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Title
Lana Turner crying
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1958
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 was edited for publication purposes.
Lana Turner weeps hysterically, saying she couldn't believe what she saw when daughter plunged knife into Johnny Stompanato. It is Turner's lawyer, Jerry Giesler, whose face has been partially edited out on the right.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00013003
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 6886
CARL0000018013
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/8889
Subject
Turner, Lana,--1921-1995
Giesler, Jerry,--1886-1962
Stompanato, Johnny--Death and burial
Los Angeles County Courthouse (Los Angeles, Calif. : 1958-)
Crying--California--Los Angeles
Trials (Murder)--California--Los Angeles
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States
Lawyers--California--Los Angeles
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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