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Title: Captain Eddie Chitwood inspects his shattered windshield, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: March 20, 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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Captain Chitwood holds a rock in front of his windshield which displays a large spider-web crack.
Photograph appears with the article, "Rock Echoes Dope Drive," Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar 1935: A1.
Captain Chitwood, head of the police narcotic squad, believes a group of marijuana peddlers are responsible for hurling a cobblestone at his car while he was driving at Main and Lamar streets. Captain Chitwood was injured by a few glass particles that flew into his eyes but avoided crashing into another vehicle and any other serious injury.
Text from negative sleeve: CHITWOOD, EDDIE POLICE CAPT.
Handwritten on negative: Eddie Chitwood
Text from newspaper caption: Capt. Eddie Chitwood examining the cobblestone hurled at his car, supposedly by one of a gang of dope peddlers. The windshield was shattered and Chitwood cut by broken glass.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_1653
ark:/21198/zz002dc54g
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Broken glass
Police--California--Los Angeles
Chitwood, Eddie
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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