Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. Portrait photograph of Manon Von Brieson. Von Brieson survived a September 8, 1935 car accident on the Roosevelt Highway in which film choreographer Busby Berkeley was at fault. Von Brieson's husband William Von Brieson, sister Dorothea "Peggy" Daley, and mother-in-law Ada Von Brieson died as a result of the accident, and Berkeley went on trial for second-degree murder for their deaths in December 1935. Possibly related to the article, "BERKELEY'S JURY TIED UP: Deadlock Holds for Hours Three Verdicts Possible in Auto Crash Death Case, Judge Announces BERKELEY JURY IN DEADLOCK," Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 1935: 1. Text from negative sleeve: 2004-- 12/24/35, Mrs. Manon Von Brieson, Bus Berkeley Crash (victim). Handwritten on negative: Mrs Manon Von Brieson.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_8350 ark:/21198/zz002dg6s4
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Trials (Murder)--California--Los Angeles Witnesses--California--Los Angeles Traffic accident victims--California--Los Angeles Von Brieson, Manon, 1911-1937
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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