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Title: Betty McConnell, Los Angeles, 1938
Date Created and/or Issued: December 28, 1938
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.
Betty holds her hands, palms up, over her shoulders, with her eyes closed and mouth agape.
Photograph appears with the article, "Dancer Helps Free Mother of Traffic Crash Charge," Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec 1938: A2.
Betty's testimony helped in clearing her 53-year-old mother Mrs. Bessie McConnell of misdemeanor charges that she had caused a traffic accident with Mrs. Ada M. Sandstrom by failing to yield to the right of way. Because Mrs. Sandstrom did not appear in court to testify the jury exonerated Mrs. McConnell.
Handwritten on negative: Betty McConnell
Text from newspaper caption: Betty McConnell, girl dancer, whose graphic description of auto crash for which her mother was blamed, contributed to her acquittal in City Court.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_14818
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Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Dancers--American--California--Los Angeles
Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles
McConnell, Betty, b. 1919 or 20
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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