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Title: Bombing at Federal Building
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1971
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.
Photograph caption reads: "FBI agents sift bomb blast debris in federal building. Explosion ripped a hole in the wall of the washroom and killed an IRS employee". The bomb exploded in the men's restroom on the second floor of the Federal Building at 300 N. Los Angeles St. Thomas Ortiz, 18, a temporary IRS employee, died of his injuries. Photograph dated: Jan. 30, 1971.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;36 x 28 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00079284
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b007_f2_i5
CARL0000080048
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/24777
Subject: United States.--Federal Bureau of Investigation
Federal Building (Los Angeles, Calif. : 1964-)
Bombings--California--Los Angeles
Government investigators--California--Los Angeles
Restrooms--California--Los Angeles
Debris--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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