Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 USC Libraries Special Collections University of Southern California specol@usc.edu
Description
2 images. Vice squadder shot accidentally by another officer, 16 January 1957. Sam Thomas (pulled gun on vice squad officers) Detective Captain Tony Ruiz (questioning at hospital) Kermitt Bekke (officer shot): Mrs. Barbara Perkins (nurse). Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Wesselmann. Date: 1957-01-16. Reporter: Decker. Assignment: Vice squadder shot by another during arrest by accident. 4: Sam Thomas, who pulled gun on vice squad officers, and 77th street detective captain, Tony Ruiz - questioning at Georgia St. Rec. Hosp. 1/2: Kermit Bekke, 34, officer who was shot accidentally by another officer while trying to disarm vice suspect, seen here with Georgia street receiving nurse Mrs. Barbara Perkins".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : negatives, b&w 10 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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