Photograph was edited for publication purposes. Original photograph has several creases. Kathryn McDonald was a deputy public defender for the city of Los Angeles. She was one of the chief defense attorneys in the Onion Field Murders in which Gregory Powell and Jimmy Lee Smith were tried in the killing of a Los Angeles police officer in 1963. Photograph caption dated September 30, 1960 reads "Deputy city public defender--we should go on! I don not favor any more compromises with the North Korean Communists, with the forces which are trying to destroy our way of life."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 13 cm. Photographic prints
McDonald, Kathryn Public defenders--California--Los Angeles Lawyers--California--Los Angeles Women--California--Los Angeles Portrait photographs Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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