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Title: Detectives Thad Brown and Joe Filkas inspect fake bomb, Los Angeles, 1934
Date Created and/or Issued: July 24, 1934
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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Thad Brown (left) and J. P. Filkas (right) hold a package with its contents arranged on a flat surface.
Different photographs taken on the same occasion appear with the article, “Fake Bomb Sent to M’Adoo Causes Downtown Furor,” Los Angeles Times, 25 Jul 1934: 1.
A suspicious package was sent to William Gibbs McAdoo, junior Senator, at the Trans-America Building on July 24, 1934. It was moved to a vacant lot near 2nd and Flower streets by Det. Lt. Thad F. Brown and Det. Lt. Joe P. Filkas, where they discovered it was harmless though “it certainly looked genuine.”
Text from negative sleeve: Brown, Thad F. Chief of Dect.?
Handwritten on negative: Thad F. Brown J. P. Filkas
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_1280
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Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Detectives--California--Los Angeles
Brown, Thad, 1902-1970
Filkas, Joseph, 1897-1968
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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