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Title
Citizens' committee investigating zoot-suit riots
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1943
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, June 12, 1943 reads, "State Attorney General Robert W. Kenny and members of a citizens' committee are shown when they met today and opened investigation of the zoot suit riots in Los Angeles. Left to right, Kenny, Dr. Willsie Martin, Karl Holton, Bishop Joseph T. McGucken, and Walter Gordon."
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00019367
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 9710; HE-002-451 4x5
CARL0000022806
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/8664
Subject
Kenny, Robert W.--(Robert Walker),--1901-1976
Martin, Willsie
Holton, Karl
McGucken, Joseph T
Gordon, Walter
Zoot Suit Riots, Los Angeles, Calif., 1943
Riots--California--Los Angeles
Sailors--California--Los Angeles
Gangs--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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