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Title
Accused murderer John Frank Reavis with Deputy Sheriff Pat Kelley at Reavis's trial, Los Angeles, May 1940
Date Created and/or Issued
May 1940
1940-05
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.
John Frank Reavis, 26-year-old trombone player and candy salesman, at his trial for the murder of 17-year-old B-girl Alice “Jerry” Burns with Deputy Sheriff Pat Kelley. Reavis confessed to the murder but said that he was in a blind rage when he did it and didn’t know what he was doing. Reavis received a second-degree sentence of five years to life in San Quentin. His eye and left hand are bandaged as the result of a fight he had prior to his arrest
Text from original nitrate sleeve: l to r - Ledbetter, Miles - Det.Lt.; Edwards, Edgar - Capt.; Reavis, John (center-seated); Hurst, Lloyd - Det.Lt.
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Pat Kelley [(Dep. Sheriff)]John F. Reavis
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
ark:/21198/zz00280050
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
People
Wounds & injuries--California--Los Angeles
Musicians--American--California--Los Angeles
Sheriffs--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Legal
Kelley, Pat
Reavis, John Frank
Source
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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