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Photograph was edited for publication purposes. Photograph caption dated February 2, 1959 reads "Vito Galasso, 14, victim of Pacoima Junior High School plane crash two years ago, leads groundbreaking ceremonies for new Pacoima Memorial Lutheran Hospital which will be built in memory of victims. Others, from left, are Assemblyman Tom Bane, City Councilman Everett G. Burkhalter, the Rev. John G. Simmons, president of the San Fernando Valley Lutheran Hospital Association, and Ben L. O'Brien, president of the Pacoima Memorial Lutheran Hospital."
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