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17-year-old Donald Rogers, charged with shooting and killing 11-year-old Marilyn Bunker, Los Angeles, 1940

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Title: 17-year-old Donald Rogers, charged with shooting and killing 11-year-old Marilyn Bunker, Los Angeles, 1940
Date Created and/or Issued: February 20, 1940
1940-02-20
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.
17-year-old Donald Rogers, also known as Donald Fehrenschild, charged with the murder of 11-year-old Marilyn Bunker. Although he insisted that he was shooting at doves on the hillside, Rogers's bullets fell near Marilyn, her two brothers, and several other children playing in the grass. When she started to run home for help, Marilyn was shot under the eye and died immediately.
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Donald Fehrenschild
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Fehrenschild, Donald Rogers (held for murder of Marilyn Bunker)l; Trosper, - - (officer)
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: ark:/21198/zz0027zsmz
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: People
Teenagers
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Crime
Rogers, Donald
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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