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Title: Page 1 of J. B. McNamara confession, Los Angeles, 1911
Date Created and/or Issued: December 4, 1911
1911-12-04
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.
From the confession: "I, J. B. McNamara, defendant in the case of the people against McNamara and others having hereto... plead guilty to the crime of murder... to make this statement of facts concering the same..."
J. B. McNamara, with help from his brother, was sentenced to life in prison for bombing the LA Times building in 1910.
Text from negative sleeve: LAT 2nd Bldg. bombing/McNamara confession.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_2730
ark:/21198/zz002dcjp2
Language: English
Subject: Bombings--California--Los Angeles
Confessions
McNamara, James B. (James Barnabas), 1882-1941
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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