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Buron Fitts leaving the hospital with his wife after recovering from an assassination attempt, Los Angeles, 1937

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Title: Buron Fitts leaving the hospital with his wife after recovering from an assassination attempt, Los Angeles, 1937
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa March 10, 1937]
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.
District Attorney Buron Fitts leaving the hospital with his wife Marion after recovering from being shot in the elbow by a mystery assailant. A reward was immediately offered for the identity of the would-be assassin.
Nitrate negative shows some damage.
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Buron Fitts leaving hospital.
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Fitts, Buron; Leaving Hospital with Nell Schweizer.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1387_14410-03
ark:/21198/zz00288h49
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: People
Politicians--California--Los Angeles
Fitts, Buron, 1895-1973
Fitts, Marion, 1893-1985
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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