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. John holds the letter he's writing to Dr. Cornish in his lap, the other hand resting against his cheek and holding a cigarette. The bars of his jail cell can be seen behind him. It is a photograph of a photograph. Photograph appears with the article, "Doomed Man Offers Body," Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct 1934: A2. The 24-year-old has been convicted of the fatal shooting of Arnold McCord. Dr. Cornish has announced that he will reject Hawkins' offer because his life-restoring experiments are useless with a hanged man. Text from negative sleeve: 3804 - John C. Hawkins deceased [stamped:] Feb 28 [illegible] Text from newspaper caption: Offering his body, after he is hanged, for experimental purposes in life restoration, John C. Hawkins, condemned bandit-kidnaper, is shown in his jail cell addressing a letter to Dr. Robert E. Cornish at Berkeley.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_12854 ark:/21198/zz002hmxxc
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Criminals--California--Los Angeles County Cigarettes Jails--California--Los Angeles County Hawkins, John C., b. 1909 or 10
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