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Buron Fitts and wife Marion at his trial for perjury, Los Angeles, 1936

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Title: Buron Fitts and wife Marion at his trial for perjury, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: January 21, 1936
1936-01-21
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.
Photograph appears with the article, "Fitts Trial in Perjury Case Opens," Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan 1936: 1.
Selections are made for the twelve jurors that will judge District Attorney Buron Fitts for false testimony in front of a grand jury in 1931 for a financial transaction of the sale of an orange grove and dismissal of a morals charge against real estate broker John P. Mills.
Mrs. Fitts rests a hand on her husband's shoulder as she leans in to speak to him at the prosecutor's table.
Handwritten on negative: Mr. + Mrs. Buron Fitts
Text from newspaper caption: Buron Fitts, District Attorney, and Mrs. Fitts shown in court where the prosecutor faces trial on a perjury charge.
Text from negative sleeve: 3268 - Mr. + Mrs Buron Fitts Perjury Trial [stamped:] Jan 21 1936
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_12146
ark:/21198/zz002h84sq
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Spouses--California--Los Angeles
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Lawyers--California--Los Angeles
Fitts, Buron, 1895-1973
Fitts, Marion, 1893-1985
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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