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Title
Sleepy Lagoon murder case acquittal
Date Created and/or Issued
Oct 1944
1944-10
Publication Information
Los Angeles Daily News
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Rights Information
US
Description
Robert Telles, age 19, reunites with family members Betty Telles and Josie Telles in the Los Angeles Hall of Justice following his acquittal in the Sleepy Lagoon murder case.
After the murder and assault convictions of 17 Mexican American youths in the Sleepy Lagoon murder case, the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee advocated for the defendants until the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the convictions as a miscarriage of justice.
Type
image
Identifier
ark:/13030/hb6s20082g
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Events
Sleepy Lagoon Trial, Los Angeles, 1942-1943
Mexican Americans--California--Los Angeles
Activism
Legal
Hall of Justice (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Telles, Robert, 1924-1967
Source
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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