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Buron Fitts and legal team Clyde Shoemaker, L. H. Lashbrook, Winthrop O. Gordon, Jerry Giesler, Joe Scott, and William E. Simpson, Los Angeles, 1936

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Title: Buron Fitts and legal team Clyde Shoemaker, L. H. Lashbrook, Winthrop O. Gordon, Jerry Giesler, Joe Scott, and William E. Simpson, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: January 15, 1936
1936-01-15
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
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Photograph appears with the article, "Buron Fitts Trial Opens on Charge of Perjury," Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan 1936: 2.
Prosecutor Fitts is being charged with perjury in 1934 in connection with the testimony on financial transactions of the sale of an orange grove.
At the front of the courtroom Fitts stands behind his team of legal defense, a crowd of men and women watching from the back.
Text from newspaper caption: Courtroom scene yesterday as Buron Fitts, District Attorney, went on tiral on charges of perjury. Left to right, W. E. Simpson, Joseph Scott, Fitts, Jerry Giesler, W. O. Gordon, L. H. Lashbrook and Clyde C. Shoemaker. Giesler, Scott and Simpson are defense attorneys. Shoemaker is special prosecutor, Lashbrook is his chief investigator and Gordon his legal adviser. Fitts is accused of giving perjured testimony before the 1931 grand jury.
Handwritten on negative: Clyde C Shoemaker L. H Lashbrook W. O Gordon Buron Fitts - Joe Scott W.E. Simpson
Text from negative sleeve: 3268 - Clyde C Shoemaker L. H Lashbrook W.O. Gordon Buron Fitts Jerry Geisler Joe Scott + W.E. Simpson Perjury Trial [stamped:] Jan 19 1936 [stamped:] Jan 21 1936
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_12165
ark:/21198/zz002h85f1
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Lawyers--California--Los Angeles
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Courtrooms--California--Los Angeles
Shoemaker, Clyde C., 1886-1965
Gordon, Winthrop O., 1905-1986
Fitts, Buron, 1895-1973
Scott, Joseph, 1867-1958
Giesler, Jerry, 1886-1962
Lashbrook, L.H
Simpson, William E., 1899-1951
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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