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Title: Lana Turner on the stand
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: Actress Lana Turner weeps on the witness stand as she tells the story of the killing of Johnny Stompanato. "It happened so fast I never saw a blade," the actress sobbed; says Stompanato tried to strangle her only seconds before the stabbing. Photo date: April 11, 1958.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00043396
Herald Examiner Collection
HE-002-607 4x5; HE box 6886.
CARL0000049103
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/14809
Subject: Turner, Lana,--1921-1995
Crime--California--Beverly Hills
Murder--California--Beverly Hills
Motion picture actors and actresses
Courts--California--Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Crane, Cheryl
Stompanato, Johnny

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