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Title: Student held as hero poser to charm girl
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: 1948
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 article dated January 6, 1948 reads, "Stripped of the service ribbons, bars and uniforms he wore to 'impress his girl friend,' Donald Buell, 18, a stock clerk and former student of Burbank High School, awaited federal action today on his three months pose as a Naval officer. Buell recently was investigated by FBI agents in Burbank, acting on citizens' reports that he appeared at civic functions in the guise of a war hero. He was arrested at his home, 224 E. Valencia ave., Burbank, last night on federal charges of impersonating an officer. The youth admitted, police reported, that he had attempted to appear as a Navy hero in order to impress his seventeen-year-old girl."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 11 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00122804
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d027_f5_i29
CARL0005411113
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/55168
Subject: Impersonating an officer--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Arrest--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Criminal investigation--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Clerks (Retail trade)--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Men--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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