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Title: Diablo Canyon Plant demonstration
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Chinn, Paul
Date Created and/or Issued: 1984
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 dated January 16, 1984 reads, "A large crowd cheers on protesters during a sit-in at the Diablo Canyon atomic energy plant as sheriff's deputies prepare to arrest 50 of them for trespassing. The demonstrators, who willingly went to jail, included 21 faculty and staff from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. The protesters said they were obeying a "higher law" in refusing orders to leave the nuclear power plant property."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;25 x 35 cm. on sheet 29 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00093212
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b091_f4_i19
CARL0005034754
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/29699
Subject: San Luis Obispo County (Calif.).--Sheriff's Office--Employees
Diablo Canyon Nuclear Powerplant (Calif.)
Antinuclear movement--California--Diablo Canyon
Nuclear power plants--California--Diablo Canyon
Protest movements--California--Diablo Canyon
Demonstrations--California--Diablo Canyon
Trespass--California--Diablo Canyon
Crowds--California--Diablo Canyon
Arrest--California--Diablo Canyon
Diablo Canyon (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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