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People lined up at the courthouse to view judicial proceedings for William Edward Hickman, kidnapper and murderer, Los Angeles, 1928

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Title: People lined up at the courthouse to view judicial proceedings for William Edward Hickman, kidnapper and murderer, Los Angeles, 1928
Date Created and/or Issued: 1928
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.
A line of men and women, both seated and standing, wait within the Los Angeles Courthouse to witness judicial proceedings for William Edward Hickman, who confessed to kidnapping and murdering Marion Parker, aged 12. Hickman was tried and sentenced to death. He was executed at San Quentin, October 22, 1928.
Text from negative sleeve: Hickman, William Edward
Handwritten on negative: At Hickman trial
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_10424
ark:/21198/zz002hbczk
Subject: Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Spectators--California--Los Angeles
Hickman, William Edward, 1908-1928
Parker, Marion, 1915-1927
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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