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Ben Getzoff, in a courtroom, indicted on the charge of conspiracy to give bribes, Los Angeles, 1929

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Title: Ben Getzoff, in a courtroom, indicted on the charge of conspiracy to give bribes, Los Angeles, 1929
Date Created and/or Issued: 1929
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Portrait photograph of Ben Getzoff. in a courtroom at the time that he was indicted on the charge of conspiracy to give bribes in connection with attempts to dismiss charges against defendents in the Julian Petroleum Corporation stock overissue cases. He was convicted; he owned the tailor shop on Spring Street where much of the bribery activity directed at district attorney Asa Keyes took place. Reported in "KEYES CASE HARD FOUGHT: Every Angla of Bribery Plot Trial in Which Three Were Convicted Bitterly Contested," Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 1930: 2.
Text from negative sleeve: Getzoff, Ben & Dave. Bribery case.
Handwritten on negative: Dave Getzoff
Type: image
Format: b&w glass negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_b3704_G1629
ark:/21198/z10s5g9j
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Getzoff, Ben, 1876-1936
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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