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. Forrest and June sit on the sofa, smiling and laughing. A white bandage is on June's forehead. Playing with their father's gun, Forrest accidentally fired the weapon, which ricocheted off the ground and struck his sister on the forehead. When he saw the blood he ran from their home and hitchhiked into San Bernardino, where he finally decided to turn around and return home, where he found out his sister was not critically injured and his parents were waiting for him. Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Fear-Gripped Boy Returns," Los Angeles Times, 04 Dec 1937: 3. Text from negative sleeve: 10038 June McMurray & Brother -Forest. (Pasa'. Shooting). Forest + June McMurray (Pasadena shooting - Forest thought accidentally shot June + ran away briefly) 12/37 12/16/37
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_14656 ark:/21198/zz002j88x4
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Sofas Wounds & injuries--California--Pasadena Siblings--American--California--Pasadena McMurray, June, b. 1926 or 27 McMurray, Forrest G., 1922-1992
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