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Roger Otis demonstrates a recording device at the trial of Jack Santo, Emmett Perkins, and Barbara Graham, Los Angeles, 1953

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Title: Roger Otis demonstrates a recording device at the trial of Jack Santo, Emmett Perkins, and Barbara Graham, Los Angeles, 1953
Date Created and/or Issued: August 31, 1953
1953-08-31
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: 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: Barbara Graham, Jack Santo, and Emmett Perkins were convicted of the murder of Mabel Monahan in 1953, during a robbery attempt in her home, and were executed two years later.
Photo appears with the article "Murder case alibi recording played," Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 1953: 2.
Text from newspaper caption: DEMONSTRATION --- Roger Otis, left, police sound technician, shows how miniature wire recorder was used by undercover officer in jail talks with Mrs. Barbara Graham, a defendant in the Monahan murder trial. The others around the table are defendants and their attorneys from let, Atty. S. Ward Sullivan, Defendants John A. Santo, Emmett Perkins, Mrs. Graham, and Attys. Jack Hardy, Benjamin Wolfe.
Type: image
Format: b&w negative
Identifier: C1429_b173_80492-10_frame_1
ark:/21198/zz00256ckz
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Trials (Murder)--California--Los Angeles
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Otis, Roger
Hardy, Jack, 1904-1955
Wolfe, Benjamin, 1912-1956
Santo, Jack, 1900-1955
Graham, Barbara, 1923-1955
Monahan, Mabel, 1888-1953
Sullivan, S. Ward
Perkins, Emmett, 1908-1955
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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