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Title: Katherine Schneider testifies at the trial of Busby Berkeley, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: December 17, 1935
1935-12-17
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.
Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Tire on Berkeley Car Stirs Legal Skirmish," Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec 1935: A2.
Busby Berkeley has gone to trial for driving the vehicle that killed 3 people last September in a crash on Roosevelt Highway. Nurse Schneider is asked to testify whether she heard Berkeley admit that he was going 45 or 65 miles an hour at the time of the accident.
Katherine is a blonde woman dressed completely in black.
Handwritten on negative: Katherine Schneider 12-17-35
Text from negative sleeve: 2004 - Katherine Schneider (nurse) 12-17-35 Berkeley Trial Witness [stamped:] Dec 20 1935
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_8340
ark:/21198/zz002dg6fz
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles
Witnesses--California--Los Angeles
Schneider, Katherine, b. circa 1897
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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