/ Billie Holiday and Detective Gosline, Los Angeles, 1949

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Title: Billie Holiday and Detective Gosline, Los Angeles, 1949
Date Created and/or Issued: 1949
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection
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Description: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
In 1949, singer Billie Holiday and her manager John Levy were charged with assaulting a man who had harassed Holiday during a concert. Attorney Walter Gordon was able to have the charges against Holiday dismissed. She is pictured here with Detective Gosline, who arrested Holiday and Levy.
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Identifier: Collection 1867 Box 2 Folder 5
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Language: No linguistic content
Subject: People
African American women singers
Singers--United States
Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959
Source: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

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