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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
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.
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.
Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Tire on Berkeley Car Stirs Legal Skirmish," Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec 1935: A2.
Katherine is a blonde woman dressed completely in black.
Text from negative sleeve: 2004 - Katherine Schneider (nurse) 12-17-35 Berkeley Trial Witness [stamped:] Dec 20 1935
Handwritten on negative: Katherine Schneider 12-17-35
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_8340
ark:/21198/zz002dg6fz
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Witnesses--California--Los Angeles
Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles
Schneider, Katherine, b. circa 1897
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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