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Three men, including Bill Spaulding and James D. Key, read a newspaper, while two other men stand by, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Three men, including Bill Spaulding and James D. Key, read a newspaper, while two other men stand by, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: December 5, 1935
1935-12-05
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.
Five men are pictured, only James D. Key and William H. Spaulding are identified. One man holds a newspaper and is reading the front page while Key and Spaulding also are looking at the story. Key holds a flashlight to help light the newspaper. A Bullock's ad and crossword puzzle can be seen on the other pages. Key has a gun holstered on his hip. Spaulding has a cigarette in his mouth.
Related to "U.C.L.A. Football Star Exposed as Impostor: Key Grid Hoax Ended as Evidence Proves 'Ted' is 'Shorty' and Definitely Ineligible," Los Angeles Times, 08 Nov 1935: 1.
James D. Key, night watchman in Beverly Hills, was the father of Clois Francis "Shorty" Key, who pretended to be R. F. "Ted" Key (no relation) in order to play football for UCLA. James Key assisted in covering up his son's fraud. Bill Spaulding was the football coach for UCLA. Upon certainty that Clois F. Key was lying about who he was, he was expelled from UCLA.
Text on that can be seen on newspaper front page: INVALID EXTRA HOAX
Text from negative sleeve: 4164. Bill Spaulding, Ted Key's father, UCLA Hoax, 12/5/35 [stamped:] Dec 23 1935
Text on ad: BULLOC[KS] BROADWAY & HILL [illegible] Consider Christmas MONOGRAMMED
Handwritten on negative: Key, Spaulding
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13169
ark:/21198/zz002hn9s2
Language: English
Subject: Watchmen--California--Los Angeles
Firearms
Football--California--Los Angeles
Newspapers--California--Los Angeles
Fraud--California--Los Angeles
Flashlights
Spaulding, William H., 1880-1966
University of California (1868-1952)--Football
Key, James D. (James Daniel), 1872-1951
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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