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Title
John Landis ready to testify
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator
Sergieff, Mike
Date Created and/or Issued
1985
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 also used for article dated June 17, 1988.
Director John Landis (right) and attorney Harlan Braun in front of the Grand Jury Hearing Room in Downtown Los Angeles before going to testify. Due to a tragic accident causing the deaths of three actors of the set of the film, Twilight Zone, Landis, Associate producer George Folsey, Jr., production manager Dan Allingham, pilot Dorcey Wingo, and explosives specialist Paul Stewart were charged with child endangerment and involuntary manslaughter in civil and criminal action suits. All were acquitted in 1987.
Type
Image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;31 x 24 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00094092
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b001_f3_i24
CARL0005032396
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/30059
Subject
Landis, John,--1950--Trials, litigation, etc
California.--Superior Court (Los Angeles County)
Twilight zone (Motion picture)--Trials, litigation, etc
Press--California--Los Angeles
Lawyers--United States
Trials (Manslaughter)--California--Los Angeles
Motion picture producers and directors--United States
Motion picture industry--Accidents--California--Ventura County
Helicopters--Accidents--California--Ventura County
Courtrooms--California--Los Angeles
Courthouses--California--Los Angeles
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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