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Title: Jerry Giesler questions Buron Fitts, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: February 5, 1936
1936-02-05
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, "Fist Fight Threatened, by Fitts at His Trial," Los Angeles Times, 05 Feb 1936: 1.
The perjury trial of the district attorney goes on. Fitts threatens to attack prosecutor.
From his seat on the witness stand Fitts confers with Giesler.
Text from newspaper caption: Dist.-Atty. Fitts, right, is explaining at his trial on perjury charges here a statement he made to a bank to secure a loan in answer to questions by Counsel Jerry Giesler, left. [Los Angeles Times, 05 Feb 1936:1]
Handwritten on negative: L2R Jerry Giesler Buron Fitts 2-21-36
Text from negative sleeve: 3268 - 4/8/36 Buron Fitts Jerry Giesler Mrs Ardell Fitts Fitts Trial 2-4-36
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_12157
ark:/21198/zz002h855w
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Lawyers--California--Los Angeles
Fitts, Buron, 1895-1973
Giesler, Jerry, 1886-1962
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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