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) 825-2710
Description
Photo appears with the article "Murder case alibi recording played," Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 1953: 2. 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. 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
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles Trials (Murder)--California--Los Angeles Graham, Barbara, 1923-1955 Hardy, Jack, 1904-1955 Sullivan, S. Ward Monahan, Mabel, 1888-1953 Wolfe, Benjamin, 1912-1956 Santo, Jack, 1900-1955 Otis, Roger Perkins, Emmett, 1908-1955
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