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Title: Courtroom at Buron Fitts perjury trial, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: January 20, 1936
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.
Winthrop O. Gordon, far left, at the counsel table with other attorneys. Buron Fitts sits at the far right, leaned back in his chair.
In January 1936, District Attorney Buron Fitts was charged with perjury regarding a 1931 testimony over the sale of a Claremont orange grove. Mrs. Berthall Gregory, Fitts’ sister, sold the grove to Lucien C. Wheeler. Fitts falsely testified the amount of money he received through the sale. He was prosecuted by Clyde C. Shoemaker and defended by Jerry Giesler, Joseph Scott, and William E. Scott with Winthrop O. Gordon as the attorney aid.
Text from negative sleeve: 3268--- 2/2/36 L 2 R Jerry Giesler, Clyde Shoemaker, Lucien C. Wheeler, Judge Pat Parker, Fitts Candid 1-27-36
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_12164
ark:/21198/zz002h85dh
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Courtrooms--California--Los Angeles
Lawyers--California--Los Angeles
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Gordon, Winthrop O., 1905-1986
Fitts, Buron, 1895-1973
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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