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Crowd of people in a courtroom during the Hickman kidnapping case, Los Angeles, 1927-1928

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Title: Crowd of people in a courtroom during the Hickman kidnapping case, Los Angeles, 1927-1928
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1927-1928]
1927/1928
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.
Crowded courtroom during the trial of William Hickman. The photo is very blurry because it was taken the moment people around the table were standing and moving. There is another camera set up as well.
William Edward Hickman was executed in October 1928 for the kidnapping and murder of 12-year old Marion Parker.
Text from negative sleeve: Hickman, William, kidnapping
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_9487
ark:/21198/zz002dhk00
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Trials (Murder)--California--Los Angeles
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Hickman, William Edward, 1908-1928
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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