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Title: "Unloaded" gun kills Valley man
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: 1955
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 caption dated August 20, 1955 reads "Burbank police officers finish photographing body, left, background, of Eugene Martin Groves, 48, of 519 E. Harvard Rd., Burbank. Groves was shot as he walked along Scott road with daughter, Sandra, 15." Mr. Groves was shot and killed by a boy playing with a weapon. The boy thought that the firearm was unloaded.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00143264
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d052_f10_i25
CARL0005787271
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/71574
Subject: Men--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Police--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Dead persons--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Accident victims--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Firearms accidents--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Shooting--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Night photographs
Valley Times Collection photographs
Time Period: 1951-1960

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