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Cafe operator Agnes O'Brien on the witness stand during the liquor license bribe trial, Los Angeles, 1937

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Title: Cafe operator Agnes O'Brien on the witness stand during the liquor license bribe trial, Los Angeles, 1937
Date Created and/or Issued: March 1937
1937-03
Publication Information: Los Angeles Daily News
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Cafe operator Agnes O'Brien who was a witness at the liquor license bribe trial. O'Brien testified that she had paid money to the Board of Equalization in the hopes of having her liquor license reinstated, but never received the reinstated license. Defendants in the bribe trial included several high-ranking officials such as state board of equalization member William G. Bonelli and chief liquor control officer Merle Templeton.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: ark:/21198/zz0027xc50
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Bribery--California--Los Angeles
Legal
Witnesses--California--Los Angeles
O'Brien, Agnes
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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