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Title: Lyndon Foster inspects the damage done to his apartment, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: December 19, 1935
1935-12-19
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.
"Red" Foster speculated to Detective Lieutenants Gillan and Bissell that his home was probably bombed by political enemies. He escaped without serious injury.
Foster leans next to open windows with splintered wood, the floor beneath them littered with rubble.
Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Two Clews Guide Hunt for Bomber of Editor," Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec 1935: 8.
Text from negative sleeve: 4177 - Lyndon "Red" Foster (political pamphleteer whose apt. got bombed) Bombing (see also #4074) 12/5/35 [stamped:] Dec 24 1935
Handwritten on negative: Red Foster reviews damage (west wing)
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13202
ark:/21198/zz002hnbxm
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Bombings--California--Los Angeles
Bandages
Foster, Lyndon R., 1897-1974
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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