;25 x 33 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00091896
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b087_f4_i24
CARL0004989653
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/28264
Subject: Revolutionary Communist Party, USA
Los Angeles (Calif.).--Police Department
May Day (Labor holiday)
Protest movements--California--Los Angeles
Demonstrations--California--Los Angeles
Police--California--Los Angeles
Crowds--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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