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Title: Frankie wanted a gun
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1947
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: After Frank Sinatra's visit with the Fischetti brothers, kin of Al Capone, in Cuba, he acquired a desire to carry a gun. Photo shows Sinatra being fingerprinted by Deputy Sheriff Robert Rogers when this desire was satisfied. But the permit was cancelled after Sinatra's asserted attack on Columnist Lee Mortimer. Photo dated: April 14, 1947.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00050577
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 9085.
CARL0000054680
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/18576
Subject: Sinatra, Frank,--1915-1998
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States
Singers--United States
Fingerprinting--California--Los Angeles
Press conferences--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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