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
Seated at the defense table in a courtroom, defense attorney Al McDonald (center) with defendants Dave Getzoff (left) and his father Ben Getzoff. The photo was taken at the time that the Getzoffs were 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. Ben Getzoff was convicted; charges against Dave Getaoff were ulitmately dropped due to insufficient evidence to connect him to the plot. Dave worked in the tailor shop on Spring Street, owned by his father, Ben, 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. Handwritten on negative: L to R Dave Getzoff / Al McDonald / Ben Getzoff Text from negative sleeve: Getzoff, Ben & Dave. Bribery case.
Type
image
Format
b&w glass negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_b3704_G1633 ark:/21198/z1gr2qqp
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles Getzoff, Ben, 1876-1936 McDonald, Al Getzoff, Dave, 1900-1962
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