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Title: Attorney Claude Watson testifies about grand selection, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: January 3, 1935
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Attorney Claude A. Watson seated in the witness stand as he testifies about the methods used for selecting and empaneling grand juries during the tenure of District Attorney Buron Fitts.
This photograph appears with the article, "Judge Will Take Stand; Fifty Called in Fitts Case; Seven Testify on Method of Picking Grand Jury, Assailed by Defense," Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 1935: A1.
Text from newspaper caption: Remarks of Superior Judge Bowron on the methods used in selecting the present grand jury made at a minister's meeting were testified to by Claude A. Watson, minister and attorney.
Text from negative sleeve: Watson, Claude A. 1935
Handwritten on negative: 135 C 135
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_4279
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Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Watson, Claude A., 1885-1978
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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