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Title: Thirteen-year-old Harold Willis defends his mother, Los Angeles, 1924
Date Created and/or Issued: April 1924
1924-04
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.
Harold is unsmiling, wearing a sweater and a hat. Several men can be seen blurrily behind him.
Margaret Willis' 13-year-old son Harold defends his mother, claiming that the suitcase that held the body of murdered Dr. Benjamin Baldwin was full of books and not Dr. Baldwin's body.
Photograph appears with the article, "Knows Mama Didn't Lie," Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr 1924: 3.
Text from newspaper caption: Harold Willis
Text from negative sleeve: WILLIS, HAROLD (SONNY) SON OF MARGARET WILLIS
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_4474
ark:/21198/zz002cq8nr
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Criminal investigations--California--Los Angeles
Children--California--Los Angeles
Willis, Harold, b. 1912 or 13
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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