Image / William Spinelli Jr., Joseph Spinelli, and Helen Angiuli embrace, Los Angeles, 1938

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Title: William Spinelli Jr., Joseph Spinelli, and Helen Angiuli embrace, Los Angeles, 1938
Date Created and/or Issued: December 1938
1938-12
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.
William and the late Rosa Spinelli's children emotionally testified in the charge that their father murdered their mother with an ax.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Children Tell of Ax Killing," Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec 1938: 3.
Helen leans against brother Joseph's chest, while William puts his arms around his siblings in an embrace.
Text from negative sleeve: 15237 Spinelli Axe Murder B
Handwritten on negative: L2R Wm Spinelli Jr Joseph Spinelli Ellena Angiuli 12/22/38
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_11971
ark:/21198/zz002h8tzz
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles
Hugging
Siblings--American--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Angiulli, Helen, 1913-2000
Spinelli, Joseph, b. 1918 or 19
Spinelli, William, 1919-2004
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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