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Title: Harley McCoy, injured in a bomb explosion, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: 1936
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 Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Reported in: “Moriarty suicide theory challenged: son revives murder idea: suggests bomb was signal,” Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 1936: A1.
Harley McCoy was in a car with Dr. William Moriarty, Moriarty's wife and Eleanor Thonis when a bomb exploded, killing the Moriartys. McCoy and Thonis were injured.
Two portrait photographs of Harley McCoy.
Text from negative sleeve: Harley McCoy. 4922. Date stamp (?): May 1 1936.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_14115
ark:/21198/zz002j7n85
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Bombings--California--Los Angeles
McCoy, Harley
Source: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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